ST GEORGE’S – Six men, including a so-called area “don” suspected of drug trafficking, were arrested in Grenada after threatening to give lawmen a “taste of Jamaica”.
On Wednesday in the Gouyave Magistrates’ Court wanted man Marvin Lewis and five others appeared on a total of ten charges each, including disorderly behaviour, using insulting and threatening language, resisting arrest, obstructing justice, and causing harm and assaulting police.
The other men – Callister Duncan, Gino Warren, Mathias Redhead, Frederick Language and Roseius Langaigne – were individually granted bail in the amount of US$2 996 (BDS$5 992).
The charges stem from a police raid in the western village of Black Bay on Saturday night after a tip-off that Lewis, 24, was there. Members of the Special Services Unit and Rapid Response Unit had to be called in to provide back-up for the police.
In a scene similar to the recent standoff between Jamaican security forces and residents in Tivoli Gardens loyal to criminal strongman Christopher “Dudus” Coke, Grenada police said they were forced to fire several warning shots in the area.
Superintendent Dunbar Belfon said that along with obscenities, the accused hurled stones and told police “to leave the don alone”.
“They were throwing stones and other objects in the direction of the police and it was then that the police fired some warning shots to calm the situation,” Belfon said.
“We will not allow this to happen in Grenada. The Jamaica experience is something we don’t want,” he said. (CMC)
