Jensen La Vende
Three more men are now detained under the state of emergency orders after National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds issued detention orders yesterday.
This brings the total number of detainees to six since the state of emergency began on 30 December last year.
The detainees are Kevon Bocage of Tomato Trace, Diego Martin; Jonathan Bushell, also known as Froggy, of Jerningham Street, Belmont; and Ezekiel Morris, also known as Easy, of Awai Lands, Belmont. They are now held at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca.
The three were detained to prevent them from jeopardising public safety and join Shumba James, Joshua Roberts, and Calvin Lee.
Roberts was reportedly recruited to attack prison officers, while James was detained to stop a plot to murder state witnesses. Lee, the alleged leader of the Sixx Gang, was held for suspected gang involvement.
The detentions followed Police Legal Officer Sergeant Verson Jeanville’s statement last Friday that police had files on additional suspects and would provide updates soon.