Jensen La Vende 

Four al­leged gang lead­ers are among eight men de­tained un­der the State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions, fol­low­ing de­ten­tion or­ders signed at the re­quest of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der.

The or­ders, dat­ed be­tween Au­gust 13 and 25, were gazetted on Tues­day night. The men were or­dered to be held at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre in San­ta Rosa.

The al­leged gang lead­ers are My­lon Hinds, Malique Nero, Je­re­my O’Brien and Ken­rick Singh.

Ac­cord­ing to his de­ten­tion or­der, Hinds, of San­ta Ri­ta Trace, Llu­en­go Vil­lage, Mara­cas, St Joseph, is the al­leged leader of a fac­tion of the Re­sis­tance Or­gan­ised Crime Group (OCG). In­tel­li­gence iden­ti­fied him as hav­ing ac­cess “to a cache of high-pow­ered ri­fles,” co­or­di­nat­ing with im­pris­oned gang lead­ers, prepar­ing for pub­lic ex­e­cu­tions of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers, and plan­ning kid­nap­pings.

Nero, of By­pass Road, Ma­tu­ri­ta Ex­ten­sion, Ari­ma, is ac­cused of lead­ing an­oth­er OCG in­volved in mar­i­jua­na traf­fick­ing, ex­tor­tion, smug­gling con­tra­band in­to pris­ons, and shoot­ings. His de­ten­tion or­der said he has ac­cess to high-pow­ered firearms and has been plan­ning fur­ther pub­lic at­tacks on ri­val gangs.

O’Brien, of Cal­i­to Road, Quar­ry Road, Morne Di­a­blo, Pe­nal, is de­scribed as a gang leader “ac­tive­ly and cur­rent­ly en­gaged in large-scale traf­fick­ing” of nar­cotics, firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, con­tra­band, hu­man traf­fick­ing, and fu­el. His or­der said he owns sev­er­al ves­sels used to trans­port ship­ments and acts as an in­ter­me­di­ary be­tween com­pro­mised lo­cal se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers and ex­ter­nal crim­i­nal op­er­a­tors.

Singh, of Teelucks­ingh Trace, Cun­jal Road, Bar­rack­pore, is ac­cused of co­or­di­nat­ing the move­ment of il­le­gal ship­ments and di­rect­ing mem­bers of his OCG. His de­ten­tion or­der said he was in­volved in steal­ing seized nar­cotics and re­dis­trib­ut­ing them do­mes­ti­cal­ly, while al­so pass­ing op­er­a­tional in­for­ma­tion to crim­i­nal el­e­ments.

The oth­er four de­tainees are Ke­mo Yeates, Malique Al­leyne, Aquiyl Mo­hammed Giles, and Sadiq Ra­keeb Ali.

Yeates is ac­cused of par­tic­i­pat­ing in shoot­ings and homi­cides to re-es­tab­lish dom­i­nance in the La Re­treat/Ari­ma dis­trict, traf­fick­ing mar­i­jua­na, and smug­gling con­tra­band in­to pris­ons. His OCG is linked to mul­ti­ple mur­ders and wound­ing in­ci­dents.

Al­leyne, a mem­ber of the Mus­lim OCG, is de­scribed as an al­leged shoot­er linked to re­cent armed rob­beries of high-pro­file tar­gets. His de­ten­tion or­der said he and his as­so­ciates were plan­ning fur­ther rob­beries of banks and casi­nos.

Giles is de­scribed as a look­out in­volved in firearms con­spir­a­cy, es­cort­ing stolen ve­hi­cles, and GPS counter-mea­sures. He was al­leged­ly part of a con­spir­a­cy to buy ri­fles to mur­der fam­i­ly mem­bers and to car­ry out reprisal killings.

Ali is ac­cused of traf­fick­ing nar­cotics, firearms, and am­mu­ni­tion, and of man­ag­ing a dis­tri­b­u­tion net­work. He is al­ready be­fore the courts on firearm and nar­cotics charges, and his de­ten­tion or­der said he al­so pro­vides op­er­a­tional in­for­ma­tion to crim­i­nal el­e­ments.