Burglars target missing man’s home
Police arrive at the home of Gary Mullins, one of the men lost at sea
(CNS) Updated Wednesday 12:53pm: The home and cars of one of the men missing at sea was targeted by burglars some time between Monday morning and Tuesday morning, the RCIPS has confirmed. The police were at the newly built home of Gary Mullings on Tuesday after a break-in at the property in the Prospect area. Mullings, Edsell Haylock and Nicholas Watler are the three adults who disappeared at sea on Sunday along with two children, Mullings’ nephews, Kanyi and Kamron Brown, aged 9 and 11.
The RCIPS said that yesterday morning around 9:00am they received a report about a burglary at a residence on Prospect Drive in Prospect. Police believe that the burglary took place between 10am on 7 March, and 9am on 8 March, and say that two vehicles at the residence were also broken into.
Detectives and scenes of crime officers conducted a full review of the scene and the vehicles and the incident is currently under investigation, police said.
Anyone with information regarding this burglary is requested to call the George Town CID at 949-4222 or the Miami-based call centre of Crime Stoppers at 800-8477(TIPS). Tips can also be submitted online here.
However, the police did not say what, if anything, the burglars actually took.
Mullings (42) is currently on bail from the Grand Court regarding alleged wrongful transfers into his bank account. Two large sums of cash, amounting to well over $300,000, were said to have been mistakenly placed in Mullings account and he is accused of keeping and using the money. He had denied the charges.
Missing Panga boat found upturned in the ocean
Meanwhile, police continued the search yesterday and managed to bring back the 27ft Panga which the men and boys were aboard when they went fishing Sunday. It was spotted on Monday by the RCIPS helicopter unit but rough seas hampered the recovery of the vessel.
There is still no sign of any survivors. Phone signals from two of the men’s phones stopped around 4pm Sunday afternoon, not long after the Panga was last seen leaving 12 Mile Banks heading for Grand Cayman with just one engine working.
A search operation involving local volunteers as well as the police and the US Coast Guard has found no trace of the party of five reported missing at midnight on Sunday. Bad weather hampered the search operation but the RCIPS has also faced criticism for not beginning the search as soon as the report was made. The police, however, have said they were unable to begin the search until first light for safety reasons.
Deputy Commissioner Anthony Ennis met with the families of the missing men and boys at the King’s Church Tuesday to update friends and relatives and answer questions and concerns.
Pastor Shian O’Connor, president of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, where Mullings and his family, including the two missing boys were members of the congregation, said he knew the Mullings family very well.
“I don’t think anyone can understand the magnitude of what they are going through,” he said.
Gary Mullings
Kanyi and Kameron Brown
Edsell Haylock
Nicholas Watler
Usually when I read things like this I’m shocked and appaled at the callous nature of my fellow humans… sadly more and more nowadays I’m just appaled.
My heart aches for the children and the families overall. It’s a good thing I don’t own a boat or have access to one because I would have been out there doing everything I can to help look for those children even if my life was at risk. Shame on the police for not doing the same.
Same way how you dont care enough to go buy a boat and go search same way the police dont want search
4 days ago- and THIS WATER IS COLD, COLD, COLD???
RNLI volunteers in rough seas rescue after dinghie sailor capsizes
By WMNOVergnault | Posted: March 06, 2016
Lifeboat volunteers faced gale force winds and rough seas when they went to the rescue of a dinghy sailor who had capsized off Newquay
The town’s RNLI crew were called out to the incident after the distressed man was spotted waving for help in Newquay Bay.
The man’s plight was seen by RNLI volunteer deputy launching authority Wayne Martin, who immediately activated the RNLI crew’s pagers at 1.16pm on Saturday, which fell onSt Piran’s Day, and contacted Falmouth Coastguard, who had also received a 999 call from a concerned member of the public.
The charity’s D class inshore lifeboat Enid Mary launched first with three crew on-board, and operating in eight-foot waves, found the man who had fortunately been washed ashore with his boat onto Tolcarne Beach.
Due to the conditions, the larger Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat also launched in support, and with the man confirmed safely ashore, both RNLI crews returned to the harbour within 20-minutes. Newquay coastguard rescue team also responded to the call.
A spokesman for the RNLI said: “We advise dinghy-sailors to check weather forecasts before going to sea and always carry a means of calling or signalling for help.”
Read more: http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/RNLI-volunteers-rough-seas-rescue-dinghie-sailor/story-28869480-detail/story.html#ixzz42W7EdLie
Presumably the burglars were keen to prevent the police find incriminating evidence in relation to past activities.
These robbers at the lowest forms of life imaginable. Bacteria life is worth more than these lowlife POS.
All of you people hating on the RCIPS need to just stop and grow up, you couldn’t do any better. You guys must be some low life criminal who just hate enforcement because your dirty. Let them do their work and stop criticising, and try and be useful for once in your sick have nothing better to do lives…..
Signed fed up young Caymaniam
Can the RCIPS say what was stolen. In the circumstances sure everyone will be on the lookout
How would the police know what was stolen without the home owner telling them what was missing?
His wife?
Absolutely f*ing disgusting people here.
CNS, just to clarify, the three adults are not members of the Adventist church, but family members, including Mullings and Watler’s mother, are members of the Adventist church. The two minors are members as well.
Macabuca Restaurant is located on the Northwest Point coast, facing west, the direction of the 12 mile banks. The North Sound area would not be visible from Macabuca.
Flares are launched skyward. No reason a flare launched near Kaibo could not be seen above the horizon from Macabuca.
The facts point to no flare or use, no radio or use, no life vest or use and two cell phones signals lost between 2:45-4pm Sunday. A prayer of comfort for the mothers and family. .
The facts also point to the fact that whoever was on 12 Mile Bank ans saw a boat with children (with NO LIFE-JACKETS ON) leave the area at 3PM under only 1 engine and in growing seas, should have checked on their safe return by sunset and called the police…I’m sure anyone who was fishing that day has a heavy heart. May we all please learn from this and to get over the macho men-at-sea no need for lifejackets bravado? Let’s make THAT easier and make it a felony to have a minor on board offshore without a life vest. Kids don’t have adult choices.
Even if a flare was seen and it was from the boat…without any flotation devices in rough seas etc….what would be your chances of survival realistically be…..this is a very tragic accident and my thought’s go out to the families
Their chances of survival would have been good had the police not waited so long to go look for them!
Sounds good, fits the political message but not exactly true is it?
You should have gone
And thats a whole bet
Closest NOAA Buoy Station is 42056 at 19.802N 84.857W. Surface Sea Temp there has been virtually static at 79-80’F since Sunday, if other stuff fell out with them, like an inverted fish cooler, tackle box, a tarp, jeans, a jacket, empty water bottles, or anything that could trap air and could keep them sufficiently buoyant and out of the wind, they might be okay for up to 4 days, after which, dehydration (ie. fresh drinking water) becomes a real issue. The wind chill at 27-35 mph lowers core temp and significantly raises hypothermic danger (ie. core below 95’F) – especially if they are wearing cotton (poly or wool works as an insulator even when wet). They would have started to hunker down low in the water as soon as they entered, which is why using the helicopter’s FLIR in those opening hours might have really made the critical difference. Time is of the essence in SAR.
Miracles do happen: there was a Lobsterman out of Montauk NY that was found alive in 2013, some 40 miles from his overturned boat. He kept buoyant by trapping air in his inverted fishing boots. Hoping they knew these skills and will be found. We really need a miracle like that now.
http://freelifesavingsociety.com/swimming/Survival/drownproofing/inflate-clothes.html
To 1158am 09/03/16 – the police made it clear last night on CITN that a report of flare came in from the north sound on Sunday night. Both helicopter and marine were working all day up to 9pm in order to address boating activity all that afternoon. They checked it and found the vessel who acknowledged they set it off recklessly. so all of that time and energy was wasted because of someone messing about. go to the article on CITN if you want the facts.
If this is true, the people who set off the flare have cost those men and boys their lives.
Please people DO NOT SET OF FLARES FOR THE HELL OF IT! Flares are for emergency scenarios ONLY!
This story of burglars breaking into the home of a man gone missing in a boating accident is really disturbing. How low can people go?
Birds of a feather, limited mentality.
This is Cayman. Something new and a bit more shocking is always just round the corner.
For those saying they didn’t have proper safety equipment please know your facts before getting on your keyboard and typing garbage.
It is a FACT that a flare was spotted AND reported to the police on Sunday. Sadly zero action was taken. The police could have saved these men and boys but chose not to.
But… the flare was off rum point!!!
The flare was spotted from Macabuca restaurant actually. The police took a report of this, although they may have conveniently lost any record of it by now.
Where is macabuca Restarant? (An honest question as Im not familiar) And in what direction from there was it seen? Was it towards north sound or was it towards 12 mile ?
The flare has already been traced to an unconnected boater.
Macabuca is next door to the turtle farm. The flare reported from Macabuca was seen out at sea to the west (in the direction of 12 mile bank). The fools setting off flares in the north sound may have cost these men dearly.
Macabuca is aka the Cracked Conch, just next to the turtle farm in west bay, the flare was aparently accounted for from another boater.
I think you should take your own advice before you type garbage.
@Anon 1.08 – how is it garbage if the OP was the one who actually saw and reported the flare to the police? Were you there? No, so shut up!
All the safety gear in the world is useless if the distress signals are ignored. There are no words for how angry I am with the police. Someone has to be held accountable for this!
I understand your frustration. But the ones that should be held accountable are the ones in the boat. Safety when you travel by anything is the answer and having no life jackets on the boat is not safety. I am really sorry if you know or are related to the people as it is a horrible accident but the “captain” has to take the responsibility of safety issues. I am sorry this happened.
Damn white British!
Well Said
Try not to be an angry idiot.
Looking to secure something of theirs.
Like missing evidence from the police locker? There’s more to this than meets the eye… isn’t there RCIPS??
hhhhmmmmmm…….
It just goes to show the ignorance of some of us caymanian people. Some of you are so quick to post responses without knowing all the facts and look like complete idiots when the truth is dished out to you. Instead of praying for the families and the betterment of the police service, you hypocritical s.o.b’s cause more drama. This is on the biggest problems Cayman face, ignorance of its caymanian people.
‘Truth’ is what the majority of people believe … it is seldom the same as ‘Fact’.
The sad fact is that the decision to go out in deteriorating weather was made by the adults on board.
G was an experienced boater who sadly made a bad decision. We are all human & we all make mistakes. Pointing fingers and blaming others will not solve anything.
There is a lesson to be learned from this tragedy … let not our anger cloud our judgment so greatly that it is lost upon us.
May the peace of Christ be with all who are touched by this tragedy.
I cannot imagine what the mother must be going through.