Witness: Blackman, City Puss tied to multiple cell numbers
Published:Thursday | May 5, 2022 | 12:14 AM
An expert witness has disclosed that phone record data showed that incarcerated alleged Clansman-One Don Gang honchos Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan and Jason ‘City Puss’ Brown had at least four different cell numbers between January and August of 2019.
The police sergeant, who is assigned to the Communication Forensic and Cybercrime Division as a communications analyst, made the disclosure while giving evidence about call data records, text messages, and subscriber and cell site information he had collected from the two main telecommunications service providers and analysed.
The 25-year police veteran, who started giving his testimony Wednesday in the trial of 33 alleged members of the criminal organisation in the Home Circuit Court, referred to calls being placed by a number identified as Teacher 4 and another as City 4, which was the receiver in a separate instance.
The court was previously told that Teacher was one of Bryan’s nicknames.
The cop, while presenting the details, explained that the digit ‘4’ referenced the number of phone numbers associated with the suspected gangsters.
He further shared that he was able to attribute names and aliases to the callers and receivers based on text messages, witness statements, subscriber information, and the contact list that were in the three cell phones used by a gang member-turned-Crown witness to secretly record conversations with alleged gang members.
Bryan has been in custody since 2018. Brown was convicted in 2012 on a murder charge along with alleged gang member Ricardo ‘Devil Youth’ Lawrence and sentenced to 25 years to life.
Both men were found guilty of the 2005 murder of Errol ‘Crackers’ Miller on Monk Street in Spanish Town, St Catherine.
Brown had, however, maintained his innocence, claiming that the two main witnesses, who he claimed are affiliates of the Clansman Gang, implicated him because he had refused to join the criminal organisation and participate in extortion.
He was, however, heard in the secret recordings played in court detailing how he had coerced persons from behind bars to pay over extortion monies to the gang.
In the meantime, the witness, during his testimony, also shared that there were several calls between the two ex-gang members who are the prosecution’s main witnesses and some of the defendants.
The witness will continue giving evidence today when the trial is resumed before Chief Justice Bryan Sykes.