Joel Andem, the leader of the feared Joel Andem gang and the man at the top of the police's most wanted list for the past four years, was yesterday captured during a pre-dawn operation by police and soldiers in Clarksonville, a quiet community deep in St Ann near the border with Clarendon.
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The gang leader, who was handcuffed and whose mouth was taped, was then taken to the New Horizon Remand Centre where he was last night interrogated by senior detectives from the CIB.
It was, however, not clear yesterday when Andem would appear in court.
"We are now going to sit down and try to combine forensic and human evidence to build a case against him in the courts," said deputy police commissioner Lucius Thomas.
The two adults who were in the house with Andem at the time of his capture were taken into custody and could be charged with harbouring a criminal, police said yesterday.
Andem, 40, was wanted by the police for murder, rape, extortion, kidnapping and robbery. His capture came after months of intelligence gathering by members of the Military Intelligence Unit and the Special Anti-Crime Task Force, an elite unit in the police force led by tough crime-fighter Senior Superintendent Donald Pusey.
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