Tefari Green, otherwise called Scoobs or Scrappy, 39, charged with being the leader of the Genasyde criminal organisation.

The Jamaica Constabulary Force, JCF, has dealt a potentially mortal blow to one of the most destructive gangs operating in the country.

This after they announced the arrests of 18 men and one woman linked to the Genasyde Gang.

Among those arrested is the reputed leader, 39-year-old Tefari Green, otherwise called Scoobs or Scrappy. Green is in jail on another matter but according to the police has continued his reign of terror despite being behind bars.

The 19 people are mostly from the area of Parade Gardens known as Tel-a-Viv. But a bloody conflict with the Darksyde gang – based in the Southside area of the community – spilled over onto the streets of the corporate area and onto the streets of New York.

Genasyde developed as a splinter group after a murderous war between Southside and Tel-a-Viv ended in 2008.

After the 2010 incursion into Tivoli Gardens, the previous leader of the Tel-a-Viv gang abdicated the position, leading to an internal turf war.

It’s from those ashes that community sources say Scoobs emerged as the undisputed leader of the gang that became Genasyde.

Now Scoobs – a man who is incarcerated – is charged with being the leader of a criminal organisation.

Scoobs, during his time in prison, extended his reach across the country leading to connections with criminals in St Catherine, St. Thomas, St Andrew and the United States.

Charged with being part of a criminal organisation are:

Thirty-year-old Damion Taylor, otherwise called ‘Demon’, of Park Lane, Kingston;

Twenty-one-year-old Tywaine Campbell, otherwise ‘Likkle Bredda’, of Hanover Street, Kingston;

Thirty-three-year-old Andrew Atkins, otherwise called ‘Serial’, of Georges Lane, Kingston;

Twenty-eight-year-old Terrence Grant, ‘Grabba’ from Snowden Avenue, Kingston;

Thirty-three-year-old Mashel Ward, otherwise called ‘Feeky’ from Sunrise Crescent, Kingston;

Thirty-six-year-old Andre Wright, otherwise called ‘Son Son’ of Falcon Road, Phase Two, Seaview Gardens, Kingston;

Twenty-year-old Reko Hylton, otherwise called ‘Moppa’, of Sunrise Crescent, St. Andrew;

Thirty-eight-year-old Kemar Clarke, otherwise called ‘Boomi’, of Sunrise Crescent, Kingston;

Ian Johnson, otherwise called ‘Yankee’, of Pretoria Road, Kingston 13;

Forty-two-year-old Cranston Hutchinson of Law Street, Kingston;

Twenty-eight-year-old Nicquan Thomas of 11 Miles Bull Bay, St Thomas;

Twenty-seven-year-old Kymani Griffiths, otherwise called ‘Rilly’, of 11 Miles Bull Bay, St Thomas;

Twenty-year-old Dujuan Dixon, otherwise called ‘Bunno’, of Monk Street, Spanish Town St Catherine;

Twenty-nine-year-old Jermaine Senior of Park Lane, Kingston;

Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Annon of Park Lane, Red Hills Road, Kingston;

And 34-year-old Jaylee Henry of Banks, Sunrise Crescent and Red Hills Road, Kingston.

Meanwhile, Nicholas Henry, otherwise called ‘Chemist’, of Mammie Road, St Andrew is charged with providing a benefit to a criminal organisation.

In a statement on Sunday, the JCF says investigations carried out by the Specialised Investigations Branch, SIB, led to all 19 being charged under the Criminal Justice (Suppression of Criminal Organisations) Act.

The police say the network engaged in a string of serious and violent crimes including murders, shootings and robberies between 2021 and 2026 in the parishes of St. James, St. Catherine, Kingston, St. Andrew and St. Thomas.

The police say the alleged gangsters were arrested in targeted operations. They were later positively identified and charged.

Deputy Superintendent of Police in charge of National Strategic Anti-Gang Division, Kevin Johnson, says the JCF will continue to go after criminal networks. He’s implore the public to partner with the police.

The gang war between the Darksyde and Genasyde gangs gained national attention in May 2021 after a high speed chase through the corporate area ended in a crash in Harbour View.

Four people linked to the Darksyde gang were arrested after the killing of a man on George’s Lane – the Genasyde base – in a drive by shooting.

It was later revealed that two women who were shot and killed while attending a funeral in Spanish Town, St Catherine two weeks earlier were collateral damage in the gang conflict.

The bloodletting didn’t cease. Nor were children spared.

On December 30, 2021, 10-year-old Jezariah Tyrell was slain in her bed. Weeks earlier six-year-old T’Mora McCallum was shot and killed while playing hide and seek.

June 2021 was particularly murderous with a Nationwide analysis revealing eight murders in three weeks.

The animosity wasn’t confined to Jamaica. One of the reputed leaders of the Darksyde gang, 32-year-old Donald Nash otherwise known as Likkle Danny, was killed alongside two other people in a party in East New York, Brooklyn in August.

After a 55 per cent spike in murders in 2021, the government acted and the Parade Gardens community was declared a zone of special operations in January 2022.

Murders have dropped dramatically since.