Jensen La Vende

Se­nior Re­porter

jensen.lavende@guardian.co.tt

Four al­leged gang lead­ers are among eight men de­tained at the in­struc­tion of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, un­der the State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions.

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

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

Hinds, of San­ta Ri­ta Trace, Llu­en­go Vil­lage, Mara­cas, St Joseph, is the al­leged leader of a fac­tion of the Re­sis­tance Or­gan­ised Crime Group (OCG), the de­ten­tion or­der stat­ed.

It added that he has ac­cess “to a cache of high-pow­ered ri­fles.”

“In­ves­ti­ga­tions and in­tel­li­gence iden­ti­fy him co­or­di­nat­ing with im­pris­oned gang lead­ers, prepar­ing for pub­lic ex­e­cu­tions of mem­bers of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty or­gan­i­sa­tions, and con­tribut­ing to a planned se­ries of kid­nap­pings. The in­tel­li­gence re­veals that he in­tends to en­gage in im­mi­nent acts prej­u­di­cial to pub­lic safe­ty and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.”

Nero, of By­pass Road, Ma­tu­ri­ta Ex­ten­sion, Ari­ma, is ac­cused of lead­ing an un­named OCG and is in­volved in traf­fick­ing of mar­i­jua­na, ex­tor­tion, smug­gling con­tra­band in­to cor­rec­tion­al fa­cil­i­ties and shoot­ings.

“The OCG has ac­cess to a cache of high-pow­ered firearms and has re­cent­ly ini­ti­at­ed a se­ries of at­tacks on ri­val OCGs. He and oth­ers plan to im­mi­nent­ly launch fur­ther at­tacks on ri­val gangs in pub­lic spaces us­ing high-pow­ered firearms. He has been cred­i­bly iden­ti­fied as be­ing a main and ac­tive par­tic­i­pant in a crim­i­nal net­work which fa­cil­i­tates the plan­ning of vi­o­lent acts from with­in prison walls,” the de­ten­tion or­der said.

The de­ten­tion or­der against O’Brien, whose ad­dress is list­ed as Cal­i­to Road, Quar­ry Road, Morne Di­a­blo, Pe­nal, said he is an OCG leader “ac­tive­ly and cur­rent­ly en­gaged in large-scale traf­fick­ing of il­le­gal nar­cotics, firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, con­tra­band or un­cus­tomed goods, hu­man traf­fick­ing and fu­el.”

It added that he is the own­er of sev­er­al mar­itime ves­sels and sources and then pro­vides trans­port for the OCG’s ship­ments of il­le­gal nar­cotics, firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, con­tra­band or un­cus­tomed goods, hu­man traf­fick­ing and fu­el.

“He is the in­ter­me­di­ary for trans­mit­ting in­for­ma­tion from com­pro­mised lo­cal se­cu­ri­ty to ex­ter­nal crim­i­nal op­er­a­tors,” the or­der added.

Singh, the fourth al­leged gang leader, lives at Teelucks­ingh Trace, Cun­jal Road, Bar­rack­pore, and leads an un­named OCG.

He is re­port­ed­ly “ac­tive­ly and cur­rent­ly en­gaged” in large-scale traf­fick­ing of il­le­gal nar­cotics, firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, con­tra­band or un­cus­tomed goods and hu­man traf­fick­ing, the de­ten­tion or­der stat­ed.

“He is the co-or­di­na­tor of the move­ment of ship­ments and pro­vides op­er­a­tional con­trol and di­rec­tives to the oth­er mem­bers of the OCG. He and oth­ers are ac­tive­ly en­gaged in steal­ing seized nar­cotics and re-dis­trib­ut­ing the same do­mes­ti­cal­ly. He and oth­ers are en­gaged in pro­vid­ing con­fi­den­tial op­er­a­tional in­for­ma­tion to known crim­i­nal el­e­ments,” his de­ten­tion or­der said.

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

Yeates is al­leged to be in­volved in par­tic­i­pat­ing in shoot­ings and homi­cides to re-es­tab­lish the gang’s dom­i­nance in the La Re­treat/Ari­ma dis­trict, re­sum­ing large-scale mar­i­jua­na traf­fick­ing op­er­a­tions, and smug­gling con­tra­band like nar­cotics and cell phones in­to cor­rec­tion­al fa­cil­i­ties.

The OCG he is af­fil­i­at­ed with is linked to mul­ti­ple mur­ders and wound­ings, with plans to en­gage in fur­ther re­tal­ia­to­ry shoot­ings.

Al­leyne, who is part of the Mus­lim OCG, was de­scribed as an al­leged shoot­er and rob­bery of­fend­er.

“He and oth­ers in the OCG have been linked to re­cent armed rob­beries of high-pro­file tar­gets in lo­ca­tions that are dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed. The de­tainee and oth­ers in the OCG main­tain a cache of high-pow­ered firearms and are ac­tive­ly plan­ning to im­mi­nent­ly en­gage in a se­ries of fur­ther rob­beries of high-val­ue, high-traf­fic tar­gets such as banks and casi­nos.”

Giles is an al­leged look­out, the de­ten­tion or­der said, and is ac­tive­ly en­gaged in vi­o­lent and high-risk crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty. He is al­so ac­cused of be­ing an es­cort for stolen ve­hi­cles, GPS counter-mea­sures, and firearms con­spir­a­cy.

“He is con­firmed to be a con­spir­a­tor in a planned armed rob­bery in To­co and in a con­spir­a­cy to pur­chase ri­fles to mur­der fam­i­ly mem­bers. He is an ac­tive par­tic­i­pant in the ex­e­cu­tion of im­mi­nent reprisal killings and as­saults against ri­val gangs us­ing high-pow­ered ri­fles in pub­lic spaces,” his de­ten­tion or­der stat­ed.

Ali is re­port­ed­ly “en­gaged in large-scale traf­fick­ing of il­le­gal nar­cotics, firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, con­tra­band or un­cus­tomed goods, hu­man traf­fick­ing and fu­el.”

The de­ten­tion or­der said he is present­ly charged with pos­ses­sion of nar­cotics and firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences and, along with oth­ers, is en­gaged in pro­vid­ing con­fi­den­tial op­er­a­tional in­for­ma­tion to known do­mes­tic and crim­i­nal el­e­ments.

“He pro­vides lo­gis­ti­cal sup­port to fa­cil­i­tate the move­ment of bulk quan­ti­ties of il­le­gal nar­cotics, firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, con­tra­band or un­cus­tomed goods. He al­so man­ages a net­work for the dis­tri­b­u­tion of il­le­gal nar­cotics, firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, con­tra­band or un­cus­tomed goods and hu­man traf­fick­ing.”