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Conch Shell Cruelty?
posted (May 13, 2015)

Tonight a 35 year old fisherman and a father of 6 is detained at the Queen Street Police Station. According to the family of Jason Orozco, he is facing ammunition charges. Police conducted a search out at the Vernon Street Fish Market this morning –where 2 bullets were found in the area. Orozco was the only one taken away by police. Today we spoke with his family members who were on the scene at the time of the search who claim that nothing was found on Jason Orozco.

Sister of Jason Orozco

"Miss my brother come about after 7 and play a little dominoes and thing because he was waiting on the boat come in to buy fish that we usually sell. Now GSU pull up and they give him the first search and when he done get searched the first, he continue play dominoes - a next one come back again and tell him, they done searched you? So he said yes. Then after the next police tell him come make we search you again and they searched him again and they took him by a red vehicle and put him to sit down. Next minute, the next GSU come and find 2 bullet in a match box. When they find the bullet, my brother hola and tell his woman, they want to charge him for a bullet that he doesn't know about. My brother doesn't deal with gun nor he no kill nobody. We sell fish, he has his 6 pickney to deal with and his woman. Our mom died from when I was 1 month old and I have nobody by my side but my big brother. He looks after me right now. I went to station and when I went to station, I went back of the GSU office and when I went back to the GSU office, the man tell me come out because you smell like fish. Then after I told him I come check on my brother, I come check on my brother. He said that how Jason will get charged for the 2 bullet. We went back to front and when we went back to the front, one of the police say he is getting charged for 14 bullet that he doesn't know about."

Odessa Orozco – Aunt of Jason Orozco

"I agitated about this thing because this thing is happening from the get go with the GSU. This morning when I was out in town dealing with my situation I went to visit a friend and when I get a phone call from my daughter, she tell me ma, the GSU are here under the market and plant bullet on Jason. I said, what! I said can't, Jason is no gun man. So now I tell her, hang up. I told her i'm going to Channel 7 to talk to my people right now. When I reach by century and jump out of this dollar taxi, when I jump out of this dollar taxi, going under the market to see what is going down now. So when I get underneath the market, they have my nephew front of a vehicle. Then they have a Spanish woman that is a GSU the guard him and a next young GSU guarding him. So i'm asking my family member, what happen? They tell me that they are planting bullet on my nephew. Can't I said, my nephew is not that. My nephew has 6 pickney, he is no gun man my girl. He is no gun man, you check? From the get go, the GSU are harassing my nephew. 4 times for the day they come and it's because they couldn't find him - one of them utter say once they find my nephew they will kill him. And when I spin round I look on him on him good and I tell him, you will kill my nephew? You eat him with knife and fork. All of you, you do it because I saw you. You all after my nephew my boy? No trip on him, you go trip on the gun man out there. Go trip on who kill those people out there. Go trip on who kill Mark Medina and them my girl. Go trip on those guys, no trip on a young man who just the struggle with 6 pickney and one of them is looking to go to Wesley College next month."

Orozco's family believes he is being targeted by the GSU.

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