2 alleged gang members detained under SoE regulations

DETENTION orders have been issued for two men alleged to be members of the Resistance Gang operating in Tunapuna and surrounding areas.

Orders were issued by National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds for Deshon Ruben, also called Kill Quick; and Declan Ross, also called Knot.

The detention orders, published as Legal Notice Nos 50 and 51, were made under Regulation 15. They were published on February 10.

The orders identified Ruben and Ross as members of the Resistance Gang “involved in violent gun=related crimes including murder, armed robbery, narcotics and firearms trafficking”

They were identified as “conspiring with others and intending, and with the means, to execute a plan to kill those believed to be assisting the police service in its investigations into the illicit activities of gang associates.”

The orders for Ruben and Ross follows nine similar orders published on February 7.

In those orders, two women, Lystra Dick of Richard Lane, Enterprise; Karisa Rampaul, 26 John Street, Crown Trace, Enterprise, were identified as associating with a criminal organisation plotting to murder prison officers under the under the instructions of the reputed leader of the said criminal organisation who is currently incarcerated.

Of the nine, one man, Malcolm “Rashy Back” Byer, of 25th Street, Beetham Gardens, Hell Yard, and Apartment No. 1, Building E, Paradise Heights, Morvant, and also of 23rd Street, Beetham Gardens. was identified as a high-ranking enforcer of the Rasta City/7 Gang carrying out home invasions, extortion, and murder using of high-powered firearms and “who intends to engage in violent gang activity including the murder of gang affiliates and rival gang members.”

Nehemiah Joseph, of 12 Second Trace, Tunapuna, was identified as a member of the Resistance Gang in Tunapuna.

Ruben and Ross will be detained the Eastern Correctional Rehabilitation Centre, Santa Rosa, Arima. The women will be kept at the Women’s Prison.

Since the start of the SoE on December 30, similar others have also identified individuals as being affiliated with the Rasta City/7 Gang Tobago faction and the Seven/7 Gang (Alien Faction) in Trinidad. Already detained is Carlvin Lee, also known as Calvin Lee and Tyson, said to be the leader of the SIXX gang. He is alleged to be someone “planning and intending to execute violent retaliatory reprisals or other violent actions involving the use of high powered weapons and explosives, following an attempted hit on his life and the murder of his associate Trevor Williams on December 28, 2024.”

Lee, according to police, was the intended target when gunmen waited outside the Besson Street Police Station on December 28, 2024. Williams was accompanying Lee at the time.

A day later, Cleon Lugin, 37, Derron Calliste, 35, Kambon Omowale, 39, Garet Smart, and Ryan Lessey, 24, were killed in a suspected reprisal attack.

The following day, the state of emergency (SoE) was announced after police told the Government it had information of intended increased gang violence with the use of high-powered weapons.