JENSEN LA VENDE

Se­nior Re­porter

jensen.lavende@guardian.co.tt

Four mem­bers of a car-steal­ing ring have been or­dered to be de­tained at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre in San­ta Rosa un­der the State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions.

The men are among in­di­vid­u­als whose de­ten­tion or­ders were gazetted yes­ter­day and signed off by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der be­tween Au­gust 18 and Sep­tem­ber 6. All six are al­leged­ly mem­bers of Or­gan­ised Crime Groups (OCGs).

The four men were iden­ti­fied as Adri­an “Bhag­gie” Ram­nar­ine, Bar­ry “Hon­da Boss” Bick­ram, Evan “Pup­pet” Ram­per­sad, and Taheir “Trey” Khan. Bick­ram and Ram­per­sad are both from Carr Trace Ex­ten­sion Road, Ca­paro. Ram­nar­ine is from Egypt Ex­ten­sion, Crown Trace, En­ter­prise, while Khan is from Chi­nese Dri­ve, off Crown Trace, En­ter­prise.

All four are al­leged­ly en­gaged in vi­o­lent, pre-planned acts, lar­ce­ny of mo­tor ve­hi­cles, rob­bery with vi­o­lence, traf­fick­ing of firearms, and mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.

The men are al­leged to be “part of a car theft net­work, where the stolen ve­hi­cles are used as tools to fa­cil­i­tate dead­ly gang vi­o­lence. The group’s ac­tiv­i­ties al­so demon­strate an in­tent to im­mi­nent­ly es­ca­late and fa­cil­i­tate gang vi­o­lence”.

Their de­ten­tion was deemed nec­es­sary to dis­rupt the group’s op­er­a­tional plan­ning and to pre­vent fur­ther acts of vi­o­lence that pose a clear and present threat to pub­lic safe­ty.

The oth­er two men were iden­ti­fied as Deo “De­owah” Per­sad and Adisa “Wizz” Whiskey.

Per­sad, of Cap-de-Ville Road, Cap-de-Ville, Point Fortin, is al­leged to be a mem­ber of an OCG who is ac­tive­ly and cur­rent­ly en­gaged in large-scale traf­fick­ing of il­le­gal nar­cotics, firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, con­tra­band or un­cus­tomed goods, hu­man traf­fick­ing, and fu­el.

“He is known to be in pos­ses­sion of large-scale quan­ti­ties of nar­cotics with in­struc­tions to present­ly ac­quire and dis­trib­ute firearms and am­mu­ni­tion to the OCG. He is present­ly co­or­di­nat­ing the rapid move­ments of bulk quan­ti­ties of il­le­gal nar­cotics, firearms, and am­mu­ni­tion. These ac­tiv­i­ties are a threat to pub­lic safe­ty,” ac­cord­ing to the or­der.

Whiskey, of Whiskey Road, Windy Hill, Arou­ca, is sup­pos­ed­ly the leader of a fac­tion of the Mus­lim OCG.

“Re­li­able in­for­ma­tion re­veals that he, along with oth­ers, plans im­mi­nent­ly to car­ry out pub­lic as­sas­si­na­tions of known gang ri­vals util­is­ing high-pow­ered ri­fles,” the or­der stat­ed.