US-based Guyanese Marcus Brian Jainarine Bisram, the alleged mastermind in the murder of Number 70 Village carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt, was on Wednesday remanded to prison by Magistrate Judge Peggy Kuo after the prosecution argued that he should be detained since he could not meet the burden of showing he was not a flight risk or a danger to the community.
This argument was put forward in a letter, seen by this newspaper, from Acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Bridget M Rohde, who urged that the court not grant the Guyanese fugitive bail since he “poses a serious risk of flight and danger to the community.”
She pointed out that since Bisram was charged with crimes in another country it was already by definition flight or deliberately absent from that jurisdiction. The fact that he has evaded prosecution in his home country “is indicative of his risk of flight in the United States,” she said.
