SPANISH Town remained calm yesterday after dozens of police and soldiers descended on the old capital and held positions in communities ‘controlled’ by the Klansman criminal gang, amid threats of protest to free alleged gang leader Tesha Miller from police custody.

Streets in the usually bustling town were quiet and the few vendors who came out to do business were on edge.

“This is Spanish Town and anything can happen. Me a keep my eye open as the man dem out yah nuh business but we just hope say the place stay quiet so me can eat some food,” one vendor said.

Meanwhile, only a few children and some women were seen in sections of De La Vega City, which police say is the main base of the Klansman gang, while Rivoli, Brunswick Avenue, Jones Avenue and New Nursery, all said to be communities supportive of the gang, resembled ghost towns.

“It better to stay off the street if you have no business doing,” a resident of New Nursery said.

The municipal bus park was also noticeably quiet while some residents who waited at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus stop next door only nodded their heads slowly when asked if they felt safe.

There was also a noticeable absence of vendors who sell in front of the bus depot where former JUTC chairman Douglas Chambers was killed two Fridays ago. Burnt wood was all that was in the area where the vendors used to sell their wares.