Thread: 120 Are Charged in Black Gangs Takedown in the Bronx

120 Are Charged in Gang Takedown in the Bronx

By BENJAMIN WEISER APRIL 27, 2016



The police arresting a suspected gang member on Wednesday in the northern Bronx. CreditNY1 News

In what the authorities said was believed to be the largest gang takedown in the history of New York City, 120 people were charged on Wednesday with participating in murderous drug gangs in the northern Bronx.

About half of the defendants were associated with the 2Fly YGz street gang, a faction of the Young Gunnaz, a gang that operates nationwide, according to a federal indictment filed in Manhattan. The others were part of the rival Big Money Bosses gang, the indictment said, whose violence had caused the murder of Sadie Mitchell, a 92-year-old woman killed in her home by a stray bullet in 2009, and the fatal stabbing last year of a 15-year-old near East Gun Hill Road.






Document: Charges Against Alleged 2Fly Gang Members

The leaders of the Big Money Bosses, the indictment said, called themselves Big Suits, while other gang members, to signify their rank, were placed in categories like Burberry Suits, Gucci Suits, Ferragamo Suits and Sean John Suits, the indictment said.

The charges are to be announced at a news conference on Wednesday by Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, and officials of the Drug Enforcement Administration and other federal agencies.

The defendants were being arrested and expected to be arraigned in Federal District Court in Manhattan throughout the day.






Document: Charges Against Alleged 'Big Money Bosses' Members

The indictments also charged that the gang members trafficked drugs near schools and playgrounds.

2Fly YGz, more commonly known as 2Fly, operated around the Eastchester Gardens public housing project in the Bronx and in the vicinity of Gun Hill Road, an area of the North Bronx also commonly called the Valley, the indictment charged.

Much of 2Fly’s violence was committed against rival gangs in the Bronx, like the Big Money Bosses, which operated around White Plains Road and on Boston Road, and the so-called Slut Gang, which is based in the Boston Secor public housing project, the indictment said.

The Big Money Bosses gang was a faction of the Young Bosses, a street gang that operates around the city, the indictment charged.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/ny...g-arrests.html

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