Bail has been denied to man arrested in New York this week for two counts of attempted murder in Bermuda.

Jahmel Blakeney, who is the son of Government Minister Glenn Blakeney, was arrested by US Marshals at 6.30 a.m. on Thursday in a Brooklyn residence for the attempted murder of Renee Kuchler and Shaki Minors.

A US Magistrate Court denied him bail yesterday afternoon. He is now in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn awaiting an extradition hearing.

Blakeney, 28, was originally arrested in Bermuda in connection with the shooting outside Southside Cinema on November 13 2009, which left both victims in the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

At the time he was granted Police bail. He subsequently left the Island on November 30 and failed to return to answer his bail.

Yesterday, Chief Deputy Timothy Hogan, of the US Marshals Service, said Blakeney now has the right to fight his extradition to Bermuda. The date for the extradition hearing has not yet been set.