FOUR MEN were taken into police custody on the weekend in connection with the killing of a policeman and the abduction of another, following separate incidents in St. Ann.
Constable Colin Taylor was shot and killed on May 8 of this year, while the police corporal attached to the St. Ann Division was abducted last Thursday.
"Two of the men were picked up Sunday in Clarendon for the abduction of a police corporal last Thursday," said Deputy Superintendent Wilford Gayle, Crime Officer for St. Ann.
Reports are that the unarmed policeman was standing at a bus stop in Moneague, St. Ann, when a car drove up and stopped. The driver shouted out "Spanish Town, Spanish Town." It is alleged that the officer went in and sat in the front passenger seat of the vehicle.
BLINDFOLDED
Shortly after the driver drove off, it is alleged that one of the men in the back seat held a knife to the policeman's throat then blindfolded and robbed him of $8,000 in cash. His automated bank card was taken from him and the abductors proceeded to Ocho Rios, where they used it to make several transactions.
Further allegations are that the sub-officer was taken to a house in Clarendon where he was tied up but managed to escape. He made his way to the May Pen Police Station where the matter was reported.
He was accompanied back to the house by two of his colleagues. During a search of the area on Sunday two of the men were picked up. They have since been jailed.
DSP Gayle said the two other men who were held in connection with the policeman's death have since been charged with murder, conspiracy to murder, robbery with aggravation and illegal possession of firearm.
They have been identified as Morgan Smith otherwise called "Roger Smith" or "Roger Scott", mechanic of Goshen district, Brown's Town and Steve Rowe, 21, otherwise called "Spungie", taxi operator of Don Diego Drive, Hopewell Park, St. Ann.
"Both were held in separate operations conducted in St. Catherine and St. Ann," said DSP Gayle.
