This is the first major breakthrough in the case, which has left the nation shocked and international police forces assisting in the investigation, baffled.
Desmond Rolle, 14, was the fifth child to disappear when he failed to return home after he finished his Sunday morning shift as a packing boy at the Winn Dixie supermarket.
Until the arrest the lack of evidence had been called, “a bitter pill” for police to swallow. Now they are hopeful that this will be the first step in solving the mystery.
Assistant Commissioner Elliston Greenslade, in charge of Freeport, told The Tribune yesterday that the man was arrested after an intense investigation Wednesday in the Williams Town area where the fifth missing boy, Desmond Rolle, lived.
Police are hesitant to release any particulars on the man, only to say that there was substantial evidence to bring him in for questioning and that he was a Bahamian.
Hundreds of Grand Bahama residents gathered in the area, and rumours spread about what may have happened – including the belief that body parts had been found in a freezer, that Desmond Rolle had managed to escape, or that all of the boys had been found. Police have denied all these reports. As far as the investigation has progressed the boys are still missing.
Source: Cara Brennen, The Tribune
