Don denies phone in butt

By Dwayne Mcleod, Staff Reporter

Tesha Miller, reputed leader of the Spanish Town, St Catherine, based 'Klansman' gang is denying reports that the police took a cellphone from his butt recently.

Although incarcerated, Miller sent a letter to THE STAR via courier service which denied and questioned the initial reports.

Earlier this month, the police had reported that Miller could possibly be charged with possession of a contraband after a cellphone was alleged to have been removed from inside his body. In addition, the police in a release also claimed that a cellular charger and Vaseline was also found.

However in Miller's letter to THE STAR he claims that the whole scenario is a 'lie'.

The incarcerated Miller says that the report was "published to damage my name and to lead the public to question my sexual preference."

Miller then goes on to list six parts of the police reports which he says are lies. He writes;



Lie No 1

The police person who fed the false story to THE STAR obviously thought I was being held in the section of the Horizon Remand Centre where the police could enter and investigate crimes. Wrong! I was being held in the section of the prison controlled by the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) where the police would not be able to conduct any search!



Lie No 2

On Tuesday July 8, 2008 after leaving the Half-Way Tree Resident Magistrate's Court, I was told about this front-page story. No phone was found anywhere on my body. The story is ridiculous from start to finish and anyone with a little sense could see from the front-page headlines and picture that what was reported was impossible.


Lie No 3

On Monday July14 about 10:30 a.m., the leader of the search party who had searched my cell about 7:00 and 8:30 p.m. on Sunday July 6, 2008, ... (name removed) of the JDF, told my lawyer, in my presence that the story that Vaseline was found in my cell was not true.


Lie No 4

... also told my lawyer, in my presence, that it was also not true that he had found a cellphone charger in my cell.


Lie No 5

No cellphone or landline rang in my body. No telephone rang anywhere during the search by the soldiers, so that was something that the police dreamed about since no police was anywhere nearby.

In fact who was that 'absent policeman' who performed the medical procedure of removing the cellphone as the news report said? Was that police or (soldier) medically trained to perform operations on inmates bodies. This is ridiculous! Unlike the person who is spreading these rumours I do not think of the opposite of sex, just a man to a woman or a woman to a man.



Lie No 6

No cellphone was removed from my body with or without gloves. When my lawyer asked ... why I was not taken to the Kingston Public Hospital and allowed to 'pass out' the phone like what they do to aeroplane passengers who swallow cocaine, ... told my lawyer that he could not give him a statement and that the one hour interview time was up.

In ending, Miller also questioned how he could have had the two cellphones since he was searched three times before entering the remand centre.