‘Dudus’ was always a coward

[Skeng DX]

RETIRED Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams has dubbed imprisoned gangster Christopher 'Dudus' Coke a coward, adding that he got away with a 'chicken feed' sentence recently.
"He was a coward. He was always a coward and that was one of the reasons why I was never afraid of him," Adams told the Jamaica Observer in an interview.
Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke on his arrival in New York in June 2010. (Photo: AP)
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"He had never faced a situation up front, like a shootout. He had always sent his men and when they thought he was there with them he would have gone elsewhere to a hotel or something. I would want to hazard a guess that he was never involved in a shootout with the police," Adams said.
Coke was sentenced to 23 years in a United States prison earlier this month after he pleaded guilty in a New York court last August to one count of racketeering conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to commit assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering.
Once the leader of the feared North America-based Shower Posse, which he ran for over 20 years from his West Kingston fiefdom of Tivoli Gardens, Coke was captured in June 2010, following a month-long police search for him that followed a bloody battle in Tivoli between gunmen loyal to him and security forces, which left 76 people — including a policeman and a soldier — dead by police account.
Coke had fled Tivoli during that firefight.
Adams, who left the constabulary force on his 60th birthday — July 11, 2008 — recalled facing the fury of Coke and his men in a blazing shootout in Tivoli Gardens in July 2001, one that left 27 people dead.
Adams maintains that Coke was behind that assault of the security forces, one of whom was killed in the community, but the retired feared crime fighter suggested that Coke was never up front in that battle, which he felt was started after Coke was tipped off that police would be raiding his stronghold.
"It was 'Dudus' who was behind it. We got the intelligence that he had called in warriors at the time from other parts of the Corporate Area to help defend the place and we saw them while we were there," Adams told the Sunday Observer.
"On the day in question that the shooting started, I counted 76 gunmen and none of them had fewer than two guns, usually a long gun and a short gun.
"That's why I made that famous or infamous statement, that if what I saw today was what Jamaica had become, Jamaica would pay dearly, dearly, dearly," he said. "I didn't plan to go down there, but I was sent by the commissioner of police, Francis Forbes. We had a meeting one day with the commissioner of police that guns, drugs, ammunition had come in and were being stored at a house for old people in West Kingston, north of the Denham Town Police Station.
"I was not told the day at the commissioner's office that I would lead the party, because he had actually selected (assistant commissioner) Arthur 'Stitch' Martin to head the team. I don't know what happened, but I got a late instruction from Commissioner Forbes that I must lead the operation and I was supplied with a written intelligence, signed and stamped by 'Stitch' Martin.
"When we got the intelligence, we heard that the guns and the contraband were for 'Dudus' and the intelligence suggested that we had to be very, very careful, because this was now attacking the man personally." Adams recalled.
"We had planned that after we retrieved the contraband, we would have raided his (Coke's Presidential Click) office, hoping to have him arrested, but we never got around to doing that because he was so heavily fortified," Adams disclosed.
Adams, now managing director and chief executive officer of Adams Security Management Unit, said that the Government, during the time that Coke and other criminals thrived, refused to implement certain measures which he believed could have worked against criminals like Coke, in the society.
"One of the reasons we could not deal with the crime as it was at the time was that people like me who advocated certain laws and actions were bluntly refused by the Government," he said. "This would include eavesdropping equipment, which I asked for when I went to the CMU (Crime Management Unit). I asked for certain other equipment to set up instruments covertly and to videotape what was being said, using the technology available at the time. This was refused, as the Administration said that it would be encroaching on the human rights of criminals. That's one of the reasons why we could not deal with the criminal elements here.
"I was one of those who first asked for the Criminal Enterprises Act. I said to the commissioner of police, how can we have men driving six, seven, eight and 10 BMWs and Benzes around town and they are not working men?"
Adams said that long ago he had recommended to the top brass of the police force that something be done because he had intelligence that guns were being stored at a warehouse on Industrial Terrace in bags of red peas.
"We had information that the containers were taken there and in my own meetings, questions were being asked what evidence I had to show. So I was being bombarded from inside and outside and politically, too," Adams said.
He also claimed that Coke had connections with politicians and members of the police force, some of whom he claimed were on the convicted man's payroll.
"They were afraid of him. He had inside connection in the police force, politically, in the civil service, on the wharf, in just about everything, because he was a wealthy man," Adams charged.
"Many times when we would have gone in search of him, when we had intelligence, some of our people were selling information to him. That was what prompted me to take away policemen's phones when I was going on operations and didn't tell them where I was going. If I was going to Constant Spring I would have told them that I was going somewhere else.
"All that had repercussions, too, but I thought that if we were dealing with criminals and we had even one among us, then I had to find solutions to that and who wanted to vex just vex," stated Adams.
"When he gives instructions, it is stronger than any law that is passed in Parliament and it must be carried out," Adams said.
As for the 23 years that Coke will spend in unfamiliar surroundings at a correctional facility in the USA, in addition to facing four years of supervised release and US$1.5 million in forfeiture, Adams said that the punishment was not enough.
"When I compared the sentence to (R Allen) Stanford, who stole some money and got over 100 years, it would seem to me that the sentence on Dudus, based on what the evidence has revealed and what I personally know, is a chicken-feed sentence," said Adams.
"I was looking, not just at Dudus alone, but many of the criminals in Jamaica, for at least 100 years all the time and being kept in underground cells. That is how Reneto Adams recommends that you deal with criminal elements — make laws that will send them away for long, despite what the human rights people want to think, and they have their work to do too.
"Since the capture of Dudus, crime has considerably been cut down in Jamaica. I had already told Jamaica that if we deal with crime in Western Kingston and, by extension, the criminal elements in Tivoli Gardens, crime could be cut down by 80 per cent in the entire Jamaica," he said.
"At one time, any man in Jamaica who wanted a gun to hire or buy, anyone who committed crime in Westmoreland for example and wanted to hide, they could go to Tivoli and hide out and would be given sanctuary by Dudus," the former cop said.
"They could get guns too, in other places like Jungle (Arnett Gardens), but Tivoli was the main place. Another problem, too, was that members of the police force hardly knew him, because he was a man who never offered to be photographed by anyone," Adams added.
"We had a photograph of him when he was about 20. That, for a long time, was the only photograph we had of him. I had people based in Tivoli giving me intelligence, who would send me a photograph of him, but that was highly confidential and not even the commissioner I could have passed that on to, because in Tivoli, if John Brown did something today, they could tell you tomorrow that John Brown did it," Adams stated.


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This would include eavesdropping equipment, which I asked for when I went to the CMU (Crime Management Unit). I asked for certain other equipment to set up instruments covertly and to videotape what was being said, using the technology available at the time. This was refused, as the Administration said that it would be encroaching on the human rights of criminals.

[Skeng DX]

AS most Jamaicans familiar with his reputation as a crime fighter can imagine, retired Senior Superintendent of Police, Reneto Decordova Valentino Adams has eluded death on countless occasions during his 63 years on earth.
He has been associated with bloody, violent incidents such as the shoot-out between police and gunmen that left 27 people dead in West Kingston in July 2001; the killing of seven men at a house in Braeton, St Catherine four months before, and the deaths of four people in a house at Kraal, Clarendon two years later.
In all cases, Adams has insisted that his life, and those of the men under his command was in danger and the law enforcers had been forced to defend themselves.
But these incidents that projected an image of him as a bone-hard crusader against crime, were preceded by several others, which, save for his agility and luck, could have resulted in adding to the profits of undertakers.
"I have had several close shaves," Adams told the Jamaica Observer in a midweek interview.
"Although it might seem simple, I almost got killed around 2002 when a member of the police force, a detective, was shot dead in a bar at Cockburn Pen.
"We got the intelligence that the guy who did it had gone to a doctor's office along Red Hills Road, so we put up a cordon outside the doctor's surgery to catch him because we didn't want to go inside, and while he was walking out of the doctor's surgery, he was being escorted out by two women. When I approached him, I said in my mind, this guy having done that (crime) would have hidden his gun. So we didn't approach carelessly, but we dropped our guard a little," he admitted.
"When we approached the guy and said 'police', he just took away his right hand from around one of the ladies and drew his gun and 'bam, bam, bam'. I was leading the party in front and three shots went off and landed in my bulletproof vest. I didn't even get to draw, it was my men who were with me who shot and killed him and took a 9mm pistol from him," Adams said.
One of the women was charged for being in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
Adams believes that if it weren't for the bulletproof vest, he would have died, as the shots landed in the region of the abdomen.
"That really shook me up. The bullets threw me backwards, and even though I had on the bulletproof vest, I felt that I was physically shot. If it weren't for the vest I would have been killed," stated Adams.
The 2001 West Kingston shooting, for which a commission of enquiry was eventually held, proved to be Adams' biggest challenge, by his own admission.
He had seen a policeman shot next to him and the incident, he said, served as an alert to police personnel that the criminal underworld had superior firepower.
"A team of policemen went into Tivoli Gardens about 5:30 the morning and took up our positions, but waited until the day was bright enough for us to move about. We were told that drugs and guns had come in and where the things were being stored," Adams reflected on the bloody foray into the first city's west end.
"When the search started we found one handgun and that was when the shooting started. All we heard was gunshots from all directions, that was between North Street, Salt Lane and Wellington Street. The gunshots were so overwhelming that we had to retreat, and we said we wanted to go to the Denham Town Police Station, but we couldn't reach the station so we had to go towards Metcalfe Street and we used some premises and dropped out close to Majestic Theatre and Tivoli Courts. That's where they took us on. It was 19 of us and we separated ourselves in five groups, that we could defend ourselves.
"We were heading to the Coronation Market to get out of this barrage of gunshots, which we thought was the safest route. When we reached in the vicinity of Tivoli Court, the type of calibre weapons that were being fired, we couldn't match with them at all. We had to lie down flat on our backs and started pushing on our backs, moving towards Coronation Market to get out of this thing," he said.
Calls for assistance proved futile, as the extraction teams were stuck on the outside as the gunmen had the whole area barricaded, he explained.
"I remember coming under intense pressure. We couldn't move anymore and I said to the guys we are going to rise up now and return the fire... we are either going to die now or get out of it.
"So we raised our heads and opened the fire in the direction of Tivoli Courts and immediately after we did that they started firing from behind us and we had to lie down again and started to move on our tummies this time. It took us seven hours from Tivoli Court to the Coronation Market and when it was getting late and [while they were] re-arming themselves, a lull occurred," Adams disclosed to the Sunday Observer.
The lull that he referred to was caused by the arrival in Tivoli Gardens of then Member of Parliament and Opposition Leader Edward Seaga, who tried to intervene and end the conflict, the enquiry was later told.
But that suspension of gunfire, Adams said, did not last long.
"We heard that it was Seaga who had come in and they eased down the firing to make him come in. So we got up and moved towards the Coronation Market. When we reached between Tivoli Court and Ebenezer Lane, it was a barrage of fire again.
Again, luck was on Adams' side, literally.
"I remember a shot went through my bulletproof vest and straight into Corporal Henry, who was behind me, and he was shot in the groin.
"Corporal Henry said 'Mr Adams mi get shot', and I said come on man, let us move. When I looked on my shoulder, you could see where the shot went right through the shoulder, tore the vest and shot Henry.
"We got assistance with a vehicle and sent him off to KPH (Kingston Public Hospital), where he was pronounced dead. When I got the message that he had died, I said well we are all going to die today, but I am not staying under this pressure voluntarily. So Adams said he just started moving, tactically firing at the men in Tivoli Court, as his team moved to Ebenezer Lane, where an inspector of police who had come down from the Mobile Reserve began to lay down cover fire.
"We were going to cross Bustamante Highway and end up on Darling Street and when I sent the first batch of men across it was pure gunshots.
"It seemed that they wanted me personally, as when I moved across there was an even louder barrage of shots, and I heard Constable Brown who was beside me said 'Super, I get shot you know'." Brown had been shot in his side.
"When we went upstairs Coronation Market, I thought this thing would have been finished. People talk about this gun that they found down there only came in 2010. [But] I saw that gun being fired at us. It was on a tripod. When it fired into the Coronation Market while we were upstairs, pieces of the wall were broken off. At that time I thought it was a grenade launcher, because every time it fired it sunk, and when I saw the men firing a gun like that and the other types of gun that they were firing, I said that if this is what Jamaica has come to, Jamaica will pay dearly with those people with the type of ammunition that they had," Adams reasoned.
During the lull in gunfire, Seaga had offered Adams and his men 'safe passage' out of Tivoli Gardens, something that Seaga later admitted to, but the gesture was refused by Adams who felt that the 'offer' was made only to him and not the men under his command.
"When he offered me safe passage I said no, I am here on government business, I am an agent of the State, we have intelligence that guns are here and we are here to retrieve them. He told me that we could go up Bond Street and I said 'Mr Seaga, the government vehicles are here, the policemen that I lead are here, I come here to do a spot of duty and I don't want no safe passage. I'd rather be killed here today.'
"After he left, that's the time gunshots started again. I remember seeing a woman with no fewer than six sticks of dynamite tied together and we observed her coming towards the post and she lit the dynamite and threw it upstairs the Coronation Market and it exploded.
"A journalist lady who was there with us said to me 'Mr Adams we are going to die', and I had to counsel her and the others and tell them to cool off. There was gunshots firing from all directions and we had to return the fire," he recalled. He escaped unharmed at the eventual end of that volatile stand-off.
The shooting in Braeton where seven young men were killed a mere two months before the West Kingston uprising, was also a situation that presented a clear and then present danger to the security forces, Adams insisted.
Reports were that a group of men had gone to the Above Rocks police station in St Catherine and shot and killed a constable. They also shot an ex-customs officer and a woman who was in the phone booth.
According to Adams, information led police to one of the alleged shooters who was staying at Cassava Piece in North St Andrew. That young man took police to Red Hills Road where they picked up another of the suspects, who pointed police to another individual in Cumberland, Portmore, St Catherine.
"We were then taken to a place in Braeton on Fifth Seal Way, where we encircled the house. I rapped on the window, said 'I am Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams I am here to execute a warrant'. At that time three shots zipped past my face and we had to take cover. My men started to 'pepper' the place and when the shooting ended, we found the men dead in the house. It was luck that saved me, as if I was standing right in front of the window when I called out to them inside, I would have been killed."
Regarding the equally controversial shooting at Kraal, Adams said that apart from one of the women who died, all the others were involved in the attack on the police.
The police, he said, had gone to the community, as information reaching them was that two expatriates were to be kidnapped as they left the gold mine in the district by then wanted man Bashington "Chen Chen" Douglas.
"We heard that Chen Chen was staying there and extorting money from the gold mine and demanding to be employed. Commissioner Francis Forbes asked me to investigate the matter and I set up a raiding party in waiting for the men.
"Just as the white men were coming down, they stopped and we came up and rushed into the yard. I saw Chen Chen with two guns, one of them a rifle. Two other guys, a rastaman and a brown guy had shotguns. As we moved into the yard, they opened fire and I went behind a breadfruit tree. At the end of the shooting three guns were recovered and the four people died. One of the ladies, we had no intelligence why she was there, probably she was at the wrong place at the wrong time. But the other woman was the girlfriend of Chen Chen who used to buy gunshots (bullets) and collect extortion money for him," Adams maintained.
Chen Chen, who escaped that incident, was killed by his cronies long after.
But the St Elizabeth-born Adams had come close to meeting his maker long before all those blistering episodes.
He had been involved in shoot-outs that he said sent rivers of perspiration down his spine, but he survived to raise toasts to his continued existence.
He still remembers vividly an incident in 1975 which opened his eyes to how thin the line is between life and death.
"The [Jamaica Defence] Force had formed a squad to include traffic people, CIB (Central Intelligence Branch), Motorised Patrol, all the elements in the Force, that when we met up on a particular situation, we had people who could deal with that.
At the time, Adams said, many known criminals were driving the Ford Cortina motor vehicle.
"On Christmas Eve, we were patrolling in the Hagley Park area and being led by Tony Hewitt, who was a corporal at the time. We got information that four men travelling in a green Cortina had just robbed three places in Half-Way-Tree and they were coming down Hagley Park Road. That time the Three Miles roundabout was not what it is now. You didn't have the dual carriageway either.
He said the team set up a roadblock along the Hagley Park Road side of Three Miles, where they got further intelligence that the target vehicle was coming.
"In those days we operated with plain cars and in plain clothes. As we saw the car coming, Tony drove our car right across the road and the boys, having seen that, made a deliberate, dangerous right turn into the Nova Scotia bank premises. Immediately they ran out of the car. Initially, the boys opened fire on us. We returned the fire and three were immediately shot dead and three firearms recovered, but one of them could not be found.
"I remember that the bank premises had a number of Broad Lily trees. So a policeman named Jack and I were searching for that man. My view was that the Lilies were so thick, that one of the boys could have been hiding in there. I was in front and had my .38 gun in my right hand and as I used my left hand to turn away the Lily tree. All I heard was 'bow!' and the piece of Lily in front of me was shot off and dropped right in front [of me]. So I threw myself back, put my two hands in my lap and hauled up as close as possible my feet to my ears, making myself a smaller target. The guy was firing a 9 mm.
"In a split second when I saw the guy, I actually saw him going to pull the trigger, as he fired the shot, I shifted. Jack, who had a shotgun, eventually killed him," Adams said.
Adams also survived an onslaught by the feared gangster, Sylvester "Punky" Wint from the Jacques Road/Mountain View Avenue area in April 2000.
'Punky' was cut down by security forces during a raid, but not before he unleashed a barrage of bullets at Adams and his team when they went to his house to apprehend him. Citizens of the area claimed that Wint was innocent and two days after, gunmen murdered two policemen in the area, one of them the former Constabulary Communication Network corporal Roland Layne.

Adams said he was also tested during another showdown with one of St Catherine's toughest gunmen, but he passed with flying colours.
"In 1997 in Spanish Town, this guy Kemel Gordon, whom they called Jackie, was in charge of all criminal activities before the Klansman and One Order people started.

"He had a gang called the Jackie Gang which operated out of Homestead, Old Harbour Road, Valdez Road. When I went to Spanish Town I went to Jackie and told him that I had intelligence that he was the man leading a gang and now that I have come, he is to stop all the gang activities, because we were going to be resolutely dealing with it.
"The boy looked at me and told me: 'Adams, you and I not staying here you know'.

"I said 'what do you mean?' and he said 'a plenty police come and have to leave and you are going to leave too, and if you don't leave then something else will take place.'

"We started investigating this guy and I remember one night they had a dance by Oxford Road and he was there blocking all the streets, although we gave instructions for him to leave the street. We didn't have the (Noise Abatement) law then. He was in a group with a lot of bad men and I just penetrated the group along with my bodyguards and I kicked him down flat on the ground, and the story from that night onward in the whole Spanish Town was that a bad policeman come here and kick down Jackie and he couldn't respond.

One night Adams was on patrol along St John's Road and Valdez Road, when he got a call that Jackie was coming on a motorcycle and he had on him a .45 Magnum and a Heckle and Koch pistol that the police had tried to find in successive raids, but never did.

"We set up a roadblock right at Valdez Road where he lived, and St John's Road. We heard that he was coming from St John's Road. We saw this bike coming at high speed and when he saw us, he just jumped off the bike, dropping it and shouted to me 'Adams a wha' dis?', and bam, bam, bam -- gunfire in my direction. When I saw him draw the gun, I threw myself to the left and the rest of the policemen opened fire at him and he was shot and killed and the two guns recovered.

"Ironically, we found a map in his pocket, with a path well drawn to my house in St Jago Heights marked 'Adams house'," said the decorated crime fighter, who also survived mortar and grenade attacks from rebels when he went to the African country of Namibia as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission in 1989.

Having had to face the fury of other gunmen including the feared Starsky, Sandokhan, Nathaniel "Natty" Morgan from Riverton City, "Geego" Gordon from Seaview Gardens, and another Spanish Town gangster called F.... Up, who used to pull off a robbery every Tuesday night for an extended period, Adams is now enjoying another phase of his life — running his security business and caring for those close to him.


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Adams know whey him a talk 'bout or not?

[Don1]

AS most Jamaicans familiar with his reputation as a crime fighter can imagine, retired Senior Superintendent of Police, Reneto Decordova Valentino Adams has eluded death on countless occasions during his 63 years on earth.
He has been associated with bloody, violent incidents such as the shoot-out between police and gunmen that left 27 people dead in West Kingston in July 2001; the killing of seven men at a house in Braeton, St Catherine four months before, and the deaths of four people in a house at Kraal, Clarendon two years later.
In all cases, Adams has insisted that his life, and those of the men under his command was in danger and the law enforcers had been forced to defend themselves.
But these incidents that projected an image of him as a bone-hard crusader against crime, were preceded by several others, which, save for his agility and luck, could have resulted in adding to the profits of undertakers.
"I have had several close shaves," Adams told the Jamaica Observer in a midweek interview.
"Although it might seem simple, I almost got killed around 2002 when a member of the police force, a detective, was shot dead in a bar at Cockburn Pen.
"We got the intelligence that the guy who did it had gone to a doctor's office along Red Hills Road, so we put up a cordon outside the doctor's surgery to catch him because we didn't want to go inside, and while he was walking out of the doctor's surgery, he was being escorted out by two women. When I approached him, I said in my mind, this guy having done that (crime) would have hidden his gun. So we didn't approach carelessly, but we dropped our guard a little," he admitted.
"When we approached the guy and said 'police', he just took away his right hand from around one of the ladies and drew his gun and 'bam, bam, bam'. I was leading the party in front and three shots went off and landed in my bulletproof vest. I didn't even get to draw, it was my men who were with me who shot and killed him and took a 9mm pistol from him," Adams said.
One of the women was charged for being in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
Adams believes that if it weren't for the bulletproof vest, he would have died, as the shots landed in the region of the abdomen.
"That really shook me up. The bullets threw me backwards, and even though I had on the bulletproof vest, I felt that I was physically shot. If it weren't for the vest I would have been killed," stated Adams.
The 2001 West Kingston shooting, for which a commission of enquiry was eventually held, proved to be Adams' biggest challenge, by his own admission.
He had seen a policeman shot next to him and the incident, he said, served as an alert to police personnel that the criminal underworld had superior firepower.
"A team of policemen went into Tivoli Gardens about 5:30 the morning and took up our positions, but waited until the day was bright enough for us to move about. We were told that drugs and guns had come in and where the things were being stored," Adams reflected on the bloody foray into the first city's west end.
"When the search started we found one handgun and that was when the shooting started. All we heard was gunshots from all directions, that was between North Street, Salt Lane and Wellington Street. The gunshots were so overwhelming that we had to retreat, and we said we wanted to go to the Denham Town Police Station, but we couldn't reach the station so we had to go towards Metcalfe Street and we used some premises and dropped out close to Majestic Theatre and Tivoli Courts. That's where they took us on. It was 19 of us and we separated ourselves in five groups, that we could defend ourselves.
"We were heading to the Coronation Market to get out of this barrage of gunshots, which we thought was the safest route. When we reached in the vicinity of Tivoli Court, the type of calibre weapons that were being fired, we couldn't match with them at all. We had to lie down flat on our backs and started pushing on our backs, moving towards Coronation Market to get out of this thing," he said.
Calls for assistance proved futile, as the extraction teams were stuck on the outside as the gunmen had the whole area barricaded, he explained.
"I remember coming under intense pressure. We couldn't move anymore and I said to the guys we are going to rise up now and return the fire... we are either going to die now or get out of it.
"So we raised our heads and opened the fire in the direction of Tivoli Courts and immediately after we did that they started firing from behind us and we had to lie down again and started to move on our tummies this time. It took us seven hours from Tivoli Court to the Coronation Market and when it was getting late and [while they were] re-arming themselves, a lull occurred," Adams disclosed to the Sunday Observer.
The lull that he referred to was caused by the arrival in Tivoli Gardens of then Member of Parliament and Opposition Leader Edward Seaga, who tried to intervene and end the conflict, the enquiry was later told.
But that suspension of gunfire, Adams said, did not last long.
"We heard that it was Seaga who had come in and they eased down the firing to make him come in. So we got up and moved towards the Coronation Market. When we reached between Tivoli Court and Ebenezer Lane, it was a barrage of fire again.
Again, luck was on Adams' side, literally.
"I remember a shot went through my bulletproof vest and straight into Corporal Henry, who was behind me, and he was shot in the groin.
"Corporal Henry said 'Mr Adams mi get shot', and I said come on man, let us move. When I looked on my shoulder, you could see where the shot went right through the shoulder, tore the vest and shot Henry.
"We got assistance with a vehicle and sent him off to KPH (Kingston Public Hospital), where he was pronounced dead. When I got the message that he had died, I said well we are all going to die today, but I am not staying under this pressure voluntarily. So Adams said he just started moving, tactically firing at the men in Tivoli Court, as his team moved to Ebenezer Lane, where an inspector of police who had come down from the Mobile Reserve began to lay down cover fire.
"We were going to cross Bustamante Highway and end up on Darling Street and when I sent the first batch of men across it was pure gunshots.
"It seemed that they wanted me personally, as when I moved across there was an even louder barrage of shots, and I heard Constable Brown who was beside me said 'Super, I get shot you know'." Brown had been shot in his side.
"When we went upstairs Coronation Market, I thought this thing would have been finished. People talk about this gun that they found down there only came in 2010. [But] I saw that gun being fired at us. It was on a tripod. When it fired into the Coronation Market while we were upstairs, pieces of the wall were broken off. At that time I thought it was a grenade launcher, because every time it fired it sunk, and when I saw the men firing a gun like that and the other types of gun that they were firing, I said that if this is what Jamaica has come to, Jamaica will pay dearly with those people with the type of ammunition that they had," Adams reasoned.
During the lull in gunfire, Seaga had offered Adams and his men 'safe passage' out of Tivoli Gardens, something that Seaga later admitted to, but the gesture was refused by Adams who felt that the 'offer' was made only to him and not the men under his command.
"When he offered me safe passage I said no, I am here on government business, I am an agent of the State, we have intelligence that guns are here and we are here to retrieve them. He told me that we could go up Bond Street and I said 'Mr Seaga, the government vehicles are here, the policemen that I lead are here, I come here to do a spot of duty and I don't want no safe passage. I'd rather be killed here today.'
"After he left, that's the time gunshots started again. I remember seeing a woman with no fewer than six sticks of dynamite tied together and we observed her coming towards the post and she lit the dynamite and threw it upstairs the Coronation Market and it exploded.
"A journalist lady who was there with us said to me 'Mr Adams we are going to die', and I had to counsel her and the others and tell them to cool off. There was gunshots firing from all directions and we had to return the fire," he recalled. He escaped unharmed at the eventual end of that volatile stand-off.
The shooting in Braeton where seven young men were killed a mere two months before the West Kingston uprising, was also a situation that presented a clear and then present danger to the security forces, Adams insisted.
Reports were that a group of men had gone to the Above Rocks police station in St Catherine and shot and killed a constable. They also shot an ex-customs officer and a woman who was in the phone booth.
According to Adams, information led police to one of the alleged shooters who was staying at Cassava Piece in North St Andrew. That young man took police to Red Hills Road where they picked up another of the suspects, who pointed police to another individual in Cumberland, Portmore, St Catherine.
"We were then taken to a place in Braeton on Fifth Seal Way, where we encircled the house. I rapped on the window, said 'I am Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams I am here to execute a warrant'. At that time three shots zipped past my face and we had to take cover. My men started to 'pepper' the place and when the shooting ended, we found the men dead in the house. It was luck that saved me, as if I was standing right in front of the window when I called out to them inside, I would have been killed."
Regarding the equally controversial shooting at Kraal, Adams said that apart from one of the women who died, all the others were involved in the attack on the police.
The police, he said, had gone to the community, as information reaching them was that two expatriates were to be kidnapped as they left the gold mine in the district by then wanted man Bashington "Chen Chen" Douglas.
"We heard that Chen Chen was staying there and extorting money from the gold mine and demanding to be employed. Commissioner Francis Forbes asked me to investigate the matter and I set up a raiding party in waiting for the men.
"Just as the white men were coming down, they stopped and we came up and rushed into the yard. I saw Chen Chen with two guns, one of them a rifle. Two other guys, a rastaman and a brown guy had shotguns. As we moved into the yard, they opened fire and I went behind a breadfruit tree. At the end of the shooting three guns were recovered and the four people died. One of the ladies, we had no intelligence why she was there, probably she was at the wrong place at the wrong time. But the other woman was the girlfriend of Chen Chen who used to buy gunshots (bullets) and collect extortion money for him," Adams maintained.
Chen Chen, who escaped that incident, was killed by his cronies long after.
But the St Elizabeth-born Adams had come close to meeting his maker long before all those blistering episodes.
He had been involved in shoot-outs that he said sent rivers of perspiration down his spine, but he survived to raise toasts to his continued existence.
He still remembers vividly an incident in 1975 which opened his eyes to how thin the line is between life and death.
"The [Jamaica Defence] Force had formed a squad to include traffic people, CIB (Central Intelligence Branch), Motorised Patrol, all the elements in the Force, that when we met up on a particular situation, we had people who could deal with that.
At the time, Adams said, many known criminals were driving the Ford Cortina motor vehicle.
"On Christmas Eve, we were patrolling in the Hagley Park area and being led by Tony Hewitt, who was a corporal at the time. We got information that four men travelling in a green Cortina had just robbed three places in Half-Way-Tree and they were coming down Hagley Park Road. That time the Three Miles roundabout was not what it is now. You didn't have the dual carriageway either.
He said the team set up a roadblock along the Hagley Park Road side of Three Miles, where they got further intelligence that the target vehicle was coming.
"In those days we operated with plain cars and in plain clothes. As we saw the car coming, Tony drove our car right across the road and the boys, having seen that, made a deliberate, dangerous right turn into the Nova Scotia bank premises. Immediately they ran out of the car. Initially, the boys opened fire on us. We returned the fire and three were immediately shot dead and three firearms recovered, but one of them could not be found.
"I remember that the bank premises had a number of Broad Lily trees. So a policeman named Jack and I were searching for that man. My view was that the Lilies were so thick, that one of the boys could have been hiding in there. I was in front and had my .38 gun in my right hand and as I used my left hand to turn away the Lily tree. All I heard was 'bow!' and the piece of Lily in front of me was shot off and dropped right in front [of me]. So I threw myself back, put my two hands in my lap and hauled up as close as possible my feet to my ears, making myself a smaller target. The guy was firing a 9 mm.
"In a split second when I saw the guy, I actually saw him going to pull the trigger, as he fired the shot, I shifted. Jack, who had a shotgun, eventually killed him," Adams said.
Adams also survived an onslaught by the feared gangster, Sylvester "Punky" Wint from the Jacques Road/Mountain View Avenue area in April 2000.
'Punky' was cut down by security forces during a raid, but not before he unleashed a barrage of bullets at Adams and his team when they went to his house to apprehend him. Citizens of the area claimed that Wint was innocent and two days after, gunmen murdered two policemen in the area, one of them the former Constabulary Communication Network corporal Roland Layne.

Adams said he was also tested during another showdown with one of St Catherine's toughest gunmen, but he passed with flying colours.
"In 1997 in Spanish Town, this guy Kemel Gordon, whom they called Jackie, was in charge of all criminal activities before the Klansman and One Order people started.

"He had a gang called the Jackie Gang which operated out of Homestead, Old Harbour Road, Valdez Road. When I went to Spanish Town I went to Jackie and told him that I had intelligence that he was the man leading a gang and now that I have come, he is to stop all the gang activities, because we were going to be resolutely dealing with it.
"The boy looked at me and told me: 'Adams, you and I not staying here you know'.

"I said 'what do you mean?' and he said 'a plenty police come and have to leave and you are going to leave too, and if you don't leave then something else will take place.'

"We started investigating this guy and I remember one night they had a dance by Oxford Road and he was there blocking all the streets, although we gave instructions for him to leave the street. We didn't have the (Noise Abatement) law then. He was in a group with a lot of bad men and I just penetrated the group along with my bodyguards and I kicked him down flat on the ground, and the story from that night onward in the whole Spanish Town was that a bad policeman come here and kick down Jackie and he couldn't respond.

One night Adams was on patrol along St John's Road and Valdez Road, when he got a call that Jackie was coming on a motorcycle and he had on him a .45 Magnum and a Heckle and Koch pistol that the police had tried to find in successive raids, but never did.

"We set up a roadblock right at Valdez Road where he lived, and St John's Road. We heard that he was coming from St John's Road. We saw this bike coming at high speed and when he saw us, he just jumped off the bike, dropping it and shouted to me 'Adams a wha' dis?', and bam, bam, bam -- gunfire in my direction. When I saw him draw the gun, I threw myself to the left and the rest of the policemen opened fire at him and he was shot and killed and the two guns recovered.

"Ironically, we found a map in his pocket, with a path well drawn to my house in St Jago Heights marked 'Adams house'," said the decorated crime fighter, who also survived mortar and grenade attacks from rebels when he went to the African country of Namibia as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission in 1989.

Having had to face the fury of other gunmen including the feared Starsky, Sandokhan, Nathaniel "Natty" Morgan from Riverton City, "Geego" Gordon from Seaview Gardens, and another Spanish Town gangster called F.... Up, who used to pull off a robbery every Tuesday night for an extended period, Adams is now enjoying another phase of his life — running his security business and caring for those close to him.


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Bwoy Adams cyan hype up di Tivoli ting eeeh

Wat a lyad...nuh true Sass??

[Assasin]

A wonder if you read the whole thing?

[Don1]

Yes...80% bout Tivoli.... bayh hype

[Mosiah]

He is a lyad!

"We were then taken to a place in Braeton on Fifth Seal Way, where we encircled the house. I rapped on the window, said 'I am Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams I am here to execute a warrant'. At that time three shots zipped past my face and we had to take cover. My men started to 'pepper' the place and when the shooting ended, we found the men dead in the house. It was luck that saved me, as if I was standing right in front of the window when I called out to them inside, I would have been killed."

LIES!

[Jawge]

Were you there?

[Hortical]

The evidence was overwhelming & those young men were killed in cold blood.

[Reggaedoc]

Oh those lovely angels. Killed in cold blood. BTW wasn't Adams tried and found not guilty. I can't remember the details.

[Lazie]

Oh those lovely angels. Killed in cold blood. BTW wasn't Adams tried and found not guilty. I can't remember the details.

Adams should be sharing a cell with Zeeks. Is not everybody found not guilty is innocent. No matter how damaging the evidence certain ppl not getting convicted in Jamaica. Adams is one and that pastor is another.

The words of Shanice Stoddart went in vain. Now he can walk around calling others coward? The nerve.

[Don1]

This piece shows how enormously corrupt this DayWalking Vampire Seaga was/is...

1. When the DayWalker is about to enter Tivoli with the 19 member police team pinned down for hours and no help can get to them...the gunfire breaks. As soon as the "community leader" Seaga is safely with his peeps...the gunfire intensifies once more

Obviously he is in touch with the criminals commanding the uprising and further...able to coordinate so they are all on the same page

2. After discussions with said criminals...the DayWalker is able to offer safe passage out of Tivoli to Adams alone...and is refused. Gunfire breaks when the DayWalker's job is done and he wants to leave.... then intensifies once more

How cool is it when the head of a major political party is able to consort and coordinate activities with criminals in this fashion CONCURRENTLY with them engaging in a gun battle with police ... noice!!

This is a guy who should be charged with sedition... instead he's a hero for some

[Gamma]

can someone get a copy of his infamous "list" to col mcmillan?

[Don1]

That would be noice...his list of friends with whom he had a falling out would be good to see now