Police are crediting social media with helping them speedily resolve two recent crimes, one of which made international headlines.
This was disclosed by Deputy Commissioner of Police Erwin Boyce yesterday while addressing a police certificate of character online launch event at the District “A” Complex, Station Hill, St Michael.
Two teenagers were remanded yesterday to Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds after being charged with aggravated burglary associated with a Christ Church home invasion last month, which left 65-year-old Canadian visitor Kenneth Elliott paralysed after sustaining gunshot injuries.
Alexander Alleyne, of Ealing Park Gardens, Christ Church, and Travis Campbell, of no fixed place of abode, both 19, appeared in the Oistins Magistrates’ Court. They were also charged with offences associated with the use of a firearm. (RA)
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