$100,000 bounty on Andem's head
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Observer Reporter
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
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| ANDEM... involved in extortion, contract killings |
THE police yesterday posted a $100,000 reward for the capture of Jamaica's most wanted man, Joel Andem.
Andem, the 38-year-old leader of the Gideon Warriors gang, also goes by the aliases "Bald head" and "Lean head".
Police have described Andem as a mercenary who is wanted for several murders, shooting with intent and illegal possession of firearm and ammunition, all committed over the past two years.
"He is involved in extortion, contract killings and will kill you if he looks at you and doesn't like you," one police officer was reported as saying in this week's Sunday Observer.
Among the 20 murders with which police have linked Andem's gang are those of:
* Fifty-six year-old District Constable James Thomas in the Kintyre area of Papine two Saturdays ago;
* Gas station owner Sylvia Edwards, who was kidnapped and buried in a shallow grave at University Heights in the Papine area in August 2000;
* Edwards' brother-in-law, Everett Edwards, who was gunned down across the road from her service station in November last year on the day before he was to testify at a preliminary inquiry into her murder; and
* Pearl Brascoe, a People's National Party activist in the August Town area of St Andrew who was apparently branded as a police informer and went missing at the end of November 2000. Her body was found in a water tank in early December that year.
Meanwhile, police yesterday released six of the over 40 detainees rounded up last Saturday in an operation in the Kintyre hills where Andem's gang frequents. The others are still been interrogated.
Senior Superintendent Glenroy Hinds of the CIB headquarters yesterday issued an appeal to anyone having information that can lead to the gang's capture to call Crime Stop at 927-5000, 119, 927-7778 or 927-7083.
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