Queen’s Counsel Peter Champagnie says he’ll also be representing Dancehall Entertainer, Dexta Daps who remains in police custody following his detention yesterday afternoon. 

Mr Champagnie, says Grandison has not been charged. 

The Queens’ Counsel says his client is a law abiding citizen.

Queen’s Counsel Peter Champagnie, representing Dexta Daps. He was speaking this afternoon with Nationwide News.

Police say the 7/11 artiste whose given name is Louis Grandison, was detained in connection with recent violence in the Seaview Gardens area of St. Andrew.

The entertainer is being held at the Hunt’s Bay Police lockup.

A man was shot dead a few days ago in the community.

The killing took place as a dispute between warring gangs reportedly took a deadly turn.

Daps was taken into custody in Seaview Gardens yesterday by a group of heavily armed Police Personnel from the St. Andrew South Police Division.

That Division is under a state of public emergency.