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By Randy Economy
www.Economy4ABC.Blogspot.com
June 23, 2010
Kingston, Jamaica:
This island paradise is once again in an official "State of Emergency" today now that wanted drug king pin and mega-fugitive Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was arrested on Monday afternoon.
I have several hundred daily readers in Jamaica and thousands more here in the USA and other parts of the world who are following these events. I am suppose to be leaving for Kingston in the next couple of weeks to begin work on my book about the life and good works of Catholic Msgr. Gregory Ramkissoon and the Mustard Seed Communities. I will keep you posted on that later. In the meantime....
According to Jamaican government officials, the Police High Command (PHC) has again raised the threat level from "criminal violence against the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to extremely high," meaning that attacks are expected imminently.Here is a timeline of the arrest of Coke on Monday late afternoon.
So far, more than 78 people have been killed and hundreds more injured and thousands have been arrested during the past 5 weeks since US, British and Canadian law enforcement officials started the massive manhunt on Coke. He is considered to be one of the largest drug lords in the entire world, but is "revered" in some slums of Kingston as a modern-day Robin Hood
Coke is in custody and could be exported to the United States within days or hours to face a massive criminal trial that could take years before justice is served.
- Dudus was arrested by police at a checkpoint on the Mandela Highway. The police were acting on intelligence. Dudus was wearing a woman's dress, and wig and makeup (drag wear, boys and girls) and was supposedly heading to the United States Embassy to turn himself into American authorities when he was "found out."
- Officials are "hopeful" about agreeing to a court date with the DPP within 48 hours.
- Dudus was physically well when arrested.
- Commissioner wants Dudus' friends, family, supporters to remain calm. Dudus has literally tens of thousands of supporters and law enforcement officers throughout this island nation supporting and "working" for him.
- Rev. Al Miller was with Dudus when he was arrested, but the police let Miller go. The PHC asked Miller to immediately turn himself in at any police station. He was a major person of interest on a criminal matter currently being investigated by the police. Miller accompanied Coke when he turned himself in at the police station.
- Dudus transferred from St Catherine to a 'secure facility', commissioner says. (Didn't take them long to get him from "point A to point B, so to speak.")
- Commissioner declined to answer whether $5 million reward has been paid out or who will get the massive pay out.
- Commissioner says 'all individuals' are being investigated re attacks on police leading to State of Emergency.
- Commissioner says circumstances of Dudus' arrest under investigation.
The son of one of the Caribbean island's most legendary dons, Coke built his own name as a businessman, a political player - and chief of the "Shower Posse," a group named not for cleanliness but for showering bullets on foes. Coke's gang effectively controlled Tivoli Gardens, a ramshackle part of western Kingston where he created a mini-economy providing both livelihoods and protection to residents desperately seeking both.
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