Category: Crime & Police

Five brothers from Potters are currently in police custody assisting the police with their investigations, after illegal drugs, firearm and ammunition were found at their home. In the early hours of Friday morning, officers attached to the Criminal Investigations Department and the Rapid Response Unit (RRU), swooped down on the home of a Potters family occupied by 29yr-old Vandross Daawuud and his younger siblings; 25yr-old Jelani Daawuud, 23yr-old Akeem Daawuud, 22yr-old Amir Daawuud and 19yr-old Keeshun Daawuud. Police found one Cobra .380 pistol along with seven matching rounds of ammunition,…

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The Police have issued a ‘Wanted Bulletin’ for the immediate arrest of Conroy “Connie” Jones, a Jamaican national who last resided at Bird Road Ottos. Jones is wanted in connection with a wounding incident, which took place on September 16th, at Bird Road Ottos. It is alleged that he armed himself with a cutlass which he used to viciously wound the 27yr-old mother of his children during an altercation. The woman had to be rushed to Mount St. Johns Medical Center with multiple chop wounds about her body and was…

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The Police Administration has announced on Wednesday that the officers attached to the Bolans Police Station will be temporarily relocated to the Johnson’s Point Police Station as of Saturday 21st October. This move is to facilitate much needed repair work, which is to be carried out on the building that housed the police station. The general public, especially residents in the southern side of the island, can rest assured that the same level of service will be provided by the men and women attached to this station. Residents can also…

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A number of people were taken into police custody as a result of several “Sting Operations” carried out by the police on the weekend. Officers attached to the Criminal Investigations and Narcotics Departments as well as the Rapid Response, Special Services, and K-9 Units executed a number of warrants on several properties throughout the island, and were successful in seizing controlled drugs, large sums of money, among other criminal properties. On Friday, the operator of the “Straight Pub” located at Paynters, along with others, was taken into custody by police,…

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Trevor Este of All Saints was convicted and fined $1,000 in All Saints Magistrate’s Court for Impersonating a Police Officer on Wednesday. He appeared before Magistrate Emmanuel and was ordered to pay the fine forthwith, or serve two months in prison. The Court heard that in January of 2015, he went to the home of a man in John Hughes, and pretended to be a police officer within the Sexual Offences Unit, conducting investigations into a rape case. He went as far as demanding money from the John Hughes resident…

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Veronica Feracho of Codrington was convicted and fined $6,000 for Possession of Cannabis in the St. John’s Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. She appeared before Chief Magistrate Walsh jointly charged with Devon Mackintosh of Buckleys with Possession of Cannabis, Possession with intent to sell and Being Concerned with the supply of Controlled Drugs. Feracho was found guilty and was fined $6,000. She was ordered to pay $3,000 forthwith and the balance by the end of October. Failure to do so, she would be sentenced to nine months at Her Majesty’s Prison….

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