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Published:Saturday | March 19, 2022 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A man accused of being one of three persons who attempted to break into a popular patty shop on Constant Spring Road in St Andrew reportedly told the police when he was held that he was hungry. “Mi did hungry. Weh mi did fi do, officer? Stay home...

Published:Friday | March 18, 2022 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A detective constable found guilty of perverting the course of justice for requesting $30,000 from a murder victim’s relative to pay a potential witness in the case is now awaiting a decision from the Court of Appeal on whether his conviction will...

Published:Thursday | March 17, 2022 | 12:10 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The Clansman-One Don Gang trial in the Home Circuit Court was on Wednesday adjourned until March 23 after the prosecution requested time to peruse digital evidence, including the call-data records, which the Crown will be using to support its main...

Published:Tuesday | March 15, 2022 | 12:12 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A retired inspector and gang investigator who had testified that an alleged member of the Clansman-One Don Gang had offered him $100,000 to free reputed gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan was on Monday labelled a liar by the alleged don’s lead...

Published:Saturday | March 12, 2022 | 12:09 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A man who posed as an employee of Jamaica Customs Agency and Kingston Wharves and conned several car buyers out of more than $15 million was yesterday remanded for sentencing in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on April 25. The confessed...

Published:Thursday | March 10, 2022 | 12:07 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A retired gang investigator recalled on Wednesday how he had visited alleged Clansman-One Don Gang deputy leader ‘City Puss’ in prison under the guise that he was a gangster and spent an hour chatting with him before surprising him with criminal...

Published:Wednesday | March 9, 2022 | 12:14 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The prosecution in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial failed on Tuesday in their effort to have a retired gang investigator give evidence as an expert witness. The police inspector, a 31-year-old veteran who has mainly investigated the St Catherine-...

Published:Tuesday | March 8, 2022 | 12:09 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey testified on Monday that he made a judgement call not to charge a former top-tier member of the Clansman-One Don Gang as he was of the view that the ex-gangster would not have cooperated with the police and...

Published:Saturday | March 5, 2022 | 12:10 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A Westmoreland businessman who was slapped with 25 years to life sentence for strangling a pregnant 14-year-old schoolgirl, but was seeking a 50 per cent reduction, was left terribly disappointed yesterday after his sentence was only reduced by 21...

Published:Saturday | March 5, 2022 | 12:09 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The St Mary brothers accused of killing four people in separate incidents, including a Chinese couple, are to settle their legal representation. Nigel Walters, alias ‘Troy’, and Nicholas Walters were yesterday remanded until June 2 when they made...

Published:Friday | March 4, 2022 | 12:09 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Eleven firearms that were detected to have been used in the execution of 10 murders reportedly orchestrated by the Clansman-One Don Gang are directly linked to 35 shooting incidents, which include at least 27 other murders, a ballistic expert...

Published:Wednesday | March 2, 2022 | 12:10 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A handgun that was reportedly recovered from the alleged bodyguard of reputed One Don gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan featured in three of the 10 murders that have been linked to the notorious St Catherine-based criminal organisation. The court...

Published:Tuesday | March 1, 2022 | 12:09 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes was stunned on Monday by a claim from a police witness that one of the alleged Clansman-One Don gangsters had been supplying him with intelligence since 2014 but that he had never shared that “gold mine of information”...

Published:Saturday | February 26, 2022 | 12:10 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A former member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), who was allegedly working with the Clansman-One Don Gang while in the army, reportedly wanted his cronies to attack the gang’s rivals in Shelter Rock, St Catherine, and to kill anyone that was...

Published:Friday | February 25, 2022 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

With no end in sight for the completion of the Clansman-One Don Gang trial, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes lamented Thursday the lack of action from government authorities in establishing a special court for major gang cases. Noting that the current...

Published:Thursday | February 24, 2022 | 12:12 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

While incarcerated, an alleged top lieutenant in the Clansman-One Don Gang was caught on tape revealing plans to rob a businessman of his licensed firearm and to demand $500,000 for its return because he felt that the man was handing over extortion...

Published:Wednesday | February 23, 2022 | 4:58 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Reputed leader of the One Don faction of the Clansman Gang had reportedly given an order for one of his soldiers, whom he believed was a police informant, to get the first shot from the brand-new handgun that he had bought for the gang. Yesterday...

Published:Tuesday | February 22, 2022 | 12:10 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

An alleged top-ranking member of the Clansman-One Don Gang known as ‘Lucifer’ reportedly bragged that he had instructed gangsters to shoot up the Spanish Town Police Station following the death of the founding gang leader Donovan ‘Bulbie’ Bennett...

Published:Saturday | February 19, 2022 | 12:08 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Feared reputed gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan had expressed confidence that he could not be convicted under the anti-gang legislation as the police had nothing concrete on him and, worse, were clueless that he was responsible for the split in...

Published:Friday | February 18, 2022 | 12:15 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Reputed leader of the One Don Gang, Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan, had reportedly promised that he was going to get rid of all his cronies who had turned against him while he was in prison. An ex-member of the Clansman-One Don Gang who had secretly...

Published:Wednesday | February 16, 2022 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The former gangster who secretly recorded his phone conversations with alleged members of the Clansman-One Don Gang will return to trial to give evidence today about the audio as it is being played. The much-anticipated secret recordings were...

Published:Wednesday | February 16, 2022 | 12:09 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A high-school teacher in Manchester who admitted to having sexual intercourse with his 14-year-old student on the school compound has been sentenced to almost 14 years in prison. The convicted teacher, whose name is to be added to the Sex Offender...

Published:Tuesday | February 15, 2022 | 12:12 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The Home Circuit Court will today start hearing the much-anticipated secretly recorded conversations of alleged members of the Clansman-One Don Gang, including those of reputed leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan. The way was paved on Monday following a...

Published:Saturday | February 12, 2022 | 12:10 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The taxi driver implicated in last month’s Washington Boulevard hit-and-run could not hold back his tears yesterday when he appeared in Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. The 42-year-old accused, Godfrey Graham, who was a picture of remorse and...

Published:Friday | February 11, 2022 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes is to rule on Monday whether he will accept the secret recordings of conversations of alleged members of the Clansman-One Don Gang following the prosecution’s submission Thursday that they have met the required standard of...

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