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A SECRET intelligence report prepared by Trinidad and Tobago law enforcement authorities has been sent to United Kingdom authorities warning of the presence of a top member of the Seven gang, who “poses a serious and immediate threat to the safety and security of the United Kingdom”.

The Sunday Express obtained an exclusive copy of the report that several intelligence sources confirmed was sent to the United Kingdom’s Immigration Enforcement Agency, Metropolitan Police and the UK intelligence services on December 6, 2024.

In the report, the top gang member is described as “a prominent organised crime figure from Trinidad and Tobago” of the notorious Rasta City gang called “Seven”.

“His criminal network is involved in a range of illicit activities, including narcotics trafficking, arms smuggling, unlicensed gold mining, gold smuggling, targeted killings, and international money laundering,” states the report.

The report also included video clips posted on social media by the gang member, as well as images shot recently in London with some of his fellow gang members who have also been staying in the UK over the past few months.

The detailed section of the report lists criminal activities that the gang member is involved in: narcotics and arms trafficking with links to international smuggling networks, direct involvement in gang-related violence, including targeted killings of rivals and dissenters, exploitation of cultural platforms, such as the Trinibad music movement, for recruitment and propaganda and unlicensed gold mining and smuggling...”

Intelligence suggests (gang member’s name called) is involved “in illegal mining operations in South America, using the proceeds to fund gang activities and launder money”, the report states.

Several intelligence sources confirmed to the Sunday Express that the top gang member travelled to the United Kingdom in August last year after briefly visiting Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Dubai.

He was accompanied by one of his lieutenants and a few other members.

Under the listing “recent developments”, the report states the gang member is currently in the United Kingdom and his “criminal background indicates potential risks, including attempts to establish new smuggling routes, recruit accomplices, or engage in money laundering through UK financial systems”.

According to the report, his “attempt to enter the United States was denied due to his known involvement in organised crime”, further confirming his status as an “international threat”.

The report added there was concern “authorities in Trinidad & Tobago allowed travel and failed to notify counterparts in London. Signalling prominent support from senior officials”.

The gang member is further described as an ongoing threat, “...his network is known to use violence, fear, and corruption to sustain operations. His presence in the UK poses significant risks to public safety and the integrity of law enforcement”.

The report pointed to the ominous presence of the top gang member, who they say “represents a clear and present danger to the United Kingdom and its citizens. His history of violence, international criminal connections, and presence within the UK require immediate attention and action to neutralise his threat”.

US$1m bounty

While authorities in the UK are investigating this threat, top intelligence and national security sources here confirmed the Seven gang hierarchy met in the United Kingdom in early December last year to place a US$1 million bounty on the heads of two rival gang leaders, as well as to mitigate the damage of retaliatory attacks in Trinidad by bringing their family members to the UK.

This high-profile underworld meeting occurred following the release on bail of a man, known in the underworld as “Yo Killa”, in Tortola in late November, who is said to be the principal financier of the Sixx gang, which has rapidly expanded its network throughout the Caribbean—from Trinidad to Grenada, Sint Maarten and Jamaica.

He also controls assets in the entertainment sector and has backed Sixx gang artistes who have used “diss lyrics” against the rival Seven gang and their artistes, and vice versa.

“At that meeting a decision was taken to place a one million US dollar (almost TT$7 million) hit on the head of the Sixx gang in Trinidad and the head of the ABG (Anybody Get it). That was going to bring a full scale gang war onto the streets, because those rival gangs would not take it lightly either. The intelligence we received was alarming,” said a top national security source privy to the operations of these gangs.

‘By any means

necessary’

At a news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said the Government acted to halt the surge in gang violence by declaring a state of emergency (SoE).

Gang-related deaths and shootings between the rival Sixx and Seven gangs have increased dramatically over the last two years, with some even spilling over into neighbouring Caribbean countries.

According to top law enforcement sources, the Sixx gang, the ABG gang and pockets of the 9 gang (Muslim) forged an alliance with the sole purpose of eliminating the heads of the Seven gang and several of its key members “by any means necessary”.

With a bloodbath on the horizon, that knowledge, according to a high intelligence source, prompted the top Seven gang member and several of his senior gang members to head to the UK in August last year.

“Apart from a key lieutenant who spent some time there and came back recently we were also told that some other persons from the gang that go by the aliases ‘King Secret’ and ‘Wild Boy’ are also up there,” said a senior intelligence source.

According to underworld sources close to the Seven gang, the gang member named in the report has sent for seven of his children since settling in the United Kingdom.

“The youngest was crying constantly when he left. And over the last few weeks he brought them up to the UK because they also want to avoid them becoming targets,” said an underworld source.

Law enforcement sources also confirmed several of his children have since travelled to the UK.

“We’re hearing word from several sources that many of the gang members there are planning to seek asylum,” disclosed a senior national security source. “We’re also bracing for rival gangs trying to go at softer targets of the Seven gang here as well. With retaliation coming the other way, too,” the source added.

Peaceful

resolution sought

One UK-based source familiar with the matter said, “Right now folks are contemplating lawyering up and going through the process as some of their claims have been rejected by UK authorities. But they are doing this to try and delay.”

At the Seven gang UK meeting at which the hits were discussed on the rival gang leaders, a UK-based Trinidadian known to local law enforcement authorities as a significant funder of the Seven gang, as well as another local businessman and other persons, were present.

Intelligence sources confirmed that while the local businessman was part of that meeting, he insisted on finding a peaceful resolution.

“We heard that he asked them to find a way to stop the killings. We had been originally told otherwise, but now that the information is being filtered properly we are informed he did not want that war the others had sanctioned,” the source said.

However, distorted lines of communication in the underworld, as well as the killing of a man near the Besson Street Police Station in Port of Spain on December 28, and the mass murder of five men 36 hours later (December 29) at Prizgar Lands, Laventille, turned things upside down.

In the first incident, an attempt was made on the life of the Sixx boss as he was leaving the Besson Street station.

Gunmen lay in wait in a panel van near the police station and opened fire on a group of men who had accompanied the Sixx boss.

One man, later identified as 34-year-old Trevor Williams, was shot and killed. The Sixx boss escaped without injury.

“What happened was that after these men were shot at, the suspects ran towards the John John lights to a waiting SUV and one of the suspects dropped his high-powered weapon and continued running,” said a senior intelligence source.

“What many people didn’t know was that it seemed that the Sixx boss had put some kind of contingency plan in place as he didn’t feel comfortable going to the police station that day.

“So when the suspects were fleeing the scene, men from John John from the Nine gang affiliated to the Sixx gang shot at the suspects as they fled.

“The gunmen involved in the murder escaped, and the men in John John who picked up the high-powered weapon were later held. They were not part of the original ambush on the Sixx boss,” said the source.

However, the intelligence source stated that while instructions to assassinate these heads came from the top of the Seven gang, the local businessman who attended that meeting would bear the brunt of the blame for the attack, which sources confirmed was coordinated by someone on the fringes of the Seven gang seeking vengeance for the murder of Jamal Walker, aka “Jango”, who was shot and killed on Wrightson Road, Port of Spain, on December 18, 2023. “It was a knee-jerk reaction by the Sixx gang that hours later led to the mass-murder retaliation in Prizgar Lands, Laventille, when five men were shot and killed by gunmen. One of these men we were told was related to the local businessman whose name is being called in the wrong context,” said the source.

The gunmen pulled up in two vehicles near the St John Shop around 8.30 p.m. on December 29 and shot and killed Cleon Lugin, 37, Derron Calliste, 35, Kambon Omowale, 39, Garet Smart and Ryan Lessey 24.

“They didn’t know it was associates of Jango (who had been once affiliated to the Seven gang) that made the attempt on the life of the Sixx boss. We know that two men are behind this and recruited several shooters to carry out this attempted killing,” said a senior intelligence source.

“One of the relatives of Jango says he will go to any lengths to make sure they are all dead and he doesn’t care if he has to die, too,” said an underworld source also familiar with the gang-related wranglings.

The Sunday Express on Friday attempted to contact the local businessman who was allegedly part of that meeting in the UK, but calls to his phone via WhatsApp, and messages, were not returned up to Friday evening.

Social media war

While the war continues to play out on the streets of Trinidad and Tobago, a verbal war is also being played out on social media.

Messages sent from one rival gang leader to another via social media have also been constantly monitored by law enforcement officials in Trinidad and Tobago and around the region.

One of the most recent happened just days before “Yo Killa” was released in late November.

The Seven boss submitted a TikTok video in which he remarked ...“You give me ah $100,000US just to be my friend...I take it boi...cus you is ah pappyshow and a c** boi...They post up something about me...you commenting...I doh say nothing about you boy...you dig...

“They calling you killa...you ever kill anybody, boi? You not in my league so stop pappyshowing yourself...you behind ah cell and miserable with a lil small money and playing criminal, boi. You not in my league, boi.”

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