“Cobra”back in court on Monday as retrial starts

Tyrone Rowe, called ‘Cobra’, who was convicted and sentenced to 78 years in prison by Justice Navindra Singh for a murder he committed in 2010 will reappear in court on Monday. This was after the Appeal Court overturned his conviction and sentencing.
The once notorious criminal appeared before Justice Sandil Kissoon in the High Court this morning, where he was told that the retrial date was set and a 12 man jury is to be selected.
‘Cobra’, reportedly killed Troy Collymore in August of 2010.
Collymore was shot to the head outside of a business place at Plaisance. The man was at the time in the presence of two friends, when gunmen pounced on him. Collymore was shot and robbed of cash and jewelry. He succumbed to his injuries days later.

Prisons service giving rewards 

Even as more illegal items keep finding their way into the prison system, the Guyana Prison Service is now giving incentives to its prison wardens to help curb the illegal trade. Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels in a release said
Officers are being encouraged to help in this fight and for all those officers who come forward with details that can result in the detection and prosecution of offenders will be given cash incentives between $15,000 to $25,000. According to Samuels, time and time again the Prison service has seen acts that can only be as a result of collusion. The Director said the Ministry of Public Security and the Guyana Prison Service would like to see officers speak out on corruption at all levels.

Shop owner remanded on drug trafficking charge, placed on $200,000 dollars bail after he allegedly offered a Police Sergeant a $150,000 dollar bribe to drop the charge

A 27-year-old Albouystown resident was today hauled before the Georgetown magistrates’ court where he was slapped with two charges.
 Christopher Gonsalves, a shop owner of lot 291 Independence Boulevard, Albouystown, appeared before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and was charged with possession of 530 grams of Cannabis for the purpose of trafficking.
He was also charged with willfully attempting to obstruct the course of justice by offering a Police Sergeant, attached to the Brickdam Police Station one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, so as to prevent the institution of the charge.
 The incident took place on October 3rd at Punt trench Dam, Albouystown.
 Gonsalves pleaded not guilty to both charges. The court heard that an undercover cop in plain clothes, posing as a customer, went to Gonsalves to purchase the Marijuana, after which he left on a motorbike and minutes later returned with a bulky black bag containing leaves, seeds and stems.
 It was while the men were about to complete their transaction that the Policeman identified himself as a CID rank and produced his badge before making the arrest. The man told the court that he was not about to bribe the policeman, instead, Gonsalves said he was actually removing the money that he had in his possession to give to the officer to hand over to his family. He was granted $200,000 dollars bail on the perverting the course of justice charge, but was remanded for the drug possession charge.

Three men busted with drugs, unlicensed weapons, ammunition and cash by CANU

Three men, Aundre Singh of 779 Section B, Block X Diamond Housing Scheme, Clifford Gouveia of Lot 14 Little Abary, ECD and Oneil Charan of Lot 47 Sandy Babb Street, Kitty Georgetown were all arrested by agents of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit on Wednesday 3rd of October, 2018. The three suspects are expected to appear in court today.
The drug enforcement agency said the men were intercepted on the Rupert Craig Highway in the vicinity of the Kitty seawall between Pere Street and Queen Street dead end with 5.582 kilograms of cocaine at the interception and a further 6.6 grams of cocaine was found at Singh’s home, one suspect is in custody.
Further operation by CANU resulted in the seizure of 2 motor cars, monies and firearms: 1 Taurus Revolver with matching ammunition and 1 Pistol with matching ammunition. It CANU said it should be noted that both firearms and matching ammunition were found after the initial interdiction at a subsequent search of Singh’s Premises at Diamond. The Police were called in to investigate the illegal weapons.
According to CANU, Singh and Charan were in Singh’s car a white Premio PSS 8977 while Gouveia was the driver of PLL 5213. CANU intercepted the men in the vicinity of the Kitty Seawall as the men transferring a box containing 5 suspected bricks of cocaine and beauty soaps between the said cars.
Additionally, the drug enforcement agency said that Singh’s Diamond home, East Bank Demerara was later searched and a further 6.6 grams of suspected cocaine, a large quantity of cash and the two above mentioned unlicensed weapons and ammunition were unearthed.

Bar owner wanted by CANU in connection with 81 kg drug bust on a vessel in Canada

An Annandale, East Coast Demerara woman is being sought by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit in connection to the discovery of 81kg of bust on a vessel which docked in Canada. The cocaine which weighed just over 175 pounds was busted on a cargo vessel which left a port in Linden and docked in Canada.

 

The woman has been identified as Rosemary Singh aka Rose and her last known address was given as Lot 123 Ramsingh Street, Annadale, East Coast Demerara and 153 South Annandale, East Coast Demerara.

The drug enforcement agency said the woman is the owner of Rose Bar at Section C Enterprise, East Coast Demerara.

The vessel on which cocaine was discovered on departed Guyana on September 15, 2018. The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit is asking anyone knowing the woman’s whereabouts to kindly contact its Headquarters on telephone numbers 227-3507, 226-0431.

Albouystown welder man charged with attempted murder of dog food vendor

A 21-year-old Albouystown man appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Thursday to answer to the charge of attempted murder of a dog food vendor.
The man, Naresh Samaroo, was today charged with causing grievous bodily harm to Shane Cooper with intent to murder him. The young man appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman and was remanded to prison until October 17th.

The incident occurred on September 24th at Stevedore Street and Aubrey Barker Road, North Ruimveldt. Cooper was shot twice while he was plying his trade at the location during a robbery.

There are reports that the suspect also robbed two females of their cellular phones and made good his escape. Samaroo was represented by attorney-at-law Latchmie Rahamat who in her bail application told the court that her client was placed on an identification parade after being held for 72 hours for the robbery. She added that Samaroo was also placed among persons who did not look like him.

The prosecutor objected to Samaroo being granted bail on the seriousness of the offence.