Jensen La Vende

Se­nior Re­porter

jensen.lavende@guardian.co.tt

YouTube Vlog­ger Chris Must, who goes by the name Christ Must List, was de­tained by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tion Unit (SIU) yes­ter­day, af­ter doc­u­ment­ing gang mem­bers and gang cul­ture in T&T over the course of a few days.

Must, a Cana­di­an cit­i­zen, was sup­posed to leave the coun­try yes­ter­day but in a Tik Tok post, said he need­ed three more days at most to vis­it oth­er com­mu­ni­ties, which in­clud­ed Care­nage and Mal­oney.

Last evening, po­lice could not say why Must was de­tained. Calls to Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Suzette Mar­tin for more in­for­ma­tion on the mat­ter went unan­swered last evening.

At­tor­ney Criston Williams, who was re­tained by Must, said last evening that his client will have a de­tailed state­ment for the me­dia when he is re­leased.

In an in­ter­view with CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew host Ja­son Williams on Mon­day, Must said he no­ticed gang mem­bers com­mon­ly de­scrib­ing them­selves as a ‘fam­i­ly’ or ‘or­gan­i­sa­tion’.

“Un­like any oth­er coun­try I’ve ever been to in my life, there are a few words that are used. ‘Love’, ‘peace’, ‘stig­ma.’ Over and over again. I’ve nev­er seen it. It’s al­most like every­one came to­geth­er and re­hearsed what to say and it’s amaz­ing to me,” Must said.

Must doc­u­ment­ed his jour­ney to the hills of Up­per St John’s Road, St Au­gus­tine, in the heart of gang­land be­lieved to be ter­ri­to­ry fre­quent­ed by the Re­sis­tance Gang last week.

Four men, said by po­lice to be mem­bers of the gang, were killed by of­fi­cers in a shootout last week. The men, po­lice said, were be­lieved to have been in­volved in the kid­nap­ping of dou­bles ven­dor An­isha Ho­sein-Singh.

Ho­sein-Singh, 27, was grabbed by armed men on May 18 in El Do­ra­do, as she, her hus­band and oth­er work­ers were set­ting up the Sauce and Sons Dou­bles stall to be­gin Sat­ur­day morn­ing sales. Singh was shot in the face by the kid­nap­pers as he at­tempt­ed to save her.

The moth­er of one re­mained in the hands of her kid­nap­pers for five days be­fore she was re­leased near the Ca­roni Cre­ma­tion Site around 10 pm on May 22.

Po­lice did not con­firm but it is be­lieved that a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar ran­som was paid for her safe re­turn.