Police say it was a highly coordinated operation that led to the capture yesterday of accused murderer Dwight Henry who had escaped their custody, more than three weeks ago.
The 25-year-old Henry was wanted for the murder of two American missionaries in April 2016. He escaped police custody January 4.
Police said they removed him from a car along a bridge near Annotto Bay, St Mary, about 10 o’clock last night, January 28.
At a press conference Friday morning (January 27), ACP Fitz Bailey, head of the police Area 2 Division said the police had intended to take in Henry unharmed and accomplished that. He said the operation was “highly coordinated” but would give no details although he said other persons in the car were arrested and would be interviewed.
Speaking to members of the media at Area 2 headquarters, Tower Isle, St Mary, the senior cop said Henry had no weapon when he was arrested. ACP Bailey said police had carried out more than 80 operations to recapture Henry.
Henry escaped from the Annotto Bay Hospital on Wednesday, January 4, after he was taken there for medical attention.
Reports are that about 10:00 p.m., members of the Area II Fugitive Apprehension Team and Area II Narcotics conducted a string operation during which a motor vehicle that was traveling along the Agualta Vale Main road, near Annotto Bay, was intercepted, searched and the wanted man arrested.
Henry, otherwise called ‘Dougie’ and ‘Chino’, of Wentworth, and 25-year-old Andre Thomas of Port Maria, both in St Mary, were charged with the murders of Forty-eight-year-old Randy Hentzel, and fifty-three-year old Harold Nichols. Both men, missionaries working in St Mary, were killed in Albion Mountain district in the parish on Saturday, April 30.
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