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Jan 17, 2015 News
Quincy Johnson, whose body was fished out of the Demerara River last week Thursday, may have been slain during a dispute with marijuana farmers, police said yesterday.
Johnson’s body, with an incised wound to the neck, was found near West Watooka and was reportedly identified by a sister.
Kaieteur News understands that the 25-year-old from Half Mile, Wismar, was previously employed as a porknocker, but recently began working with an individual who cultivated marijuana.
However, while police have detained one man and are hunting for a second suspect, an official said that investigators only have “second hand” information about the circumstances surrounding Johnson’s demise. They have also been unable to locate the marijuana farm where he had allegedly worked.
A relative of the slain man said that he is being laid to rest today but declined further comment.
Linden is believed to have a high incidence of marijuana cultivation and there have been a number of execution-style deaths which appear to be linked to the trade.
On October 4, 2010, the body of 51-year-old suspected ganja farmer Linden Mc Pherson was found at Seven Miles Ituni road. The corpse bore two gunshot wounds. Eight days later, the body of Devon Simpson, 34, of Kara Kara Linden, was found in a canal separating Sophia and Meadow Brook. He had been shot at the back of the head and police suggested that the deaths were connected to the marijuana trade.
In June, 2011, the body 21-year-old Clifton Bonus, called Motto, of Nottinghamshire, and of Silvertown, Wismar, Linden, was found near an abandoned airstrip at Linden, where a marijuana farm was said to be located.
A 23-year-old man and his alleged 16-year-old accomplice were charged with Bonus’s murder.
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