Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der has signed three more de­ten­tion or­ders un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions.

The or­ders were is­sued for Johnathan “Bushelle” Bushel; An­isha Lisa Raf­fick, al­so called An­isha Lawrence; and De­nesh “Rat­ty” Ma­haraj.

The de­ten­tion or­ders were is­sued be­tween Au­gust and Oc­to­ber, af­ter Alexan­der said he was sat­is­fied the de­ten­tions were nec­es­sary to pre­vent the in­di­vid­u­als from act­ing in a man­ner prej­u­di­cial to the pub­lic safe­ty of T&T.

Bushell, of Jern­ing­ham Street, Bel­mont, was iden­ti­fied as a mem­ber of the Alien/7 gang, which was said to be in­volved in ran­dom pub­lic shoot­ings and turf wars in the Bel­mont area. His de­ten­tion or­der, made on Au­gust 29, states he and oth­ers were plan­ning armed at­tacks and re­tal­ia­to­ry shoot­ings linked to re­cent mur­ders and wound­ings.

Raf­fick, of Bor­de Narve and La Ro­maine, was de­tained on Sep­tem­ber 27 and iden­ti­fied as a mem­ber of the R-Gang. She was de­scribed as be­ing re­spon­si­ble for the fi­nan­cial and lo­gis­ti­cal op­er­a­tions of the group, which has ac­cess to high-pow­ered firearms and is in­volved in nar­cotics traf­fick­ing and mon­ey laun­der­ing. The de­ten­tion or­der states she and oth­ers were con­spir­ing to ex­pand their ter­ri­to­ry through planned shoot­ings in pub­lic spaces.

Ma­haraj of St He­le­na and Pi­ar­co, was de­tained on Oc­to­ber 4. The or­der iden­ti­fies him as a shoot­er and en­forcer with­in the Re­sis­tance Gang, which is al­leged­ly in­volved in nar­cotics and firearms traf­fick­ing, ex­tor­tion, con­tract killings, and kid­nap­pings. The or­der states that he and oth­er mem­bers were con­spir­ing to per­pe­trate fur­ther acts of armed vi­o­lence in pub­lic spaces.

Un­der the reg­u­la­tions, de­tained per­sons may be held with­out war­rant by po­lice of­fi­cers and kept in cus­tody at des­ig­nat­ed fa­cil­i­ties, in­clud­ing the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre in Ari­ma and the Women’s Prison in Arou­ca.