MONTEGO BAY, St James – Buoyed by what he described as a “serious dent” in crime since publishing the identities of Montego Bay’s nine most wanted men, Acting Commissioner of Police in charge of Area One, Keith “Trinity” Gardener, is planning to publish another list.

This time around, however, Gardener’s list will contain the names of the 10 most wanted men in Trelawny, Westmoreland and Hanover.

“Consideration is being given to publish the names of the 10 most wanted in all the other parishes of the Area One division,” Gardener told the Observer yesterday. He said there had been a de-escalation in criminal activities in the parish since the police published the identities of St James’ most wanted last month.

The decision to publish followed a spate of shootings, which erupted in the parish in April in volatile communities across Montego Bay, including Flankers, Norwood, Granville and Gully, where the gangs operate from, as well as a brazen shooting at a taxi stand.

Three of the nine men, who were said to be key participants of the four criminal gangs operating in Montego Bay – the Stone Crushers, Tight Pants, Killer Bees and One Order gangs – are off the streets.

They are Garfield Sawyers – a member of Stone Crushers – who was shot and killed on April 30; Jason James, who turned himself in, and Jason Lyttle who was apprehended.

The gun slayings subsided after the identities of the nine were published and the subsequent removal of the three. However, the guns began barking again in Glendevon and Norwood, where two people were shot dead last week.

The police are said to be investigating last Friday’s gun slaying of 22-year-old Tristan Chambers, who was killed at about 1:25 pm by a lone gunman along a footpath in the community as well as Thursday’s shooting death of 47-year-old Joy-Marie Christie in Glendevon.