Cops detain businessman in footballer, associate abduction probe

Jan 30, 2016 News

-investigation at ‘crucial stage’ says Crime Chief
A Parika, East Bank of Essequibo businessman, was in custody last night, as the search intensified for abducted

Wanted: Gary Mervin Primo called ‘Gary Talkout’

Alpha United goalkeeper, Ronson Williams, and carpenter Carlos Anderson.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum made this disclosure last night, while stressing that the police were now “at a critical stage” of the investigation.
He also declined to comment on the possible fate of the missing men, or the motive for their abduction.
He did reveal that a Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara man, who investigators had detained has been released.
Meanwhile, police are reportedly still trying to locate
Gary Mervin Primo, called ‘Gary Talkout’, in relation to the abduction of Williams and Anderson.  There are reports that Primo is overseas.
Williams, 28, and Anderson, 20, are said to have disappeared on September 10, 2015, after entering a silver-grey car in Bent Street, Georgetown. They had informed relatives that they were heading to a football match.
One suggestion is that their disappearance may be connected to a sum of money that one of the men had borrowed.
Williams’s mother, Desiree Carter, said that her son came to her Bent Street home that evening and collected two pairs of pants and a jersey. He also indicated that he was going to a girlfriend in Sophia before heading to the football match. She has not seen him since.
Carter said that she reported the matter to the police since September 15, last, while Carmelita Pestano Anderson, the mother of Carlos Anderson, reported the matter on September 13 at the Alberttown Police Station
The family is offering a reward for any credible information pertaining to the disappearance of these two youths. Contact numbers are 592-678-1907 or 592-697-7738.