One day af­ter be­ing ap­point­ed Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter, Mar­vin Gon­za­les au­tho­rised a pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion or­der for a Laven­tille man un­der the pow­ers of the State of Emer­gency.

The or­der stat­ed that Jabari Paul, al­so called Bari and Red­man Bari, of Rudolph Charles Link Road, East Dry Riv­er, Laven­tille, and Davis Street, Gon­za­les, Bel­mont, is an al­leged mem­ber of the Sixx gang.

Paul, the or­der stat­ed, was 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 pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion or­der comes as part of the State’s re­sponse to gang vi­o­lence un­der the SoE, which be­gan on De­cem­ber 30 last year and will come to an end on April 13.

Dur­ing a news con­fer­ence, then-na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds and Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young, who was then act­ing as at­tor­ney gen­er­al, said that lead­ing up to the De­cem­ber 30 de­c­la­ra­tion of the SoE, po­lice in­formed the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil that fol­low­ing an at­tempt to kill fel­low de­tainee Calvin Lee, al­so called Sixx Dan or Tyson, out­side the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion, there were warn­ings about reprisal gun at­tacks.

Dur­ing the at­tack on Lee, Trevor Williams, 34, who ac­com­pa­nied Lee to sign his bail book at the sta­tion, was killed.

A day lat­er, in what po­lice said was a reprisal at­tack, five men—Ryan Lessey, 23, of Priz­gar Lands; Der­ron Cal­liste, 35, of Priz­gar Lands; Cleon Lu­g­in, 37, of Priz­gar Lands; Kam­bon Omowale, 39, of Quintin Trace, Priz­gar Lands; and Gareth Smart, of Thoma­sine Street, Laven­tille—were mur­dered. Po­lice said the five men were not the in­tend­ed tar­gets of the reprisal at­tack.

Po­lice said there were con­cerns about in­creased vi­o­lent gang ac­tiv­i­ties, as a re­sult trig­ger­ing the SoE.