–when extradition hearing resumes

MAGISTRATE Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus is expected to rule on a submission made by the defence counsel of Troy Anthony Thomas, who is wanted in the United States (US) in connection with a 2011 murder.

Thomas is undergoing a magisterial hearing of the extradition inquest at the Providence Magistrate’s Court.

Attorneys Nigel Hughes, Bernard Da Silva and Darren Wade had made a no-case submission, and Magistrate Isaacs-Marcus is expected to rule on November 30, 2018 on the matter. Attorney Stacy Gooding is representing the interest of the US Government.

Thomas, 31, of South Ozone Park, Queens, New York was nabbed by police during an operation on Wednesday, March 14, which had commenced since January 31, 2018.
According to reports, on December 11, 2011, 20-year-old Keith Frank was shot once in the torso in a flash of violence outside a South Richmond Hill party. Frank, who’d moved to Queens from Guyana when he was 12, died exactly two months before his 21st birthday.

The New York Police Department (NYPD) began looking for Thomas in connection with the shooting. However, within hours of the shooting, he allegedly fled the jurisdiction and crossed over to Canada from New York State.

In Canada, he is said to have used travel documents belonging to a relative of his and boarded a Caribbean Airlines flight, arriving in Guyana in the early hours of the morning before the bulletin could reach Interpol.