Jamaica Salt

Clean shaven Dudus

So Christopher Coke is in police custody after the police on the checkpoint at Nelson Mandela Highway recognised him with the Rev Al Miller.

The Reverend - who is an influential church leader – was escorting Dudus to the US embassy in Liguenea at the time.  He had helped hand over his brother Leighton (who surrendered at Half Way Tree police station) and sister Sandy too.

The negotiations to hand himself in had been well reported before the killings in Tivoli Gardens which left 74 people dead (Seaga says the number is 150).

The fear was that he would die in police custody, like his father Lestor Coke aka Jim Brown who died in a suspicious prison fire as he was awaiting extradition to the US.

A soldier secures a helmet on ‘Dudus’ at the Spanish Town Police Station yesterday afternoon shortly after being captured. photo in Jamaica Observer

Now the police want Rev Al Miller as they seem to be upset that they were going to be bypassed altogether.  It seems Dudus was in Kingston and surrounds all this time – as were his family.  The police didn’t find him, although they are trying to say that there was “intelligence” which led to his capture.  The facts are that he was arrested on the way to handing himself in. Kingston is not that big.

Now police Cssr Ellington wants Rev Al Miller – but the police let him go at the time and he had plenty of opportunity to question him following the surrender of the brother and sister, why didn’t he talk to him then?

The cunning Dudus disguise

A little bit of comedy in all this, is that the police say they found him wearing this disguise – a wig and fake glasses.  It seems funny that a man who is supposed to be an allleged mastermind of a gang worth millions should choose this little disguise.  Some might have fled to S America and had plastic surgery, Dudus stays in Kingston dressed like a swiss boy.

Dudus faces life in prison in the US if convicted of the drug and gun charges against him.  it will be interesting to see what he says when he gets there – is he going to spill the beans on PM Bruce Golding?