On Thursday, October 15, 2026, local law enforcement authorities announced that a French Guianese man long sought by French officials in connection with a high-profile 2021 murder has been taken into custody in Guyana under an international INTERPOL arrest warrant, and is now set to face extradition back to France to serve his sentence.
The suspect, 29-year-old Dane Langhorne, a resident of Ann’s Grove on Guyana’s East Coast Demerara, was presented before Chief Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court earlier this week. Latchman ordered Langhorne remanded into custody until October 23, when the formal extradition hearing will officially get underway.
Langhorne’s arrest came on the morning of Sunday, October 11, at approximately 7:45 a.m., during a targeted police operation carried out at the Lusignan Tarmac on East Coast Demerara, according to an official statement from the law enforcement agency. Two days after his arrest, on October 13, he made his initial court appearance for extradition proceedings brought under Guyana’s Fugitive Offenders Act, Chapter 10:04. Following the reading of the extradition request, Langhorne’s legal counsel submitted an application for bail, which the court ultimately rejected.
The case dates back to March 2021, when the victim, 28-year-old Alicia Faye, traveled to Cayenne, French Guiana, to transport €25,000 ($26,800 as of 2026) to a local drug supplier. According to reporting from leading French newspaper Le Monde, Faye was shot in the head just under 24 hours after her arrival in the city, in a killing tied to the regional cocaine trade.
Langhorne, who was the last person to see Faye alive after picking her up from her hotel, was tried in absentia for the murder and ultimately sentenced to 30 years in prison. Prosecutors presented compelling physical evidence during the trial: traces of Faye’s blood were recovered from both Langhorne’s vehicle and one of his shoes. “His guilt is established,” lead public prosecutor Gisèle Auguste stated firmly during her closing arguments.
Court documents show that Langhorne had been a fugitive hiding out in Guyana since 2024, when he was temporarily released from custody due to a procedural error during the early stages of his legal processing. Once the error was corrected, French authorities secured an INTERPOL red notice against him, enabling cross-border law enforcement cooperation that led to last Sunday’s arrest.