Vincentian national gunned down in Grenada
Grenada police set up roadblocks and searched vehicles leading out of the capital. They launched a manhunt for those responsible for the murder of a St Vincent and Grenadines national, who was shot multiple times as he sat in his vehicle on Monday.
Police have identified the victim as 51-year-old Dexter Chance, who, in July last year, had been freed of charges linked to a multi-million dollar drug bust here.
Police said that Chance was shot and killed in Woburn, on the outskirts of the capital, St George, and a photograph circulating on social media showed his bloody body in the vehicle’s driver’s seat.
Chance, along with Grenadian Bernard Spann, 46, and Jamaicans Ian White, 53, and Alrick Reynolds, 48, were arrested in August 2019 for the seizure of 40 kilos of cocaine at Dr Grooms in Point Salines, south of here.
He was denied bail then as the prosecution told the court that they believed that Chance’s arrest had helped in cracking a major drug ring in the Caribbean.
However, in January 2020, he was granted bail, the conditions of which included reporting to the police twice weekly, surrendering his travel documents and obtaining permission from the court to leave Grenada.
Chance remained in Grenada after being freed of the charges last July.
In 2011, Chance, along with fellow Vincentians Gareth McDowall and Carlos Sutherland, had been extradited to Tortola to stand trial along with three other people in connection with a 2008 drug bust.
The men were charged after the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force found 61 kilos of cocaine onboard a catamaran.
The cocaine had an estimated street value of one million US dollars.
On July 3, 2012, Chance and the other Vincentians were sentenced to six years for importing drugs into the Virgin Islands. However, five years later, the Vincentian men were released after the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions for drug importation. The then judge erred in law in relying on a certificate of analysis not bearing the defendants' name.
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