The police reported that citizens found the body of a man who many believed was of an unsound mind submerged in a water tank in St Ann.

The police identified the deceased as Paul Clark, age 64, of Happy News district in Alexandria, St Ann.

According to the police, at about 7:00 am, Friday morning, June 2, 2023, residents detected a foul stench near the water tank and went to investigate.

During the search, the residents found Clark’s submerged body inside the tank. 

The residents alerted the police. And they retrieved the body and removed it to the morgue. A postmortem is pending.

The last time anyone saw Clarke alive was Monday, May 29, 2023. And it was still being determined whether anyone had reported him missing.

Law enforcement officers are investigating the incident.

The police charged a St James man with a 2017 double murder.

ST JAMES, Jamaica— The St James police reported that they arrested and charged a man implicated in a double murder that occurred in Tucker, St James, on October 31, 2017.

According to the police, on Thursday, June 1, 2023, they charged Timoy Spence, o/c ‘Jeffery,’ and ‘Shotty,’ age 25, a laborer of Irwin St James–with two counts of murder. The police said they apprehended Spence on May 19, 2023, in a targeted raid in Tucker.

The police identified the deceased as Andrew Walters, o/c’ Dudu’, age 44, a carpenter, and Donovan Johnson, age 64, a farmer of Tucker, St James.

According to the police report, on Tuesday, October 31, 2017, Walters was at home in Tucker when two armed thugs approached him and started shooting fire, hitting him in the upper body. The men fled on foot toward the main road, where they encountered Johnson and opened fire on him. The men then escaped into the community.

Citizens summoned the police to the scene. The police assisted the men to the hospital, where they died.

Spence’s court appearance date is pending.

Portmore police charged veteran Reggae Artist Ruffi Ann with illegal firearm possession.

 Little known Dancehall artist Sharon Peterkin, o/c Ruffi-Ann, or Lady Shaba, and a co-accused are facing charges of possessing a prohibited weapon and possession of and trafficking marijuana after police found a pistol, ammo, and a quantity of marijuana at a house she occupies with her co-accused.

On Friday, June 2, 2023, Lady Shaba and her co-accused appeared in St Catherine Parish. The presiding judge denied Ruffi Ann’s bail application and granted her co-accused, Daniel Gutzmore, a bond of $300,000 and ordered that he hand over his travel documents and report to the Portmore police station once a week. 

According to the indictment, on May 20, 2023, the police, armed with a warrant, searched a house owned by Ruffi Ann and her co-accused and found five pounds of ganja, two magazines with 19 cartridges of ammunition, and a pistol hidden in a drawer.

According to reports, Peterkin told the police she needed the firearm to protect herself because the firearm licensing authority confiscated her licensed pistol.

Both accused faced charges of illegal possession of a firearm, unauthorized possession of ammunition, and possession of and trafficking of marijuana.

The presiding Judge, Desiree Alleyne, adjourned until June 16, 2023. If the court found them guilty, each accused could be looking at a minimum of 15 years in prison.