An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

an­na-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt

Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) have been is­sued for two men in con­nec­tion with miss­ing firearms and am­mu­ni­tion stolen from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion in April.

This comes as a firearms au­dit con­tin­ues to de­ter­mine the num­ber of weapons and am­mu­ni­tion re­moved from the ar­moury at King’s Wharf, La­dy Hailes Av­enue, dur­ing the in­ci­dent in which Cpl Anus­ka Ever­s­ley was mur­dered.

A to­tal of three PDOs, signed by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, were gazetted yes­ter­day.

Ja­mal Miguel Daniel, al­so known as “Vam­pire,” of Lon­don Street, Long­denville and Neil Con­rad Poleon of La­m­ont Street, Long­denville, were both iden­ti­fied as mem­bers of the La­m­ont Street Gang.

The or­ders al­leged that the men had ac­cess to a cache of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion and were in­volved in the traf­fick­ing of firearms, am­mu­ni­tion and il­le­gal nar­cotics, as well as shoot­ings and mur­ders.

Daniel was iden­ti­fied as the group’s sec­ond in com­mand, al­leged­ly co­or­di­nat­ing and re­lay­ing in­struc­tions and di­rec­tives from the leader to oth­er mem­bers.

Poleon was iden­ti­fied as a mem­ber of the group who al­leged­ly sup­plied and fa­cil­i­tat­ed re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al crim­i­nal con­tacts in­volved in the traf­fick­ing of firearms, am­mu­ni­tion and il­le­gal nar­cotics.

The PDOs stat­ed that con­fi­den­tial in­tel­li­gence linked both men to re­cent at­tacks in­volv­ing firearms that are part of a larg­er de­vel­op­ing con­flict be­tween their gang and a ri­val gang, as well as “a re­cent lar­ce­ny of a large quan­ti­ty of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion from a Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion.”

Fur­ther in­tel­li­gence linked both men to the re­cent dis­cov­ery of a large quan­ti­ty of high-ve­loc­i­ty am­mu­ni­tion, which was al­leged­ly in­tend­ed to be traf­ficked and used im­mi­nent­ly in re­tal­ia­to­ry at­tacks on gang ri­vals in pub­lic places, threat­en­ing pub­lic safe­ty.

A PDO was al­so is­sued for Akeem Pe­ter Shem, al­so known as “Ham­mers,” of Sen­non Vil­lage Ex­ten­sion, Quinam Road, Siparia, who was iden­ti­fied as a mem­ber of the Alien/7 gang.

Sim­i­lar to Daniel and Poleon, Shem was al­leged to have ac­cess to a cache of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion and to be in­volved in the traf­fick­ing of firearms, am­mu­ni­tion and il­le­gal nar­cotics, as well as shoot­ings and mur­ders.

He was iden­ti­fied as an en­forcer for the gang, while con­fi­den­tial in­tel­li­gence al­leged­ly linked him and oth­ers to re­cent homi­cides.