Prison su­per­vi­sor Garth Gua­da has been qui­et­ly re­moved from the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) and placed un­der De­fence Force cus­tody at Teteron Bar­racks, Ch­aguara­mas, af­ter State of Emer­gency (SoE) de­ten­tion or­ders al­leged he con­tin­ued to fa­cil­i­tate gang ac­tiv­i­ty while be­hind bars.

The move was con­firmed in one of four gazetted de­ten­tion or­ders re­leased af­ter 2 pm yes­ter­day. Ac­cord­ing to the or­der, Gua­da—who is legal­ly chal­leng­ing his de­ten­tion—re­mained able to “as­sist in­car­cer­at­ed per­sons to en­gage in gang ac­tiv­i­ty” de­spite be­ing held at ECRC.

Gua­da is ac­cused of be­ing an as­so­ciate of the Rad­i­cal Is­lam­ic Crim­i­nal Gang, led by mur­der ac­cused Ra­jaee Ali, who is al­so con­test­ing his de­ten­tion un­der the SoE and is be­ing held un­der mil­i­tary con­trol at Teteron. Two sep­a­rate gazetted or­ders—one re­vok­ing Gua­da’s stay at ECRC and an­oth­er trans­fer­ring him to the De­fence Force—were signed last Thurs­day.