Police catch
Devon Otto
BETTY’S ESTATE--Police nabbed an Anguillian murder suspect in Betty’s Estate Thursday after the man had gone missing on the neighbouring British island recently.
Police confirmed that 27-year-old Devon Chet Otto had been taken into custody in the early afternoon when authorities found him hiding out in a residence on Poinsettia Road. Otto was wanted by Anguillian authorities for his suspected involvement in a July 2007 murder at Blowing Point.
Otto’s arrest came on the same day that an article in The Daily Herald referred to him as being “active in St. Maarten recently,” along with a picture of the young man.
The suspect “severely” resisted his arrest but was “overpowered by the Arrest Team and taken into custody, and then taken to the police station where he is being held,” police spokesman Inspector Ricardo Henson reported. “The community of Sint Maarten can feel much safer now knowing that this dangerous fugitive has been caught and is presently behind bars.”
Otto, who was born in St. Kitts, is believed to have pulled the trigger on July 30, 2007, killing Devon Ryan and injuring two others at a gas station near Blowing Point in Anguilla.
