Baramita’s threat remanded for stabbing a farmer to death
Kaieteur News – 32-year-old Rubmit Calvis, a pork knocker from Aranka, Baramita, is now facing a threat to Baramita, Region One residents after he allegedly stabbed a farmer to death in November last year.
Calvis appeared yesterday at Matthew’s Ridge Magistrates’ Court and was charged with the murder through Zoom (an online platform) by Magistrate Dylon Bess.
Calvis, sometime on November 6, 2020, is alleged to have murdered Jonah Williams popularly known as a “Wammick” pursuit in Cassse Creek, Baramita.
Calvis was not required to plead to the indictable charge and is due to appear in court next on May 3, 2020.
According to reports, Williams’ bloody body was discovered lying in a driveway in Cassie Creek by a 10-year-old girl who had rushed home to inform her grandparents.
Her grandfather had returned to the venue to confirm her report. He saw the badly broken Williams and reported the matter to the captain of Baramita Village who subsequently informed the police.
Crime scene experts who had visited the scene and reported that Williams’ body had a cut wound on his left arm and another to his abdomen.
An investigation was launched and detectives soon identified a suspect who had disappeared from the area after Williams’ body was discovered.
The suspect was Calvis, who described Baramita residents as a threat. Police had also reported that he was wanted for other crimes such as rape and unlawful wounding.
He somehow managed to bypass legislators for about three months until he was finally caught and held last Sunday.
Calvis, according to Bartica residents, is no stranger to the law and has in the past been accused of being a “serial chopper”.
“He would usually get into fights and break people and call himself a bad guy,” said one resident.
In fact, Calvis was previously taken into custody in December 2015 for threatening to kill a Baramita resident with a gun.
Calvis allegedly got into an argument with the resident over a stolen solar battery on Dec. 14, 2015. The argument soon heated up and it was reported that Calvis had gone home and returned with a gun and threatened to shoot the resident.
The resident had called police who arrived just in time to see Calvis still holding the gun. Calvis had run away but the cops chased and nabbed the weapon.
He was later charged with possession of a unlicensed shotgun and threatening language.