An­oth­er prison of­fi­cer has been de­tained un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) in the lat­est batch is­sued by Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der.

The lat­est prison of­fi­cer de­tained is Gary Gour, of Princes Town, who au­thor­i­ties claim act­ed as a fa­cil­i­ta­tor for or­gan­ised crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty with­in the Port-of-Spain Prison.

Ac­cord­ing to the de­ten­tion or­der, dat­ed May 18, Gour was “cred­i­bly iden­ti­fied” as be­ing linked to traf­fick­ing pro­hib­it­ed items, in­clud­ing cel­lu­lar phones, SIM cards, charg­ers, cig­a­rettes, mar­i­jua­na and oth­er con­tra­band in­to the prison sys­tem.

Au­thor­i­ties al­leged he used his po­si­tion to co­or­di­nate and fa­cil­i­tate pro­hib­it­ed items reach­ing in­car­cer­at­ed gang mem­bers and vi­o­lent of­fend­ers.

The or­der claimed that on May 10, 2026, Gour was found with pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles, in­clud­ing a cel­lu­lar phone, SIM card and charg­ers, while on du­ty at the Port-of-Spain Prison. Search­es of his prison lock­er al­leged­ly un­cov­ered ad­di­tion­al pro­hib­it­ed items.

The de­ten­tion or­der fur­ther al­leged that the of­fi­cer main­tained long­stand­ing as­so­ci­a­tions with crim­i­nal net­works op­er­at­ing with­in and out­side the prison sys­tem and fa­cil­i­tat­ed com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween jailed gang mem­bers and crim­i­nal as­so­ciates in­volved in shoot­ings and mur­ders.

The de­ten­tion came a day af­ter a PDO was is­sued for an­oth­er prison of­fi­cer, Keron Lewis. Lewis was iden­ti­fied as be­ing ac­tive­ly in­volved in the traf­fick­ing of pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles in­to a cor­rec­tion­al fa­cil­i­ty, trans­mit­ting in­struc­tions and or­ders from in­car­cer­at­ed per­sons, and fa­cil­i­tat­ing the ex­pan­sion of or­gan­ised crime.

Three oth­er PDOs were al­so is­sued yes­ter­day.

Chris­tion Di­a­mond An­drews, al­so called “Son­ny,” of Rio Claro, was de­tained af­ter au­thor­i­ties al­leged he par­tic­i­pat­ed in a vi­o­lent rob­bery at a busi­ness place along Tabaquite Road, Rio Claro, on May 9.

The de­ten­tion or­der claimed armed of­fend­ers robbed the es­tab­lish­ment of cash and al­co­holic bev­er­ages while em­ploy­ees and cus­tomers were present. Au­thor­i­ties al­so al­leged that stolen items con­nect­ed to the rob­bery were re­cov­ered af­ter An­drews’ ar­rest.

Gabriel Joseph, al­so called “Pap­sy” and “Gabriel Bish­op,” of Ceme­tery Street, Rio Claro, was al­so de­tained. Au­thor­i­ties al­leged Joseph par­tic­i­pat­ed in the same vi­o­lent rob­bery and main­tained ac­cess to il­le­gal firearms. The or­der fur­ther al­leged Joseph had pri­or crim­i­nal his­to­ry, as­so­ci­a­tions with vi­o­lent of­fend­ers in­volved in or­gan­ised crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty and re­cruit­ed oth­ers in­to crim­i­nal con­duct.

Mean­while, Rasheed Si­mon, al­so known as “R-Man,” of Glen­coe, was de­tained un­der a sep­a­rate or­der dat­ed March 17.

Au­thor­i­ties al­leged Si­mon is a high-rank­ing mem­ber of an or­gan­ised gang op­er­at­ing in Care­nage, Diego Mar­tin and Port-of-Spain and in­volved in nar­cotics traf­fick­ing, firearms of­fences, rob­beries, kid­nap­pings and mur­ders.

The de­ten­tion or­der fur­ther al­leged Si­mon co­or­di­nat­ed a transna­tion­al drug traf­fick­ing cor­ri­dor be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and neigh­bour­ing ter­ri­to­ries and was in­volved in plan­ning an es­ca­la­tion of gang-re­lat­ed vi­o­lence.

All four de­ten­tion or­ders said au­thor­i­ties con­sid­ered the in­di­vid­u­als’ con­tin­ued lib­er­ty prej­u­di­cial to pub­lic safe­ty and nec­es­sary ac­tion un­der Reg­u­la­tion 14 of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, was nec­es­sary.