TWENTY-one-year-old Phillip Rodney, of Buxton Sideline Dam, last evening submitted himself to the police outpost at the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was being held under police guard.He later checked himself back into the institution after escaping the day before.
Rodney and three other men were arrested last Wednesday after being caught with two stolen goats in a car trunk at Mahaicony. He was subsequently shot in the buttocks after reportedly attacking a police rank with a pair of scissors.
Late last evening, the Guyana Chronicle learnt that Rodney showed up at the hospital with several marks of violence about his body and was more interested in seeking medical attention at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Public Hospital.
Police sources confirmed that the young man returned to the facility, but failed to provide any information on his reasons for returning and how he came by his injuries.
It was also unclear at the time whether he told the police where he’d spent the day after escaping custody.
Rodney and his three accomplices, one a Buxtonian like himself and two from Mon Repos, had prior to their arrest last Wednesday, eluded police ranks at Mahaicony, where they were caught trying to bundle two stolen goats into the trunk of a Toyota 212 motorcar, PKK 831.
The police were alerted by persons from the Mahaicony area of the men’s presence in the village, and what they were attempting to do. They were given the description of the car, and its registration number, and as they headed in the general direction of where the goat thieves were last seen, they encountered them on the way.
The police signaled the driver of the vehicle to pull the car over, which he did, and to pop the trunk.
Immediately after popping the trunk of the car, the four men made a run for it. But even though the police were hot on the men’s tail, they eventually lost them.
As the police were heading back to the station, however, they spotted the men crossing a bridge some distance away and immediately resumed the chase to intercept them. But again, the men made a dash for it, running in different directions in an attempt to frustrate the police.
A police rank who was closing in on one of the fleeing suspects, who happened to be Rodney, was reportedly forced to resort to the use of force when the would-be escapee pulled a pair of scissors on him.
The other three men were arrested without incident.