Police on Monday raided the Bougainvillea, East Bank Demerara home of a LIAT reservations office agent, and when the woman turned up in a hysterical state, she was reportedly told “is not you; is the wrong house”.
Police then reportedly searched a neighbour’s home and arrested him, but this newspaper was told that he was later released.
The woman, Michelle Baldeo, said she was angry since the police did not present a search warrant and damaged her home during the operation.
When this newspaper visited the woman’s home at Lot 36 Kaden’s Drive, her louver panes were broken, and some even missing, while her protective mesh was cut open and her home was ransacked.
Baldeo told this newspaper that she had left home at around 07: 15hrs with her three- year- old son who attends the New Guyana School.
She said that at around 09: 30hrs, she received a call from her son’s teacher that he was ill, and she rushed him to the St Joseph Mercy Hospital.
A few minutes later, Baldeo said, she received a call from a neighbour that her house was surrounded by “black clothes” police.
The shaken woman said that after receiving a third call that the police were breaking into her home, she started to panic and left her son with a stranger at the hospital to go home.
When she arrived home, the police, who were walking out her door, just told her that it was a mistake and they were carrying out routine operations, Baldeo said.
“I’ve been living here for three and a half years, and I just don’t know what usually happens around here because I just keep to myself,” the shaken woman said.
Baldeo has since made contact with a prominent lawyer and filed a complaint at the Providence Police Station.
Police have been carrying out their daily search operations, and went to the area to search a popular businessman’s home. It is unclear whether they found anything incriminating.
A similar search operation was carried out in the same street on Saturday.
Baldeo’s home is in a housing scheme that was reportedly built by Roger Khan who is presently serving a 15- year jail sentence in the U. S. for drug possession, witness tampering and gun possession.
