US-based fugitive, Marcus Bisram, arrested in Queens

More than eight months after a brutal killing and cover-up in Berbice that shocked the nation, a US-based Guyanese man was yesterday arrested in Rockaway, Queens, New York by police and marshals. Businessman, Marcus Bisram, was arrested some 2,643 miles from the crime scene on Tuesday, in Queens, law enforcement sources said. According to a New York Daily News report, the arrest by members of the New York Police Department/ US Marshals Joint Fugitive Task Force. “He was living here in plain view,” the source said.

Bisram is expected to be presented in the Brooklyn Federal court as early as today, the online news report said. Close relatives said that Bisram was not too surprised by his apprehension. As a matter of fact, he was expecting it.

The matter had been ventilated in the press not only because of the killing but the fact Bisram is said to be wealthy and was alleged to have paid local cops and others to cover the matter up. Before being implicated in the matter, Bisram was known in Guyana for his generous donations to charity and reportedly owned properties in Berbice where he entertained cops, families and friends.

The arrest would come days after relatives complained to Kaieteur News that the authorities seemed not too keen to bring back Bisram from the US to face the courts. On November 01, last year, the battered body of 26-year-old carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt was found on the Number 70 Village, Corentyne foreshore. His death had been staged to look like a hit-andrun accident and two cops in Berbice were fingered in the cover-up. From prosecutors’ case, the man was killed at a function where the businessman and friends were, after an argument, then taken elsewhere and dumped to make it appear as a hit-and-run.

(Kaieteurnews.com)