After two months away, deejay Bounty Killer, real name Rodney Price, is to return to the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court tomorrow, to find out whether the assault case against him will be dropped or will proceed to trial.

The deejay, who was charged after being accused of beating up his girlfriend after she decided to end their relationship, was ordered to go through mediation after the complainant indicated to the court, on the last occasion, that this was the route she wanted to take.
It is alleged that on the night in question the accused dragged the complainant into his vehicle after seeing her at a nightclub, took her to his house and questioned her about the termination of their relationship. The allegations further indicated that he slapped her across the face several times causing her to fall in his bed.
While in his bed, it is alleged that the accused used his knees to pin her down in the bed and slapped her across the face again, then sat in her stomach. Price was arrested and charged on April 5.
Price had pleaded guilty to the charge but the complainant, who had indicated that she wanted to work things out with the deejay, told Resident Magistrate Georgianna Fraser on the last court date that she wanted mediation.
Even though the RM did not agree, the request was granted for the case to return tomorrow. At that time, the RM will decide if the matter will be dismissed, based on mediation. The deejay spent almost one week in jail before being granted bail.
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He was the Robin Hood- like ganja-for- guns gangster who wielded bloody and fearsome power in Jamaica, authorities say. But the rise of drug lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke may have had its start with a business snub from the eldest son of reggae legend Bob Marley.
Last week, Coke was finally brought to the United States to face weapons charges that could jail him for life, ending weeks of murderous riots that claimed 76 lives when police tried to arrest him.
In the early 1990s, as Coke allegedly took the reins of the family business in the Jamaican slums of Tivoli Gardens, there was one deal that ignited his rage, according to “Born Fi’ Dead” author Laurie Gunst. Ziggy Marley, Bob’s now-41-year-old son, was building a studio almost on the border of Coke’s territory, trying to provide aspiring musicians with a community base.
“Ziggy didn’t give the construction work to Dudus and his posse, so the Tivoli don was taking his revenge,” Gunst wrote. A series of killings cowed Marley, just as it expanded Dudus’ territory and consolidated his rule.
Coke’s rise in the underworld was swift — and deadly, authorities say.
His father, Lester — known as “Jim Brown” — was the architect of the Jamaican crime dynasty, twisted from a quiet, soccer-loving boy into a “bad, bad man” after surviving a shooting in his teens, a childhood friend told The Gleaner newspaper. “That’s when everything changed.”
The elder man fashioned his “Shower Posse” — so-named for spraying victims with bullets — into a drug-dealing conglomerate that employed his three sons. The youngest was Christopher, who earned his nickname “Dudus” — pronounced DUD-us — because he wore an African-style shirt favored by Jamaican World War II hero and Cabinet minister Dudley Thompson.
“It’s basically a family thing — gangster royalty,” said a law-enforcement source familiar with the Coke clan.
The gang rose to prominence on fear and intimidation, gaining a reputation for killing at the slightest offense.
US investigators believe the Shower Posse was responsible for approximately 1,400 drug-related slayings in the United States during the 1980s drug wars.
DUDUS, born Michael Christopher Coke in 1969, “had a brother named Jah T, who was sort of slated to take over but he was subsequently murdered in a shootout,” the source said. “There was another brother, Chris Royal. He also died in a shootout.”
Their sister was also gunned down. The father was still in charge in 1992 when the United States indicted him on conspiracy charges and he was arrested in Jamaica.
The day before he was set to be extradited, “his jail cell went up in flames and he died,” said the law-enforcement source. The violent mystery was never solved and no one was ever charged.
With no one else to take over, Dudus grabbed control of the family business — and soon became one of the world’s most dangerous drug lords, according to the Justice Department.
And, like the American gangsters of the ’20s and ’30s, he operated in the background, without flash or bling, forging loyalties, eliminating competitors and raking in millions.
Starting in 1994, the Shower Posse sold drugs by the ton, according to Coke’s indictment, unsealed in May. One investigator estimated that the gang smuggled at least 2,200 pounds of marijuana — and almost as much cocaine — into the United States.
The pot, a mix of ultra-potent Jamaican and Mexican varieties, also got shipped to markets around the world.
“It’s global,” said the investigator. “It’s pretty much anywhere you find Jamaican communities — the UK, Canada and the United States.”
The gang was open to creative payment plans — cash was good, of course, but it also accepted guns, electronics and even clothing as ” ‘tribute’ payments, in recognition of [Coke’s] leadership and assistance,” the indictment says.
For sneaking the product into the United States, Dudus preferred that his “mules” be female.
One Jamaican woman traveled to New York as a tourist, to buy clothes to sell back home — and was ordered by Dudus to carry cocaine hidden in her body.
“If the girls refuse to do so, then their businesses will be threatened and the clothing they sell and the money they earn will be stolen,” the woman told investigators.
All this information was gleaned from years of investigative work, which included phone taps that recorded Dudus arranging shipments of drugs and handguns.
But Coke isn’t just an alleged kingpin — he’s a folk hero in the slums of Kingston, where citizens revere him for providing handouts to the poorest of the poor, neighborhood security and jobs through his legitimate businesses, including a music-event company.
He’s also credited with helping to keep law and order by using his clout to punish crooks in an area where the government has little presence.
“He lives in a poor area, and because of his sale of cocaine, he basically plays the Robin Hood role,” Jamaican-born lawyer David Rowe, a University of Miami adjunct professor, told CNN
“After God, then Dudus,” one resident scrawled on a sign during the bloody manhunt for Coke. “Jesus died for us, so we will die for Dudus,” another sign declared.
It’s no accident that this jovial, stocky 42-year-old kingpin — called “the president” and “the general” by his admirers — sounds and acts much like “Dapper Don” John Gotti. Like the late mob don, Dudus appears the devoted father and community patriarch — as kindhearted to his neighbors as he is deadly to rivals, ruling a global empire from a sprawling white mansion with purple roof and awnings, nestled amid squalor.
That two-story hilltop compound is where Coke plotted his political cover, supporting the prime minister’s Labor Party and getting back millions in government grants for his firms after swinging the election for Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding by delivering the slum vote.
It’s also where Coke and his Shower Posse schemed to swamp New York with huge quantities of marijuana and cocaine, some sold in exchange for high-caliber American weapons used on the island to eliminate threats to Coke’s fiefdom, law-enforcement sources said.
“To an outsider, it might look like, ‘Damn, these guys are mean!’ But being from Jamaica, you see it growing up. You see it all your life,” one native arrested in New York told author Gunst. “I think maybe Hollywood had a part in the ‘rude boy’ thing, with the movies they put out, like certain Westerns. Jamaicans act out a lot of that stuff, want to be tough like outlaws.”
BECAUSE of Dudus’ po litical clout and sup port, Jamaican authorities waffled for months about whether to extradite Coke. But Prime Minister Golding finally gave into US pressure last month. His men headed to Dudus’ compound — and straight into a nightmare.
The slums rebelled. Re sisters piled junk cars onto roads, rigging them with homemade bombs or electric wires. Gang sters shot up police stations. Civilians flooded the streets.
“They don’t know, if he’s extradited, who will be there for them,” Professor Rowe said. “There are mothers wondering, ‘Who’s going to buy my child lunch?’ or ‘If I get sick, who’s going to pay my hospital bills?’ ”
Police responded with brutal abandon, killing more than 70 people — some of whom were dragged into the streets and shot dead, their bodies left to rot, locals said.
Helana Pinnes, an elderly resident of Tivoli Gardens, said she saw army forces shoot two young men at a house across the street.
“They take them out of that house. They take them out and kill them,” she told the Guardian of London. “There wasn’t a shootout with anybody.”
Another witness, Timothy Macintosh, said soldiers fired at unarmed residents. “Most of these people that died, they didn’t fight,” he said.
After five days of the siege, the United States warned Americans not to travel to Jamaica — potentially a crippling blow to the nation’s economy — and the government gave up its search for the elusive drug lord.
On Wednesday, police finally prevailed.
Dudus had donned a comical, curly wig and was riding with a pal, the Rev. Al Miller, in a section of Kingston when the vehicle was pulled over at a checkpoint and he was arrested.
Coke claimed he was on his way to the US Embassy to surrender. On Friday, he pleaded not guilty in Manhattan Federal Court. He faces life in prison.
Once in the United States — hauled here by the DEA in a Learjet — Dudus claimed regret at the lives lost in the fighting during the search for him.

“I take this decision, for I now believe it to be in the best interest of my family, the community of western Kingston, and in particular the people of Tivoli Gardens and, above all, Jamaica,” he said

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‘Dudus wet himself’
Cop says former Tivoli strongman showed fear when captured
BY INVESTIGATIVE COVERAGE UNIT [email protected]
Sunday, June 27, 2010
FORMER Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke wet his trousers when he ran into a group of policemen who took him into custody while he travelled with religious leader Rev Merrick ‘Al’ Miller in St Catherine last Tuesday, one law enforcer told the Sunday Observer.

Coke, 42, who is accused of being the leader of the ruthless Shower Posse, was travelling with Rev Miller along the Mandela Highway when police intercepted the sports utility vehicle, allowed Miller to leave and took Coke initially to the Spanish Town Police Station and later to Up Park Camp, the army’s headquarters in Kingston.
A Jamaica Defence Force soldier secures a ballistc helmet on the head of Christopher ‘Dudus’ at the Spanish Town Police Station yesterday afternoon shortly after Coke was captured by police.
Miller was later charged with one count each of harbouring a fugitive and perverting the course of justice.
“The man p… up himself when him see the police,” one member of the party which intercepted the vehicle told the Sunday Observer on condition that his name is not mentioned.
“Him just look so frighten with this wig and the woman glasses that you would never believe this was the same man who everybody say is bad and mighty,” added the cop.
“He wasn’t sweating and the vehicle had the air condition on, so you could clearly see the impression on his pants that some wetting was going on when we took him out. Rain was in the area, but it wasn’t caused from that,” the policeman said.
Deputy Superintendent of Police assigned to the constabulary’s National Intelligence Centre Kevin Blake was non-committal when the Sunday Observer asked him about the matter last Friday, offering only that: “Well, let us say that it is the rainy season.”
The wetting of trousers is nothing new to wanted men. Kevin Tyndale, better known as Richie Poo, reportedly wet himself when he was captured by police on February 12, 2005.
Tyndale became head of the Gideon Warriors gang, based in Papine, eastern St Andrew, after the capture of its former leader Joel Andem in May 2004.
“He wet his pants,” a policeman who took part in the operation told the Sunday Observer at the time. “It was amazing to see a man whose name drives fear into many hearts, begging and pleading for his life,” added the policeman who did not wish to be named.
“Even after he was handcuffed he kept begging the officers not to kill him, and when he was taken to the lock-up he thanked the police for not killing him,” the cop added.
Tyndale — who was a suspect in 19 major crimes including murder, shootings and robberies — was accused of killing 56-year-old Ena Grant while she worshipped at a church in Land Lease, St Andrew, in June 2004. Police and eyewitness reports at the time said he entered the church, pointed the gun at the senior citizen, pulled the trigger, but the gun misfired. Amid the chaos that ensued, with worshippers fleeing, Tyndale corrected the problem on the firearm and shot Grant dead.
He was later convicted of murder, for which he was given a life sentence.He was also found guilty of wounding with intent, illegal possession of firearm and shooting with intent, and received separate sentences.
“It is a normal human reaction,” said noted psychiatrist Dr Aggrey Irons in an interview.
“Such a situation is based on a lack of control… when there is a serious autonomic response, the autonomic nervous system just does that,” he said. “It is not because you are a coward, but something happens at the time that raises your level of awareness very suddenly.”
A medical doctor who opted for anonymity said that it was a natural reaction for something like that to occur, if that were the case with Coke.
“It can happen to normal individuals… the suddenness of that situation, where all the muscles relax and you lose control,” said the doctor. “Under normal circumstances when you do not urinate on yourself, it is because your brain is sending out signals of control. It happens all the while to people who are fearful… it is a phobia.”
Tyndale’s predecessor Andem, was also reported by the police as showing signs of nervousness when he was captured.
“He was trembling like a badly-tuned truck,” police superintendent Donald Pusey told the Observer at the time
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