Klansman gang leader to go before court tomorrow
REPUTED leader of the Spanish Town-based Klansman gang Tesha Miller, who was yesterday handed over by United States authorities to local detectives at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, will be brought before the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court tomorrow to answer to a charge of absconding bail.
Miller, who was deported after serving a prison term, arrived in Jamaica early yesterday morning aboard a US Homeland Security jet. He was wanted for three murders and shootings in Braeton, St Catherine when he absconded bail on May 2, 2005 and later fled to the United States.
He was held in October 2006 and charged with re-entering that country illegally. A .45 pistol, a SKS assault rifle, one pound of marijuana and a large scale – which the US agents said was commonly used to distribute narcotics – were found in an apartment Miller occupied in Tampa, Florida.
Officers from Operation Kingfish say they had tracked Miller to the cities of Long Island and Rhode Island before he changed location to Tampa, Florida where he was cornered inside an apartment and nabbed.
Miller, who is also called ‘Chan’, took over the leadership reins of the notorious gang shortly after police cut down long-time leader Donovan “Bulbie” Bennett during a pre-dawn shoot-out at a house Bennett owned at Tanaky, in Clarendon, in late 2005.
He is alleged to have controlled the activities of the gang in Jamaica up until his arrest by the US law enforcers.