Kiprich Charged For ‘Promoting Criminal Activity’ With One Order Gang Dubplate

Dancehall artist Kiprich has been slapped with charges alleging the ‘use of audio, visual or audiovisual communication to promote criminal activity’ by the police on Monday night.

He was charged after being grilled in a question and answer session with members of the St Catherine North Criminal Investigative Bureau on Monday night. The Telephone Ting artist was accompanied by attorney-at-law Patrick Peterkin.

Kiprich was granted station bail and released.

The artist was charged under section 18A of the Offences Against the Person Act which deals with the ‘use of audio, visual or audiovisual communication to promote criminal activity’.

“Mr. Plunkett has maintained his innocence, he was not involved in any gang activity, and he was not inciting violence in any state or form. We will challenge the allegations,” a confident Peterkin said.

Kiprich reportedly did a One Order dubplate which his management team said was ‘spliced and changed’ to express more inflammatory language than was originally intended. The deejay did the custom-order dubplate for a foreign-based selector in the wake of the death of One Order Gang leader Othniel “Thickman” Lobban, who police say was a key figure in Jamaica’s criminal underworld with influence in several sections of the island.

According to the sources, Lobban had extensive involvement in shootings, extortion, and the enforcement of gang dominance in areas like Eltham Park, Jobs Lane, Cedar Valley and James Mountain in St Catherine and sections of Mountain View Avenue in St Andrew.

Lobban was killed in an alleged shootout with cops in Six Miles in St. Andrew earlier this year.

Kiprich will answer the charge in the St. Catherine parish court on February 21.