Witness fails to testify in murder trial

The chief witness in a murder trial did not live up to his side of the deal and as a result a nolle prosequi was entered in the case of twenty six year old Edwin “Drive” Flowers and twenty-five year old Daniel Anderson. Justice Adolph Lucas directed today that the men be freed of the charges when Crown Counsel Trienia Young indicated that the chief witness could not be located. The witness in this case, nineteen year old Jamie Chavarria, had also been charged with the murder but he was similarly freed of the charges on June fourth, when a nolle prosequi was entered in exchange for him to testify as a witness. Fourteen witnesses had already testified in the trial which began on June twenty-fourth. Flowers and Anderson were charged with the murders of thirty two year old Dorian Michael and twenty four year old Keiva Leslie who were shot and killed on March twenty-five, 2007 in a feeder road near Haulover Creek Bridge at Mile 5 on the Northern Highway. Michael and Leslie were in a maroon van driven by Michael when they were kidnapped at a gas station on Freetown Road and taken in their own vehicle to the feeder road. Two police offices who were guarding the body of a man found in the feeder road earlier that day heard the shots being fired when Michael and Leslie were killed. But by the time they got to the scene, the van had sped away.