By SANCHESKA BROWN
Tribune Staff Reporter
sbrown@tribunemedia.net
POLICE are on the hunt for four men who escaped on foot after shooting at officers during a high-speed chase in New Providence early on Sunday morning.
According to reports, officers from the Mobile Division were on routine patrol when, shortly after 3am, they heard the sound of gunshots on Dunmore Street.
Officers then saw a suspicious vehicle speeding away from the area and chased it onto Tonique Williams Darling Highway, where the four men abandoned the vehicle and fired several shots at the police before fleeing.
The officers returned fire and chased after the suspects but were unable to catch them.
Officers searched the vehicle and found a pistol with a quantity of ammunition.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the four men are asked to contact police at 911 or 919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 328-TIPS.
Officers of the Select Enforcement Team (SET) arrested 11 people and seized fives illegal firearms over a 40-hour period late last week.
The operation is part of the Royal Bahamas Police Force's strategy to cut down on criminal activity by targeting problem locations and people engaged in criminal activities such as murder, armed robbery, rape, shootings, stolen vehicles, firearms and drugs.
In the first incident, shortly after 11am on Thursday, two high-powered weapons with 24 rounds of ammunition along with a quantity of marijuana was seized by SET officers at a home on Dorsette Alley. Three adult males and two adult females were arrested for the seizure.
Shortly after midnight on Friday, SET officers seized a pistol with eight rounds of ammunition on East Street South. Two adult males and one adult female were arrested for the seizure.
And shortly after 2am on Saturday, officers seized a pistol with 18 rounds of ammunition on Madeira Street. Three adult males were arrested for the seizure.
A short while later, officers seized a pistol with eight rounds of ammunition in a vehicle on Madeira Street. No one was arrested for the seizure.
Investigations continue.
Comments
Voltaire 8 years, 5 months ago
Where are they getting the guns from? Why is this still such a mystery? Why can't we stop the flow of guns into this country??? When was the last time someone got arrested as part of a gun smuggling ring?
Cobalt 8 years, 5 months ago
The police caught a big-wig, PLP crony smuggling guns and ammunition into the country via automobiles from the U.S.
The guilty party was never charged because Jerome Fitzgerald, who was then acting as the Attorny General, got the charges nullified.
The shocking truth is...... government officials and those who hold power in this country are the ones who are operating and trafficking illegal firearms into the Bahamas. Because of the geographical construct of the Bahamas and the fact that we're surrounded by miles of ocean, our boarders are wide open to smuggling. This makes our boarders extremely hard, almost impossible, to police.
Big-wigs, white collar criminals, and government officials (some within national security) are exploiting this fact and getting rich off of it. I guarantee you.... if you knew the truth about what's really going on in this little Bahamas, you wouldn't sleep very good at night. It'll turn every strand of hair on your head, gray. Trust me.
ThisIsOurs 8 years, 5 months ago
Yep. For illegal immigration, drugs and guns to proliferate, multiple "someones" at the top are getting their cuts, directly or indirectly. And they know exactly how the money was made.
Look at the self appointed "nation builder" gaming boss that every politician wants to get next to. One former partner a convicted drug dealer and the other indicted for human smuggling. Jerome Fitzgerald's former campaign general and I believe his former driver(?), imprisoned for drug smuggling.
TruePeople 8 years, 5 months ago
Bey, these islands are a smugglers dream............ sooooooo many bays, cays, coves, Bush islands.... and a very thin Defense Force that is be looking for Haitian more than the Smugglers cus a half sunked sloop is easyer to catch that a go fast boat
Barbara242 8 years, 5 months ago
Maybe the police are the ones selling them...
Cobalt 8 years, 5 months ago
Not only the police.... but government cronies, members of parliament, judges, cabinet ministers, lawyers, and those holding power within national security.
There's a huge gun smuggling and human trafficking ring going on in the Bahamas. And the ones who are charged with the responsibility of stopping it, are the ones who are engaged in it. The average Bahamian is completely in the dark as to what's going on in this country.
The United States has recently classed the Bahamas government among the most corrupted countries in the west, next to Mexico and Colombia. International diplomacy is currently preventing them from indicting many of them for questioning in drug related cases. My cousin works for the department of corrections in the U.S. She said that a certain drug dealer who was extradited years ago has sung like a bird to the DEA. He implicated many of them in his dealings related to bribery and payoffs.
What other country do you know of in the Western Hemisphere where the Deputy Prime Minister is in danger of being arrested if he enters the North American boarder??
Sad state of affairs is the Bahamas.
ThisIsOurs 8 years, 5 months ago
It's a wonder he gave up the leadership race so easily. I wonder what the US would do if Perry Christie for whatever reason moved off the scene and he ascended to the tarnished throne.
sheeprunner12 8 years, 5 months ago
Some say Bimini .......... some say Exuma or Marsh Harbour......... some say Arawak port ....... it can really be anywhere a go-fast or small plane can access our country ...... we are a wide open border ............... but yes there must be a cartel running the gun trade in this country .............. drugs, guns and US money are controlled by cartels and gangs for sure
TruePeople 8 years, 5 months ago
One Order
MonkeeDoo 8 years, 5 months ago
I hear they clear Customs in Bimini and offload at Potters Cay . Simple as that.
ThisIsOurs 8 years, 5 months ago
There's a lot of money in the certain regularized businesses, call me crazy but I'm thinking too much money from just spending 50c to spin a wheel.
Emac 8 years, 5 months ago
Who knows what's going on out there! The Bahamas is so corrupt that you would drop your mouth to find out the truth behind who is the mastermind behind this gun/drug trade. You just never know! My colleagues and I were just discussing how these big yachts sail right into our harbor in Albany and Lyford cay and staff members simply call customs and immigration after they are docked, which is usually thirty minutes to an hour later. All sorts of people and things can be off loaded in that space of time. I am NOT saying that these things happen in these ports, but it is an example of where officials need to tighten their belt on all ports of entries and monitor all vessels entering the Bahamian waters, be it a luxurious yacht, a Haitian sloop or a dingy. Customs and immigration officials ability to control these ports properly is quite plausible since someone above mentioned that the Bahamas has the most law enforcers in the hemisphere per capita.
TruePeople 8 years, 5 months ago
I recall a big fancy yacht was for some reason stopped and searched by the Defense force earlier this year.... White affluent persons aboard..... and Also a bunch of hight powered weapons..........
Emac 8 years, 5 months ago
Hmmm...Exactly my point!
Cobalt 8 years, 5 months ago
The United States of America also needs to shoulder a large portion of the blame when it comes to the trafficking of illegal firearms into the Bahamas.
They've invaded many countries in South America for the manufacturing and distribution of narcotics to the U.S. But yet they fail to acknowledge that they are manufacturing and distributing illegal weapons to their southern neighbors as well.
How would they feel if another super power invaded their shores because too many weapons and illegal firearms were being shipped out of their country?
Hmmmmm
sheeprunner12 8 years, 5 months ago
Yep ........ we sure dont make the weapons that are used to commit the crimes, but the USA will never be held responsible for the export of guns to Third World countries by gangs ......... they are only concerned about what flows into the USA
TruePeople 8 years, 5 months ago
Very true sheeprunner... And many would actually argue that the CIA has been involved in the gun and narcotics trade themselves. While i'm not saying the CIA ARE or ARE NOT doing this, i wouldn't be surprised if it were true
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