THE Crown is today expected to unveil evidence in two counts against Tesha Miller, the man accused of leading a faction of the Klansman gang, and one of his co-accused, for allegedly engineering a robbery in Cross Roads, St Andrew, in September 2018.

Miller is charged on count 13 of the indictment for “knowingly giving instructions to a criminal organisation contrary to Section 7 (1) (b) of the Criminal Justice (Suppression of Criminal Organisations) Act — commonly called the anti-gang law. According to the Crown, Miller, “on a day unknown between September 1, 2018 and September 26, 2018 in the parish of Kingston, knowingly gave instruction to a criminal organisation in furtherance of its involvement in criminal activity to wit: the robbery at Cross Roads”.

Count 14 of the indictment charges Miller and the accuse, Michael Wildman, for facilitating the commission of a serious offence by a criminal organisation, contrary to Section 6 (1) (b) of the anti-gang Act.

On Tuesday, when the hearing in the trial of 25 suspected members of the so-called Tesha Miller-led faction of the gang adjourned, the Crown had indicated that those counts would be the focus of the sitting Wednesday. Without revealing more, it said it would also be making “an application”.

Following the arraignment of the 25 accused on February 4 when the trial started, the Crown, in unveiling the anatomy of the gang, said while it had splintered due to the fact that Miller is currently serving 38 years at hard labour for engineering the 2008 murder of former Jamaica Urban Transit Company Chairman Douglas Chambers, it was still very much in operation.

“In every organisation there is structure, purpose, and in a criminal organisation it is no different. It is the Crown’s case that the first named accused on the indictment, Mr Tesha Miller, is the primary leader of this criminal organisation. The Crown’s case is that between August 2017 and November of 2022, this particular criminal organisation was decentralised, and though it coalesced around the primary leader, the nature of the organisation could also be viewed as somewhat loose,” the acting deputy director of public prosecutions leading the evidence said.

Miller has pleaded not guilty to all 13 counts of the 32-count indictment for which he is charged. Count one charges him with being the leader of a criminal organisation — he is the only accused on that charge.

In the meantime, the Crown indicated that it would lead evidence that, aside from the drivers and the persons who exerted leadership, the gang comprised “workhorses”, titled “shooters or soldiers”. Those included people such as the accused Michael Wildman.

“In any organisation there are those persons who go above and beyond. On campus when I was there, there was an award for persons who were ‘dependent, reliable and always willing’, and your Lordship will allow me to indicate that for Mr Wildman, his name is reflected in several counts on the indictment and certainly that award goes to him,” the lead prosecutor said then.

Meanwhile on Tuesday, another prosecution witness, who in 2020 began probing a home invasion during which an agent of the State was accosted by two armed men who he engaged in a running gun battle, said up until he transitioned from that post the “case had no suspects”.

The then detective sergeant, now a deputy superintendent of police (DSP), taking the stand in the Home Circuit Division of the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston, said on February 27, 2020, after the cop who was attacked lodged a complaint about the incident, he commenced his investigations.

The DSP, who said he visited the community where the shooting took place, testified that having “satisfied” himself that this was a bona fide crime scene, took several actions in keeping with the protocols of the constabulary where incidents involving State agents are concerned.

Part of these actions, he said, involved relieving the cop of the service pistol — a 9mm Browning, with live rounds, which he had used to fire at his would-be attackers during the incident. The DSP said while processing the scene of the shooting, he requested the service pistol from the detective constable “for it to be taken out of circulation and sent for forensic analysis” at the Institute of Forensic Science and Legal Medicine (government forensic lab).

He said the magazine containing the ammunition that was in the weapon that night was also taken. He also told the court that about five spent casings were retrieved from the scene.

The DSP’s evidence is another plank in the Crown’s case under Count 18 which charges the accused, Sharn Gilzene and Michael Wildman, for “shooting with intent”.

The detective constable who was the victim in that incident had taken the stand on Monday to give evidence of that encounter. According to the cop, a 27-year veteran of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, the encounter happened following his return from a St Andrew school with his daughter and an exchange student from Canada who was to spend time with his family. He told the court that upon settling the visitor and returning to the living room of his home, he saw “the curtain move and two males came in… armed”.

He said after reaching for his own firearm and ordering the men to leave his home, he fired at them and chased them while they ran out onto the road before eventually escaping into a white sedan.

The matter continues at 10:00 this morning before Supreme Court judge Justice Dale Palmer.

The 25 accused — the second faction of the gang to now be tried by the courts — are to answer to 16 offences allegedly committed over the span of five years between August 2017 and November 2022, according to the case being built by the Crown.