ex-cop, businessman, others in custody for abducting Tiger Bay man

Former policeman France Paul

The police are awaiting advice from the Director of Public prosecution for advice on the way forward regarding a former controversial policeman, a businessman and two others who abducted a Rosemary (Tiger bay) resident on Saturday.

BIG Smith News Watch was told that among those arrested and presently in custody are former policemen France Paul who in 2013 shot a teenager in his mouth and then two years ago pulled an unlicensed firearm on his wife and threatened to shoot her. Paul was subsequently fired from the Guyana Police Force for his many transgressions.

The businessman has been identified as 33-year-old Rondae Hawker who reportedly holds a key position at the Water Crest Hotel on Waterloo and Quamina Streets in Georgetown. Security Guard Rondell Bacchus and mason Kelvin are the other two persons whose fate lies with the Director of Public Prosecutions advice which should be returned sometime today

This publication was informed by police sources leading the investigation that approximately 17:30 hours on Sunday last, the four men went to Queen Street South Cummingsburg and abducted 26-year-old Chris Etwaroo.

We were told that the young man who was at home at the time was taken from his house by the men who accused him of stealing a number of items from the Water Crest Hotel over a period of time.

He was placed into a white Tacoma pickup GXX 3430 and taken to the hotel where he was chained by his feet and hands before where cutlass, wood and a chain were used to be him.

The injured young man was then placed into the trunk of a vehicle PKK 3335 which according to the victim was driven by the former policeman. It turned out that the vehicle is also registered to the said former cop.

The chains were released from his hands and feet before the truck was locked with him inside and they drove off.

This publication was told that the victim told police detectives that he was taken to an unknown location and when Bacchus opened the trunk of the car, he managed to jump out and made a successful dash for freedom.

Chris Etwaroo further told the police detectives that he was taken to a location of the Public Road along the East Bank Demerara but was able to make it to the public road where he caught a minibus and headed back to Georgetown and made his way home.

After returning home, his aunt who had witnessed the beating and whisking off of her nephew accompanied him to the police station where an official report and statements were made and taken respectively.

This publication was also informed that when the men showed up in the village and removed Chris Etwaroo person called the police but by the time the police arrived, the men had already left for the East Bank after their short stint at the hotel with the victim.

Chris Etwaroo was taken for medical attention even as the police are hunting for one other person. The investigation continues.