Female cop accused of helping gang detained on PDO

An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

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A fe­male Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cer is among sev­en peo­ple or­dered de­tained un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDO).

Jen­nes­sa Joseph, of Are­na Road, Erin, who was iden­ti­fied as a mem­ber of the Pe­gus gang, was one of two women or­dered de­tained in the lat­est batch of PDOs.

Joseph’s PDO, which was signed by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der on Au­gust 1, was among six gazetted yes­ter­day.

Her PDO claimed she had “con­firmed ac­cess to a cache of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion and is en­gaged in the traf­fick­ing of firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion of il­le­gal nar­cotics, armed rob­beries, shoot­ings and mur­der.” It said Joseph al­so “pro­vides trans­port and sup­plies in­for­ma­tion on po­lice ex­er­cis­es.”

“Con­fi­den­tial in­tel­li­gence links the de­tainee to re­cent homi­cides in the area, which is part of a larg­er de­vel­op­ing con­flict be­tween this OCG and an­oth­er OCG known to law en­force­ment as the Bar­ry Maraj OCG,” the PDO said.

“Fur­ther in­tel­li­gence links the de­tainee to a se­ries of armed rob­beries in the Siparia dis­trict and en­vi­rons and an im­mi­nent es­ca­la­tion of firearm at­tacks on ri­val gang mem­bers in pub­lic places which threat­en pub­lic safe­ty.”

The oth­er woman, Bernissa “Nis­sa” Haz­zard, was al­so said to be a mem­ber of the Pe­gus gang and was of the same of­fences as Joseph.

How­ev­er, Haz­zard was al­so al­leged to have pro­vid­ed fi­nances, ac­count­ing, trans­port and ac­com­mo­da­tion for gang mem­bers.

PDOs were al­so is­sued for Pe­gus gang leader Tre­ston “Gussy” Pe­gus and mem­ber Har­lon Adams.

Pe­gus was said to be di­rect­ing the group’s ac­tiv­i­ties and fi­nances, while both men were al­leged to be en­gaged in the same ac­tiv­i­ties as their fe­male mem­bers.

A PDO was is­sued for Clay­ton “Sa­tan” Hare­wood, of St Vin­cent Street, Tu­na­puna, who was iden­ti­fied as the leader of the Grim 7 gang.

He was al­leged to be over­see­ing “a struc­tured net­work of shoot­ers, en­forcers and dri­vers” and was re­port­ed to have di­rect­ed re­tal­ia­to­ry at­tacks against ri­val fac­tions. Hare­wood was said to be en­sur­ing gang mem­bers were ful­ly armed and pre­pared for lethal en­gage­ments with­in a two-to-three-week pe­ri­od.

Kaseem Samp­son, of Hell­shire Av­enue, Tar­o­dale, who was said to be linked to an in­for­mal gang in the South­ern Di­vi­sion, was re­port­ed­ly held on Ju­ly 25 af­ter of­fi­cers re­cov­ered a con­cealed Tau­rus PT92 pis­tol fit­ted with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 12 rounds of 9 mm am­mu­ni­tion in a ve­hi­cle he was trav­el­ling in.

Samp­son’s PDO read, “Fol­low­ing his ar­rest, he de­clined to pro­vide any ex­pla­na­tion dur­ing po­lice in­ter­view. In­tel­li­gence fur­ther as­so­ciates him with the il­lic­it traf­fick­ing of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion.”

Round­ing out the group was Spencer Jae Reveil­lac, of St An­drew’s Av­enue, Co­coyea Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, who was said to be in­volved in the il­lic­it traf­fick­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion of il­le­gal firearms and am­mu­ni­tion with­in the South­ern Di­vi­sion.

He was iden­ti­fied as a mem­ber of the same gang as Samp­son and was held along­side Samp­son.