Dead miner’s phone records…Soldier and two brothers held

Oct 06, 2008 News

– relatives profess innocence
By Michael Jordan

The brothers who were arrested in connection with calls made from Dax Arokium’s cell phone are all from a Linden family, and their relatives are adamant that they have no link with the persons who carried out the Lindo Creek slaughter.
According to the relatives, the siblings may have been wrongly implicated after the youngest brother found “a battered cell phone”, suspected to have been Dax Arokium’s, and took it home.
“They are not criminals! They never got themselves into any trouble. All they did wrong was to pick up a cell phone,” a female relative told Kaieteur News.
Two of the brothers — a Guyana Defence Force rank and his 15-year-old sibling, were detained on Friday.
The third brother was held yesterday.
They are being detained in Georgetown.
Speaking to Kaieteur News last night, a relative of the brothers said that the youngest sibling, who still attends school, found a battered cell phone in Christianburg, Linden, several weeks ago.
The relative said that the teen took the phone home and removed the chip.
They allege that the chip was inserted into another phone, which the siblings used to make calls to other relatives and associates.
But the sibling who is in the army became concerned after Kaieteur News published a story indicating that several calls had been made from the slain miner’s phone.
The story indicated that the army rank’s phone number was among several telephone numbers that appeared on a list of calls made from Dax Arokium’s missing cell phone.
The relative said that, on Thursday, the brother went to a senior army officer and explained the circumstances under which the phone had come into his youngest brother’s possession.
Kaieteur News was told that the officer advised the brother to report the matter at Camp Ayanganna, and he was further advised to give a statement at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary.
The relatives claimed that the army rank, accompanied by his 15-year-old brother, visited Eve Leary on Friday. They were promptly detained, the relative said.
The relatives further allege that, on Saturday, police ranks from Georgetown and Linden arrested the third brother at the family’s Christianburg home.
The relatives say they have since contacted an attorney, and are hopeful that the siblings will be released today.
In a press statement issued on Saturday, police said that the persons arrested may have knowledge of a cell phone with a SIM card of a similar number.
The police commenced their investigations in earnest into the use of the phone, after the deaths of the miners, upon receipt of a printout of calls made from the missing Digicel phone.
But, according to the police, investigations have found that the cellular phone referred to by Arokium is registered to a woman.
Arokium was contacted by the police in relation to how his son would have gained possession of such a phone, from whom, and whether it was received from the person recorded as being the legitimate owner.
He told investigators that he had bought the phone and SIM from a Digicel outlet at Parika, and had given it to his son.
In a telephone interview with a Kaieteur News reporter, the army rank had said he could not recall receiving a call from the number listed as Arokium’s phone.
Telephone records revealed that 72 calls were made from the missing cellular phone during one week in August.
Nine calls were made to cell phone number 629-2631 on four different days, seven were made to number 667-3621 during the same period, and another nine calls were made to 678-2911, including one for as long as 10 minutes.
Six calls were made to the land line 442-0583.
An eight-minute call was made to telephone number 680-9407 on August 25.
There has been an ongoing war of words between Mr. George Arokium and Joint Services officials over who actually orchestrated the Lindo Creek killings.
Law enforcement officials are adamant that the miners were slaughtered by the Rondell Rawlins Gang, while Arokium suspects that persons with military experience carried out the killings.

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