Philipsburg: --- The management team of the police department KPSSS has removed a second detective handling murder cases in recent days. SMN News learnt that two Friday's ago detective Norwin Villarreal was removed from one of the recent murder investigations that are currently being investigated.The source said that the management team also removed Villarreal from the detective department and transferred him to the Simpson Bay police outpost. It is further understood that the matter came up for discussion on Friday last week when members of the NAPB and the ABVO met with the management team of KPSSS.
Currently the KPSSS and the RST are busy investigating five unsolved murder cases. They are Haresh Dayalani, David Eustace Priest, Christian Lloyd, Eric Yuan Sam and Saliba Absalon.
In an invited comment Villarreal said he is not willing to divulge any information regarding the case since he requested an investigation.
This is the second local detective that has been removed from a particular murder investigation. The first was detective Carlton Philips who spoke out against what he termed as discrimination within the police force and more recently, Norwin Villarreal for unknown reasons.. Since his removal the Prosecutor's office has since refused to work with Philips even though he is still working in the detective department. The prosecutor's office had made clear that unless Philips apologized to them they were not going to work with him.
SMN News made several phone calls to Assistant Chief Commissioner of Police Ademar Doran for a comment on this new development but Doran never answered his cellular phone.
