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An October 2010 federal search warrant obtained by FOX45 News reveals the Black Guerrilla Family gang has long been tied to violence prevention efforts in Baltimore, including the embattled Safe Streets program. Described as part of the Black Guerrilla Family’s then-attempt to “make [BGF] look like a legitimate organization,” law enforcement officials filed a 164-page…

With the Trial Convictions of the Gang’s Founder and Prison Leader, Dwight Reid, and the Gang’s Street Leader, Christopher Erskine, All 21 Defendants, Including Numerous Godfathers and Godmothers, Have Been ConvictedDamian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DWIGHT REID, a/k/a “Dick Wolf,” and CHRISTOPHER ERSKINE, a/k/a “Beagle,”…

Christopher Acevedo, a founder and leader of the Wood City street gang based in the Woodhull neighborhood of Queens, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Diane Gujarati in federal court in Brooklyn to two terms of life imprisonment to run concurrently, for murder in aid of racketeering and causing death through the use…

Erie’s biggest criminal case has produced its first prison term with the sentencing of the eighth-highest ranking member of the Erie gang 4-Nation. The defendant, Marius L. Rus­sell, 32, was sentenced to a mandatory minimum of 10 years in federal prison immediately after he pleaded guilty on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Erie. He…

GREENBELT, Md. — An investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore, FBI Baltimore and Prince George’s County Police Department (PGCPD) resulted in two members of the notorious MS-13 criminal gang in federal prison for their part in a murder conspiracy. Endy Arturo Gaitan Campos, 30, of Hyattsville, Maryland, received a 10-year federal prison sentence,…

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the unsealing of a 34-Count Superseding Indictment charging 28 members and associates of the Young Gunnaz Gang (“YG”), including the…

An incarcerated leader in a massive, gang-related drug trafficking conspiracy has been sentenced to life in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges brought in the largest-ever indictment in the Southern District of Georgia. James D. NeSmith, a/k/a “DG,” 26, an inmate serving life in prison for murder at Telfair State Prison, was sentenced to…

Federal and local law enforcement officials this morning announced the unsealing of a federal grand jury indictment charging 23 members and associates of the Mara Salvatrucha-13 (MS-13) transnational street gang who allegedly trafficked pound quantities of methamphetamine and illegally possessed ammunition found in a “ghost gun.” Today’s takedown resulted in the arrests of 17 MS-13…

A successful murder trial has completed the State’s four-year prosecution against a major Wilmington-area gang with a 100% conviction rate, Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced Tuesday. The State’s efforts have secured more than 100 years of confirmed prison time, and several defendants yet to be sentenced face multiple potential life sentences. “This is an exclamation…

Vowing to crack down on gang activity in Palm Beach County, sheriff’s officials and prosecutors have announced the arrests of eight men with suspected gang ties and connections to several shootings over the past four years. The men taken into custody range in age from 20 to 25. They are suspected of carrying out a…