The United States Navy Criminal Investigative Service is reportedly probing the role of Leoda Bradshaw, a petty officer in the Navy, in the disappearance and murder of Member of Parliament for Kingston Eastern and Port Royal Phillip Paulwell’s daughter and her mother.

According to a report by the US television station NBC6 on Monday, October 16, the U.S. Navy in a statement said it “…takes all allegations of misconduct seriously and is fully cooperating with appropriate investigative and law enforcement authorities. The matter is currently under investigation by Jamaican authorities and the Navy Criminal Investigative Service.”

Bradshaw is among four individuals who were charged on Friday, October 13, in connection with the murder and disappearance of Toshyna Patterson and her 10-month-old daughter Sarayah.

She was slapped with two counts of conspiracy to murder, two counts of conspiracy to kidnapping, two counts of kidnapping and two counts of murder.

Her cousin, 30-year-old Roland Lloyd Balford, an assistant graphic designer of 67 Commission Road in Kingston 2, was charged with two counts of conspiracy to murder, two counts of conspiracy to kidnapping, and misprison of felony.

Two other men, Rushane Miller, a 29-year-old AC technician of 1B Camperdown Road, Kingston 16; and Richard Brown, a 31-year-old graphic designer of 2 Campden Road in Kingston 16, were each charged with two counts of conspiracy to murder, two counts of conspiracy to kidnapping, and misprison of felony.