One man was re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody and an­oth­er grant­ed bail in the sum of $350,000 when they ap­peared be­fore a Ch­agua­nas Mag­is­trate yes­ter­day, charged with mul­ti­ple shoot­ing of­fences.

Nicholas Reid, 28, of Cunu­pia, and Nevash Maraj, 20, of Las Lo­mas, were charged with two counts of shoot­ing with in­tent each, pos­ses­sion of a firearm, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion, two counts of pos­ses­sion of a firearm to en­dan­ger life each and two counts of pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion to en­dan­ger life each, when they ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Charles, on Thurs­day 25th Au­gust, 2022.

Reid was re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody, while Maraj was grant­ed bail in the sum of $350,000.

The mat­ter was ad­journed to Sep­tem­ber 22nd, 2022. Re­ports in­di­cate that two vic­tims were in their black Nis­san Wingroad mo­tor ve­hi­cle in the Chase Vil­lage dis­trict on Au­gust 22nd, 2022, when a sil­ver Toy­ota Corol­la wag­on pulled up along­side them and a man armed with a gun ex­it­ed.

It is al­leged the gun­man point­ed the firearm in the di­rec­tion of the vic­tims and dis­charged sev­er­al rounds which hit the ve­hi­cle. The vic­tims then pro­ceed­ed to the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion with the as­sailants pur­su­ing them.

On reach­ing the sta­tion, the vic­tims point­ed out the ve­hi­cle with the as­sailants to the of­fi­cers, who gave chase along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way.

The ve­hi­cle with the two sus­pects was in­ter­cept­ed a short dis­tance away. A search re­sult­ed in one Smith and Wes­son re­volver and three spent shells be­ing found in the ve­hi­cle. The two men were charged with the of­fences by PC Tull of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion.

In a sep­a­rate in­ci­dent, of­fi­cers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, con­duct­ed an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the Pe­tit Val­ley dis­trict be­tween 12 noon and 7 pm, on Thurs­day 25th Au­gust, 2022.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, the of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to Sime­on Road, where they con­duct­ed a search in the vicin­i­ty of a house.

The search re­sult­ed in one Glock pis­tol loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing five rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, hid­den un­der a con­crete walk­way. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.

The ex­er­cise was spear­head­ed by Snr. Supt. (Ag.) Re­my and co­or­di­nat­ed by In­sp. Grant and Sgt. Jack.