‘Bow Wow’ remains in custody pending Police investigations
MARK Hyman alias ‘Bow Wow’, in whose Stabroek Market Square stall a fragmentation grenade exploded in Georgetown on Wednesday morning, killing an unidentified man known as ‘American’, remained in Police custody yesterday, pending further investigations into the blast.
Police Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said if after 72 hours has expired, they do not have evidence to charge him, he will be released.
The Assistant Commissioner said, up to press time, the Stabroek Market area was still a crime scene and, as such, Police will maintain a presence there, as long as the investigation is active.
After the explosion, which caused widespread fear and panic, Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Clement Rohee and Police Commissioner Henry Greene, told a Wednesday night press conference that the area will be sanitized and, with assistance from the City Constabulary, all stalls there were demolished and the location cleared.
Up to yesterday, the place was barricaded and the spot where the grenade was detonated cordoned.
Meanwhile, on the issue of prohibited firecrackers and squibs, Persaud said, in light of the fears they create in people and animals, moreso people, Police will prosecute persons found with those devices.
On Thursday, two first year engineering students of the University of Guyana (UG), Faculty of Technology, lit a firecracker on the Turkeyen Campus, sending other people in the vicinity scurrying for cover.
Both the undergraduates were arrested after Police ranks went to the scene with a sniffer dog.
Persaud said the prohibited explosives are being smuggled into the country although not permitted for civilian use.
He cautioned that the improper usage of them has caused injuries to persons in the past and, given the fact, that they create fear and panic, people should desist from buying and using them.
Persaud warned that, once a person is in possession of any, the individual will be accountable for it and the Police are adopting a no nonsense approach to the issue, especially since a man was killed and 19 others injured by the fragmentation grenade that exploded in Stabroek Market Square Wednesday morning.