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$10M REWARD FOR CAPTURE OF ESCAPEES
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is offering a reward of $10M for information leading to the arrest of prison escapees Uree Varswyck, the ex-cop on trial for two counts of murder; Bartica and Lusignan massacre killer, Mark Royden Durant and murder suspects, Cobena Stephens and Paul Goriah.
All information will be treated with strict confidentiality.
Just around 17:00 hrs on July 9, inmates set fires at several sections of the prison to distract the authorities—as Varswyck, Durant, Stafrei Alexander Hopkinson and Desmond James broke out of the facility.
Cobena Stephens is believed to have escaped during the time the police ranks and soldiers were moving prisoners from the burnt facility at Camp Street prison to the Lusignan Prison.
Hopkinson was later nabbed in Topoo, a village nestled between Hampshire and Albion in East Berbice, Corentyne on July 29, last while James was caught hiding in an abandoned shack at Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara (WBD) on July 14, last.
Additionally, on July, 24, last, 13 prisoners crawled to freedom through a tunnel they had dug in a latrine in the Lusignan holding facility.
Eleven of the inmates have since been caught and placed back into the prison system while one had been shot dead.
Goriah is among those escaped from the Lusignan Prison facility.
Odel Roberts, Rayon Jones and Jamal Forde were nabbed along the Agriculture Road, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, while Teshawn McKenzie and Winston Long were captured near the Route 44 bus park in Georgetown.
A few hours later, Jamal Joseph and Jason Howard were captured in North East La Penitence. Some days later, escapee Pascal Smith was captured in Barr Street, Kitty. He plunged into a latrine to avoid recapture.
Shawn Harris was nabbed in Mocha, East Bank Demerara (EBD). Clive Forde was shot dead during a shootout with ranks from the joint services two Sundays ago. Later that same evening, another escapee Kerry Cromwell surrendered at the Brickdam Police Station accompanied by his mother.
Kendall Skeete was caught hiding in the abandoned house of one of his relatives at Wisrock, Linden.
Anyone with information that may lead to the recapture of these escapees, is asked to contact the Police on telephone numbers 225-6411, 225-8196, 225-2227,
226-1389, 227-2128, 227-1149, 226-7065, 699-0869, 600-3019, 699-0867,
669-4606, 603-3261or the nearest Police Station.
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