THE Guyana Police Force yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for 33-year-old Mark Crumwell, a former policeman and associate of convicted drug kingpin, Shaeed Roger Khan.The wanted bulletin follows the discovery of two AK-47 assault rifles, fifteen pistols, and a quantity of ammunition on Friday at a city wharf. The arms were at the time being uplifted by a 23-year-old man of Friendship, East Coast Demerara.
The items seized on Friday included two AK-47 assault rifles, four .40 caliber pistols, eleven 9mm pistols, fifteen extra magazines for firearms, 489 rounds of various calibre and a body protection vest. The discovery was made by customs officers as the man was clearing the shipment.
According to police in their wanted bulletin yesterday, Mark Crumwell, also known as ‘Demon’, was born on March 29, 1982; resided at addresses in Buxton and Friendship, East Coast Demerara; and is of African ancestry.
The Guyana Police Force is seeking information on the whereabouts of the man and persons are asked to make urgent contact with the police on telephone numbers 225-6411, 229-2557, 225-8196, the 911 emergency number or the nearest police station. The force assured citizens that all information will be treated with the strictest confidentiality.
Mark Crumwell is no stranger to law enforcement. In 2003 he along with two others were arrested by a joint police and army operation in Buxton while in a car carrying arms. The vehicle, a black Honda Civic back in 2003 (at the peak of the crime wave) bore registration plate PEE 7976 which was reportedly sold by an overseas-based Guyanese to another man who at the time of the arrest in 2003 was also before the courts for arms possession.
In 2003, when the occupants of the car were searched by army ranks it was discovered that the men had on their persons, a .45 Smith and Wesson pistol and a 9mm Sig Sauer pistol along with a total of 23 live rounds. At the time Crumwell was a constable in the Guyana Police Force while his accomplices where identified as civilians Marlon Osborne and Marvin Sears.
Marlon Scott, nicknamed ‘Trini’, who was forced to flee his village of Buxton after being shot at, worked there as a mechanic, and after the incident he was escorted out of the village by the Guyana Defence Force. Persons unknown to the police then burnt his home down.
In 2008, Crumwell again became the subject of police operations when he was arrested for tossing firecrackers at the Presidential booth in the Guyana National Stadium during a Kashif and Shanghai football tournament at which then President Bharrat Jagdeo and several government officials were present.

On Friday, 23-year-old construction worker Jamal Murphy of Friendship, East Coast Demerara was arrested by the police after he showed up at the city wharf to uplift a shipment which was registered to him from a sender in the United States who also shares his last name.
After the shipment was opened in his presence, customs officers observed that the shipment which was mostly filled with foodstuff also had inside it a large bag which they also opened and found the weapons and other items.
Police sources told this newspaper that the pistols are likely to carry a very high price since they come with sensors.
Investigators reported to this newspaper also that when the young man was pulled in for questioning he sounded very confident about what he was saying but he did not give them much information, only to say that he was uplifting the shipment for a man who he only knows as a “tall red person”.
The police are of the view that the man might have been schooled by legal minds prior to heading to uplift the shipment. The police yesterday carried out a search at the young man’s home where some documents were removed from the premises to aid in their investigation.
Among the documents were papers which suggested that the 23-year-old had received another shipment sometime last month from the very person but the contents of that box are not yet known.