Crime Roundup: Updates on Petrojam’s employee assassination plot and Beryllium guard accidental shooting.
According to media reports, an employee of Petrojam implicated in the alleged foil plot to assassinate the General Manager of Petrojam is under investigation.
Investigators are probing allegations that the employee in question hired contract killers to assassinate his colleague.
The police said they arrested the three alleged hitmen found lurking in a blue Toyota Yaris motor car at the Petrojam oil refinery car park on Marcus Garvey Drive in St Andrew on Thursday, November 23, 2023.
The three men are from addresses in Kingston and St. Ann. The police arrested them after seizing two weapons: a Taurus pistol with six rounds and a .38 pistol with six rounds.
According to the police, they took the suspects to their respective homes and conducted searches as part of the probe, but they found no incriminating evidence.
The law enforcement authorities theorize that the hitmen had been contracted to kill a senior manager at the state-run oil refinery.
Commanding Officer for the St. Andrew South Police, Senior Superintendent Kirk Ricketts, told Radio Jamaica News officers from the Kingston Western and Kingston Eastern police divisions are participating in the investigations.
A Beryllium guard faces felony charges after shooting three people accidentally.
A Beryllium Security Limited guard is facing felony charges after his weapon reportedly accidentally discharged on Thursday morning, November 23, 2023, injuring three customers of the Portmore branch of the National Commercial Bank.
The NCB customers, including two women, were shot and wounded while visiting the bank to conduct business.
The authorities transported them to the hospital for treatment of bullet wounds to their legs and forearms.
A female Constable was among those shot.
According to reports, the Beryllium guard involved was interviewed by detectives assigned to the St. Catherine South Police Criminal Investigation Branch.
The unfortunate incident reportedly occurred sometime after 10 o’clock. NCB customers gathered at the bank to use the Automated Banking Machines when members of a Beryllium security team arrived to load the machines with cash.
While the guards loaded the machine with cash, one of the guard’s firearms reportedly discharged accidentally, hitting the three customers.