By Glenroy Sinclair, Staff ReporterTENSION CONTINUES to mount in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, where residents of the Homestead and Bongo Lane communities are claiming that gang warfare in the area was triggered by their refusal to join forces with an amalgamated gang.
At least four persons have been shot, two fatally, since Saturday. Several houses in the Homestead community came under heavy gunfire Monday night. Up to yesterday, a number of roads were still impassable, as fearful residents mounted roadblocks to prevent incidents of drive-by shooting.
"Intelligence has suggested that the 'One Order Gang' is being run by a deportee known as 'Buba'," Deputy Commis-sioner Lucius Thomas told The Gleaner yesterday.
According to the police, the "One Order Gang" is involved in widespread extortion, robberies and a number of killings in the adjoining communities of Spanish Town.
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Contacted yesterday, Deputy Superintendent Cornwall "Bigga" Ford of the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID), the man Police Commissioner Francis Forbes gave the task to probe extortion rackets, dons and gangs, said the "One Order Gang" is under the microscope of the police.
"They are being investigated," said DSP Ford, who spoke with The Gleaner while on an assignment in Mon-tego Bay, St. James, yesterday.
Speaking with The Gleaner yesterday, a group of men on Valdez Road said coming under one order means that one leader will become their boss and if they get an order they will have to do it.
"But we are not into any one order business, because if a work site start now, the boss would be in charge of everything and would want to give us what he feels like," the group of men said.
The conflict between the gangs took a turn for the worse, following the brutal killing of 23-year-old Ricardo Patient, of Valdez Road, Homestead. He was returning from work when he came up on a group of gunmen.
