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Mar 08, 2018 News
An East Coast man accused of being part of a group who beat a Cane Grove man to death in 2017 has been arrested and sent back by the US to Guyana to face the courts.
Anthony Bhupdeo, 25, appeared in an East Coast Demerara court on Tuesday and was refused bail, Crime Chief, Paul Williams, confirmed yesterday.
Bhupdeo, said to be from Mon Repos, was returned to this country on Saturday, March 3, the Crime Chief said.
However, according to a statement of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued yesterday, its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) agents removed Bhupdeo on March 1st from the US.
“Bhupdeo was removed from the United States via a commercial flight and transferred into the custody of Guyanese law enforcement authorities upon arrival in Georgetown, the country’s capital.”
Bhupdeo fled to the US on a visitor’s visa on January 2, 2016, one day after the alleged beating death, and was authorised to stay until July 2016.
On January 7, 2016, ICE disclosed, Guyanese authorities in the East Demerara Magisterial District, issued an arrest warrant for Bhupdeo for murder and on February 2016, the U.S. Department of State revoked Bhupdeo’s visa.
“Bhupdeo, however, failed to depart the United States in July 2016, as required and on September 2016, the HSI office in Bogota, Colombia, notified ERO New York that Bhupdeo, may be residing in the New York City metropolitan area, and was being sought in Guyana for murder pursuant to an Interpol Red Notice.”
On October 5, 2016, ERO deportation officers arrested Bhupdeo in Woodhaven, New York, and placed him into removal proceedings at the Hudson County Correctional Facility in Kearney, New Jersey.
On July 26, 2017, Bhupdeo was ordered removed by an immigration judge, but appealed that decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA).
On February 1, 2018, the BIA dismissed his appeal, paving the way for his removal to Guyana.
“The removal of Bhupdeo is indicative of ERO’s resolve in carrying out the laws of our nation,” said Thomas Decker, field office director for ERO New York.
“We will not provide a safe haven for those who commit crimes in their home countries. For those criminal aliens hiding within our New York communities, our message is clear: it’s not a matter of if we will remove you, it’s a matter of when.”
According to a local report in Kaieteur News on the incident, back in early January, 2016, police on the East Coast of Demerara were hunting a Mon Repos man who they believe is the leader of a gang that beat 22-year-old Cane Grove, Mahaica labourer, Deokumar Basdeo, to death on New Year’s Day.
It was reported that the man might be the owner of the vehicle that struck down Basdeo before a gang of men set about clobbering him to death.
According to a police source, the incident stemmed from Basdeo pelting the vehicle with a hard object.
Basdeo’s sister Amrita Doodnauth and his stepmother watched on helplessly as the men first struck him down with a pick-up truck and then battered him with pieces of wood as he was making his way home.
She said that she was sitting on the steps of her house while her brother who was visiting, was outside the yard.
She said that she and her stepmother went to him and urged him to go home since he already had a few “drinks”.
The woman said that her brother began walking home and all of a sudden he began running.
She saw a red pick-up truck speeding behind him and there was the sound of a heavy impact.
“Me tell me stepmother run go see if ‘Buddy’ get knock down or if anybody lash he, because me pregnant and me nah able run.”
Doodnauth said that when her stepmother reached the spot, she saw some men beating Basdeo and she raised an alarm.
Doodnauth told this newspaper that she responded to her stepmother’s call but only venture a safe distance from where her brother was being beaten.
“But me ah see everybody who ah beat me buddy. Me see how deem tek wood and ah lash am and kick am. Dem pull out he shirt, if you see wha dem ah do with me brother,” Doodnauth told Kaieteur News.
She said that at first she thought that her brother was being robbed.
“He ah holler and say, ‘Alyuh nah rob me, alyuh nah rob me, alyuh nah kill me.’ One ah dem say, ‘Yes, awe go kill you right hey,” the woman added.
She said that they could do nothing to save her brother, “because is plenty ah dem and only we two women.”
By this time, it began to rain and given her condition, she hurriedly left the scene and sought shelter.
When the rain stopped Doodnauth and her stepmother returned to the scene only to see Basdeo lying motionless on the roadway. His attackers had already fled.
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