…warn criminals as drive-by shootings proliferate
THE Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday sounded a warning to all criminal gangs that it has ‘upped its anti-crime status of operations’ and is prepared to ‘act lawfully and condignly’ during its current heightened crime fight that comes in the wake of the recent frightening spate of executions and drive-by killings that has gripped the country.

“While there is not sufficient evidence to link these scenes at this point in time , the force wishes to sound a warning to all gangs, groups or persons who are prepared to act unlawfully, that this lawlessness and unlawful action will not be allowed to continue,” the GPF said in a statement.
“We are prepared to act lawfully and condignly and have upped our anti-crime status of operations and will continue to take action as it is necessary,” the Police Force added.

It noted that the recent spate of drive-by shootings has resulted in the brutal deaths of eight persons around Georgetown and on the East Coast of Demerara; and the findings of 7.62 x 39 spent shells at each of these crime scenes suggest  “the use of automatic rifles”.
Meanwhile, Police Crime Chief Seelall Persaud yesterday told the Guyana Chronicle that the Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara execution in which five persons were killed, the Albouystown execution of a man, and the recent Stone Avenue execution of two other men may be linked.

He said Patrick Goodluck, one of the men killed on Monday night in Stone Avenue, Campbellville, was charged for the Broad Street murder; but he got off and was also fingered along with a man who was arrested by the police on Saturday last following a gun find.

Police in Georgetown, acting on information received about 10:30hrs on Saturday last, went to a house at 52 Pike Street, Kitty, where they carried out a search and unearthed one .38 revolver with four live matching rounds of ammunition.

Three suspects are in custody as police continue with their investigations. Charges will be instituted shortly.

The Crime Chief disclosed that Goodluck was a character known to the police and was known to be involved in criminal activities.

Police yesterday said they are investigating the murders of Patrick Goodluck, 39, a mason of Perth Village Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, and Godfrey Grootfaam called ‘Mosquito’, 29,  of Canterbury Walk, Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara. The men were killed at about 20:15hrs on Monday on Stone Avenue, Campbellville.
They were in motor car, a blue AT 212 Carina driven by Goodluck, when at Royal Drive and Stone Avenue, three men drove up in another car, exited and fired several shots at the vehicle in which the victims, were, then drove away.
Police found twenty seven (27) 7.62 x 39 spent shells, four (4) 9mm and six (6) .45 spent shells at the scene.
Police said both bodies which bore multiple bullet wounds are at a city mortuary awaiting post mortem as investigations are continuing.
Mark Caesar, 31, called ‘Lil Mark’ of 81 St. Stephen Street, Albouystown, and Ogle, East Coast Demerara, was gunned down during a drive-by execution at Broad and Adelaide Streets, Albouystown, a few weeks after his close friend, Steve Jupiter, and four others, including Jupiter’s child and child mother, and two friends were similarly executed by occupants of a white car in Cummings Lodge.
At the time Caesar was sitting on a fire hydrant having a meal of fried chicken when he was riddled by a hail of bullets.
Police Commissioner Henry Greene had said that Jupiter was suspected to have been a paid hit-man, an enforcer, and also a transporter of drugs.
Caesar was also wounded last December during an altercation with an off-duty policeman outside a Kitty bar.
One of Caesar’s friends, 28-year-old Hewley Nicholas Barker, of Norton Street, Lodge, was slain in that altercation.

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