Posted on 06/11/2015 1:15:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The FBI has gone after what it says is the biggest and most violent gang in Baltimore. Wednesday, 14 members of the Black Guerilla Family have been charged with a string of crimes in the city.
Alex DeMetrick has more on the case against the BGF.
The indictment was filed Wednesday afternoon in federal court. Among the 14 Black Guerilla Family members charged, one name stands out.
“The case we’re bringing today involves the lead defendant by the name of Michael Gray, who was allegedly the city-wide leader of the BGF gang,” said U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein.
And according to the U.S. attorney, 13 BGF members carried out murder, attempted murder, racketeering, including extortion and drug trafficking, allegedly under Gray’s command.
“Violence, drug trafficking, murder—that’s what they do. That’s what we listened to for months over intercepts,” said FBI Special Agent in charge Stephen Vogt.
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The FBI investigation and wiretaps into the Black Guerilla Family took more than a year. Like the scandal inside Baltimore’s jail, where Tavon White controlled smuggling, extortion and bribery, the Black Guerilla Family is a criminal organization with a hierarchy and rules.
“And when people don’t have approval and seek to sell drugs in a BGF-controlled area, the BGF will either tax them or retaliate against them,” Rosenstein said. “That’s what’s alleged in the indictment.”
But it isn’t the only federal investigation working. The DEA is actively hunting looters who stole drugs during April’s rioting.
“We will identify and we will prosecute the members and people that were involved in any of those 30 pharmacies that we’re dealing with today,” said DEA Special Agent in charge Shawn Ellerman.
And the ATF says it continues to develop leads on arsonists that hit homes and businesses—but it’s the spike of shootings and murders since the riots that have federal law enforcement focused on gangs, especially the Black Guerilla Family.
“If you’re in the BGF and you’re in the city, we may be coming for you next,” Vogt said.
Daquan Burman
The FBI is offering up a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of 20-year-old Daquan “Day-Day” Burman. He is 5’10” tall and weighs about 175 pounds.
Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI at 410-265-8080.
If tried and convicted, all 14 defendants named in the indictment could receive a maximum prison sentence of life.
Wednesday’s indictments bring the number of BGF members indicted in federal court to 118 since 2009.
The name of their gang is racist. It made me think of a type of animal.
Michael Gray-any relation to Freddie?
The FBI bigwigs probably doesn’t want to prosecute them either, but at least we know they aren’t all in the tank like the Baltimore prosecutors and city leaders who praised the gangs and apologized to them.
On the otherhand the DEA could be the actual drug cartel behind it all..
you know............ IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION..
not ALL of them.. just most of them.. but it could be all of them..
BUZZzzz... Frank Serpico please answer the white lobby phone...
,,,,, why do they call themselves the “Black Gorilla Gang” ??? Isn’t that politically incorrect and highly racist ??? That makes the Redskins name look pretty mild in comparison . Are the white folks allowed to call them Black Gorillas or like the “N” word it’s only acceptable when used by another gorilla ??? I’m getting very confused about this two standard system of P/C .
You can Wikipedia check on the George Jackson, adjustment center incident, in 1971. It happened long before I got to San Quentin, but the incident caused a bunch of physical and procedural changes in the Adjustment center.
BGF are the people who killed Huey Newton.
The Democrat Party?
::snork::
obama cut a drug deal and money laundering scheme with the sinaloa cartel...
ALL OTHERS GET ARRESTED
THAT IS A PART OF FAST AND FURIOUS
so was Freddie Gray a relative ???
I'm sure they have 10 or 20 million to make a donation to the Clinton Foundation...
Problem solved...
Reminds me of the Charles Addams cartoon of the gorillas with clubs marching to the orders of a another gorilla, Two white scientists see it and one says to the other..”See! Do you still think I am just an alarmist?”
I posted it on FR and it got pulled so fast it didn’t even leave a shadow! Remember, it was a Charles Addams cartoon from the New Yorker.
Just another day in Harm City.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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