The Tribune

By SANCHESKA BROWN

Tribune Staff Reporter

sbrown@tribunemedia.net

ASSISTANT Commissioner of Police Stephen Seymour said police are “actively seeking” the person or persons responsible for death threats posted on Facebook under the guise of being one of New Providence’s most dangerous gangs.

Speaking with the press, ACP Seymour confirmed that police have launched an investigation after the “One Order” gang Facebook page was created, which allegedly claimed responsibility for one of the country’s latest murders and threatened to “kill” two other men “by next week”.

The Facebook page, called “Oneorder Gangg Gangg” (sic) 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 has since been removed.

However, ACP Seymour said police will not rest until the culprit is arrested because the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) takes “these kind of threats very seriously”.

“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.

“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.”

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.