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<H2 align=justify></H2><P align=justify>Revelations that Constable Ralston Ebanks, one of two cops killed last Tuesday, was a member of a criminal gang has provided investigators with new insights that his cronies may have killed him.<P align=justify>In relation to the deadly attack on Sergeant Huan Genus, and his daughter Shari, a former journalist, investigators say several motives have emerged all of which are being probed.<P align=justify>However, Sunday Herald findings are that the target of that killing was the daughter of the 30-year veteran cop. The motive is still hazy, but up to last night investigators say they are pursuing leads including the multi-million-dollar lottery scam, which is widespread in Montego Bay and its environs.<P align=justify>Regarding Ebanks’ death, the Sunday Herald probe has unearthed information indicating that his association with members of a gang linked to the Spanish Town-based One Order gang could have been the reason for his bloody demise.<P align=justify>The picture surrounding Ebanks’ death, the second shady cop to be killed in the parish within five months, seems clearer. <P align=justify>Last September, Constable Richard Taylor who was linked to the Action Pack Crew, was murdered and his body dumped in a pit at Worthy Park Estate. <P align=justify>Ebanks’ activities, according to sources, included gunrunning and drug smuggling and he was reported to the police high command and was confronted on more than one occasion. It is believed that he double-crossed his cronies in a recent drug deal, which led to a breakdown in the relationship. <P align=justify>Eyewitnesses at Hellshire Beach, where he was along with his sister Fernandis Ebanks-Clarke hours before he was gunned down, told the Sunday Herald that Ebanks had a heated exchange with a group of men during which he pulled his firearm.<P align=justify>Other sources say the men are gangsters who accosted Ebanks about money from the drug deal, which it is reported, went sour. There are also reports that Ebanks’ cohorts along St Johns Road celebrated his death by firing their weapons in the air. <P align=justify>Pressure
Under police pressure since the death of their leader Oliver “Buba” Smith in 2004 followed by his top lieutenants, members of the Spanish Town gang have branched out into other communities. Attempts by gang members to replicate their activities are driving up the crime rate, police sources said. <P align=justify>Based on police reports, the gang members have been attempting to set up an outpost in the Maxfield Avenue and Ramsey Road area in Kingston. Under the leadership of a deportee who served time in US jail, sources say attempts by the One Order gangsters to establish a wing in that section of Kingston has turned bloody. <P align=justify>he deportee who was extradited to the US in the early 1990s has returned and is trying to re-establish himself and has been recruiting dissidents from Denham Town and Spanish Town. But another area don in the Maxfield Avenue/Ramsey Road area is thwarting his efforts, according to police sources. <P align=justify>Last week, the One Order Gang lost three of its members whose bullet-riddled bodies were found in a motorcar on Development Road off Spanish Town Road in Kingston. <P align=justify>The Sunday Herald findings, corroborated by police intelligence, are that the deceased men went to the Maxfield Avenue area to purchase ammunition, but they missed their way and were captured and tied up. Their captors, after searching their vehicles, executed them and stuffed their bodies in the car, which was later found by police. <P align=justify>According to investigators, there have been several reprisal shootings since then. In one case, 23-year-old hairdresser Nordia Fletcher was murdered at her Swettenham Road residence. <P align=justify>There are also reports that the gunmen are intimidating supporters of the People’s National Party stronghold to switch allegiance. During one gun battle Wednesday night, the
Under police pressure since the death of their leader Oliver “Buba” Smith in 2004 followed by his top lieutenants, members of the Spanish Town gang have branched out into other communities. Attempts by gang members to replicate their activities are driving up the crime rate, police sources said. <P align=justify>Based on police reports, the gang members have been attempting to set up an outpost in the Maxfield Avenue and Ramsey Road area in Kingston. Under the leadership of a deportee who served time in US jail, sources say attempts by the One Order gangsters to establish a wing in that section of Kingston has turned bloody. <P align=justify>he deportee who was extradited to the US in the early 1990s has returned and is trying to re-establish himself and has been recruiting dissidents from Denham Town and Spanish Town. But another area don in the Maxfield Avenue/Ramsey Road area is thwarting his efforts, according to police sources. <P align=justify>Last week, the One Order Gang lost three of its members whose bullet-riddled bodies were found in a motorcar on Development Road off Spanish Town Road in Kingston. <P align=justify>The Sunday Herald findings, corroborated by police intelligence, are that the deceased men went to the Maxfield Avenue area to purchase ammunition, but they missed their way and were captured and tied up. Their captors, after searching their vehicles, executed them and stuffed their bodies in the car, which was later found by police. <P align=justify>According to investigators, there have been several reprisal shootings since then. In one case, 23-year-old hairdresser Nordia Fletcher was murdered at her Swettenham Road residence. <P align=justify>There are also reports that the gunmen are intimidating supporters of the People’s National Party stronghold to switch allegiance. During one gun battle Wednesday night, the
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