ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — According to reporting, on Saturday, September 9, 2023, St. Elizabeth police recaptured one of eight inmates who escaped from the Black River police station lock-up on June 19, 2023.
When law enforcement officers captured Richard Brown, a Middle Quarters, St. Elizabeth resident, he was hanging out at a bar at about 5:00 p.m. in Buena Vista, Myersville.
Brown was awaiting trial for robbery with aggravation when he escaped.
The jailbreak, which cast a dark shadow over the St. Elizabeth Police Department, resulted in a shakeup of the leadership of the Division.
Among the other escapees who remain at large is Anward “Kirkie” Hinds, charged with a quadruple murder.
The police charged Hinds with the murders of four farmers — Archibald Brown, 60; his brother George Brown, 57; Maurice Sanderson, 40; and Ezra Wright, 73 in the remote community of Claremont in St. Elizabeth on May 27, 2015.
At that time, police believed Hinds was the leader of a tentacle of the infamous Stone Crusher gang.
Law enforcement officers apprehended Hinds in July 2015; he was hiding in the ceiling of a house in Hatfield, Manchester.
The other detainees who escaped are Oral Cole, 31, from Comfort Hall, Manchester; Alrick Hutchinson, 38, from Brighton District, St. Elizabeth; and Dean Simpson, 34, from Turner Top, St. Elizabeth. They were all charged with robbery with aggravation; Jevaughn Simms, 25, from Copperwood, St James; and Kenneth Stewart, 30, from Beacon Hill, St Catherine, were both being held for murder; and Demar Williams, 29, from Gravel Heights in Spanish Town, St Catherine, who was facing a shooting with intent charge was shot and killed by the police in St. Catherine.