{"id":10511,"date":"2017-12-21T16:46:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T20:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=10511"},"modified":"2017-12-22T07:13:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T11:13:53","slug":"police-detain-alleged-vagrant-vampire-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/police-detain-alleged-vagrant-vampire-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Police detain alleged ‘vampire’ vagrant killer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lawmen have detained a person Public Safety Minister Steadroy “Cutie” Benjamin is calling a “vampire.”<\/p>

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The prime minister said the person is suspected of killing several homeless people earlier in the year. There have been about four reports of vagrants found dead throughout 2017.<\/p>\n

Benjamin did not give the name of the supect nor whom he\/she is suspected of killing; but the person is thought to be vagrant themself.<\/p>

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“There is a person in custody at the moment who like the days of the vampire, I beleive their (the victims) throats would be slashed and blood drank,” Benjamin said without giving aditional details.<\/p>

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Prime Minister Gaston Browne said every single life is important, even the life of a vagrant.<\/p>\n

He said “a deranged person…would have taken out a few vagrants earlier in the year.”<\/p>

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Browne was at the time speaking to the question of crime at his end of year news conference.<\/p>\n

The police did not provide additional information about the alleged vampire vagrant killer.<\/p>

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