Category Archives: crime and Investigations

Cops bust $1M/Month gift card scam in Queens New York – (New York Daily News)

July 12, 2019 – 12:24 am

– The gift that kept on giving is giving no more.

 Jul 12, 2019  News

A Queens grand jury indicted 13 people accused of running a sprawling gift-card scam that raked in approximately $24 million over a two-year period.

Cash and gift cards that were seized from Christopher and Bryan Nathoo

The 192-count indictment, announced Wednesday by the Queens DA’s Office, charges that brothers Christopher and Bryan Nathoo oversaw a sophisticated crime ring that stole credit card information, used it to buy gift cards and then exchanged the cards for cash.    Continue reading →

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Ramjattan, top cop tightlipped on possible Roger Khan probe

July 11, 2019 – 6:51 am

11 July 2019

Roger Khan

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan and Commissioner of Police Leslie James both yesterday declined to say whether any investigation regarding crimes committed on local soil by  recently released Guyanese drug kingpin Roger Khan has started or if there are plans to do so in the near future.

The 47-year-old Khan is currently in the custody of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awaiting deportation to Guyana. He recently completed serving ten years of a 15-year sentence for drug trafficking.                Continue reading →

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Thieves hit ATMs in Barbados, leaving some customers broke

July 9, 2019 – 10:05 am

Stabroek News – 08 July 2019

(Barbados Nation) Police are probing reports that scores of bank accounts were hit over the weekend, leaving some customers broke.

And it appears that it is the work of thieves using skimming devices again – this time gaining access to accounts at Republic Bank, CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank and Scotiabank.        Continue reading →

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Guyana News: Roger Khan due for release on Monday July 8, 2019

July 6, 2019 – 1:49 am
  • Deportation expected
Shaheed Roger Khan

Stabroek News – July 6, 2019: Convicted drug kingpin Shaheed Roger Khan is set to be released from a Florida prison on Monday after serving just over eight years of a 15-year prison sentence.

Khan, 47, is presently in what is described as “A low security federal correctional institution with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp.” July 8th 2019 is the date listed for his release.

It is expected that he will be deported upon his release.            Continue reading →

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U.S. cities brace for immigration raids … Cities say they will not participate 

June 22, 2019 – 12:06 am

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. cities expecting to be hit by a wave of immigration raids intended to deport recently arrived families who are in the United States illegally said today they would not cooperate with federal authorities.

In a call with reporters earlier this week, Mark Morgan, the acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agency would target for deportation families that have received a removal order from a U.S. immigration court.

The Washington Post reported today that the operation is slated to launch on Sunday and is expected to target up to 2,000 families facing deportation orders in as many as 10 U.S. cities, including Houston, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles.  Continue reading →
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Guyana: Time to put a stop to Crooked Cops – By Yvonne Sam

June 21, 2019 – 12:47 am

 – By Yvonne Sam

Investigation has provided no remediation. Ranks still collecting for protecting

I open with a statement  written by the author which appeared in your newspaper on December 10, 2015 — The Guyana Police Force in cooperation with the State, the Society and the Citizens of Guyana have according to their mission statement sworn to provide service and protection by means of crime prevention and detection, maintenance of law and order, traffic control, property protection and peace preservation, through the provision of the highest standard of professional police service with absolute integrity and dedication.                Continue reading →

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QC Alumni Literary Event – Toronto – Dave Rohee’s Book: “Kidnapped” – July 14, 2019

June 21, 2019 – 12:20 am

Download Flyer: QC Literary Event – Toronto – Dave Rohee Book

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Guyana Police Corruption: Seniors reportedly hunting for whistle-blowers

June 19, 2019 – 12:50 am

Corruption in the police force Seniors reportedly hunting for whistle-blowing ranks …Alleged corrupt cop “reverted” to uniform, transferred

 Jun 18, 2019  News

As silence continues to prevail among the hierarchy of the Guyana Police Force and calls to the Divisional Commander, Paul Langevine, continues to go unanswered, Kaieteur News was reliably informed that the Detective Lance Corporal whose number, ranks confirmed, was found in the cell phone of now dead bandit, Kelvin ‘Kelly’ Shivgobin, was reverted (put back in police uniform) and transferred to the Central Police Station (within B’Division).

Photo: Tough times for Berbice police: President David Granger with Deputy Commander, Paul Williams; top cop, Leslie James (2nd l), Deputy Commissioner, Nigel Hoppie, and Crime Chief, Lyndon Alves (right).

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Guyanese man arrested at JFK with 34 birds in hair curlers

June 19, 2019 – 12:11 am

 Jun 18, 2019  News

New York (pix11.com) – A man attempting to smuggle a flock of singing finches was caught in customs on Sunday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.

Francis Gurahoo, 39, was charged with trying to smuggle approximately 34 finches from Guyana into the United States, according to a complaint filed by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn. Gurahoo, of Connecticut, concealed each live bird in a plastic hair curler in his carry-on bag, prosecutors said.

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Frightful similarities encircling tourist deaths in the Dominican Republic

June 13, 2019 – 10:53 am

By Caribbean News Now contributor – June 12, 2019

PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic – The latest in a series of startling similar fatalities in the Dominican Republic, a sixth American tourist was reported Monday to have died from a strange illness at a resort in the island.

Most of the deaths, and several other serious illnesses, include healthy, middle-aged adults who consumed a drink from their hotel room minibar before abruptly becoming severely ill.        Continue reading →

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