The 26-year-old United States fugitive who was hiding here for five years and was last week arrested at a horse racing event in Berbice and extradited, appeared in a New York court yesterday charged over the hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of a 67-year-old Jamaican-American man.
The US’s ABC News 7 reported that Ravindra Dharamjit was arraigned yesterday morning at a court in Queens, New York on charges of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and reckless driving. Prosecutors said he was speeding and travelling at 74 mph in a 25 mph zone.
Stabroek News understands that Dharamjit and his family were celebrating at the Guyana Cup Horse Racing event at the Rising Turf Club on August 11th, when United States Federal Agents and the Guyana Police Force arrived. The latter subsequently placed the man under arrest. He was processed, handed over to US authorities and flown back to the US the same night.