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Alleged killer arrested while reporting threats to his life

Jan 14, 2016 News

Police are preparing to charge a B Field Sophia man, who was on the run for more than four months for the murder of Brazilian gold miner Josi Mar Perriera Silva.
The man, Joel Letlow was held on Tuesday by alert police ranks at the Turkeyen Police Station where he had gone to report that someone was threatening to shoot him.
Silva, 51, of Boa Vista, Brazil was found dead in a Mining camp at Mowasi Backdam on September 6th last year.
Silva was reportedly severely beaten and robbed of a quantity of gold.
Kaieteur News understands that Letlow turned up at the station, thinking that he was not known to the authorities.
He was so mistaken. One of the ranks there recognized him and a message was relayed to the Criminal Investigations Headquarters, Eve Leary as well as to the F Division.
The ranks at Turkeyen managed to delay Letlow long enough for detectives from CID headquarters to come to arrest him.
According to a source, Letlow has implicated another person in the killing, but in the meantime, he will have to face the music alone.
Last year, there was a sharp increase in the number of miners, particularly Brazilians, who were violently attacked and robbed.
In most cases, the incidents resulted in deaths.
In August last year, the body of 40-year-old Domingo Rodrigues Santos, of Quamina Street, Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara, was discovered in Mahdia with a single stab wound to his chest.
In July, another Brazilian national, Antonio Rodriguez Da Silva, 57, of Turkeyen was chopped to death during an argument with another man. The incident occurred at Chinese Creek, Puruni.
According to reports, Da Silva and the suspect, who escaped after committing the act, had an argument during which he was chopped about his body. Due to the severity of his injuries, Da Silva lost a lot of blood and subsequently died.

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