Three al­leged gang af­fil­i­ates have been de­tained un­der State of Emer­gency (SoE) reg­u­la­tions.

The or­der came from Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds, who yes­ter­day is­sued the three de­ten­tion or­ders un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions.

The first de­ten­tion or­der, pub­lished as Le­gal No­tice No 54 of 2025 in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Gazette, was is­sued against Ster­ling Wal­cott, of Pep­per Vil­lage, Fyz­abad. Au­thor­i­ties iden­ti­fied Wal­cott as the leader of the Oropouche Gang, a crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tion op­er­at­ing with­in Oropouche and neigh­bour­ing ar­eas.

The gang is ac­cused of in­volve­ment in mul­ti­ple mur­ders, as well as nar­cotics and firearms traf­fick­ing. The de­ten­tion or­der fur­ther al­leges that Wal­cott was plan­ning vi­o­lent re­tal­ia­to­ry at­tacks util­is­ing high-pow­ered weapons.

A sec­ond de­ten­tion or­der, pub­lished as Le­gal No­tice No 55 of 2025, was is­sued for Akhim Rav­el­lo, al­so known as “Sab­by” or “Sab­bie,” of Duke Street, St Mary’s Vil­lage, South Oropouche. Rav­el­lo is al­so al­leged to be a mem­ber of the Oropouche Gang.

The third de­ten­tion or­der, pub­lished as Le­gal No­tice No. 58 of 2025, was di­rect­ed at Ty­ereeke Williamson, al­so known as “Lover­boy” or “Russ­ian,” of Up­per Bel­mont Val­ley Road, Bel­mont.

Williamson is al­leged to be a high-rank­ing en­forcer in the Ras­ta City/7 Gang, specif­i­cal­ly the Alien fac­tion.

All three in­di­vid­u­als have been or­dered to be de­tained at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre in San­ta Rosa, Ari­ma, or at any oth­er fa­cil­i­ty as di­rect­ed by the min­is­ter.

Hinds said the de­ten­tions were nec­es­sary to pre­serve pub­lic safe­ty and pre­vent vi­o­lence.

—Ot­to Car­ring­ton