No bail for Ranko Gang cops as hearing collapses
Published:Saturday | July 30, 2022 | 12:10 AM
Efforts to secure bail for the cops who have been charged for being part of the Clarendon-based Ranko Gang were scuttled in the Supreme Court yesterday after the bail hearing failed to get under way.
The plea and case management hearing has been adjourned until September 21.
Attorney Richard Lynch, who represents one of the accused policemen, Rojah Morrison, told The Gleaner that the matter was only partly heard on Friday.
The court has been informed that the case file is complete and disclosure has been made.
Morrison is among four policemen who were arrested in March after they were fingered as alleged members of the 27-person gang reportedly led by Constable Tafari Silvera.
It was reported that eight policemen are in the group and that one fled the island when Silvera was arrested last June.
One of the cops had been released after two complainants who had filed reports that he had robbed them refused to cooperate with prosecutors.
Silvera and two civilians, Christopher Robinson and Mark Bennett, are currently before the Home Circuit Court on charges of conspiracy to murder. They were arrested in relation to a plot to kill an alleged crony who was accused of being a police informant.
The Ranko Gang, which has been linked to 17 incidents, is alleged to have been involved in shootings, burglary, robbery with aggravation, illegal possession of firearm, shopbreaking, conspiracy to murder, and abduction in Clarendon, Manchester, St Elizabeth, St Catherine, St Mary, Trelawny, Kingston, St Andrew, and St James between 2019 and 2021.