{"id":336442,"date":"2025-02-06T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=336442"},"modified":"2025-02-06T20:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T00:34:20","slug":"pointe-michel-man-detained-then-released-in-investigation-of-customs-officers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/pointe-michel-man-detained-then-released-in-investigation-of-customs-officers-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointe Michel man detained then released in investigation of customs officer&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_336443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-336443\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-336443 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Deceased-Garneth-Jolly--e1738813719111-642x542.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"540\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-336443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deceased Garneth Jolly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a police investigation continues into the shooting death of former customs officer Garneth Jolly, a young man from Pointe Mitchel who was arrested on suspicion by the Major Crime Unit of the Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force (CDPF), has been released pending further inquiry into the matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier reports from the police indicated that Jolly was shot at his residence at Everton Estate in Loubiere on January 28, 2025, a little past noon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jolly\u2019s death is recorded as the second homicide for the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DNO is following that story and will provide more details in a later publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a police investigation continues into the shooting death of former customs officer Garneth Jolly, a young man from Pointe Mitchel who was arrested on suspicion by the Major Crime Unit of the Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force (CDPF), has&#8230;","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":336443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-court-law","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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