Dancehall Artist Xklusive Arrested, Was Wanted For Questioning In Triple Murder

Dancehall artist Xklusive was arrested in St. Ann during a police raid earlier this week.

The artist, who was being sought for questioning in connection with a triple murder, was among some 39 persons who were initially held in a pre-dawn raid at a popular guesthouse in Discovery Bay, St. Ann on Wednesday.

Police withheld the identity of the Dancehall artist, pending further investigations in relation to several crimes, including a triple killing that occurred in St. Ann last year.

But DancehallMag understands, from a source, that the artist is Xklusive, whose real name is Sudine Parke.  The 28-year-old deejay is best known for the singles Morgue Dem, Dead Man Dem, and Big Money Popping. He released Money Time earlier this year.

Head of the St. Ann police, Superintendent Dwight Powell, said the raid at the guesthouse was “an intelligence-driven operation”.

“We went in search of wanted men in St James who were wanted for murder and shooting incidents,” Powell added. He said after the police cordoned off and searched the guesthouse, a number of persons – both males and females – from several parishes, including St Catherine, Clarendon, Trelawny and St James, were found occupying the premises.

Meanwhile, by Friday, police had released 36 of the 39 persons who were detained.

XKlusive remains among the three individuals still detained.  Another individual remains in custody on suspicion of lottery scamming.

Attorney Isat Buchanan, who represented two of the 36 who were freed, said “they were being held at the Tamarind Farm detention facility that was used to detain persons during the states of emergency. I emailed the attorneys for the commissioner of police after being told it is now the practice of JCF (Jamaica Constabulary Force) to detain persons for 72 hours without the right to see a lawyer”.

According to Buchanan, the men were questioned without access to their lawyer, so he sought redress in the parish court. “A judge gave me an audience and facilitated a habeas corpus application,” he said.

“No arm of the state is above the constitution. It is illegal and criminal and a breach of a citizen’s constitutional right to privacy to demand that you open your phone so that the police can search it. There is legislation and procedure that the police must follow if they wish to do so,” he added.