As the RCIPS continues in its efforts to encourage persons to relinquish their unlicensed firearms, two more firearms were handed in this past weekend.
The RCIPS is currently in its fourth week of the National Gun Amnesty which began on the 1st July, 2024.
On Wednesday 24 July, RCIPS supported its partner agencies CBC and WORC on a joint operation targeting a George Town construction site, to identify and apprehend persons found to be committing immigration offences.
The RCIPS is currently in its fourth week of the National Gun Amnesty which began on the 1st July, 2024. So far, two firearms along with a significant amount of ammunition and two spear guns with additional spears have been handed into police.
Three men, Dave Obaseki, Michael Capers, & Sean Luke, all American nationals, recently pleaded guilty to several counts of Obtaining Property by Deception in relation to several fraudulent purchases made in Grand Cayman using stolen credit card details.
RCIPS and CBC are seeking information regarding the whereabouts of two men; Vitor Domingo Valentini Dos Reis (who also goes by the name Marcio Vicente Rod Novaes), 33 years old, and Brenno Neves Florencio, 25 years old, both Brazilian nationals, who are visitors in Grand Cayman.
The RCIPS is currently halfway through the period of the National Gun Amnesty which began on the 1st July.
The RCIPS continues to receive reports of a WhatsApp scam circulating in the Cayman Islands, where the culprits gain access to the victim’s contact list.
Shortly after 1:30AM on Sunday, 14 July, officers in Cayman Brac responded to a report of a stabbing at the public beach on South Side West Road. It was reported that a man had been at the location when another man approached him and began behaving aggressively towards him
Investigations continue into the fatal stabbing which was reported on Sunday, 14 July. At about 9:30AM, police received a report that a man had been found unresponsive at an address in the vicinity of Short Lane, in the Windsor Park area of George Town.