Three remanded for 2020 torching of GECOM’s Linden office

POLICE HAVE ARRESTED AND CHARGED THREE SUSPECTS following last year’s
torching of the at Lot 2 Burnham Drive, Wismar, Linden building then occupied by the
Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).
The men who were charged jointly appeared virtually before Magistrate Wanda Fortune at the
Linden Magistrate’s Court. The joint charge states that on July 14, 2020, they unlawfully and
maliciously set fire to the building which housed the GECOM office.
Two of the suspects, Teon February called ‘Nut’, 23 a labourer of Lot G 5 Canvas City, Wismar
Linden; and Marlon Hunter called ‘Bushy’, 21, of 4 th Street, Silver Town, Wismar, Linden were
arrested for setting the GECOM-occupied building on fire and other criminal matters.
The police said February and Hunter were arrested on Monday.
According to the release, February incriminated himself in the July burning of the GECOM
rented building.
The suspect told police interrogators he was contacted by Bryon Kendall AKA ‘Murgie’ the third
suspect also of the bauxite-mining municipality on the night of 13th July, 2020 with details of
torching the GECOM building. Kendall was subsequently arrested and charged with February
and Hunter. They were remanded to prison and is expected to make their next court appearance
on July 30.
February said he discussed the scheme with his cousin, Marlon Hunter, to join him. He said
sometime after 22:00 hours, Kendall picked them up in a motor car and they drove to the scene
where they set the building alight.
According to the police statement, the arsonists were received $150,000 to burn down the
building.
About midnight on July 14, they poured gas on the building, set it alight, and escaped.
Hunter corroborated February’s account during the taped police grilling.
The fourth individual, who is suspected to be the mastermind of the crime, was arrested on
Thursday night.