Shower Posse gang leader arrives today
Published:Thursday | January 29, 2009 | 2:28 PM
Vivian Blake, the reputed leader of the notorious Shower Posse gang in the United States returns to Jamaica this afternoon.
He’s to arrive at the Norman Manley International Airport aboard a special US martial flight.
Our sources say Blake will be met by top local detectives and taken to a Kingston-based security facility for processing, before he’s released.
Shower Posse is a criminal organisation, which started in Tivoli Gardens, Kingston before establishing bases in several US, Canadian and British cities.
In 2000, Blake was sentenced to 28 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to racketeering and criminal conspiracy.
He made a plea bargain deal, with US law enforcement authority, which resulted in the time he served while in Jamaica being accepted as part of his sentence.
Blake had returned to Jamaica from the US in December 1988 after escaping a dragnet and he spent the next five years fighting extradition.
The American Government had accused him of ordering numerous murders, drug trafficking and other serious crimes.
The Shower Posse gang is said to have murdered more than 1400 persons in the United States
The gang is alleged to have major drug operations in New York, Miami, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Alaska, Washington D C, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Montreal, Toronto and London.