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Kidnap saga… Fugitive’s aunt released, detained man for court today

Mar 16, 2010 News

The aunt of a fugitive in the kidnapping of 26-year-old Andre Barnes, is alleging that she was wrongfully arrested and has no knowledge of the plot.
The woman lives in a bottom apartment of the North Ruimveldt house to which the kidnappers carried the Caricom official’s son after snatching him at gunpoint in West Ruimveldt.
Police rescued Barnes from the top flat and then arrested the woman and Louisa Row resident, Ronaldo Marquez, who was left to guard the victim.
She was released late yesterday afternoon and police officials said she will not be charged. However, Marquez is still in custody and is due to appear in court today. Investigators believe that the woman’s nephew, identified as Michael Joseph, called ‘Mikey’ was in on the plot, but the man and another suspect were still at large up to yesterday.
The aunt said that her nephew’s mother resides in the top flat of the North Ruimveldt house but has been out of the country for some time.
She said that she was unable to recall the last time she saw her nephew.
The woman said that she was asleep in her apartment on Friday night when she heard someone banging on her door. “I say: ‘Is who?’ and they say ‘police.’”
The woman said that she did not open her door immediately, since she suspected that the men outside were bandits.
However, she eventually went to her door after the persons ordered her to open and insisted that they were policemen. The woman said that on looking outside, she saw that her house was “surrounded by policemen.”
“They say they looking for my nephew and I say that he don’t live here.
According to the aunt, the police ranks then took her to the top flat, which she assumed was empty.
She said the policemen then kicked open the door, and it was then that she saw that two men were inside. She claimed that both were handcuffed.
Police then took them to the East La Penitence Police Station, where she was placed in the lockups.
“They believe that I know where Mikey deh, so the hold on pun me, but I don’t remember the last day I see Mikey,” she said.
According to the woman, she was not surprised that she was eventually released, because “God knows I know nothing.”
Barnes, the son of the Chief Internal Auditor in the Caricom Secretariat, was sitting in his car outside his girlfriend’s house on Friday night, when three men attacked him. The gunmen ordered the girlfriend out of the vehicle, placed Barnes in the back seat and drove off.
Police said that the kidnappers drove to an unknown destination where they transferred to another vehicle, subsequently taking Andre Barnes to a house where he was handcuffed.
They then used his cell phone to call his mother and demanded that she hand over $50 million to them within six hours, or he would be killed.
Two of the men then left Barnes under the guard of the one with the firearm.
The matter was reported to the police and prompt action by the TSU anti-crime unit led to the police conducting a search of the house at North Ruimveldt where the victim was found.

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