Cocaine found in fuel tank of car
- police seeking friend
In a dramatic twist of events, police yesterday unearthed eight kilogrammes of cocaine in the fuel tank of the car clothes vendor Raphael Piggott was driving when he was gunned down in Cummings Lodge on Saturday.
This new development may point to the motive for the man’s killing and followed the discovery of a large quantity of foreign currency in the vehicle, police said in a press release last night.
Raphael Piggott
The police are now looking for the man Piggott had gone to drop home when he was shot dead by a lone gunman.
According to the statement, further intelligence garnered during investigations by the police into the murder of the 26-year-old businessman and Guyhoc Park resident, led to a detailed search of his motor vehicle.
During the search, the police found eight packets of cocaine with a weight of eight kilogrammes concealed in the fuel tank of the vehicle to which some adjustments had been made.
The release said that initially the police had found US$14,041 and 1,100 euros in the vehicle at the scene of the incident. The money is the custody of the police.
The police said they are also in the process of making efforts to locate Vincent Da Costa of Sixth Street, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, who was in the vehicle with Piggott at the time of the shooting.
Piggott was shot and killed by an armed gunman at Sixth Street, Cummings Lodge around 5.15 pm on Saturday and was subsequently pronounced dead at a private hospital.
The man’s reputed wife had told Stabroek News on Sunday that they had just returned from Suriname, where they had gone to do some Christmas shopping. Her husband was dropping off his friend (Da Costa), who had accompanied them, at his Sixth Street, Cummings Lodge home. She was sitting in the front seat while the friend was in the back seat.
She had recounted that they had reached the lot where the friend was to be dropped off, but he had not exited as yet as her husband wanted to turn the car around. She said she knew something was wrong when Piggott reversed the car in a rash manner and then she saw him look through the window.
It was at this point that she saw a man with a gun in his hand walk up to the car and before she could react two shots were fired hitting Piggott in the back.
Shortly after that the car crashed into a fence before coming to rest in the yard of the Trooper Taxi Service in Sixth Street.
The woman had told this newspaper too that since the incident, she had not seen the friend they had gone to drop off.
According to her, her husband had walked and sold clothes and spare parts and also worked his car as a taxi.
I like how folks are doing early christmas shopping back in Guyana.
Those who live by the sword, die by the sword. A fitting end to Mr. Piggott. Lesson. Quick profits, quick death. R.I.P.
From day 1 it was suspicious, but not wanting to add injury/insults to death, preferred to keep quiet. The wife and tal Da Costa who saw the murder would have to give a profile/description of the assassin, who can be caught, and then the whole thing would fall apart.
Many are lured by the ’snow’ and the short lived joy it brings.If you and yours continue to play with that stuff be prepared to get frost bite.This stuff kills people
and if you are found to have it or sell it ,you are selling death.KABARDAR!
tell them about frost bite stuff…dem aint really know…frost bite does teck off fingers -ears-nose and toes and then lead to eventual death from too much Greed….dat white stuff eh………
I am of the firm opinion that the wealth of any should not be grudge, in Guyana there are many nouveau rich whose time frame for such wealth accumulation leaves much to be desired, about the American form of free market capitalism. When will these people be made to explain their secrets to success. If it is holistic and moral there will be seen as the new Bill Gates of Guyana.
Narco-activities however comes as no surprise for those who are killed and even those have escaped such form of judgment should not be allowed to escape the fish bowl.
Where is the Commissioner of Inland Revenue, Mr Sattar ?????.
We alread have some Bill Gates in Guyana by Guyana standards
Roger Khan is one and their are many more in Regent Street and
other parts of Guyana brownboy14.
The best part of this ordeal is that the POLICE have the cocaine and monies in their possession and NOT the killer(s), they were kind enough NOT to jack the car after shooting this wasteman like is often done. Now the govt. has $US14G and $EU1100, I hope they find it useful to upgrade some equipment for the GPF. The car should be seized by the GPF, re-painted in police colors and used by the police.
Let’s find the others and put them away forever.
Hey! My sentiments exactly. I had my suspicions but was waitin for a bit more info before commenting. This is life here. Hopefully now that the GPF id ‘back’ (apparently) we can see some serious crime reduction and enjoy some freedom of movement etc., If there is no law on the books (though I think there is) relative to the proceeds of these seizures being used to strengthen law enforcement then the president should act immediately to ensure that is done. The GPF could use the money and equipment!
This is sad. It’s the loss of a life under questionable circumstances. I must give kudos to the Police for being able to unearth this evidence. Hopefully they can snag the real big guns since he was obviously small fish.
Hey Nuff!
Well,Well this sound so funny yesterday for someone to walk up to this young man and shoot just like that, like i so to myself yesterday that inocent people do not get kill like this.He is a guyanese young man what is he diong with all of that us and euro money on him he was deep in the drug buisness and he owe someone , he new a hit was out for him from the time he saw these gun men he started to try to save his life, but he could not get away from that one.When you go to crab dance you must get mud on your skin.
i love your last statement, crab dance.
Illegal drugs is not good ‘How a man live so shall he die’ If u live by the sword, u died by the sword.If u play with fire u will get burn. Just a few thought. This vendor was hiding behind his clothes, or so it appears
nice and simple. the day he decided to traffic drugs, his faith was sealed. one less moron on the street.