‘Rated R’ gang member held after chase

A 26-year-old Ch­agua­nas man, de­scribed by po­lice as a “high-rank­ing mem­ber” and a “shoot­er” for the Rat­ed R gang, has been ar­rest­ed and is ex­pect­ed to be charged af­ter a brief chase on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the CID/CRO Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Unit went to En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, around 4.30 pm when they no­ticed a man stand­ing at the side of the road.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers recog­nised the man as some­one for whom a Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) had been is­sued.

Of­fi­cers got out of the ve­hi­cle and chased the sus­pect af­ter he ran through a near­by yard, but they even­tu­al­ly caught and ar­rest­ed him.

Po­lice al­so found a chrome re­volver with two rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

The ex­er­cise was strate­gi­cal­ly di­rect­ed by DCP In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tions Natasha Joseph, co-or­di­nat­ed by head of the Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion ACP Richard Smith, and led by Snr Supt An­der­son Pa­ri­man.