Members of the Spanish Town-based 'One Order' gang are currently at odds over the collection of extortion money, police say.

The police have informed THE STAR that men from the gang are feuding over the collection of money from two work sites in Gordon Pen, St Catherine.

It is alleged that some members of the gang collected money from the sites without the knowledge and consent of the others.

This, police are claiming, has sparked a bitter dispute among the men.

"Men from the One Order gang are warring over extortion money ... It started about a week-and-a half ago when a group of men from the gang went and collected money from the sites without informing the other members," an officer from the St Catherine North Division explained.

High ranking

One high-ranking member of the gang denied the claims when contacted yesterday.

"No man! Nuttin like that. Wi nuh have no internal thing a gwaan, di whole a wi good," he stated simply.

However, the St. Catherine North police have linked at least two recent incidents to the squabble, the latest being the murder of a carpenter on Sunday.

Vivian Douglas, 43, of Tredegar Park in the parish, was shot dead on Sunday in a section of that community.

Police say about 8 a.m., Douglas was attacked by a group of gunmen as he walked through a dirt track on his way to a hardware store. The men opened fire, killing him on the spot.

The police say Douglas was employed to one of the work sites from which the gang collected extortion fees.

They believe he was murdered because he was close to the set of gang members who are said to have collected money from the site.