Three J’cans on FBI’s most wanted list

JAMAICAN ERIC Hopeton Brown, of Montego Bay, is on the Federal Bureau of Investigations’ “Most Wanted” list, right next to Muslim rebel leader Osama bin Laden.

Brown is one of three Jamaicans who are being hunted in the United States for various crimes.

While the federal agents continue their search for suspects involved in last Tuesday’s terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, they are also combing parts of the country for the three Jamaicans listed on the Most Wanted Fugitive list.

The three are a 43-year-old woman, Sharon Charmaine Anderson, a native of St. Mary, Dennis Jermaine Smith, 25, alias “Capone” of Kingston and Brown.

There is also another man with Jamaican links, Trevor Anderson, better known as “David Chambers”, “Trevor English”, “Trevor Rankin”, “Trevor Hamilton”, “Anthony Johnson”, “Anthony English” “Joseph William”, “English”, “Tony”, “Blacks” and “Rankin”.

Information posted on the FBI website said Smith was wanted for the murder of a 13-year-old boy who was shot and killed during a drive-by shooting on July 5, 1997, in Hartford, Connecticut. A federal warrant was issued for his arrest on August 7, 1997.

According to the FBI, Trevor Anderson was born in England but raised in Jamaica. He has been described as armed and dangerous, frequents Canada, England and Jamaica and can speak with British and Jamaican accents. Anderson appeared on the FBI’s most wanted fugitive list for the month of May.

He is wanted for an alleged involvement in two murders in the US and Canada.

Reports are that on July 25, 1998 he shot and killed his girlfriend in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is also wanted in connection with a murder which occurred at a night club in Toronto, Canada, in 1993.

Federal agents said Charmaine Anderson is being sought for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.

Reports are that July 18, 1997, about 220 pounds of marijuana were seized from abandoned luggage in a bus terminus in Milesburg, Pennsylvania. She voluntarily submitted fingerprints and a photograph at the time of the incident.

She was indicted on January 13, 1999. Her photograph appeared on the FBI’s most-wanted list for May.

Last year, local authorities arrested 25 fugitives and since March 2000 more than 14 have been extradited to the US, Canada, Cayman and the United Kingdom.

It is understood that since 1994 and up to October last year, local authorities have received 114 warrants from the four countries to assist with the apprehension of fugitives