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MIAMI. They call themselves the Shower Posse because they are known for unleashing torrents of machine-gun fire in the course of business. The Miami- based Shower gang is the largest of some 30 so-called posses across the U.S. that have been set up by illegal Jamaican aliens. With branches in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Kansas City, Dallas, Washington and other large cities, the Jamaican network has come to dominate the U.S. crack trade in the past two years. Sporting such fanciful nicknames as "Tivoli Gardens," "Bushmouth" and "Superstar," the posses currently have more than...
Even by gangland standards, the Jamaican dealers are uncommonly vicious. Since the late '70s, the Jamaicans have been implicated in as many as 800 murders nationwide; an estimated 150 of those killings occurred in Miami alone. "If a target happens to be in a group of four or five others," says Bruce Snyder of the local office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, "too bad for the four or five others...
...north Miami shootout, posse gunmen killed a six-year-old boy on the doorstep of an ice-cream parlor. At Fort Lauderdale's Firemen's Benevolent Hall, Jamaican gang members killed one person and wounded several others when they emptied their machine guns during a reggae dance. Since witnesses are often too terrified of retaliation to testify against the gangsters, suspected posse assassins usually escape conviction...
When the posses are in need of fresh recruits, trusted "lieutenants" are sometimes dispatched back to Jamaica's shantytowns. There the gangsters flaunt fancy cars and flash wads of cash to entice impoverished youths. In recent months Jamaican police have noticed an exodus of young men from east Kingston neighborhoods. It doesn't take a sleuth to deduce their ultimate destination...
...many memories," mused Freddie Powell, the Jamaican bobsledder, "so many friends." As the Olympic Village was emptying and students at the University of Calgary were retaking their campus (and planning a "Tear Down the Fences Party"), the last looks at the XVth Winter Games were long and longing...