Posts Tagged ‘Gangs’

Five gang members of the Trinitarios Dominican street gang were arrested were arrested in a West New York drug bust where roughly $20,000 in cocaine was recovered following a four-month probe, authorities said. From left to right: Wanderson Ceballo-Ramos, Ingri Cruz-Villatoro, Wellington Cruz, Angel Diaz, and Christian Gomez. Photos courtesy of the West New York…

BALTIMORE — Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Baltimore apprehended an undocumented noncitizen and self-admitted member of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) street gang convicted of attempted voluntary manslaughter Nov. 20. Deportation officers from ERO Baltimore’s Fugitive Operations Team arrested the 21-year-old Guatemalan national near his residence in Hyattsville. “This Guatemalan noncitizen has proven to be…

everal Federal Bureau of Investigation agents executed a search warrant at the Belair Edison Safe Streets location Thursday morning, along with the homes of two Safe Streets employees. The raid, which took place in the morning sometime before 10 a.m. according to neighbors who saw the FBI agents at the location. While the FBI is…

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…