MURDER TOLL: 365
SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR: 369
AFTER 5 MONTHS ON THE RUN FROM THE LAW, DANIEL LEWIS WAS ARRESTED BY HOMICIDE DETECTIVES IN CONNECTION WITH THE APRIL MURDER OF A LA HORQUETTA SHOPKEEPER: LEWIS OF PLANTATION ROAD, VALENCIA, WAS WANTED BY POLICE IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING DEATH OF 38-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER KHANAI AKA JOHNNIE WHICH TOOK PLACE ON WEDNESDAY APRIL 10TH. LEWIS WAS DETAINED AT A HOUSE IN CUMUTO ON TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 3RD BY OFFICERS OF THE REGION II HOMICIDE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONS ASSISTED BY OFFICERS OF THE NORTHERN DIVISION TASK FORCE AREA-EAST.
KANHAI, A SHOPKEEPER AT CHAMELEON DRIVE IN LA HORQUETTA, WAS GUNNED DOWN AND ANOTHER PERSON INJURED DURING A SHOOTING INCIDENT AT HIS MINI-MART
A TCM ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE DRIVER SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES HE SUSTAINED WHILE ON THE JOB LAST WEEK WHILE WRECKING A VEHICLE: 24-YEAR-OLD RYAN RATTAN SUSTAINED MASSIVE INJURIES AFTER HE WAS CRUSHED BY A VEHICLE HE WAS LOADING UNTO A WRECKER AT SAN FABIEN ROAD, GASPARILLO ON THURSDAY AUGUST 29TH BUT HE SUCCUMBED TO HIS INJURIES AT HOSPITAL EARLIER TODAY. RYAN, THE FATHER OF 4 CHILDREN OF HARRYPAUL VILLAGE NEAR DEBE, DIED AROUND 1:30AM AT THE SAN FERNANDO GENERAL HOSPITAL ON TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2ND. AROUND 10.30 PM LAST THURSDAY, A B14 NISSAN CAR, WHICH RYAN WAS LOADED UNTO THE FLATBED WRECKER, ROLLED BACK AND KNOCKED HIM TO THE GROUND.
COUVA MAGISTRATES’ COURT: 4 CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF 4 GUNS AND GANJA AT CENTRAL PARK IN COUVA APPEARED IN COURT EARLIER TODAY: FOUR PEOPLE— THREE MEN AND AN 18-YEAR-OLD WOMAN HAVE BEEN GRANTED A TOTAL OF $600,000 BAIL BY A COUVA SENIOR MAGISTRATE CHRISTINE CHARLES AFTER THEY WERE CHARGED WITH VARYING GUN-RELATED AND NARCOTIC OFFENCES. POLICE ALLEGEDLY FOUND FOUR GUNS, 78 ROUNDS OF ASSORTED AMMUNITION AND A QUANTITY OF MARIJUANA ON THURSDAY AUGUST 29TH AT IN A HOUSE AT CENTRAL PARK IN BALMAIN, COUVA.
MAN SHOT DEAD IN BLANCHISSEUSE FOREST ON SATURDAY DIED FROM A SHOT GUN WOUND TO THE CHEST AT CLOSE RANGE: HOMICIDE DETECTIVES WERE EXPECTED TO APPROACHED THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS WITH THEIR FILE IN RELATION TO THE SHOOTING DEATH OF 38-YEAR-OLD SHAWN WILLIAMS OF RESERVOIR ROAD LA FILLETTE VILLAGE, WHO WAS SHOT DEAD WHILE HUNTING WITH FRIENDS IN THE FOREST OFF FIGARO TRACE IN BLANCHISSEUSE ON SATURDAY 31ST AUGUST.
AN AUTOPSY ON WILLIAMS’ BODY YESTERDAY AT THE FORENSIC SCIENCE CENTRE IN ST JAMES REVEALED HE DIED FROM A SINGLE GUNSHOT INJURY TO THE CHEST WHICH WAS FIRED AT CLOSE RANGE. THE GUN USED WAS A SHOTGUN BUT THE DETAILS OF HOW WILLIAMS WAS SHOT REMAINS UNCLEAR AS OFFICERS HAVE BEEN TOLD VARYING VERSION OF EVENTS.
HOWEVER, ONE OF THE 5 HUNTERS WHO WENT INTO THE FOREST WITH WILLIAMS TO HUNT REMAINS IN POLICE CUSTODY AFTER HE ADMITTED TO OFFICERS THAT HE WAS IN POSSESSION OF AN ILLEGAL SHOTGUN AT THE TIME WILLIAMS WAS SHOT. OFFICERS MADE SEVERAL UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCHES FOR THE WEAPON IN LA FILLETTE.
SUNKIST GROCERY ROBBERY: JEVON CEDENO AND ANOTHER MAN APPEARS IN COURT CHARGED WITH ROBBING A SUPERMARKET IN PALMISTE SAN FERNANDO: 21-YEAR-OLD JEVON CEDENO AND 33-YEAR-OLD DENNIS WILLIAMS BOTH OF BENNETT VILLAGE, LOS BAJOS, SANTA FLORA, APPEARED IN THE SAN FERNANDO MAGISTRATES’ COURT ON MONDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER, CHARGED WITH THE ROBBING SUNKIST SUPERMARKET ON CASH AND CIGARETTES ON SUNDAY 18TH AUGUST.
SENIOR MAGISTRATE JO-ANNE CONNOR READ THE CHARGE TO WILLIAMS AND CEDENO THAT THEY ROBBED THE GROCERY OF $2,000 AND A CARTON OF CIGARETTES. WILLIAMS WAS ALSO CHARGED WITH MAKING A FALSE REPORT TO THE POLICE THAT HIS VEHICLE HAD BEEN STOLEN. CEDENO, WHO HAS A ROBBERY MATTER PENDING IN THE PORT OF SPAIN COURT, WAS GRANTED $100,000 WHILE WILLIAMS WAS GRANTED $75,000. BOTH ACCUSED ARE TO RE-APPEAR IN COURT ON SEPTEMBER 30TH.
RIO CLARO MAGISTRATES’ COURT: 4 BANDITS WHO ROBBED A COELHO BREAD VENDOR OF $135 WERE SLAPPED WITH HEFTY JAIL SENTENCES BY A RIO CLARO MAGISTRATE YESTERDAY: 24-YEAR-OLD DECKLAND MC CLEAN OF SUNSET DRIVE POINT-A-PIERRE ROAD; 22-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL BABOLAL OF CEMETERY ST LONGDENVILLE; 21-YEAR-OLD JADEN MORRIS OF LONGDENVILLE; WERE ALL JAILED FOR 4 YEARS EACH ON ROBBERY CHARGES.
30-YEAR-OLD JAVON STEWART OF CASHEW GARDENS IN LONGDENVILLE WAS SLAPPED WITH A 6 YEAR- JAIL SENTENCE WHEN ALL FOUR ACCUSED PLEADED GUILTY BEFORE RIO CLARO SENIOR MAGISTRATE RAE ROOPCHAN TO ROBBING BREAD VENDOR 26-YEAR-OLD SYLVON PETER. AROUND 7:20PM ON AUGUST 26TH, PETER WAS CONDUCTING BREAD SALES NEAR THE W.A.S.A PUMPING STATION ALONG THE NAPARIMA MAYARO ROAD IN NEW GRANT WHEN HE WAS APPROACHED BY 3 MEN, ONE ARMED WITH A GUN WHO ROBBED HIM OF $135 WHICH REPRESENTED BREAD SALES. PC MITCHELL AND BASEDO RESPONDED TO THE ROBBERY AND HELD THE FOUR MEN IN A VEHICLE NEAR THE PRINCES TOWN SECONDARY SCHOOL AND RECOVERED THE STOLEN MONEY.
