The Tribune

By AVA TURNQUEST

Tribune Chief Reporter

aturnquest@tribunemedia.net

POLICE have arrested four men in connection with death threats posted on Facebook against a senior police officer.

Assistant Commissioner of Police Stephen Dean confirmed yesterday that the arrests were the result of an intense search to find the persons responsible for the crime.

The threats were posted on a Facebook page purportedly created by one of New Providence’s most dangerous gangs, “One Order”.

On Wednesday, police arrested a 20-year-old man, two 22-year-old men, and a 30-year-old man for questioning on the death threats.

ACP Dean said: “Police initiated an investigation after several recordings of a group of males threatening to kill a senior police officer were publicly posted on social media. The investigation led to the arrest of the suspects by officers from the Flying Squad on Wednesday.”

He declined to comment further on the matter.

The newly created Facebook page, called “Oneorder Gangg Gangg” (sic) came on the police’s radar this week after it posted pictures of a man who was recently killed in Nassau Village with the caption “We killed this one yesterday.” In another post, the administrator of the page threatened to kill a man “this week or next week” for “snitching to the police”.

The page also posted pictures of persons allegedly in a rival gang, threatening their lives.

The page appeared to have been removed on Tuesday, but resurfaced the following day with death threats against Assistant Commissioner of Police Stephen Seymour and his family.

ACP Seymour spoke with reporters on Monday concerning the social media page, insisting that police would not rest until the culprit/s responsible were arrested.

“We are very, very concerned about the pictures that have been circulating and I can promise you that we will find those persons and take them into custody and carry them before the courts for the foolishness people are doing on Facebook,” ACP Seymour said on Monday night.

“We got complaints and we will address them and get these people off the streets. We will not tolerate people putting these things on Facebook. We don’t play.”

The police have actively pursued illegal activity on social media in recent months.

In August, police arrested a 26-year-old man after several photos of him posing with handguns and suspected marijuana along with an infant surfaced on social media.

That same month, police arrested a 20-year-old woman for questioning over firearms possession in response to a recent social media posting of a female posing with a high-powered assault rifle.