An entertainer from St Paul Street, Port of Spain is alleging that police arrested him and took him to a rival area, hoping to trade him off. Here's the story.
00:00 A man called an entertainer from St. Paul Street, Porto, Spain, is tonight alleging that police arrested him and took him to a rival area, hoping to trade him off. Here's the story.
00:12 Brent Thomas grew up in children's homes. Since then, the only other place he has called home is St. Paul Street.
00:21 I never see my family. I think I be in homes and things and grew up in homes and never see my family months and years.
00:34 Why you end up in St. Paul then?
00:38 When I get released out of BIS and you know, it comes down to my tongue.
00:46 Thomas is an entertainer who goes by the subrogate Jan Crew. He has over 16,000 followers on Instagram.
00:54 On Saturday 20th of January, he said he was liming when he was held by an officer from the St. Bob's Police Station.
01:02 It come by my head, bus come by my ears, you know, beat me. You know. How did that happen? It happened while he was, when he picked me up from St. Paul Street. After he picked me up from St. Paul Street, the arm torture started to happen.
01:23 He tells us he's not sure why he was arrested but believes it was related to a previous incident.
01:30 Sometime he come down here, put some kind of bus down and I curse him out the mother and one of the partners he was going around, you know, lady man and I curse him out the mother and run off.
01:45 And like he remember me and come back for me.
01:48 According to Thomas, police then took him to a known rival community.
01:53 He caught me on wrong street, right? I see my boss, grumpy boss. I see Precious and all of them. You know me, I'm not coming out the jeep.
02:03 They must have dragged me out the jeep. I not tell you drag, they drag me out the jeep.
02:09 But nobody let me because they are wrong men, that's all wrong men are.
02:17 I run back in the jeep because I don't want to be on the victim. I know it's a sex, it's a big sex.
02:26 But it's just because I'm a dog rebel. You see rebel, rebel is what? You know a boy like, a brother.
02:36 So what Plumpy to give them a rifle for them, for me in a way. I don't know.
02:43 And what was their response? Plumpy was saying, Plumpy was like, nah that drunk crew man, that run it up boss.
02:53 Thomas tells us he was then brought back to St. Paul Street where officers instructed him to help them find guns.
03:00 He believes he would have been a dead man had there not been witnesses who saw when he was taken into police custody.
03:08 Thomas said he was taken to the police station where he was held before being released on Monday evening without being charged.
03:17 The Port of Spain CID when contacted, they say Thomas is an affiliate of the Six Gang and he lives at the home of the alleged leader.
03:26 They say he was held at about 9.15pm on Saturday on St. Paul Street.
03:32 A search conducted, the police say, showed he was not in possession of anything illegal and nothing illegal was found in the close proximity.
03:41 Police say he is wanted in relation with recent reports of shootings in the Port of Spain area.
03:48 He was taken, according to police, to the Bezos Street Police Station where he was interviewed by the intelligence and the gang units over the course of Sunday and Monday before he was released.
03:58 Police say Thomas has been charged for several offences and has been convicted.
04:03 He also, according to police, has matters before the court.
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