Christopher Dudus’ Coke ran like a ‘puss’-Fugitive’s associate says Coke bolted after first explosion
FUGITIVE Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke took off faster than a cat when
soldiers began pounding his West Kingston enclave of Tivoli Gardens
early on Labour Day, May 24, an associate of the dethroned self-styled
area leader told the Observer.
“The man tek off like a puss when him hear the first bum (bomb) drop,”
the associate said of his former leader, who has been on the run since
May 17 after a warrant was issued for his arrest in relation to an
extradition matter.
Coke, 42, the adopted son of another former Tivoli
Gardens ‘don’, Lester Lloyd Coke, otherwise called Jim Brown, is wanted
by the United States to answer charges related to drug trafficking and
gunrunning. He has been successful in evading a forceful dragnet
established by the security forces and remains Jamaica’s most wanted
man.
Coke is said to be leader of the infamous Shower Posse, a gang that has
its roots in the United States (US) and which is responsible for the
murder of over 1,600 people during the cocaine wars of the 1980s.
Victims were often sprayed with bullets, a practice from which the
gang’s name was derived, US law enforcers said.
Police and soldiers launched a highprofile assault on Coke’s Tivoli
Gardens base a day after two policemen were killed in the Mountain View
area, east of the Jamaica capital, and several police stations either
burnt to the ground, or used as shooting practice by criminals who
sprayed their walls, windows and doors with bullets.
But Coke, who was in Tivoli Gardens when the clashes began, quickly
jumped ship, leaving behind some of his fighters. When the smoke
cleared almost three days later, police reported that 73 civilians and
a soldier were killed, figures that may be adjusted, according to head
of the constabulary, Commissioner Owen Ellington, as investigations
showed that some bodies were found outside of Tivoli Gardens.
“Him just tek off so and lef’ everybody,” the associate said on the
weekend. “The man move so fast that not even lightning coulda ketch
him.”
Asked where he thought ‘Dudus’ went and which escape route he took out
of Tivoli Gardens, the associate said that he was not sure.
Source: the Observer
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