Sev­er­al men ac­cused of in­volve­ment in vi­o­lent home in­va­sion gangs across Cen­tral and South Trinidad, have been de­tained un­der Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) is­sued un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026.

Among them are O’Neal Neemar, al­so known as “Dougla” and “Oneal Williams;” Je­re­my Joseph, al­so known as “Lal;” and Nathaniel Ramirez, al­so known as “Tam Tam;” all of whom au­thor­i­ties say are mem­bers of an un­named or­gan­ised crime group op­er­at­ing in Cen­tral Trinidad.

Ac­cord­ing to the de­ten­tion or­ders, the group has ac­cess to firearms and am­mu­ni­tion and has been en­gaged in a spate of armed and vi­o­lent home in­va­sions across Cen­tral Trinidad.

Au­thor­i­ties al­lege the men in­tend­ed to es­ca­late the at­tacks and use firearms in pub­lic spaces if con­front­ed by law en­force­ment.

Joseph was specif­i­cal­ly de­scribed as be­ing re­spon­si­ble for tar­get iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and sourc­ing firearms for the group, while Ramirez was iden­ti­fied as a “break­er” for the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Ad­di­tion­al de­ten­tion or­ders were is­sued for al­leged mem­bers of oth­er crime groups linked to armed home in­va­sions and rob­beries.

Fibe Gor­ing and Mikey Boodram, al­so known as “Mikey Kerr,” were iden­ti­fied as mem­bers of the Bangladesh Gang, which au­thor­i­ties say has been in­volved in shoot­ings, armed home in­va­sions, firearm traf­fick­ing and re­tal­ia­to­ry at­tacks.

Akeem Phillip, Dil­lon Chootoo, Isi­ah For­tune and Ja­heem Smith were al­so de­tained over al­le­ga­tions link­ing them to armed home in­va­sions, rob­beries and vi­o­lent as­saults.

Mean­while, Ja­mal Sam­bury, al­so known as “Fifty” and “Gen,” was iden­ti­fied as a mem­ber of the Mandin­go Boys, an or­gan­ised crime group al­leged­ly in­volved in armed rob­beries, home in­va­sions and nar­cotics traf­fick­ing.

In a sep­a­rate de­ten­tion or­der, Troy Clifton Gre­goire was ac­cused of us­ing drones to smug­gle con­tra­band, in­clud­ing firearms, nar­cotics and mo­bile phones, in­to a cor­rec­tion­al fa­cil­i­ty.

An­oth­er de­tainee, Jonathan Ryan, al­so known as “John­ny,” was ac­cused of in­volve­ment in planned rob­beries, re­tal­ia­to­ry shoot­ings and firearm traf­fick­ing linked to an or­gan­ised crime group op­er­at­ing in the To­ba­go Road area.