POLICE yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for notorious cocaine trafficker Salim Bacchus, popularly known as ‘Black Salim’, who is being sought for questioning into the killing of police narcotics detective Jirbahan Dianand two months ago.

Bacchus is said to be a ‘big built’, brown skin male of East Indian descent whose last known address was Lot 139 Line Path ‘D’ Corriverton, Corentyne, Berbice.
The police have asked anyone with information that may lead to the arrest of ‘Black Salim’ to contact the police on telephone numbers: 333-2191, 333-3876, 333-2151- 3, 225-2227, 225-6411, 911 or the nearest police station.
The police assured that all information will be treated with strict confidence.
Bacchus was among four men who had been arrested and charged in connection with a 40 kilogramme cocaine bust in November 2012. He was acquitted in June 2012 but the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) later appealed that decision.
Dianand’s gun-shot body was found in his car near Jackson Creek, Corentyne on September 14 just days before he had been due to participate in a course in Guyana by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Kaieteur News reported earlier this week that one of the detainees in the shooting of a taxi driver Jermaine Rover near Moleson Creek, Corentyne has confessed of being in the company of the killer on the night of September 13.
When the perpetrator arrived at Dianand’s car, he allegedly shot him instead of handing over a bag of money.
The newspaper reported that the detainee told investigators that he had stolen the killer’s weapon from where it was hidden with the intention of killing him but he was not brave enough to do so.
According to the news report, the detainee had asked the killer for a portion of the cash that was ostensibly intended for Dianand but the man refused. (Mark Bradford)