Sea Lots res­i­dent Cedric “Burkie” Burke has been re­leased by the po­lice, af­ter spend­ing al­most two days in cus­tody.

Po­lice of­fi­cers said he was be­ing ques­tioned in con­nec­tion with their in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the mur­ders of five fish­er­men and the dis­ap­pear­ance of two oth­ers.

Burke was de­tained while at one of his two homes in Sea Lots at around 7 a.m. on Mon­day and was re­leased at 11 am yes­ter­day.

He was tak­en to the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion where he was ques­tioned ex­ten­sive­ly about the fa­tal rob­bery of five Car­li Bay fish­er­men.

On Ju­ly 22nd the na­tion awoke to the news that sev­en fish­er­men were at­tacked while at sea and thrown over­board.

The bod­ies of five of the fish­er­men, iden­ti­fied as Hem­raj Sook­nan, 18, Shi­va Ramdeo, 27, Bran­don Kissoon, 21, Leslie De Boulet, Anand Ram­per­sad, 39, were lat­er re­cov­ered.

Last week 27-year-old Ka­reem Stanis­claus of Sea Lots ap­peared in court charged with the fish­er­men’s mur­der and the at­tempt­ed mur­der of Bri­an Seemu­n­gal and Rob­bie Jag­ger­nauth. He was al­so charged with rob­bery with vi­o­lence along with Mya Bowrin, Iy­ola John and Shaquille Roberts.

Po­lice say none of Burke’s be­long­ings were seized dur­ing the ex­er­cise how­ev­er, in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the in­ci­dent con­tin­ue.

This was the sec­ond time this year Burke was ar­rest­ed.

He was tak­en in­to cus­tody on Wednes­day, Ju­ly 3rd af­ter he was found to be in pos­ses­sion of a large quan­ti­ty of mon­ey which of­fi­cers then said he could not ac­count for.

The ex­act sum was es­ti­mat­ed to be $100,000.

Burke was re­leased days lat­er, and the mon­ey re­turned to him.