Cops release Alpha Hotel drug bust trio

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Cops release Alpha Hotel drug bust trio

Jul 13, 2016 News

Police have released the three hotel employees they had detained during last Thursday’s drug bust that ended with 52-year-old Alvin Joseph being slain.
A police official indicated that the investigators had no evidence to link the trio to the some five kilogrammes of cocaine that the police had seized during the raid at the Alpha Hotel at Ogle, East Coast Demerara.
Police had detained a 46-year-old driver from Alexander Village; a 16-year-old boy who is employed as a hotel cleaner, a 56-year-old cook and a 30-year-old South Ruimveldt resident.
Kaieteur News was told that the cocaine was found in a car belonging to Joseph, who police allege they were forced to shoot after he shot at them.
Joseph was a licenced firearm holder and the 9mm handgun that was allegedly retrieved from him was licenced to a First Avenue, Bartica business where Joseph was employed.
The Police Office for Professional Responsibility (OPR) is investigating the shooting.
Joseph’s son, Damien Tim, is alleging that his father had surrendered when he was shot. He also denied that his father was involved in illegal activities. According to the son, Joseph worked for a mining company in Bartica and would frequently visit the capital city to sell gold or to buy spare parts for motor vehicles.
Tim recalled that about four men came to his father’s North Ruimveldt, Georgetown home and picked him up with a vehicle some hours prior to him being shot.
A police release had stated that about 16.40hrs last Thursday, the police, acting on information that a large scale drug transaction was being conducted at a hotel at Ogle, ECD, went to the hotel to investigate. They allegedly came under fire while approaching the suspects with a view to arresting them.
“The police then returned fire during which suspect, Nigel Joseph, 52, of North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was fatally shot.
According to reports, when ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch arrived, they saw Nigel Joseph running in a southerly direction in the hotel parking lot. It is alleged that Joseph ignored orders to halt, and instead discharged three rounds at the ranks.
The police returned fire, shooting Joseph, who later succumbed. In addition to the cocaine and the pistol, 14 rounds of ammunition were seized and a car was impounded.

1 thoughts on “Cops release Alpha Hotel drug bust trio”

george wiltshire July 13, 2016 at 7:00 am

There should be a thorough investigation. Dead man tell no tales. Lives matter. All over the world there is police brutality and the only time civil society becomes interested when anger forces the death of cops. Neither is right.

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