The Curacao-born suspect Shurandy ‘Tyson’ Quant was arrested in Dubai. The arrest was carried out by a special police unit in Dubai at the request of the Public Prosecutor of Sint Maarten. S.Q. is suspected of commissioning various assassinations, kidnapping, running a criminal organization and money laundering.
Q. is one of the leaders of the Curaçao / Dutch street and crime crew No Limit Soldiers (NLS), who carried out the murder of politician Helmin Wiels in 2013. The arrest was made at the request of the Public Prosecution Service of Sint Maarten.
Although S.Q. was not residing in Curacao or Sint Maarten, his influence remained undiminished in these countries. This was as a result of his presumably worldwide criminal network. The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Curaçao is now requesting his extradition.
In January 2016, Q. was acquitted by the court of Haarlem (after a claim of 15 years in prison) on appeal for cocaine smuggling to the Netherlands and involvement in a liquidation attempt of an Antillean with the nickname “Quick”. Q. stayed in the Extra Security Facility (EBI) in Vught for a longer period of time. He was arrested in Jamaica in 2013, where he had resided legally since October 2012.