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Chutney artiste released from police custody

Sep 12, 2010 News

A popular Chutney artiste, who was detained by police last Wednesday in connection with the Cummings Lodge execution of five people, has been released.
The artiste, in an interview with this newspaper said that he was arrested initially based on a report that ‘men were looking for him’. The man told this newspaper that he was afraid until the men found him and told him that they wanted him to perform in the North West.
He said that by this time he had notified the police who subsequently arrested him because in their view the men wanted to abduct him. He said that he was able to get the men to report to the police who released them when they, the police, were convinced that the men had told the truth about wanting the Chutney singer to perform in the North West.
Apparently, the investigation took the ranks to the North West where they learnt that indeed the population wanted the Chutney singer to perform for them.
“Later a police name Reid from Headquarters tell me that dey hear I got some link with de Cummings Lodge shooting.”   The man said that he was questioned along that line. He said that the police informed him that he had been arrested for drug possession five years ago and that they believed that he was still involved.
After spending the stipulated 72 hours in police custody, he was released. He claimed that the police subsequently apologised to him saying “it was a case of mistaken identity”.
According to reports, it was believed that the man may have had something to do with sourcing the cocaine in the Cummings Lodge execution; however, this was not the case after the police completed their investigation.
Asked to comment on the report by Crime Chief Seelall Persaud in yesterday’s issue of the Guyana Chronicle, the chutney singer said that it has to be a case of the Crime Chief not being aware of what is going on among his men. He said that Mr Persaud owes the Kaieteur News reporter an apology for accusing that reporter of fabricating a report.

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