Christopher Coke

If you may or may not know Jamaican drug lord and leader of the Shower Posse gang (Tivoli Gardens), Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, 42 son of  accused drug lord Lester Lloyd Coke (aka Jim Brown, died at the General Penitentiary in 1992 ) is wanted by the  United States on drug and gun-trafficking charges, is now on the run.   Citizens of Kingston, Jamiaica have been reiting for the past 5 days. security forces raided Kingston projects looking for Coke, but came up empty handed.  Police detained 980 Jamaicans, which have been released in the recent days police said today.  So far, 70 civilians and three security officers are listed by the government as killed during the fighting.  Deputy Police Commissioner Charles Scarlett said about 10 criminal suspects were still being detained at a lockup but have not yet been charged. Rumors are widespread that gunmen loyal to Coke managed to escape Tivoli Gardens through drainage sluices in gullies that crisscross the impoverished communities of West Kingston. Col. Coke has ties to Prime Minister Bruce Golding's Labour Party, which gets a large number of votes from the Tivoli Gardens area Golding represents in parliament. As a community "don," he provides services and protection to the poor West Kingston community — all funded by a criminal empire that seemed untouchable until the U.S. demanded his extradition. U.S. authorities say he has been trafficking cocaine to the streets of New York City since the mid-1990s, allegedly hiring island women to hide the drugs on themselves on flights to the U.S.  Golding had stonewalled the U.S. extradition request for nine months, straining relations. A U.S. State Department report earlier this year questioned the Caribbean island's reliability as an ally in the war against drugs. The violence erupted about a week after Golding said he would not oppose extradition any longer.  A U.S. law enforcement official in New York said a lawyer for Coke has been in negotiations with the U.S. Justice Department about his client's possible safe removal to New York to face charges. Coke's legal troubles date back to 2009, when he was charged with murder after he allegedly shot and killed Michael Porter at the Metropolitan Bus Terminus in downtown Kingston.