Cops say solid info led them to Prekeh

Reputed gangster Delano 'Prekeh' Wilmot, who was killed in an early morning gunfight with security forces yesterday, was seemingly found using leaked information from within his gang.

According to a well-placed police source, a member of the gang was recently picked up by the police and in grilling him, the police were provided with crucial information, to include the gangster's secret hideaway, which was unknown to even some members of the gang.

"The information we got about the hideout proved to be rock solid as once we hit the ground, we knew we were at the right place," Superintendent Vernon Ellis, the commander of the St James police, told THE STAR. "Instead of surrendering, he challenged the security forces to a gunfight and went out in a blaze of glory."

Wilmot, who started his criminal escapade as part of the notorious Ratty gang, which was led by the now-deceased Ryan 'Ratty' Peterkin, broke away from the gang some four years ago and has allegedly been operating as a contract killer and leader of a gang he created.

Cave network

After surviving at least four gunfights with the police, he surged to prominence in 2018 when he led an ambush against a military patrol, shooting and injuring three soldiers.

Despite numerous operations to capture him in the bushes surrounding Cambridge, his knowledge of the cave network helped him to evade capture.

With Wilmot now dead, Ellis said the police would be intensifying their drive to round-up the other members of the gang, adding that no effort would be spared in ensuring that the gang doesn't reconstitute itself with a new leader.

"We have already identified the man who was Prekeh's right-hand man and while we will not disclose all we know about him, we know he is from the Cambridge area and has '666' tattooed across his chest," said Ellis.

With the recent arrest of several members of the 05 gang (in Catherine Mount), who were implicated in an international drug-smuggling ring, the arrest of some top members of the Uptown Sparta gang (in Flanker), and now the killing of Wilmot, Ellis is appealing to all the wanted men "to have either family members, pastors or justices of peace take them in because failing to do so will leave us no choice but to come and get them."