Posted on 05/20/2015 8:55:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The gang allegedly “controlled drug trafficking” in Newark, plotted to kill an FBI agent and intimidated witnesses.
Authorities have arrested and charged 71 alleged members and associates of the Grape Street Crips, alleging that the suspects controlled drug-trafficking and other illegal activities in various neighborhoods and public-housing complexes in Newark.
In addition to drug-trafficking across large swaths of Newark, the Grape Street Crips – who were founded in Los Angeles but also operate in New Jersey - routinely engaged in acts of violence that included murder, shootings, aggravated assaults and witness intimidation, authorities stated in a release.
To protect their gang and drug territory, the Grape Street Crips operating in the area of 6th Avenue and North 5th Street used “community guns” that were easily accessible to gang members, stated authorities.
During the arrests, DEA special agents seized numerous firearms, including a .410 caliber assault rifle, a.45 caliber Thompson semi-automatic carbine, a 7.62 caliber assault rifle and numerous semi-automatic handguns.
Authorities have also charged two of the gang’s alleged leaders - Corey Batts, 30, of Newark, and Kwasi Mack, 26, of Belleville – with “numerous violent crimes in aid of racketeering,” including attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Batts, also known by his alias of “C-Murder,” was also charged with plotting to murder an FBI agent investigating the gang, and is allegedly responsible for helping to control drug-trafficking and other criminal activities near the Oscar Miles public-housing complex located on Court Street.
According to court documents and statements, the rules governing the gang provide that members must retaliate against individuals who cooperate with police, as well as law enforcement officers themselves.
The charges are the result of a long-running investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI, in conjunction with the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, the Newark Police Department and Essex County Sheriff’s Office Bureau of Narcotics.
ALLEGED GANG INTIMIDATION
According to authorities:
•In March 2015, during the lawful wiretap of a cell phone used by Ahmed Singleton, 25, also known as “Gangsta-Mu” and “Mooshie,” the DEA intercepted Singleton detailing his efforts to intimidate a witnesses against him. Singleton was facing trial for aggravated assault in connection with a shooting, but due to his alleged witness intimidation, the state charges against Singleton had to be dismissed.
•In late 2013, a senior member of the New Jersey Grape Street Crips used a social media account to identify an individual as having previously cooperated with a murder investigation conducted by the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. Several days after that social media post, several members of the Grape Street Crips repeatedly shot and nearly killed the individual who had been identified as having cooperated.
•In late 2013, following the arrest of numerous gang members, law enforcement officials learned that members of the Grape Street Crips on the street had directed those members of the enterprise who were incarcerated at a county correctional facility to physically harm an individual who was believed to have cooperated with the law enforcement investigation.
obama sons
At least they didn’t turn anyone in LE.
Rand Paul is deeply saddened.
You just can't make this stuff up....
I expect Loretta Lynch to do a Holder.
Remember when Eric Holder trotted out 50 or 100 Italians they caught playing cards instead of going after Muzzie terrorists and MS13.
Lynch is going to trot out hundreds of bikers of federal chargers.
“on a steel horse I ride, wanted dead by Barack.”
Bon Jovi the gun grabber will probably be involved.
I’m not an expert on firearms, but “.410 caliber assault rifle”?
I’m guessing the “.45 caliber Thompson semi-automatic carbine” refers to the semi-auto version of a Thompson SMG, but I’ve never heard of a .410 rifle cartridge?
I can see it now, the headlines from these lame stream media news purveyors. “WHITE GOVERNMENT POLICE ATTACKS PEACEFUL BLACKS DOING BUSINESS”. Time for these “RENT A MOB” leave Baltimore and start a riot in Newark. The cry will be; “STOP PICKING ON BLACK YOUTHS”. The city government is destroying the BLACK YOUTHS. Then OBAMA will step in and deputize the CRIPS and the BLOODS. There, OBAMA has again brought PEACE in the community.
Who would want to be on that jury? Besides those arrested, there are probably hundreds more of their friendly thugs who would take out jurors or their families for very little money.
Not exactly "Hell's Angels", is it?
Well, be thankful they did not have the Birdman Weapons Systems Nuke 50. It has a computerized micronuclear 50 BMG projectile.
Society IS responsible
BY NOT EXECUTING THESE THUGS
71 Obama’s sons arrested...
We have Grape Street here in Steubenville. I tell my gang member students that the name sounds like something from a 1960s children’s show. I like to live dangerously.
In the 1980’s, I recall reading about a gang called the Watts Vario Grape Street Crips, which was apparently named for Grape Street, a residential street that runs by several housing projects in Watts, a neighborhood in southeast Los Angeles. Amazingly, they seem to have spread across the country from that small community.
We have the Chicago Boyz, Grape Street, and Nike. I also ask our gang bangers if they find it ironic that they use a trademarked name to claim HUD housing as their territory when it doesn’t even belong to them in the first place. They don’t get it.
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