April 29, 2006
Narcotics cop dies in car crash
Thirty-three year-old Orell Barnes, a policeman assigned to the Narcotics Headquarters in Kingston, died yesterday in a car crash on the Georgia main road in St Mary.
The St Mary police reported that Barnes, who was from Airy Hill, Oracabessa, St Mary, was driving a Toyota Mark II registered 1363 EM at about 5:45 am along the Georgia main road. On reaching a section of the road he lost control of the vehicle, which ran off the road and hit a utility pole before crashing into a tree.
Barnes was pronounced dead on the spot by a doctor.