According to reporting, on Wednesday, September 20, 2023, residents summoned the police to a section of Barnes Avenue in Rose Town, Kingston 13, where they found the headless body of a male wrapped in tarpaulin along the roadway.
The police believed the headless corpse had something to do with the never-ending gang war in the lower Maxfield Avenue communities.
One investigator at the scene described the gruesome and despicable act as “Real Spanish Town style.”
The police are investigating the incident.
Authorities retrieved the body of a man from a sinkhole in St. Elizabeth.
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — On Wednesday morning, September 20, 2023, authorities removed the body of Howard Smith from a 50-foot sinkhole in Claremont, St. Elizabeth.
The undertaking was a joint effort by citizens and police that lasted 16 hours.
According to the Head of the St. Elizabeth police, Acting Superintendent Coleridge Minto, Smith was reported missing on Sunday, September 18, 2023. Residents discovered Smith’s body in the sinkhole on Tuesday, September 19, 2023. He was 54.
The police ruled out foul play.
Police arrested three suspects concerning a stolen motor car in St Elizabeth.
On Wednesday, September 20, the police arrested three suspects they believed connected to a stolen car the St. Elizabeth police recovered.
The police apprehended the men during a special operation along the Oxford main road.
The arrests came as the police intensified operations in the parish, targeting wanted persons, guns, gangs, and drugs.
Recently, a police-military operation in parish sections resulted in the seizure of over 2,000 pounds of ganja, which the police called a significant dent in the drugs-for-gun trade in St. Elizabeth.
Red Hills cops interrupted significant telecommunications cable theft.
ST ANDREW, Jamaica – According to law enforcement officers attached to the Red Hills police station in St. Andrew, they have interrupted the significant theft of cables belonging to one of the country’s telecommunications providers, valued at millions of dollars.
The police said the incident occurred sometime after 4:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 20, 2023, after they received a tip about suspicious men lurking in the area.
The police arrested one suspect in connection with this theft.
Jury problems forced Judge to adjourn the “Beachy Stout” trial until Monday, September 25, 2023.
JURY problems escalated further on Wednesday in the murder trial of Everton “Beachy Stout” McDonald and his co-accused, Oscar Barnes, in the Home Circuit Court in Kingston, forcing the trial adjournment and the discharging of the seven-member jury, impaneled on Monday, September 18, 2023.
The matter will resume on Monday, September 25, 2023, when the Court will select a new set of jurors.
‘Beachy Stout’ and Barnes are on trial for the July 20, 2020, murder of Tonia McDonald, who was Everton’s second wife.
Authorities found her partially burnt body slumped beside her scorched motor car on the Sherwood Forest main road in Portland, with her throat slashed.
At the start of the trial on Monday, September 18, 2023, two men selected for jury refused to swear on the Bible or affirm that they would do nothing to compromise the case.
One of the men blatantly refused and told the Judge that he would not swear on the Bible because of his religious beliefs, and he also declined to give an affirmation, claiming he was of the view that he would still be swearing.
Presiding Judge Chester Stamp discharged the two men.
The Court replaced the two men immediately, and the trial got underway with the first witness, a former employee of ‘Beachy Stout,’ taking the stand to give testimony.
But another jury issue popped up on Tuesday, and the matter further escalated on Wednesday.
Could it be ‘Beachy Stout’ corrupted the jury pool? It is not out of the realm of possibilities. Let’s see what happened on Monday, September 25, 2023.