Alleged Shower Posse members face deportation from Canada

CMC

Thursday, May 06, 2010

TORONTO, Canada (CMC) -- Law enforcement authorities are seeking to deport 12 Jamaican nationals suspected of being members of a gang involved in drugs, murder and other illegal activities in Canada.

The Jamaicans, whom canadian authorities said are linked to the notorious Shower Posse gang that was formed in the 1980s, were arrested during a major operation across several Canadian cities on Monday.

The raids netted 78 people, guns, drugs, diamonds, casino cheques and substantial sums of money.

Media reports said that more than 1,000 police officers took part in the operations in a bid to crack the crime network that allegedly extends from Canada to the Caribbean.

The Globe and Mail newspaper said the arrests followed a nine-month investigation, titled 'Project Corral', that was triggered by a spate of shootings involving feuding gangsters in north-west Toronto.

"Several weeks ago, three people -- including one with a "cop killer" handgun -- were arrested in the Dominican Republic preparing to ship more than 70 kilogrammes of cocaine to Toronto," the paper reported, quoting police sources.

It said that the Toronto members of the Shower Posse brokered the sale of drugs shipped through the Caribbean to feuding Toronto street gangs and that two recent murders were linked to the network.

"The Toronto Police Service has never been able to get at the local members of the Shower Posse as they have in the past 24 hours, even though the gang has been understood to have been operating in the city for years," Inspector Mike Earl told the newspaper.

Two months ago, former Shower Posse boss Vivian Blake died at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Jamaica after suffering a heart attack.

Blake returned to Jamaica last year after spending eight years in a US prison.

He was reported to have been the mastermind behind the ruthless Shower Posse, which had established drug bases in more than 20 US cities, Canada and the United Kingdom and was reportedly responsible for more than 1,400 murders.

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COMMENTS (15)

cape cod
5/7/2010

This country nah get betta.Give em to Merca so dem caan send dem a Iraq

Hope Alive
5/6/2010

Deport them, Bruce needs more people like Dudus!

amg gtr
5/6/2010

why not keep them?.. if they found out that they had a fast runner ..say Bolt ..would they deport him?...no they would big him up and say what? he's ours now... so guess what keep them! keep them all!

Anancy Bedward
5/6/2010

As I wrote in a previous post, people be careful when you read Toronto police and media hype. The shower posse for all intents and purposes is virtually dead. Most of the brains and muscle are either dead, retired or doing long stretches courtesy of US Feds.
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TO police are making out these guys to be bigger than they really are and the media is lapping it up like a thirsty, mangy dog!! Those of us who live here know that most of those "corralled" will be out on bail shortly and for most of them the charges won't stick.

gary lee
5/6/2010

The recent pronouncement by the Toronto police chief that the shower posse was masterminding criminal activities seems like sensationalism. The Jamaican gov. should however form a team with the view of investigating and eliminating any links to Jamaica and seizing ill-gotten gains of any such criminals.
I believe however that what will be found are low level criminals and not any criminal network.

Duque Molton
5/6/2010

I really hope they do not deport them here..Them need to lock them up there until they are 70 and then remove them to an infirmary. They are only coming here to further bring down our economy. Canada keep them there!!!..They may have left here as children and sending them back will not be good for us...For all I know most of them could be citizens there, so charge them and lock them up..

mike willy
5/6/2010

This situation has 2 sides, none of which is fair to either side. In the first instance, why should the Canadians taxpayers use their hard earn money to keep these alleged Shower Posse members in jail/prison and the money can be use for used for productive purpose.
In the next instance, Jamaica appears that it does not care about the present wave of violence, and to add 12 more advanced alleged Shower Posse members seems like sudden destruction.

countryman -
5/6/2010

the question is how do we first of all keep track of these people .firstly we should have monitoring anklets -but then they haven't committed any crime here so can we legally do so. then we need to amend our laws. secondly what do we do with them along with the thousands of unemployable youth on the street corners which they will be joining. there are no factories so what we have is a lot a idle lands so lets find use for it; farms farms farms!

george watson
5/6/2010

richard hause makes this comment tongue in cheek but I wonder if he knows how spot on he is? Any party which "hugs up" criminals could well put them among their slate of candidates and we wont even know. We are in a bad situation, very bad.

Nicolas Henry
5/6/2010

Richard Hause, your comment might be meant to be sarcastic: However unfortunate, they might do so with a very good chance of winning. To represent a garrison, you must think and be like the people from the garrison, or else no vote.

john blake
5/6/2010

I was never comfortable with the term 'shower' being part of the language in election campaigns. It would be interesting to know how it came about and why did not Mr. Seaga change it when it took on the posse connections. Maybe this 'shower' acceptance depicts a nurturing of Jamaica's culture that comes back to haunt the JLP. After saying all that tho, trust me when I tell you that participants of that 'shower posse' comes from places such as Arnett Gardens. Check the addresses of those deported and of those others to come.

Paul Lewis
5/6/2010

This raw material which we exported, will now return as a finished good to further terrorise Jamaica. These " returning " residents are not the kind we desire, but with our continued love affair with criminals...they should find welcoming arms. What I have noticed lately is the scruffish, lowlife mentality of these young emigrants from the Caribbean, who without having adequate Education, desire to have the best and most expensive vanity and not being receptive to working....thereby leading to their assimilation into the drug culture. I would advise Jamaica to have a grand welcome with all the festivities and enough handcuffs.

richard hause
5/6/2010

Maybe upon returning to Jamaica,these men could run for office.

Kweli Simba
5/6/2010

I wish we could forego the general bad mouthing of our people overseas not all are bad people. In the round -up of these thugs were many other west indian criminals. However, be aware that the focus on the Shower Posse is only meant to create hysteria among the people of Jamaica Vis-à-vis the Dudus affair. Our greater concern should be what will become of the 12 hood rats when they are shipped to Jamaica without any trial in the country that they committed these alleged crimes. Dudus current stay of extradition was founded on a technicality. These thugs can re-enter Jamaica unscathed since there are no criminal charges against them there. (more technicalities). If the Canadians really wanted to reduce the criminal activities in Toronto they would place these thugs where the grass does not grow in their prisons as a lesson to those wannabes who would want to follow. I am impressed that neither Canada nor the USA cares about our rock. Be prepared to have more Jcans rounded up and dipped.

ricci williams
5/6/2010

12 deportees! welcome to jamaica the land of wood and water.this is why jamaica can't get better and will never get better although we wish it could.twelve possible dons.

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