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Cloudy skies early, then thunderstorms developing late. A total of 19 suspects were indicted. One defendant allegedly cut heroin with fentanyl and morphine. The department's failure to infiltrate the crews isn't for lack of trying. If there's no room for them in the job market outside the Triangle, there's plenty of room within it: opportunities to move up, to get rich, and to find a niche where before, none was apparent. The Bloods leader then turns to his protg, Lamar Crawford, whose main job these days is running the Bloods' prostitution racket. Eventually, Ice was laid off. Additionally, an opioid was detected in 83 per cent of the fatal overdoses involving cocaine. Im grateful to our partners for their work and incredible perseverance to protect our communities.. Authorities executed five search warrants Thursdayand seized120 grams of heroin and fentanyl, 90 grams of cocaine, more than 10 pounds of marijuana, an assault weapon and several shotguns,as well as drug-packing materials, Sini said. possession of controlled substance (hydrocodone, Xanax, other As of Monday morning, 33 defendants charged in this indictment have been apprehended and/or arraigned. Investigators on July 19 found 38 grams of crack cocaine at the residence after executing a search warrant. 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As the gang war spreads, police are seemingly powerless to stop it. Shit, who you think paid for church services, for the casket, for this plot right here? But he doesn't worry much about the prospect of his son growing up without him. Authorities say the Crips and Bloods can compete on price and purity on their corners throughout Long Island, making huge profits even while splitting their primary market in Hempstead. Fiends be getting prepared. CLICK HERE to read more at HopePrescott.com "They started this shit, they can end it," he says of the Crips. TEC-9s have recently become the Bloods' go-to weapon for drive-by shootings, mostly because they're cheap and plentiful on the black market. Way I see it, James done fell because his own boy Dice was a fool. People are dying every day because of the types of drugs these men are accused of selling in Nassau County, said William Sweeney, the FBI New York Assistant Director-in-Charge. "Come get that Notorious!" District Attorney Madeline Singas announced on Wednesday that, in coordination with task forces from the FBI and ATF, officials confiscated 400 grams of fentanyl valued at more than $130,000. Wooden chairs and metal tables are scattered across the room for card playing and dominoes. Do not leave home without a piece. A whole lot of mess.". Five defendants allegedly sold a cocktail of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine. Authorities have not yet released the identities of the other two people who were arrested Wednesday. And they ain't got no undercovers they can get past us. Ricky Jackson, an inmate at a Massachusetts prison, gave the order to Darren Devane to take possession of the 100 grams of the drug that was at Angelique Whites home, according to the indictment. His other sneaker rests beside him in a rapidly expanding pool of blood. ", The Council of Trustees for the Shinnecock Community released a statement saying that while the group "did not have prior knowledge of the operation, the Shinnecock Community at large has suffered greatly due to the opioid and fentanyl epidemic and Tribal members have consistently requested the assistance of outside law enforcement agencies to help combat the issue.". Senior Investigative Counsels Patrick Brand and Lee Genser, and Senior Assistant District Attorney Andrew Lee of DA Singas Major Case Bureau are prosecuting the case. Investigators said they opened the case in January after receiving credible information. At one point, the police department's gunfire recognition system, called ShotSpotter, registered so many gunshots in the area that cops thought it might be malfunctioning. "Come Monday, most likely they'll scale shit back. for Hempstead Buildings Dept. asks Donna Crawford, Lamar's aunt, who, after losing two sons to gang violence, refuses to talk to police about any crimes perpetrated by Bloods or Crips. Hempstead Crips control the market for marijuana and cocaine in the area surrounding Linden Avenue and Linden Placea blighted, impoverished area known as the Linden Triangle, or simply the Triangle. Through two months, the county has taken in $825,839 in rebates, compared to $739,582 at this time last year, an increase of 11.66 percent. "We could just drive past and take that nigga out real easy.". Arkansas. The gangs have two things going for them that make both unwilling to accept defeat. There have been news reports of shootings and stabbings almost daily since the two sets began their war earlier this month. Tony, meanwhile, answers to the leader of the Hempstead Crips, Tyrek Singleton. I respect that, too. prescription drugs), and possession of drug paraphernalia. 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"Why should I tell the cops anything?" Morales and Diaz were then arrested for possession of a controlled substance and booked in the Waller County Jail. "What are they going to do for me? Devane is also accused of telling his girlfriend, Shariah Usher, who was seven months pregnant at the time, to conduct a drug deal involving 100 grams of cocaine. ", The leader of the local Bloods set, Michael "Ice" Williams, 24, has summoned Steed Wallace, Doc Reed, Lamar Crawford, and several other members to Seduccion, a Hempstead strip club used by the gang as an occasional meeting spot. The TV is tuned to local news all day, so the Crips can stay abreast of Hempstead's latest shootings. Winds light and variable. Then a second, and third. They're also able to keep out other competitors through use of brute force. Tony is standing on the stoop of a rundown apartment building that serves as the Crips' clubhouse while doubling as the primary location where the street gang sells and stashes its crack, powder cocaine and marijuana. Todays announcement signals the end of a violent drug and gun ring operating in Hempstead that endangered thousands with the illegal narcotic fentanyl, said John Devito, the special agent in charge for the New York Field Division of the ATF. The GBI said they seized more than 38 kilograms of methamphetamine WebWaller County Sheriffs Office 701 Calvit St. Hempstead, TX 77445 Phone: 979-826-8282 Fax: 979-826-7781. Copyright 2023 Newsday. You need another soldier or some other issue come up, let Steed know," Ice says. All of the people mentioned in the drug deals were arraigned on multiple drug possession, selling and trafficking charges. The local Bloods set controls a smaller drug market in and around the housing projects lining the street. 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"That's why I'm bringing Lamar alonghe's got book smarts to go with street smarts.". He appears to have lost weight, too, his face gaunt and oily. But today, thanks to the efforts of the ATF New York Field Division Long Island Field Office, working with our partners from the Hempstead Police Department, the Nassau County Police Department and the FBI Long Island Gang Task Force, this criminal organization has been silenced once and for all., Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector in Charge of the United States Postal Inspection Service said: The Postal Inspection Service places a high priority on investigations involving the use of the U.S. Mail to facilitate the transportation of drugs, firearms and other dangerous and illegal substances. Despite the neighborhood's code of silence, detectives interview dozens of residents and gang members, pore over hundreds of hours of surveillance footage from area businesses, and prod street units to make a half-dozen or so drug arrests. Others stop to cop, looking to get lit before homeroom. You just carry that shit like a soldier. "Weekend coming, so we opening a little early. It's all systematic and planned, all the positions and responsibilities and assignments. I commend our Troopers and applaud all of our partners for their dedication to fighting this type of violent, organized crime. "They was just rounding niggas up and making up charges. It's usually real smooth and quiet, because that's the best environment for us to make bank. Tyrek looks exhausted, having slept just an hour or two since the shooting. "Even if they do get their shit together long enough to make a case, ain't nobody out here going to talk to 5-0 or testify against any of us. He quickly fell back in with his old gang, working his way up and eventually taking charge of the Hempstead set. Follow Nassau & Suffolk crime and courts, including incidents reported in your neighborhood, trial coverage, sentencings and more. How we handling that? Prosecutors allege that drugs were trafficked from as far away as Puerto Rico, as well as California, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut. "Dice usually be smoking weed on the stoop of his cousin's house after school," he says. We are facing a national crisis in part because dealers and pushers like those indicted in this investigation are all out to make a quick buck.. But he a little bitch, so he hit the deck when the shooting started. "I didn't force him to work the corner. Sentenced for Stealing $59K from Republican Cmte. A joint task force with investigators from the Hempstead Police Department and Bellville Police Department, Austin County Sheriffs Office and DEA has resulted in the arrest of four in a drug operation according to a press release by the Austin County Sheriffs Department via their Facebook Page. All rights reserved. Thanks to the diligent efforts of the investigators on this case there is one less crew dealing in death on the streets of Long Island.. Both crews want to take over each other's drug markets. While the drug investigation was ongoing, investigators were looking into a Brooklyn-based gun ring which led to the arrests of three people for allegedly trafficking and selling firearms in Hempstead. Morales and Diaz were then arrested for possession of a controlled substance and booked in the Waller County Jail. Rivero and several other defendants are facing conspiracy and other charges that could result in prison sentences of 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison. Former N. Hempstead Employee Sentenced for Embezzling More Than $98,000 from Waste Management Auth. One mourner whispers that the bullet that killed him remains trapped inside his heart's left ventricle. That's how we do. So we try and pay attention to it.". cries another gangster at an approaching car. If their lives lack meaning and purpose outside their gangs' territories, they're plainly meaningful and purposeful within them. "Today's Friday, and the cops probably going to be beefing up patrols tonight and all weekend," Ice says. 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James's little brother, Horace, tries to wake him up by prying open his eyes. Flex handles everything from enforcement to package-price negotiations and is ranked just below him in the gang's hierarchy. And they've found out it feels pretty good. Tuesday, they'll be even less of them. Touts promote the day's drug selections, barking out product names and extolling their virtues to any potential customers within earshot. Tony believes a retaliatory shooting will be carried out by the Bloods at some point in the coming days, so he's summoned several Big Homies to the clubhouse in order to talk strategy and weigh their options. Nassau County will continue cracking down on those dealing addiction and violence into our communities.. For the first time in their lives, they are defined by their work. Copyright 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. "That shit's the bomb.". I have a lot of investigating to do, he said. His casket is ivory white and narrow, just wide enough to fit his body inside its purple velvet walls. Hempstead County sheriff's deputies and city, state and federal law officers raided five locations just after 4 p.m. Wednesday. ", Tyrek doesn't attend the funeral, certain that police will be in attendance and leaning on people to snitch. "Let me get that Luda, 20 hard," he says, ordering a $20 crack rock. Fifteen out of 26 people indicted in a massive 2021 drug bust are serving a collective 97\u00bd years in prison and facing a total of 55 years of supervised release, federal court records show. "Problem is, we don't know when those niggas coming," Tony tells them. Cocaine prices rose from approximately $32,000 per kilogram to a peak of $55,000 per kilogram in August 2020. I'll have to live here long after they're gone.". "Ain't no piece I can't handle," Doc says. Steed says he's obtained a semi-automatic TEC-9 for the drive-by per Ice's orders. 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", Ice says his pursuit of an education in accounting stemmed from his long-running interest in business and a natural acumen for deal making. Forty defendants indicted as part of Operation Honeycomb in joint NCDA, FBI Long Island Gang Task Force, ATF Task Force, NCPD, Postal Service, DEA, State Police Investigation, Two defendants allegedly conducted narcotics business from illegal day care centers in Hempstead and Rosedale. Home Improvement Contractor Arrested for Forging Letter from Town of North Hempstead Building Dept. "Everybody take one," Flex says. Near the stoop of a Crips stash house, a blood-soaked Air Jordan sneaker lay in the road. The number of gangs and gang members reported by local authorities to the FBI has grown, from at least 20,000 gangs with at least one million total members in 2009 to more than 33,000 gangs with about 1.4 million members in 2011the last year for which the FBI released concrete figures on gang membership. Here, slinging crack baggies and hiding stashes, young men with no obvious place in America's legitimate economy find that they belong, that they're significant, that they matter. "Most of them won't finish high school, because they like making money out here too much. Kemberly Richardson reports that two of the drug busts happened at day care centers. HEMPSTEAD, Long Island (WABC) -- Dozens of people have been indicted in the bust of a major narcotic trafficking ring that operated on Long Island, including from out of two day care centers, authorities announced Monday. The crime of operating as a major trafficker requires the aggregate value of narcotics possessed or sold by the trafficker to exceed $75,000 during a period of six months or less. The sheer quantity of deadly drugs seized by law enforcement amount to a weapon of mass destruction against our residents, said County Executive Laura Curran. Another man, Victor Cain, allegedly took an Uber from Brooklyn in May to Hempstead to sell a revolver. "They think we're stupid, but we know Miranda," Steed says shortly after Ice posts his bail. That's just the code. An additional investigation then led Westside Narcotics Task Force members to a home inthe 22000 block of FM 359 near Hempstead. Mike McNeills Diary for Tuesday, February 28, 2023: Who goes to church anymore? William F. Sweeney, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the FBI New York said, The scourge of illegal narcotics trafficking, and the violence associated with it, has plagued our communities for far too long. The yellow and white graffiti is a gang sign (right), and the 31 (in black) means to be a member you have to endure a beating from other gang members for "31 SECONDS" with your hands clasped over your head in symbolic sign of a crown. If you in it, you in it. Auburn, N.Y. Drug busts across Central New York including Auburn, Cortland and Syracuse resulted in 16 people being arrested Monday. The investigation into James's murder follows a familiar pattern: Cops interview everyone in the area at the time of the killing; all claim to have seen nothing. Once their meeting ends, the Bloods watch as dancers gyrate onstage, inviting customers to slide bills into their G-strings. But not one of the collared gangsters will talk. Ice's characterization will prove accurate two nights later, when the protracted crackle of automatic gunfire echoes through the neighborhood just after 11 p.m. One explosive burst of ammunition. ", "Just keep doing what you doing and don't worry about the police," Tony says. Fast-food worker among 3 arrested during 5 drug raids. But they a small-ass force, yo. While the number of opioid overdoses is now on the decline, Nassau officials have said 147 people died as the result of them in 2018. He handled corner dealing, lookout and runner duties before taking over the crew's burgeoning prostitution business, and is now being groomed to take on more responsibility. I don't think so. He looks cramped in the open casket, but peaceful. The sweep, they hope, will lead someone to identify James's killer in exchange for a deal with prosecutors promising leniency. I am going to vigorously defend Mr. Eleazer and see that he is exonerated.". Investigators from the Nassau County District Attorneys office and members of the FBI Gang Taskforce on Long Island apprehended White and seized the heroin, then searched her apartment the next day and found another 300 grams of a white powdery substance. Dice was the one who supposed to get hit. The Triangle, as its name suggests, contains three angles, meaning whichever gang controls it has unobstructed views of every vehicle and person approaching or leaving a corner. Like many Bloods and Crips, he also survived a gunshot wounda bullet to his left ankle that left him with a permanent limp. Freeport Man Sentenced 6-18 Years in Prison for Crash that Killed Passenger on Southern State Pkwy. It is sparsely decorated, with a Notorious B.I.G. Robertson, 36, faces two counts each of weapons and firearm possession and four counts of sale of a firearm. That threat is especially acute in neighborhoods with higher-than-average rates of poverty and unemployment like the Triangle, where selling drugs is often considered one of the easiest, fastest way to make a day's wages, authorities say. Scheller declined to comment on the allegations because he hasnt seen the prosecution's evidence. Hempstead PD ain't got the manpower to be up in our shit 24/7. "Today, we confiscated methamphetamine. Ice tells Lamar that he wants him to "handle the management end" of the drive-by. "All they got to do is give up them corners in the Triangle.". Sini said prosecutors would seek to chargeseveral othersalready arrested in the alleged networkwith the kingpin statute. Makeshift memorials for murder victims, like the one pictured here, are erected with numbing frequency in the Triangle. All of that's part of our business strategy. The ring packaged and sold about $10,000 worth of cocaine every week, according to officials. That's law. Next day on the stoop, he's wearing them. Some suspects were already in custody on other charges. The young women focus nearly all their attention on Ice, who is thought to be one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the community. A navy blue suit and oversize white dress shirt hide his chest wound. Dice Beckles, the Crips tout, is widely thought to have shot Doc Reed, a high-ranking Bloods dealer, two weeks earlier. And roll out in numbers, aight?". "Only our product is illegal, so more precautions need to be taken. These gang members are, after all, the essential human capital keeping the drug markets humming. The Hempstead County Sheriff's Office has completed a drug investigation involving the distribution of methamphetamine, prescription drugs, and ecstasy in Each site was a focus of a yearlong investigation, 21 of those people have been arrested as of Friday, JCPD reports. Authorities have given no indication that any drug activity occurred at the restaurant. As a freshman, he'd been a lowly messenger. At every house party where Bloods or Crips might be expected to congregate, police have tried to get undercovers inside. "And use them shits wisely. The COVID-19 pandemic emerged in March 2020 and as a result, the cost of cocaine began to vary widely, with demand vastly exceeding supply. Declaring the coast clear, he nods to Pete, who hands the baggie to Charlie. Depending on whom you ask, Tyrek is either the most ruthless, sadistic gangster in the New York metropolitan area or a gentleman hustler who runs his drug business more like Bill Gates than Scarface. Seduccion, a strip club, was used by the Bloods as a meeting spot for strategy sessions during the gang war. HOUSTON A total of 50 people were arrested following one of the largest drug busts in south Texas in recent years, according to Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery and Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Tony sees himself as a businessman, partnered with Tyrek and other leaders in the Crips organizationBig Homies, as they're known in Crips parlancein a joint effort to recruit talent, maximize profits and expand their customer base. "I believe my skin color held me back when I tried to pursue a career in accounting and finance," Ice says. 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