Police transport escaped prisoners Atiba Stanislaus, far left, and Trevon Robertson who’re handcuffed collectively in Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Monday, March 4, 2024. The boys had escaped from a police holding cell in Grenada on Feb. 18 and are suspected of hijacking a catamaran whereas Ralph Hendry and Kathy Brandel, who disappeared, have been aboard. (AP Photograph/Kenton Probability)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Three escaped inmates from the japanese Caribbean island of Grenada have been charged within the killing of a U.S. couple whose catamaran they hijacked, police stated Thursday.
Ron Mitchell, a 30-year-old sailor; Atiba Stanislaus, a 25-year-old farmer; and Trevon Robertson, a 23-year-old unemployed man, have been charged with capital homicide, escaping lawful custody, burglary, theft and kidnapping. Stanislaus additionally was charged with one depend of rape, in response to a press release from the Royal Grenada Police Power.
The boys appeared in court docket on Thursday and have been ordered held in jail till their listening to in late March.
They have been accused of escaping from a police holding cell on Feb. 18 and hijacking a catamaran owned by Ralph Henry and Kathy Brandel whereas they have been aboard. Authorities stated they imagine the couple was thrown overboard because the suspects sailed to close by St. Vincent, the place they have been arrested on Feb. 21.
The three males have been ordered deported from St. Vincent on Monday.
The nonprofit Salty Dawg Crusing Affiliation described Hendry and Brandel as “veteran cruisers” who participated in final yr’s Caribbean Rally from Hampton, Virginia, to Antigua, and had deliberate to spend the winter cruising within the japanese Caribbean.
Their our bodies haven’t been discovered.
