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C’tyne carjacking suspect confesses about cop’s execution
…leads investigators to murder weapon
Detective Jirbahan Dianand
What started out as a routine carjacking investigation for ranks at the New Amsterdam Police Station turned out to be a major breakthrough in the probe of the execution-style killing of Anti-narcotics rank Detective Jirbahan Dianand, at Corentyne.
Detective Dianand’s body was discovered in his motor car, PHH 6528, on the Jackson Creek Public Road by a police patrol attached to Springlands Police Station on Friday, September 14, last. He had two gunshot wounds to his head.
Reports are that following last Saturday’s night carjacking and shooting of taxi driver, Jermaine Rover, 21, of No. 78 Village, Corentyne, police at Fort Wellington Station on a routine road block recovered the car.
The Corolla AT 192, HB 3172, was found at Plantation Foulis, West Coast Berbice, on Sunday. The two occupants of the car were arrested and taken to New Amsterdam Central Police Station for questioning.
Rover was shot and is currently at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital. The taxi driver was robbed and relieved of his car at Moleson Creek after leaving a gas station.
Meanwhile, under intense interrogation about the carjacking and possible involvement in other crimes in the Corentyne, one of the men reportedly broke and made some startling revelations.
A source told this publication that he confessed to being in the company of others – whose names were given to the police – signaling their involvement in the brutal execution of Detective Dianand.
The man reportedly told investigators that on the night of September 13, he was in the company of another man who was making arrangements to meet the Detective Dianand to hand over some money.
Sources say that the man related that once the detective arrived at the Jackson Creek Public Road he stayed in his car while the other suspect walked up to his car with a bag, supposedly containing a large amount of cash.
The man reportedly told the police that as Dianand wound his window down and stretched out his hand to collect the bag the suspect never released the bag to Dianand but instead drew a gun and shot the Detective twice in his head before fleeing the scene.
The man also reportedly told investigators that he asked his accomplice for a ‘cut’ of the money but he was denied his request.
The man claimed that his accomplice threatened to kill him if he told anyone what he knew.
The suspect also claimed that his accomplice went to a location and hid the murder weapon and then dropped him home.
A source said that the man then related that he returned to the location where the murder weapon was hidden and stole it with the intention of eliminating Dianand’s killer, but he ‘didn’t have the guts to do it’. The man also related that he eventually took the weapon to a relative to ‘stash it’. Reports are that the man has since led investigators to the murder weapon.
Detective Dianand was attached to the Springlands Police Station and was based at Moleson Creek Police Outpost as a Narcotics rank who had a number of drug-related cases in court.
Shortly after his death, eight persons were taken into custody to assist with investigations. Two police officers were also held under close arrest in relation to the Detective’s murder. The persons detained were each placed on $100,000 bail, but were never charged.
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