Vermont man charged with Sharleen Greaves murder

Veron Primus, the Vermont man who was detained as a person of interest held in relation to the kidnapping and detention of fellow villager Mewanah Hadaway, has been charged with another crime – the November 13, 2015 murder of real estate agent Sharleen Greaves.

Greaves was found stabbed to death at her Bijou Real Estate office in Arnos Vale. Her Suzuki Escudo was found abandoned in the Wilson Hill area and reports are that {{more}}a search at Primus’ home on Tuesday turned up a motor vehicle key. Information at hand is that the key opens the door and turns the ignition of the vehicle owned by Sharlene Greaves. Primus was charged with Greaves’ murder on Thursday, April 21, 2016. Up to press time he had yet to appear before the Serious Offences Court.

Primus, a deportee from the United States was picked up on Friday April 15, and released on a bail bond on Tuesday. He was re-arrested while police continued to investigate the incidents.

According to an online publication nydailynews.com, in 2006, Chanel Petro-Nixon, a 16-year-old honour student was murdered.

“Chanel vanished on Father’s Day 2006, on the day she was supposed to apply for a job at a nearby Applebee’s restaurant. Several days later, sanitation workers found her strangled body in a trash bag in front of a vacant building at 212 Kingston Ave. in Crown Heights. There was no evidence of sexual abuse”, said the online publication.

It added, “the closest thing to a break in the case came with last year’s trial of Veron Primus, aka New York State inmate 12A5663, who [was] serving time at the Adirondack Correctional Facility upstate. According to [foreign] law enforcement sources, Primus was known to Chanel, and she may have been going to meet him the day she disappeared”.

The publication said that years after Chanel’s killing, two women accused Primus of rape and he went on trial in 2012 and was acquitted of sexual assault charges but was convicted on several lesser charges of criminal contempt and sentenced to two to four years in prison, “after which he may be deported to Trinidad”.

A resident of Vermont familiar with Primus’ overseas troubles said that information supplied to authorities, was that Primus was from Trinidad and not St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The person said that Primus migrated to the US at a young age to live with his mother and later obtained his Green Card.

The online publication continued, “I believe that this individual knows something about what happened to Chanel Petro-Nixon,” says the Rev. Taharka Robinson, an adviser to Chanel’s family who has led the annual prayer vigils and attended part of Primus’ trial. The nydailynews.com added, ‘Being accused of rape — and then acquitted — is a far cry from proving any connection to an unrelated murder case, and Primus hasn’t been charged in the case of Chanel. That makes him just one more person who will, hopefully, come forward and give investigators some useful information.”

The villager who spoke to the SEARCHLIGHT and who prefers to remain anonymous said that since Primus returned from the US he has kept mainly to himself, only occasionally speaking to fellow villagers.

Reports are that Mewanah Hadaway was allegedly abducted on January 1st up until police freed her last Friday. Hadaway it is reported was held in a wooden structure where which also housed two elderly women. One of the elderly women is said to suffer from some sort of disability. Another woman who visits the wooden structure to give insulin to one of the elderly women is said to have found a note in one of the insulin containers in the refrigerator saying that Hadaway was being held against her will.

The woman called the police who went to the house where they found Hadaway. Investigations are still ongoing in resepect of both matters, though up to press time no charges were laid in respect of the kidnapping offence.

Primus has obtained the services of lawyers Michaela Ambrose and Moureeze Franklyn.