Massive Joint Services operations last evening in Canje and New Amsterdam led to the recapturing of a prisoner, Chetram Singh who escaped from the Reliance Police Station on Wednesday.
Singh, 26, of Betsy Ground, East Canje was found hiding in a latrine in a resident’s yard also at Betsy Ground. Singh had escaped from that station for the second time in less than a month.
He had just returned from the Reliance Magistrate’s Court and was left unattended in the inquiries office when he suddenly disappeared.
After ranks realized he was missing they made a mad rush to have him recaptured but he outran them.
Singh, a deportee who had escaped on May 9 and was recaptured one week later, was before the court on charges of escaping from lawful custody, break and enter and larceny as well as for the larceny of a generator. He was further remanded to prison.
He had reportedly claimed that he had not escaped but was in fact set free after paying a female special constable and a neighbourhood police officer $35,000.
The officers were arrested and charged and the case against one was dismissed while the other had been placed on $50,000 bail.
He had escaped the first time by removing a board from the lock-ups.
A police source told this newspaper last evening that the man is now in a more secured lock-ups. He said the cell at the Reliance Station was currently undergoing repairs.
