POLICE at CID yesterday began receiving calls from persons who are willing to assist them in solving the murder of 76-year-old Carmine Ganesh.The Guyana Chronicle was told that so far two persons who have seen the surveillance camera footage of the suspect at the house while the woman was being killed have come forward to confirm that the images are quite similar to the man who is in custody.
Crime Chief Wendel Blanhum told this newspaper yesterday the young man resides between East Ruimveldt in Georgetown and Bare Root on the East Coast Demerara. While the crime chief was not willing to state the name of the young man in custody, this newspaper was later informed that he goes by the name Leon Paul.
He was in 2014 charged and placed before the courts for an offence of larceny from the person and for was made to post $50,000 bail on his first appearance.
The Crime Chief cautioned, however, that not because the young man was picked up he has anything to do with the murder. Blanhum then referred to other high profile cases where several persons were picked up and questioned as the police sought to solve murders and other crimes.
The Guyana Chronicle was also informed that at the location where the suspect was picked up, police investigators also removed a camouflage short pants that is similar to what the person in the video was wearing at the time the murder was caught on camera.
Meanwhile after the police released an image on Monday that shows a suspect who is wanted in connection with the murder of the 76-year-old woman, the Guyana Chronicle was reliably informed that the young man in the image might be a resident or someone who frequents an East Coast Demerara community.
Persons who saw the image of the suspect contacted this publication to state that it resembles that of a young man from the East Coast Community of Buxton, who goes by the name Wayne.
The police are also running background checks on another young man whose name and photograph are available to this publication. It was pointed out that the police received information that this man who also has a slight resemblance to the suspect in the image released by the police is connected to the Guyana Defence Force.
Police sources also confirmed that they sent images of this man to the GDF to ascertain if he was ever in the army.

By Leroy Smith