…reported to be alive after plunge into Mahaicony River
POLICE yesterday said that Colin Sealey, 53, a fisherman of Zes Kinderen, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, who on Wednesday made a dash for freedom from police custody at the Mahaicony Police Station and jumped into the nearby Mahaicony River, is reported to be very much alive. Efforts are being made by the police to locate him.
Police reported that at about 11:15hrs on Wednesday, a police rank went to the lock-ups at the Mahaicony Police Station to take out prisoner Colin Sealey, in order for him to be conveyed to the Cove and John Magistrate Court.
Sealey overpowered the policeman and ran out of  the station.  He ran to the bridge across the Mahaicony River from where he jumped into the river, and was feared drowned.
Sealey was arrested by the police at about 16:30hrs  on Tuesday, during investigations into allegations of threatening behaviour, assault and indecent exposure.
Similarly, in 2010, another prisoner, Gordon Maxwell, 30, of Calcutta, Mahaicony, also on the East Coast Demerara, escaped from police custody at the same police station and jumped into the Mahaicony River.
He drowned and his body was retrieved from the river days after. He was arrested for tax evasion.