Senior Reporter
jensen.lavende@guardian.co.tt
Three alleged members of the Sixx Gang and one from the Resistance Gang have been ordered detained at the Eastern Correctional Rehabilitation Centre by National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds.
The men have been identified as Tiquan “Quan” Jomal Williams, of East Dry River, Port-of-Spain; Deon “Pumpest” and “Pump” Gillard, of Laventille Road, East Dry River, Port-of-Spain and Azizi “Crime Boss” and “Crime” James, of Irving Lane, East Dry River, Port-of-Spain.
The detention orders state that they were “credibly identified as a member of, and shooter for, an organised criminal group known as the Sixx Gang involved in narcotics and firearms trafficking, larceny of motor vehicles, robberies and murders, and as a person intending to engage in violent gang activity including the retaliatory murder of rival gang members with the use of high-powered firearms in public places.”
The alleged Resistance Gang member, Josiah “Grover” and “Gerber” Gomes, of Ballantyne Road, Five Rivers, Arouca, is suspected of being involved in “trafficking of high-powered firearms, murders, kidnapping, armed robberies and extortion, and as a person directed, and conspiring with others, and intending and with the means, to carry out violent gang activity including the retaliatory murder of prison officers.”
The detention orders are part of the State’s response to gang violence under the State of Emergency which has been in place since December 30.