A police corporal is among 25 people now behind bars in connection with a St. Catherine-based gang that the police say has been wreaking havoc across the country.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey, head of the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch (C-TOC), said the Uchence gang is responsible for several cases of murder, shootings, robberies and rape spanning seven parishes.
Gang leader 27 year old Uchence Wilson, otherwise called ‘Terrence’, along with 24 other gang members, including a member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and three women, were arrested during raids in recent weeks.
ACP Bailey said 15 gang members were taken into custody on Saturday, following intense investigations and surveillance.
He said the gang has been on the police radar since May this year and was involved in murders, shootings, robberies, and cases of rape in St. Catherine, St. Ann, St. Andrew, Manchester, Trelawny, St. Mary and Clarendon.
“The group has been identified to perform s*xual assaults on female victims, including children. They would also cause their victims to perform oral s*x on each other in the presence of children in some cases (and) they would also reign terror if any level of resistance was encountered during their lawless activities,” ACP Bailey noted.
He said, so far, the police have identified at least 40 members of the gang.
According to ACP Bailey, it is estimated that the Uchence gang has stolen cars, licensed firearms, household appliances and other goods valued at more than $400 million and have been able to do so with the help of an unnamed company.
He said 17 motor vehicles and 15 licensed firearms were recovered during the operations.
Why they keep arresting these men? Morgue dem fi go.
Good job arresting these criminals.Now with all this evidence can we get convictions(not five or ten years from now).
it’s true what they say about one bad apple spoiling the batch!!!
In this case, mi haffe big up de Jamaican Police dem for doing a damn good job, for getting these scumbabs off de road. Too bad it wasn’t off planet Earth! Job well done JCF!!!
And dat corporal should get the stiffest sentence of them all. How you sworn to law, order, and protection of citizens and you a roll wid criminal gang. No wonder when ppl meck complaint a station dem a get dead and all kinds of things. How crime fi dun when di polic ein leagues widdi criminal, all Kartel did hab police fren a feed him info, all murdera hab links inna police.