Latest update November 21st, 2024 1:00 AM
Police inform Interpol of Hutson’s detention
Local law enforcement officials have informed their counterparts at Interpol that they have local businessman, Clayton Hutson, in custody.
Hutson was detained on Wednesday when he turned himself in to police at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Eve Leary, who are probing his possible links to a cache of arms and ammunition found during a raid at a Regent Street location last week.
Clayton Hutson
According to a senior official at the CID, Interpol had issued a ‘red notice’ on behalf of the United States for Hutson almost a year ago, citing his links to drug trafficking.
The source said that following the ‘red notice’, the International Criminal Police Organization, better known by its telegraphic address Interpol, had been informed that Hutson was in Guyana.
They were again alerted when Hutson turned himself in on Wednesday.
However, the source could not say if the United States has issued a request for his extradition to that country.
An Interpol Red Notice is not an international arrest warrant. The persons concerned are wanted by national jurisdictions (or the International Criminal Tribunals, where appropriate) and Interpol’s role is to assist the national police forces in identifying or locating those persons with a view to their arrest and extradition.
These red notices allow the warrant to be circulated worldwide with the request that the wanted person be arrested with a view to extradition.
A distinction is drawn between two types of red notice: the first type is based on an arrest warrant and is issued for a person wanted for prosecution; the second type is based on a court decision for a person wanted to serve a sentence.
It was a red notice that led to the arrest of Peter Morgan when he entered Trinidad’s Piarco International Airport and his subsequent extradition to the United States.
A statement issued by Hutson’s lawyers said that the businessman, who has significant investments in the hinterland, was in the interior since Thursday of last week attending to business.
It added that the businessman was only made aware that there was an allegation made against him which was being investigated on Tuesday when he returned from the interior.
And the wanted man’s attorneys have expressed their condemnation of the recent development practised by the police, by the publishing in newspapers of the photograph and other biographic details of citizens even before any significant effort is made to locate them.
It has been stated that Hutson has no knowledge of the allegations leveled against him, particularly having regards to the chronology of the past police matters also published in the newspapers.
On Friday last, the Guyana Police Force issued wanted bulletins for Hutson, Aboud, and Frankie Ross in connection with the illegal importation of firearms and ammunition.
Up to yesterday Ross still remained at large.
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