Wilkie Arthur
Eagle Legal News Media
Friday March 21, 2025 – Turks and Caicos Islands – “Freedom is a must,’ when God is on your side, said mother of accused Dock Yard gang member REGINALD TALBOT, Jr. who was arrested and sent to prison in December of 2023. Today he is released after DPP drops the case.
He was 20 years old when he was arrested and charged with gang and firearm offenses. Police accused the young TALBOT, Jr., of being a member of the Dock Yard, Kew Town gang on August 2, 2023 when Guilene Baptiste was shot and killed in Grace Bay, Providenciales.
Police knowing that one of Dock Yard’s males was killed in Grace Bay decided to rush getting geared up, and tactical unit officers move into the police armored truck and travel into Dock Yard.
Police reported that upon entry in the main areas of Dock Yard, they were fired upon by a group of men, some holding high-powered
rifles and some with hand guns.
Police at the time reported that they fired back but had to retreat due to being outnumbered. It is that incident Police say their investigation revealed Talbot was an active participant in that shooting against police.
What was rather interesting is that TALBOT had only arrived in the Islands on that same day of the Grace Bay murder and shooting at the police allegedly.
He always denied the allegations through his first attorney, Mr. Oliver Smith K.C. and later moving on to Ms. Sheena Mair of F-Chambers.
His attorney challenged the Sufficiency Hearing in one of the longest-running Sufficiency Hearings in TCI history, but he was still committed to standing trial by the Hon. Chief Justice Mrs. Mable Agyemang.
Eagle Legal News followed this case throughout until its trial date on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, when the office of the Director of Public Prosecution, Principal Public Prosecutor Mr Clement Joseph, announced officially that they are dropping the charges against the then-accused Reginald Talbot, Jr.
Speaking to his mother, Mrs Cutella Talbot, she said it was all prayers and the hand of God moving on her son and their family behalf. She said her son had just come home from the USA that day, and he didn’t even live here, and they labeled him with being a part of a gang.
She said she spent thousands of dallors trying to clear her son’s name until it all came to an end on the morning of 11th March 2025. She said they came arrest her child just before Christmas in 2023 and sent him to prison on remand for gang membership and firearm offenses.
She encourages all parents to always stick by your child when the system holds on to them. Stay in prayers and watch God work because the system makes some real serious mistakes, sometimes like in the case of her son.
Mrs Talbot said the system by doing this only made her son a target to the rival side gang members for no reason causing the family had to make the decision to send him off Island back to the United States immediately upon his release from prison.
She said he didn’t even see the front on the Howard Hamilton International Airport as he was from Grand Turk plane straight on to America, his place of birth, and where he usually resides.
She screamed, “Freedom is a must,” and Thank you Jesus!!
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