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Dec 17, 2008 News
– Crime Chief
Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said that there is enough evidence to suggest that there was a definite intricate link between gangs led by now dead Rondell ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins and James Gibson.
Speaking to this newspaper yesterday, the Crime Chief said that the recent killing of Gibson, Cliff Chichester and Cranston Gill was as significant as the elimination of the notorious Rawlins.
“We have information that suggests that there were times when the ‘Fine Man’ and James Gibson gangs performed in the same operation…they carried out the same acts of crime. So it (the slaying of Gibson) is very significant, looking at it from that context. They are motivated similarly,” Persaud told Kaieteur News.
The police had often referred to the criminals as the Buxton/Agricola gang, taking into consideration that Rawlins and some of his cohorts originated from that East Bank Demerara village, while Gibson was intricately linked to the village of Buxton, East Coast Demerara.
There are reports that both Gibson and Chichester, who were members of the Guyana Defence Force, may have been significant players in the operations of the gang, given their brief military background and intelligence.
According to the Crime Chief, there has always been a strong suspicion that Chichester was deeply involved in the theft of 33 AK-47 assault rifles from the GDF Headquarters Camp Ayanganna some time in 2006.
“Chichester, for example, our information is that he was involved personally with the theft of the guns from the GDF and he has been wanted since then,” Persaud told this newspaper.
One of the missing weapons was recovered after the Cromarty shootout, while several others were found in the possession of dead criminals linked to the Buxton/Agricola gang.
He explained that the police will have to remain focused and continue doing what has been working for them.
“We have to work with people, get the intelligence and convert them into operations, and try to arrest the situation and prevent things from developing,” the Crime Chief said.
Acting Police Commissioner, Henry Greene, while addressing the police award ceremony yesterday, alluded to the large quantities of ammunition that are usually recovered when criminal elements are killed.
He pointed to the support network of the criminal gangs, stating that they were well organised.
“It is always amazing, the amount of ammunition these guys have. One wonders sometimes who is or are their suppliers. Every time you find these men with a firearm or two, they have thousands of rounds of ammunition. In other words they are prepared to fight for as long as they could fight if they could get into a position of defence,” Greene said.
He lashed out at those who often claimed that persons killed by the police were not criminals but rather upstanding citizens.
“Another one of the criminal elements we were told ‘is a good boy now. Good boy! He’s at UG studying’. But he ended up in a firefight with the police,” Greene added.
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