William Swan is Arraigned for Manslaughter by Negligence

On the Phone: Kevin Cadle

Today, police formally arrested and charged B.D.F. Captain fifty-six-year-old William Swan, a resident of Santa Elena Town, for manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, failed to give way to motor vehicle on a major road and drove motor vehicle without due care and attention. The charges stem from a fatal accident over the weekend in the area of Central Farm that claimed the life of Adrian Usher. Usher was travelling on a motorcycle when he crashed head-on with a pickup truck driven by Swan. The pickup truck is registered to the Department of Youth Services. Today, D.Y.S. Director Kevin Cadle explained that Swan was on a contract with D.Y.S. as manager for the Mountain Pine Ridge Youth Challenge Program and that’s why he was driving in the government vehicle.

On the Phone: Kevin Cadle, Director, Department of Youth Services

“Mister Ernest Swan has been working tirelessly to open up this new facility for us at the D’Silva Mountain Pine Ridge Camp and I give him kudos for all the work and efforts that he has been doing. So on Friday, we had agreed that he would have been working this past weekend to get the necessary equipment and tools up there to continue to do the work, of which I know that he had taken up a drum of fuel for the guys to continue cutting the area and cleaning the area because as you know we are preparing to open up this month April. I know that he was up there on Saturday and that he came down late and that he had taken the other parties that were working with him to the bus terminal and returning to Camp Belizario where he was going to government vehicle and then retrieve his personal vehicle and then return to his home. So that is as far as we are aware of.”

Swan was granted bail in the sum of six thousand dollars plus two sureties and the matter was adjourned for disclosure to be provided on the June twentieth, 2023.