Vincentian Dexter Chance Shot Dead In Grenada – Previously Charged With Drug Offences in the BVI and Grenada

Vincentian Dexter Chance who was charged with importing cocaine into the British Virgin Islands in 2011 was gun down in Grenada on September 12.

The 51-year-old who had appeared in the Caribbean news over the last few years for drug-related charges in Grenada and the British Virgin Islands was shot dead in the driver’s seat of a vehicle in Woburn in St George.

In 2011, Chance, Gareth McDowall and Carlos Sutherland, all Vincentians, were extradited to Tortola to stand trial for trafficking in narcotics after the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force discovered 61 kilos of cocaine on a boat.

The trio was sentenced to six years in prison, but served only five after the Court of Appeal threw out their convictions in 2012 due to a technicality – the certificate of analysis used in the trial did not have the defendants’ name.

In August 2019, Chance once again made headlines.

He was arrested this time along with Grenadian Bernard Spann, 46, and Jamaicans Ian White, 53, and Alrick Reynolds, 48, after police seized 40 kilos of cocaine in Grenada.

He was released in July 2022.

A manhunt is currently on the way to apprehend the person or persons who fatally shot Chance.

Grenada has recorded 17 homicides so far in 2023.