The country’s most wanted man, Azmon Alexander, is eluding capture by dressing like a woman, complete with wig and clean-shaven face, and is being assisted by relatives who live along the Blanchisseuse Road. According to senior police sources, Alexander eluded them as recently as Monday. He was seen along the Blanchisseuse Road by members of a search team but escaped by running through a nearby river. Police said he was also being helped and fed by relatives who lived near where he was last seen. Alexander is wanted in connection with the abduction of a Brasso Seco family and their neighbour and the murder of two family members and the neighbour.
On October 26, Irma Rampersad, 49, her daughters — Felicia, 17, and Jennelle 19 — and Jenelle’s 14-month-old daughter Shania Amorosso were snatched from their Bleu Road, Brasso Seco, home. A few days after they were reported missing, their neighbour, Felix Martinez, 52, also went missing but residents thought he had gone hunting.
On November 8, Martinez’s body was found wrapped in a sleeping bag with baby Shania. On November 11, Rampersad’s decomposed body was found near a tree. All three were found in the Brasso Seco forest.
Rampersad and Martinez had been strangled but the autopsy on the toddler was inconclusive owing to the advanced stage of decomposition. Felicia and Jennelle were rescued by a rescue team on November 14.
Own family afraid
Speaking with the T&T Guardian at her Blanchisseuse Road home yesterday, Alexander’s cousin, Daniella Charles, denied the family was assisting Alexander.
She said she would not feed her cousin as she too is fearful of him, adding she has children and would never jeopardise their safety by harbouring him.
Charles said she was shocked when she heard of what her cousin was being accused. She said since he was a teen he was a “troubled boy,” but noted that outside of his court matters he was “always a loving person.”
At Goat Hill, By-pass Road, Arima, where some of Alexander’s other relative live, they too denied helping him.
The three women who spoke with the media did not want to be identified, saying they were concerned for their safety due to recent threats to their lives. They said they heard Alexander was in the area but pointed the media back to the Blanchisseuse Road.
The women, relatives of the 17-year-old who surrendered to police last Saturday, said for as long they knew Alexander he was always being sought by police and they do not like the negative attention their relation to him was now drawing for the family.
The women and Charles called on Alexander to surrender to police.
On Monday Alexander’s mother, Mary, sister Vanessa and former girlfriend Amelia Hosein also appealed to him to surrender.
Up to late last night, police were still interrogating the 17-year-old they took into custody recently.
Police said the teen told them he spent some time with Felicia and Jennelle at the makeshift camp they were rescued from and they appeared “normal.”
He claimed Alexander was romantically involved with one of the teens and said he smoked marijuana with Alexander while at the camp.
Suspect Released
One of the eight people held in connection with the case, Anthony Sylvester, told the T&T Guardian yesterday he hoped Alexander got “whatever is coming to him” if he was found guilty of the offences.
Speaking at his Bleu Road home with his father, Peter, the 19-year-old father of one said he spent a total of 14 days in police custody after being arrested twice in relation to the matter.
Sylvester said during the most recent arrest, he was held for 11 days and released on Tuesday. During the time he was interviewed twice.
Sylvester is the step-brother of the teenaged girls and told the T&T Guardian he first saw Alexander in early September, eight months after he had escaped from police custody, at the Mayaro Magistrates Court on January 31.
Sylvester said police took DNA samples from him. He said the last time he saw or spoke with the family was on October 26, while playing cards with the teenage daughters and chatting with his stepmother.
He said he left to attend a party in the village and returned home the following day and learned of their disappearance when he awoke hours later. He said he believed it took several people to carry away the family.
“I real sorry to hear what go on, me and them was real good. The thought never come to my mind that miss Irma would die. She used to treat everybody good. “I want to see them criminals get whatever coming to them. That was a devil act. Is not two or three people them leave to grieve is the whole village,” Sylvester added.