A Trinida­di­an na­tion­al is be­ing sought by the Roy­al Vir­gin Is­lands Po­lice Force (RVIPF) in con­nec­tion with a re­cent mur­der in the ter­ri­to­ry.

In a re­lease yes­ter­day, the RVIPF said it was seek­ing the pub­lic’s help to lo­cate John Dawn Em­manuel, al­so known as “Small Brent,” for the mur­der of 32-year-old Ny­ron A Er­ick­son on May 10.

The re­lease said he was con­sid­ered to be a se­ri­ous threat to pub­lic safe­ty and has al­so been as­so­ci­at­ed with kid­nap­ping, ex­tor­tion, and mul­ti­ple mur­ders in T&T and else­where in the re­gion.

Pre­lim­i­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­di­cate that the sus­pect pre­vi­ous­ly op­er­at­ed un­der a dif­fer­ent iden­ti­ty, Brent Dain Danglade, and might still have ac­cess to iden­ti­fi­ca­tion/trav­el doc­u­ments in that name.

The re­lease said the RVIPF was ac­tive­ly pur­su­ing all leads and con­tin­ued to work with oth­er lo­cal, re­gion­al, and in­ter­na­tion­al law en­force­ment part­ners to lo­cate and ap­pre­hend Em­manuel.

It said mem­bers of the pub­lic with any in­for­ma­tion on his where­abouts were urged to con­tact the RVIPF In­tel­li­gence Unit at 368-9339, or Crime Stop­pers anony­mous­ly at 800-8477 (TIPS) or over­seas at (284) 800-8477.

The pub­lic was ad­vised not to con­front, ap­proach, or as­sist him un­der any cir­cum­stances.

In 2005, Em­manuel and his broth­er Brent “Big Brent” Miller, were state wit­ness­es in the con­spir­a­cy to mur­der tri­al of the then leader of the Ja­maat-al-Mus­limeen Yasin Abu Bakr.

Em­manuel had claimed to be a past mem­ber of the Ja­maat.

Dur­ing the tri­al, Em­man­u­al ac­knowl­edged his in­volve­ment in a range of crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties, in­clud­ing drug traf­fick­ing, rob­bery, kid­nap­ping, and mur­der.

At a sec­ond tri­al in 2006, both Brents “lost their mem­o­ries,” and Bakr was freed. “Small Brent” was sub­se­quent­ly charged with per­jury.