New York cops arrest wanted former GRA cashier–Was on Interpol radar since 2009

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle - NEW YORK Police officers Justin Haag and Shawn McAdams of the Cheektowaga district pulled over a four-door, gold-coloured Infiniti sedan on Genesee Street near Heritage Court, last Monday evening about 6.30 p.m., to determine whether the licence had expired and whether the tinted windows were illegal.It turned out that the driver, 32-year-old Gregory Alistair Ewan Barnes, of George Urban Blvd. in Cheektowaga, was wanted by Interpol, Cheektowaga police said on Friday. A computer check revealed that, through Interpol, an active warrant had been issued for Barnes who was suspected to have embezzled from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) somewhere between G$6M-300M, the US equivalent of between US$29,000 and US$1.4 million, and had been wanted since 2009. The warrant was confirmed through U.S. National Central Bureau, a division of Interpol, U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C., Cheektowaga police said.