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NYPD Officer Gladstone Haynes reportedly was swept beneath the water near Orinduik Falls, on the border of Guyana and Brazil, while vacationing in South America with friends.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A Guyana-born New York City police officer vacationing in his homeland drowned in fast-flowing waters in a jungle and mountain region near the border with Brazil, authorities said Wednesday.
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“They found him today, this morning,” Marcellus Lam, a brother of Officer Gladstone Haynes, told the Daily News outside the family’s home in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn.
Police Officer Gladstone Haynes of the 70th Precinct in Flatbush was swimming in the waters near Orinduik Falls on Sunday when he disappeared.
A narcotics eradication exercise at DeVeldt Savannah in the Berbice River led to the massive discovery of thousands of marijuana plants on a farm in Guyana on Friday. During the exercise, one marijuana farm, two camps and two drying areas w