Police investigate sinister seabed find
Cement block and handcuffs found off Seven Mile Beach
(CNS): A police enquiry has opened after the discovery of a cement block with handcuffs attached to it that was found in the ocean off the coast of Seven Mile Beach. Officers are now examining the sinister looking object, which was brought up from the ocean yesterday lunchtime. An RCIPS spokesperson said police responded to the report that scuba divers had brought the block with the handcuffs attached to the shore.
Police were told that the piece of concrete was seen in the water last weekend but it was only brought onshore and reported to police Tuesday. The officers took the block to George Town Police Station, where it is now the subject of examination. One ring of the handcuffs is attached to a metal bar at the top of the block, while the other is cuffed to a jagged, flat piece of metal.
“The purpose of the block and handcuffs is undetermined at this time,” police stated and asked anyone who has further information on this matter to call George Town Police Station at 949-4222.
Although handcuffs can be purchased by the public overseas, officers have not stated if they believe the handcuffs may have come from one of Cayman’s own local enforcement agencies, as firearms and handcuffs have gone missing from the police storage in the past.
Cement block and handcuffs found off Seven Mile Beach, brought ashore 15 July 2015
Category: Local News
Won’t go fishing with the locals? I am a single European female and I often go out night fishing with the locals. I find your comment distasteful.
That case was awfully suspicious considering the last check in from his cell phone was North West Point. Then the phone shows up on 7MB in 10 feet of water. So much stuff in Cayman gets swept under the carpet. I am still waiting to hear what happened to those nuts who went to rob the bank in Little Cayman. That was over 2 years ago and still no charges after they caught the fugitives. Go figure this.
Have the police checked with the watersports co.s? Seems likely that this is just a brac style wave runner morring, nothing sinister.
Maybe we should be looking for honesty and hard work that went missing in the 70s…
What about Charles, the guy that went missing in the 90s.was he ever foUnd?
This should not have been removed from the seafloor until investigations were done by Police and divers in the surrounding area…
Seriously? What kind of investigation do you think the Marine Police would have done? I love how on the one hand people accuse the RCIPS of being inept and then on the other suggest that they should be doing underwater forensic investigations.
Would marine life eat thru a skeleton?
i confess…. my wife had handcuffs and this was the only way I thought i could get rid of them…..
Home made anchor
All the speculation on sinister causes doesn’t really explain the metal plate. If you were going to use it to sink a body why not attach the handcuffs directly?
it need to check for dna remember who went missing without a trace Anna Evans, Jamaican nurse and the teacher please send away to a forensic lab
This is a joke right? You do know how DNA analysis works don’t you? Unless you’re checking for coral DNA I’m not sure you’re going to have much joy on something that’s clearly been underwater for a while.
maybe its just the marine police needed an anchor
Wouldn’t a skeleton have been left by if it at some time there was a body attached? Or does current take bones to far away? Creepy and very mysterious.
Could have been eaten by sea creatures
There are things known as predators that live in the sea, ever heard of sharks?
Yeah, cause those ” locals ” are all murderers.
Impressive. Now if you could have a look at this alleged moon landing photo and this one of a grassy knoll in Texas for us…………..
see if the marine life have any eye witness.
Lack of much marine growth would suggest more recent than that, but good shot, teacher was never found!
If I was to dump something 7 mile beach would be my last choice plenty of walls to do this hopefully a hoax
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Why is nobody worried about the fact that they just mention that handcuffs and guns would casually just go missing from their OWN storage locker. A block found in the ocean with a handcuff on it is bad yes but the police losing their own weapons is really bad. And if they can’t protect their own locker from being robbed how can they protect us. The incompetence is very high in our police force.
Creepy!
ok, so no one can blame me if I don’t want to eat no local fish right now, right!?
WTF is this place coming to?
“The purpose of the block and handcuffs is undetermined at this time”… said Chief Wiggum.
Doh!
It will be easier for them to just shrug this off as being nothing more than a block under water. Expecting them to actually go out there (assuming they can swim) and dig around to see what else they could possibly find is asking too much.
The fact is, this wasn’t use as a sinker on a 20lb test line. This was for something much more “sinister”. But in keeping with Cayman’s motto, we will never know. Sad bat true.
Wow! Let’s hope AP and YAHOO don’t pick up on this… Oh. Nevermind.
yahoo?? I though their news were just “joking news” who get his news from yahoo??? Lol
Perilous times here in these islands under this UK run regime fill up with the inept incompetent and Corrupt from a yard?
Yep. The UK have a history of placing random objects 5000 miles from the British Isles on random sea beds!
So this is the fault of the UK now too?
Why stop there? Why not throw in Ebola, Greece’s debt and the missing Indonesian flight.
Don’t forget the lion fish too! LOL.
Genetically modified beasts! Wonder what the “experts” are up to in Little Cayman?
The police should copy the design and keep a few on hand to take care of some of the criminal elements that are terrorising our shores… If that was a prescribed punishment I am pretty sure they would think twice before robbing or shooting up the place…
Maybe it was used to catch the Lionfish?
This is something to be concerned about big time. I can think of a few people who have disappeared without a trace from Cayman in the past few years. Lets hope the police can ascertain how long it has been in the water and possibly get some evidence they can use. We may have a murderer walking amongst us.
Lets get real, handcuffs do not necessarily mean police, and secondly have not Caymanians been bragging about certain undesirables”disappearing in the swamps” for donkey’s years, so maybe this is an undesirable case that did not make it to the swamp. Yes, it may be a murder, but not sensational. Not sensational if you know your island. Do not mean to be calous, but facts are facts!
Missed the drop off this time it looks like.
I bought mine at that BDSM shop on West Bay Road
address please…