New York Daily News

Guyanese slay susp held in Qns.

- BY GRAHAM RAYMAN and THOMAS TRACY

A MAN WANTED for murder in Guyana was nabbed 2,643 miles from the crime scene — in Queens Tuesday, law enforcemen­t sources said.

Marcus Bisram, 27, was arrested by the NYPD/U.S. Marshals Joint Fugitive Task Force in the Rockaways about 1 p.m. after about eight months on the lam, sources said.

“He was living here in plain view,” one source said.

Bisram is accused of mastermind­ing the murder of carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt last Oct. 31 in Guyana.

The 26-yearold father of two allegedly slapped Bisram after rejecting his sexual advances at a party, the Guyana Chronicle reported after the killing.

Bisram was so enraged, he enlisted four others — including two teenagers — to beat Narinedatt to death, according to the Chronicle.

Narinedatt’s body was found on a road in the Berbice region the next day, officials said.

Police arrested his attackers, who confessed that Bisram ordered them to commit the crime.

The suspects admitted that they pummeled Narinedatt to death, put his body into the trunk of a car and took him to a road.

They claim to have driven over his lifeless body to make it appear as if he was the victim of a hit-and-run.

After the slaying, Bisram returned to his life in Arverne, Queens, where he runs the Marcus Brian Bisram Foundation, which is focused on “making better, brighter futures.”

Six months before Narinedatt was killed, Bisram donated $672,000 to five Guyanese students and pledged to give the Berbice community $200 million a year.

Bisram is expected in Brooklyn Federal Court on Wednesday.

Guyana, which reissued a fugitive warrant for Bisram in March, will have to petition for his extraditio­n, authoritie­s said.

It will be the first time in recent memory that the South American nation has made the request.

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