But a frustrated constable working the beat in the Eastern Division
has complained that his seniors are ignoring well-known cocaine
blocks along the East-west Corridor, pointing to a recent murder
in the Beetham, which stemmed from a drug war between men from Eastern
Quarry and the Beetham.
“This drug man in the East even had his close people telling
your newspaper that he’s not a gang member, when that is far
from the truth, as everyone who lives in the nightmare that La Horquetta
has become, knows now,” the Eastern Division cop told TnT
Mirror.
“A couple of months ago, some fellas just crawl up on a man
named Mr. P who was selling cocaine by the new La Horquetta Mall,
which the NHA has just finished building.
“They ‘light’ up the place.
“Mr. P run for his life and only one teenager defended it
and make the shooters run for cover, also.
“Sometime after that incident the fellas showed up again,
but this time Mr. P was there to defend his turf along with the
other teenagers who hang around his block,” he added.
“At that time, their claim was that a youth man was recently
killed in Malabar and that Mr. P was responsible for doing that.
“Both sides of La Horquetta Phase One and Two are selling
cocaine: the shooting is a straight case of Mr. P setting up these
fellas to intimidate Phase One, under a cellphone story,”
the angry policeman noted.
“The police are helpless even though the neighbours complain
that the drug pushers are doing their thing in broad daylight.
“People say they are tired of complaining to the police because
he’s been allowed to carry on for the past two years.
“We know the security guards at the spanking new mall cannot
do anything because they say it is not their duty to handle stuff
like that, so people must call the police.
The cop continued: “There was a separate incident in the Beetham
with a killing in the block they call Baghdad.
“This man blocked off a piece of apartment in what is known
as a pension quarters where old people are supposed to be.
“He closed off the area around a corner apartment with galvanise,
in full glare of the police. So they condoned one wrong thing.
“His intention was to sell cocaine and weed and he was supplied
by a bigger druglord who also lived in the Beetham.
“Across in the Eastern Quarry there’s shooting and killing,
like normal,” the cop noted.
“Well, we know that they went over and robbed that area called
Baghdad a few weeks before this murder which I am about to explain,”
he said.
“But the man who was running the cocaine block in Baghdad
has been seeing the bandits and was brave enough to make all kinds
of shooting signs and send threats,” he further explained.
“They were warned they cannot handle the people from Eastern
Quarry who have been killing for years; they got advice and did
not listen.
“Well the fellas could not take the threats anymore. One man
went over to the Beetham, while the other watched the shooter’s
back.
“He shot the man while he was playing a game of cards and
walked away calmly asking people, ‘What all yuh looking at
we for’?
“They came down with two brand new .38 revolvers.
“It was a straight case of revenge because since they opened
the block in the Beetham, they have been selling fast because drug
users and pipers do not bother to go over the hill to the Quarry
and that had been hurting the turf in the Quarry,” he stated.
“The senior officers know about all these things but they
prefer to let the men shoot and kill one another,” he confessed.
“However, the backlash to this is that the gunmen are walking
around freely, as if they have a licence to kill and that is nobody’s
fault but the police.
“Just check out how they move in the Beetham,” he said.
“Sometimes when I see my colleagues who are working with the
Special Anti-Crime Unit, show up after these murders, I feel ashamed
as a cop; because I know they are only showing force.
“They do not use their intelligence and now we are seeing
a resurgence of drug-related murders.
That is something to keep an eye on,” the cop cautioned.
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