St. Maarten Private Eye

Peyton Cromwell was born David Perry.
He managed to not only change his name but his birth date also, which by the way is very difficult to do. He was a drug runner in the late 70's, seems that he was arrested by the Feds and when his boat was cut open at the Bobby's Marina the entire boat was filled with cocaine.

Cromwell most probably does not have much in his name, he uses other people to be Managing Director etc. He has Island Properties and Carib Trust (could be that the current Director bought him out, but he was an original financial founder) Cromwell has had several run-ins with the law on SXM, fast boats, anyone remember the T.V. series Tradewinds? Around that time he had a boat fiasco somewhere around Oyster Bay.

He also had a boat that ran up and ended up at PJIA fence. Then the biggest crime event, Cromwell was at a birthday party in Grand Case, everyone saw him ordering and drinking Champagne. He left the party loaded up with Alc, got in his jeep and while driving like a stupid in Cole Bay he hit a small car driven by a father and his young daughter. The father drove after him trying to get him to stop, as he had continued after the crash. The father later realised that his daughter was severly hurt.
Cromwell was locked up for one night, why??? Because on SXM the police have no breatherlisers. Go figure!!! French police have them, but the Dutch side police are still in the cave man era. No direct proof that he was drunk, also I believe no investigation was done as they would then have questioned people at the party, unless those people lied or were intimidated. In any case, his drivers license was taken away from him, not sure for how long.

People and myself have seen Cromwell driving his employees cars during the day time hours on the Dutch side. What happened to the little girl? difficult to say, some say that she is a vegetable, others say that Cromwell is supporting the father with money to keep them quite and pay medical bills.

From Cromwell to Ken McKenzie, what a nice picture of pirates SXM attracts to it''s shores. And for those of you that remember, Island Properties sale booth, a small ginger bread style house that was located in Oyster Bay a few years ago, was burnt to the ground by a disgrunteled American home owner in the area. No clear reason why, them say the person was fed up with Cromwell's bussiness tactics.

Betsy