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Escapee, 16 others nabbed during Diamond Housing Scheme raids
– gun, ammo, equipment for false number plates seized
Police appear to have smashed a criminal gang following the capture of wounded Popeye’s robbery suspect Rayon Paddy and the arrest of 16 others during raids last Friday and yesterday in Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara.
Rayon Paddy
Investigators are also looking for a former policeman who reportedly slipped the dragnet on Friday, during which the suspects and the police squad exchanged gunfire.
A release stated that police recovered a .32 semi-automatic pistol with 12 rounds along with 17 rounds 5.56 calibre ammunition (used in M 16 assault rifles) and a quantity of cocaine and marijuana. A police official said that a hood and pieces of metal used to make false number plates were also found during Friday’s operation, in which five houses were searched.
The official said that police captured Paddy and another man, identified only as Arthur, during that operation, which was conducted in the vicinity of Twenty-First Street, Diamond Housing Scheme.
A former policeman, who was reportedly with the two suspects, managed to flee during the brief shootout, but ranks are working intensely to capture him.
Paddy, 26, also identified as Nicholas James, of South Ruimveldt Park, Georgetown, was shot in the buttocks last January by a plainclothes rank during a foiled robbery at the Popeye’s restaurant on Vlissengen Road. He subsequently escaped from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
A police official said that ranks searched 15 houses in Diamond Housing Scheme and detained 15 other suspects.
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