Law enforcers have increased their presence on the ground and have assigned more detectives to solve criminal cases in the Linstead area, said Senior Superintendent Howard Chambers who heads the St Catherine North Police Division. As part of that thrust to curb crime, police and soldiers conducted a major operation in the Linstead police area…
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Bloody start – Murder rate climbs to 3 in August Town
The murder rate in August Town, St Andrew, climbed to three on the first day of the new year. The police Corporate Communications Unit confirmed that ‘two unidentified men were shot dead by unknown assailants’ on the August Town main about 7:20pm yesterday, January 1. It said more information regarding that incident will be provided…
2 men convicted for murdering 6 relatives in Hanover
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said two men who were charged with the 2015 murder of six members of a Hanover family pictured above were convicted in the Hanover Circuit Court today, November 30. Mikhail Campbell and Errol Clarke will be sentenced in the Home Circuit Court on Friday, December 14. They have been convicted…
5 murdered, 1 injured at Caymanas Bay
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said five men were fatally shot and another injured in two incidents this week at Caymanas Bay in the St Catherine South Police Division. In the first incident, gunmen shot two men who were at a house about 5:30 Tuesday morning. The man who lived at the house was pronounced…
Four murdered in Westmoreland
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said four residents of Masemure Meadows in Westmoreland were murdered before daybreak today, November 8. Those shot dead are 31-year-old mechanic Howard Humes, 23-year-old Shavane Humes, 33-year-old farmer Paulton Humes otherwise called Dwight, and 25-year-old Keneisha Wilson. The JCF said: “Reports are that, about 1am, the bodies of the four…
LINSTEAD: Man sentenced to life for four murders; parole likely after 35 years
The expressed wish of some bereaved families for Simeon Miller to be hanged for murdering four people in Linstead, St Catherine, has not materialized. Justice Chester Stamp sentenced the 37-year-old convict to life imprisonment on each of the four counts of murder. Miller, a vendor from Gillette Street in Linstead, will be eligible for parole…