Ten in­di­vid­u­als, eight men and two women, have been de­tained un­der Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs).

The Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, Roger Alexan­der, is­sued the or­ders be­tween March 19 and June 5, au­tho­ris­ing de­ten­tion at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre in San­ta Rosa, Ari­ma; the Women’s Prison at Gold­en Grove or oth­er des­ig­nat­ed fa­cil­i­ties.

The women named in the or­ders are Ani­ka Chadee of Pi­paro and Akeema Fer­gu­son of Long­denville/Ed­in­burgh 500. Both were de­tained on al­le­ga­tions linked to or­gan­ised crime groups, in­clud­ing pos­ses­sion of firearms and in­volve­ment in fa­cil­i­tat­ing or sup­port­ing planned armed ac­tiv­i­ty, ac­cord­ing to the de­ten­tion or­ders.

Among the male de­tainees, two cas­es were iden­ti­fied in the or­ders as pre­sent­ing par­tic­u­lar op­er­a­tional risk due to the na­ture of the al­leged planned of­fences.

Jasini­ho Bo­neo, al­so known as “El­mo” of Tu­na­puna, was de­tained af­ter be­ing iden­ti­fied in con­fi­den­tial in­tel­li­gence and law en­force­ment in­ves­ti­ga­tions as a pri­ma­ry op­er­a­tive with­in an or­gan­ised crime group.

The or­der states that he had ac­cess to ad­vanced in­for­ma­tion on lo­cal com­mer­cial cash flows and was al­leged­ly prepar­ing to car­ry out an armed as­sault on Fred’s Meat Shop near the Tu­na­puna Mar­ket, with in­tent to steal more than $200,000.

An­oth­er de­tainee, Cur­tis Isaac, al­so known as “Don­key” and “Road” of Mor­vant, was iden­ti­fied in the or­der as an armed en­forcer for an or­gan­ised crime group in­volved in es­ca­lat­ing gang con­flict.

In­tel­li­gence fur­ther in­di­cat­ed he had been act­ing un­der stand­ing or­ders fol­low­ing the killing of a gang mem­ber known as Ja­mal Carter, alias “Big Joe”, and that he and oth­ers in­tend­ed to es­ca­late vi­o­lent pub­lic at­tacks.

Oth­er de­tainees named in the or­ders in­clude Shane Din­di­al, Mark Williams, Nicholas Sum­n­er, Wayne Have­lock, Er­ic Gor­ing and Akeem Cole, all of whom were de­tained on al­le­ga­tions in­volv­ing or­gan­ised crime ac­tiv­i­ty, firearms pos­ses­sion, nar­cotics traf­fick­ing and planned vi­o­lent of­fences across mul­ti­ple dis­tricts.