National Notes

March 2000 Table of Contents

NATIONAL NOTES

Drug Bust: Officers of the Royal Bahamas Drug Enforcement Agency chased a 33-foot speedboat near Andros on 11th February before apprehending and arresting four Bahamians. In the boat were 32 bales of marijuana and 20 smaller bags.

Two Police Officers Killed: Two Royal Bahamas Police officers were killed and another injured in the early hours of 14th February in Nassau. Police constables Emmanuel Tucker and Jason Johnson were on patrol and noticed suspicious activities near a neighbourhood food store. They took a man into custody who turned out to be a police officer himself, Constable Gerald Pierre Mainville. Another man was spotted and apprehended. Once all four men were in the police car and it was moving, shots were fired and both Tucker and Mainville were killed. Johnson was hit in his hand, grazed across his chest and his upper thigh but was able to run to a nearby Dunkin' Donuts to alert reinforcements to the scene. The fourth man escaped the scene but was questioned by police at a later date and released with no charges against him. A coroner's inquest was ordered.

Gangland Execution? Ben Beneby, a reputed leading drug dealer, was shot to death by two gunmen outside his girl friend's apartment in Freeport shortly after midnight on 15th February. The girl friend, Ingrid Cartwright, was injured in the hail of bullets which left Beneby dead at the scene. On 15th January 2000, Beneby had been arraigned before the magistrate's court, along with another man, Bradley Curry, in connection with the murder of Russell Davis and the attempted murder of Darrell Missick. He was free on $20,000 bail at the time of his death. Beneby had faced charges of cocaine possession with intent to supply on two previous occasions but had been acquitted each time.

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