Glenroy Sinclair, Staff ReporterSEVEN PERSONS were detained at the end of an eight-hour joint police/military search yesterday morning in the Fourth Avenue and Jacques Road area of Kingston.
The security personnel said they were searching for more pits, where they believe human remains may have been hidden.
On August 26 and 27, three bodies, five human skulls and other human skeletal remains, were removed from pits located in both communities. Prelimi-nary investigations by the forensic team revealed that four of the five skulls were those of males, while the fifth was that of a female.
National Security Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips, recently said the police may have to get assistance from overseas to help them establish the identity of skulls.
Among yesterday's detainees was a man who has been implicated in the abduction/murder of Yvonne Beaumont-Walters and her nephew Geoffrey Beaumont. Ms. Beaumont-Walters and her nephew were abducted two weeks ago, killed and their bodies dumped in a 30-foot deep pit on Fourth Avenue.
Acting on intelligence, the team which included three Assistant Commissioners - Reggie Grant, Lebert Lawrence and John Gause (acting) and ranks such as Senior Superin-tendents Tony Hewitt and Donald Pusey, swooped down on the community at about 5:00 a.m.
The lawmen conducted house-to-house searches, soldiers with sanitary gloves on hand, were seen searching the bushes, close to where the human remains were found a week ago.
According to SSP Hewitt, engineers from the military are in the process of sealing the recently discovered pits. The officer said these pits were re-visited again yesterday, but nothing was found.
In the meantime, The Gleaner understands that the police will be expanding their search to other inner-city communities where intelligence has suggested that human remains are hidden.
One of the community under the microscope is McIntyre Land, better known as "Dunkirk," where it is believe 46-year-old Glendon Alwood, was killed and his remains buried somewhere in the community. Mr. Alwood was abducted by gunmen in the community on August 22 while attending a political meeting in the area and he has not been seen since.
