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Cops Caught Curtis Garbutt Paddling Out Of Village
posted (December 16, 2024)
And the ComPol also discussed how the police were able to capture Curtis Garbutt. The villagers believe he spent the night in the bushes and then was trying to paddle out in the morning. That's when he was spotted. Williams also confirmed that the police believe the motive was robbery. He added that they're putting together a solid case.

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"After what transpired in the night the police were in search of the accused Curtis Molina Garbutt we had received information that he had stolen a dory and had gone over to another side of the lagoon and so the police inserted a team in the area where if he were to come back over in the dory the police would be there to intercept. And just as the police had thought in the morning he was seen coming back over in the dory and the police waited him out and when he got to shore the police came out and they were able to detain him and so thankfully he is in custody because the entire village was in fear. The fact that he was still at Large we don't know his intentions would have been. Maybe to try and see if he could find the other two who survived to try and take them out. I don't know what his intentions were, but it seems as if he was trying to eliminate everybody so that nobody could identify him. But what puzzles me is, how could a two year old or three year old be able to identify you? Why did you have to go to that extent of putting a gun on a toddler that age and kill the toddler that's really really sad as well. From what we understand so far the motive may be robbery and again the accused Molina Garbutt is a very close relative to the victim. The husband he is a person who is in and out of the home and I am also told he is like an errand man in the village he goes around and does things for people so it's one that to some extent has us puzzled but we are putting the pieces together. I have been guiding the investigators telling them what to do and several things we believe would be able to help us to it together a very good case I do believe that what we have no is extremely good but you can never have too much evidence so we are doing as much as we can to be able to gather all the evidence we can to be able to make sure that at the end of the day he faces justice for what he did."

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