Latest update February 10th, 2025 2:25 PM
Close associates still in custody as cops seek third man
Diamond businessman’s execution…
Up to late last evening the two close associates of slain Diamond businessman Leonard Mahadeo were still in police custody as police seek to question a third man.
This publication was also told that there were no new leads into the matter as of yesterday but the police will continue to follow any information that is forthcoming. At least one of the detained men is a very close friend of Mahadeo’s. The other is a relative of a former policeman, while the third individual being sought is said to be a deportee.
Dead 37 year-old Leonard Mahadeo who was shot execution style on Friday night
Mahadeo was gunned down Friday night at Eccles, East Bank Demerara in what investigators believe was a drug-related hit. Police said that Mahadeo, of Diamond, East Bank Demerara, had multiple gunshot wounds. The bullet casings at the scene indicated that the killers used assault rifles. A police official confirmed that an unlicensed Taurus pistol was found in the slain man’s car.
Last Friday night, two masked gunmen walked into the Soca Paradise Bar with a ‘long gun’ and a handgun and riddled Mahadeo who was sitting at a table with a friend. Eyewitnesses said that the two masked men after riddling Mahadeo and leaving his friend unharmed, calmly walked out of the bar and made good their escape.
There are reports that Mahadeo may have been somehow linked to the recent discovery of two haversacks with cocaine which were found in the compound of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.
On Sunday last ranks from the Police Narcotics Unit found the bag with cocaine totaling 10 kilograms. Back in 1998 Mahadeo was shot in the chest, right shoulder and left knee by an armed man while sitting in his car at the corner of Barr Street and Stanley Place, Kitty in front of the Bahama Breeze Bar. It was reported that the incident was an execution attempt.
Eyewitnesses to the incident had reported that Mahadeo had gone into the Bahama Breeze nightspot and had bought something to drink. He then returned to his car with the beverage. Shortly after, a gunman, who was standing some 50 yards away, opened fire at Mahadeo’s vehicle before escaping.
Although wounded, Mahadeo managed to exit his car and stagger into the night club. Some patrons assisted the wounded man into his car and took him to the Woodlands Hospital. The police recovered six spent shells and four warheads at the scene.
And in June 1996, Mahadeo was charged with transporting and exporting 2.272 grammes of cocaine. An operative from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police testified in the historic local case, in which videotaped evidence was also tendered.
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