Family Says Drowned Man Did Not Attempt to Steal Motorcycle

On Monday, we reported on Herbin Bans, who was found dead along Old Well Road. Police said the forty-two-year-old Lord’s Bank resident tried to steal a motorcycle and escaped by swimming in nearby ponds. He was found floating in the water the next day. However, tonight, a family has come forward to clarify that Bans never tried to steal their motorcycle. Nalini Prado, the motorcycle’s owner, shares more details on the incident.

 

On the phone: Nalini Prado, Lord’s Bank Resident

 “I live da di location. Weh happen I have, I may buy a new motorcycle and it have alarm. The alarm went off. So my husband get up and he gone outside fi check weh mi di happen. So we mi think somebody mi di thief the bike, but there was no one outside. So we gone inside back. Then we hear wa screaming. When we come outside again, we hear the screaming through the pond then. We never see nobody, but we hear the bawling, so I gone get the headlight, my husband’s headlight, and with a flash we see, that afterwards we see the person, way inna the pond, inside the pond water.”

 

Britney Gordon

“Was he still alive at that point?”

 

Nalini Prado

“He was alive. We call the police at the moment because we never know da who that person so we neva want risk fi come outside and say maybe they want trap to make somebody kill we or whatever you understand me.”

 

Britney Gordon

“So what happened when the police arrived? If you guys saw him, how come they did not find him?”

 

Nalini Prado

“When the police arrived, it looked like he saw the light from the truck and he hopped from the other pond to the other pond. So the police went and looked for him.”

 

Britney Gordon

“So if he was screaming for assistance or help, why is it that he ran from the police?

 

Nalini Prado

“I have no idea, ma’am. That’s the reason I don’t have no idea why he ran. But before he, before the police reached he hollered and said in Spanish that nobody no love ah and that they come to kill ah. That’s the way the man said before the police reached.”

 

Britney Gordon

“Do you think that he may have been drunk or injured?”

 

Nalini Prado

“He was really wasted. I have no idea who he was with but he is not somebody that goes  back there at us.”