-after several years on the run
Jason Isaacs who was wanted in connection with the murder of an overseas-based Guyanese businessman back in 2021 at Reli-ance, East Canje Berbice, was held yesterday.
According to the Guy-ana Police Force, Isaacs was arrested around 7.45 am at the Weldaad Police Station.
In a statement, the police force said that it had issued a wanted bulletin for Isaacs over the 2021 murder of US-based Guyanese, Hemraj Pardesi in Berbice. It said that Isaacs is also suspected in Suriname of killing a man on the corner of Waaldijk and Eugene Gesselstraat on the evening of Thursday, October 12, 2023. Isaacs was arrested in Suriname on October 13, 2023, but escaped from the Paramaribo University Hospital and had been on the run since until his arrest yesterday morning by ranks of the force.
