Woman among four in abduction, drug deal probe
CRIME Chief Seelall Persaud disclosed, yesterday, that four suspects, including an ex-policeman and a woman are in police custody after a Berbician was reportedly abducted and taken to a house in Eccles, East Bank Demerara. The Assistant Commissioner said the victim    managed to get access to a telephone and called the police, who rescued him.
Persaud said all those detained were arrested at the Eccles location when police swooped down on the premises but they are still trying to piece together all the information gathered, since the Berbice businessman claimed it was a drug deal turned sour.
“What the businessman is telling us, so far, does not make sense but we are investigating and so we will decide the course of action based on the evidence at hand,” he offered.
Persaud said the man claims he was forcibly taken from Berbice by a group of men and transported, in a car, to the city and to where he was confined in a house at Eccles, East Bank Demerara.
Somehow, he said he was able to get a phone and notified the police, who rescued him and arrested the group on Monday night.
The Berbice businessman has since been identified as one Paul Kirton, 28, of St. Ann Street, New Amsterdam, who, on Saturday last, went to the Berbice Car Park in Georgetown, in company with a female, to collect a quantity of cannabis sativa (marijuana) from a man.

YELLOW METAL
However, the woman, in exchange handed over some yellow metal, which, later, was discovered to be copper.
At about 13:00 hrs on Monday, an ex-cop along with two other men went to St. Ann Street, New Amsterdam, where they forcibly took Kirton away in a car after he did not hand over $180,000 to them.
Kirton told police that, while in the vehicle on the way to the city, he was beaten by the men and taken to the Eccles house.
Meanwhile, in a separate incident, on Monday night, police retrieved a car which was abandoned in the Le Repentir Cemetery, Georgetown. The vehicle was stained with blood from the driver, Musaad Rosool, of Canal Number One Polder, West Bank Demerara, who was robbed and stabbed by two bandits, posing as passengers.
The silver grey vehicle, with licence plate number PPP 1734 was taken into Police possession and lodged, pending investigations.
The man, who is a patient at Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), suffered several wounds inflicted by two men while he was attacked in the vicinity of the city railway embankment.
At the time, he was transporting two passengers at about 22:30 hrs.
Rosool reported that he was hired for a journey but the next thing he knew was that he was being held at knifepoint by the men and relieved of his phone, cash and car.