Detective Inspector DaSilva and other ranks from Police Division #10 were crossing the Berbice River on a pontoon at Tacama Junction at around 11:30 am on 2024-03-03 when they saw a man on a motorcycle approaching the pontoon.
On noticing the two police vehicles on the pontoon, the suspect turned his motorcycle around and started riding away. The police said in a statement that ranks immediately drove off the pontoon, gave chase and held the suspect.
He was riding a black and white XR motorcycle with registration #CH 8990 and was carrying a multi-coloured haversack on his back. The suspect, Chadwain Eastman, a 34-year-old labourer of Ebini, Berbice River, was searched, along with the haversack he was carrying.