RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT

Mem­bers of the Hard Grounds Hunters Search and Res­cue team on Wednes­day be­gan their first day of search for miss­ing fa­ther of two, David Neer­an­jan, 45, of St He­le­na, Pi­ar­co.

The search will con­tin­ue to­mor­row.

Speak­ing with the Guardian Me­dia, the head of the search and res­cue team Ren Gopiesingh said sev­er­al of its mem­bers showed up ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing at the Heights of Aripo to be­gin the search.

“We searched around the area where Neer­an­jan’s car was burnt but we got no leads yet. We al­so spoke to sev­er­al res­i­dents in the area but noth­ing yet but we will broad­en our search,” Gopiesingh said.

Neer­an­jan’s ve­hi­cle, a grey Toy­ota Corol­la, was found burnt on Sat­ur­day night.

Neer­an­jan, 45, was last seen by his fam­i­ly at their San­ta Mon­i­ca Trace, St He­le­na, Pi­ar­co at about mid­day on Sat­ur­day.

It was re­port­ed that Neer­an­jan re­ceived a tele­phone call be­fore leav­ing his home to go to the mar­ket and drop off items to a cus­tomer.

Neer­an­jan op­er­at­ed an on­line store where cus­tomers would con­tact him for items he ad­ver­tised on so­cial me­dia. He al­so de­liv­ered the items to the homes of his cus­tomers.

The po­lice told Guardian Me­dia that Neer­an­jan was charged with pos­ses­sion of co­caine for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing and mon­ey laun­der­ing on June 23, 2016.

He ap­peared be­fore a Tu­na­puna mag­is­trate to an­swer the charge in­volv­ing the al­leged trans­fer of prop­er­ty val­ued at $2.4 mil­lion.

Po­lice al­so said Neer­an­jan was pre­vi­ous­ly charged with pos­ses­sion of co­caine for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing on Jan­u­ary 29 2015.

Neer­an­jan’s close fe­male rel­a­tive is al­so charged with mon­ey laun­der­ing.

The po­lice units in­volved in Neer­an­jan’s cas­es were the Or­gan­ised Crime Nar­cotics and Firearms Bu­reau and Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Branch