Ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) are currently on the hunt for two of three suspects, who broke out of an East Bank Demerara (EBD) Police Station on Tuesday afternoon.
Twenty-five-year-old murder accused Wayne Gilbert of Lot 30 West La Penitence, Georgetown, was handed over to the Police at the Brickdam Station just before midnight on Tuesday by his father.
He was scheduled to be arraigned before a city magistrate on Wednesday for the
Escapee Wayne Gilbert
murder of Rawle Rodrigues, on January 20 at the Stabroek Square.
The other two escapees: armed robbery suspect Ivre Hooper, 25, of James Street, Albouystown, Georgetown, and Derrol James, 22, of Lot 131 Middle Walk, Buxton, East Coast Demerara, who was arrested on a simple larceny charge, are still on the run.
According to acting Crime Chief Paul Williams, efforts are afoot to recapture the duo, who are of significant interest to the Police.
“We are checking … we have some information about where the second person is likely to be, so we are making checks,” he posited.
Police reports revealed that ranks at the Grove Police Station, located on the East Bank of Demerara, had taken a group of 13 inmates out from the lock-ups to th
Escapee Derrol James
e holding area for them to freshen up.
It was during this exercise that the three suspects made good their escape via an opening on the western wall. A piece of metal, believed to have been broken off from the lock-ups door and used to break the wall, was subsequently found by the Police.
Williams believes that there should have been more ranks present at the station
when such exercises are being carried out.
“The escape would have occurred because of poor supervision; there should have been more ranks present. At the time of bringing those persons into a certain area, there should have been more ranks present around there and because of that, it gave (the suspects) the opportunity to do what they did to make good their escapes,” the
Grove Police Station from which the three inmates escaped on Tuesday afternoon
acting Crime Chief asserted.
According to Williams, several ranks attached to the station were out on patrol duty when the incident occurred.
As a result of the breakout, the supervisor who was in charge of the shift during which the incident occurred has been placed under close arrest as investigations are ongoing.
The acting Crime Chief had also stated that more ranks were also expected to be hauled in for questioning.
The Police Force is asking anyone with information that would lead to the rearrests of Gilbert and James to make contact with the nearest Police Station or any of the Force’s emergency/hotline numbers.
