By SANCHESKA BROWN
Tribune Staff Reporter
sbrown@tribunemedia.net
POLICE arrested nearly 20 people between Wednesday and Thursday for “assisting and providing shelter” for convicted murderer Ormand Leon, according to Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Leon Bethel.
ACP Bethel told The Tribune that the Royal Bahamas Police Force has doubled efforts to find the escaped convict.
According to police, 26-year-old Leon escaped from a police transport vehicle on York Street, off East Bay Street, while en route to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services around noon on Tuesday.
ACP Bethel said the massive manhunt for this “armed and dangerous man” continues, but officers’ efforts are being hampered by some members of the public assisting the convict.
“We have arrested several persons and released some for aiding and helping this murderer,” ACP Bethel said. “I am not sure of the exact number but I know it is more than 20 persons. We want people to know that we aren’t coming friendly if we suspect you have been helping Ormand. We aren’t coming to pat you on the back, we are coming to arrest you and haul you before the courts.”
“This man is a (convicted) criminal and he is dangerous and we need to remind the public of that. We aren’t guessing, he is not a suspect, he has been convicted and we are taking his freedom serious and do all we can to bring him to justice. So we are asking members of the public to continue to support us. Today we doubled the number of persons on the streets. We have done our intelligence work and we know who aided him, not in the escape but in his movement in an attempt to elude police capture. We are coming for those persons and we will take them before the courts.”
Leon is a brown-skinned male, of slim build, who is said to be about 5ft 9in to 5ft 11in. Police said he frequents Moore Avenue, Homestead Street and Miami Street. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans.
Shortly before the escape, Leon was in the Supreme Court for a sentencing hearing for the July 10, 2011 murder of Fransisco Hanna.
That matter has been adjourned to February 16.
Leon is facing up to 60 years imprisonment for the Wilson Tract shooting.
Hanna was shot twice in the chest and three times in his right arm. He died of his injuries at the scene.
Police urged members of the public not to approach Leon, but instead to call 919 or Crime Stoppers at 328-TIPS (8477) if he is seen.
Comments
TalRussell 8 years, 2 months ago
Comrades a bus driver is accustomed to a loud fist thumping on the door .. hey, hey bus driver, open the door, let me in. Not, what are you doing, opening the damn bus door, prisoner.
Bus driver gets on the radio and tells the Fox Hill Prison. I am on my way Warden, minis one escaped murderer.
You policeman's running around Nassau Town, acting likes it ain''s your own fault this prisoner is unlawfully at large.
Didn't law enforcement have him in their custody?
What an excellent picture to visualize how law enforcement can react when faced with embarrassment and why the PLP cabinet ain't got's no damn business be accepting that $1.3 million of military armaments from China..
Comrades can you imagine one them Chinese built armoured vehicles, pulling up in front you place of abode?
by TalRussell
paul_vincent_zecchino 8 years, 2 months ago
Good point, Tal. The chicoms have taken the measure of western leadership and found it wanting. They have long seen crisis and weakness as opportunity.
The chicoms are simply paying heed to the laws of political physics: weak leadership - and I'm not speaking about the Bahamas - on part of western leaders produces as does it always, a power vacuum.
The chicoms are filling that vacuum with their increasing military might.
In America, it's said that our business and political leaders think in terms of the next sales quarter, no further. The chicoms think in intergenerational manner; they play the long game.
They're smiling, playing the long game, salivating as patiently they wait.
The chi
Godson 8 years, 2 months ago
wow... Brilliant.
hurricane 8 years, 2 months ago
Must everything turn a PLP vs FNM thing? You folks have political party on brain!
Required 8 years, 2 months ago
“We have arrested several persons and released some for aiding and helping this murderer,” ACP Bethel said.
Uhm... No. You didn't release people for aiding the murderer, you locked them up, because you thought they were aiding him, and then released them, because you were wrong, and in your incompetence arrested innocent folk. An apology is in order. (But I ain't holding my breath.)
TruePeople 8 years, 2 months ago
You beat me to that one Required!!!
Sickened 8 years, 2 months ago
"... who is said to be about 5ft 9in to 5ft 11in"
Are they saying that they don't even have his friggin' actual height in their record books? What kind of bullshit 3rd world crap of a prison system are we dealing with?
TruePeople 8 years, 2 months ago
So were any police officers arrested for aiding his escape... ? Or is this again the fault of 'Bahamian Families' and not agents of the state (aka, police)
jusscool 8 years, 2 months ago
Like I said some time ago . This whole dam Bahamas is stuck in some kind of time warp. The Government and the Media. Why cameras are not in those vehicles by now ,who knows?
SP 8 years, 2 months ago
..................... Convicted Haitian murderer Ormand Leon disappears .........................
Thank you PLP and FNM!
TalRussell 8 years, 2 months ago
Comrades my advice policeman's is to wait, be patient cause when time marry the escapee is bound return back to the police station to take his wedding vows, and of course hang around his and he bride's catered jailhouse wedding reception.
Okay, I only made half this one up but not the premise.
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