SWAT team, soldiers comb Buxton backlands for escapees

Jul 13, 2017 News

Up to late yesterday, Soldiers and members from the Guyana Police Force (GPF)’s Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team were combing the backlands at Buxton, East Coast Demerara, after receiving information that four of the eight prison escapees might be hiding out there.
When this newspaper visited the scene yesterday, residents related that the soldiers had been in the area for some time, combing the backlands. The team opened fire on a mentally ill man who ran after seeing them. He is presently in police custody. Residents said that the lawmen fired at least three gunshots into the thick vegetation. They were looking for Bartica and Lusignan massacre killer Mark Royden Williams, Ex-cop Uree Varswyck, Stafrei Hopkinson and an Amerindian man.
The men broke out of the Camp Street Prison on Sunday after setting fires to distract the police. They took taxi driver, Matthew Shivtahal with them and released him at midnight on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the police yesterday issued another wanted bulletin with the names of three additional prisoners who are on the run.
They are Desmond James, 24, of Hotoquai Creek, North West District; Cornelius Thomas, 32, of Lot 36 Guyhoc Gardens and Cobena Stephens, 26, of Buxton.
Kaieteur News was informed that there are eight prisoners missing from the prison and authorities are gathering information on the other two escapees, who have not been identified as yet.
Just before 17:00 hrs on Sunday, the Camp Street prison’s surveillance cameras picked up six prisoners exiting the facility and making their way towards Bent Street, Georgetown, while opening fire on Tactical Service Unit (TSU) ranks guarding around the compound.
The Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras picked up Mark Royden Williams, Ex-cop Uree Varswyck, Stafrei Hopkinson Alexander and two other persons with their faces covered with clothes.
One of the individuals is said to be an Amerindian man but the second person has not been identified as yet.

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