More Than 40 Gang Members From Newburgh And Poughkeepsie Sentenced To Prison For Racketeering, Violence, Narcotics, And Firearms OffensesArticle

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, announced today the last sentencing of gang members and narcotics distributors as a result of a long-running investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) in Newburgh and Poughkeepsie, New York. 26 of the defendants were convicted of being members, associates, and co-conspirators of the violent street gang the Young Gunnaz (“YG”), including YG leader Kashad Sampson. 12 of the defendants were convicted of being members and associates of the violent street gang the Double Nine Grim Reapers (“Grimz”), including Grimz leaders Jeremy Williams, Randy Jones, and James White. U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas imposed the sentences in the YG case, United States v.

Kashad Sampson, et al., 22 Cr. 640, and U.S. District Judge Philip M. Halpern imposed the sentences in the Grimz case, United States v. Jeremy Williams, et al., 22 Cr. 641.

RODNEY GEORGE, a defendant in the Sampson case, was the last in this series to be sentenced and received 108 months in prison. “For years, members and associates of the Young Gunnaz and the Double Nine Grim Reapers brought shootings, armed robberies, narcotics trafficking, and fraud to communities across the Hudson Valley,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton. “Today’s final sentencing marks the end of a years-long prosecution that removed over 40 of these violent gang members and drug traffickers from our streets.

No gang should get to claim a block, a neighborhood, or a city as its own, and this Office will continue to work with our federal, state, and local partners to dismantle violent criminal organizations and protect the communities they prey upon.”As alleged in the Indictments, other court filings, and statements made during court proceedings:Since at least 2018, the Grimz has been a brutally violent street gang. The Grimz was founded by co-defendants Jeremy Williams, a/k/a “Dubs,” and Randy Jones, a/k/a “Nickelz,” and has hundreds of members across New York State, including throughout Orange County, Dutchess County, and the New York State prison system. The Grimz is a highly organized and efficient street gang with an organizational commitment to violence that strictly enforces its internal laws and celebrates gun violence. The highest-ranking members and leaders of the Grimz, like co-defendants James White, a/k/a “Infared,” and Octavious Griffin, a/k/a “Tate,” have so-called “serial numbers” within the Grimz, which include the name of a 9-millimeter firearm.Since at least 2019, the YG has been a violent street gang that operated through New York State and engaged in large-scale narcotics trafficking, wire fraud, armed robberies, and shootings.

For the most part, the YG defendants were part of the PlayBoyGzz subset of YG, which was led by, among others, co-defendant Kashad Sampson, a/k/a “Shoca.” Like the Grimz, senior members of YG glorified violence and demanded action from its members. For years, the Grimz and YG terrorized communities in this District and demonstrated a complete disregard for human life. The Grimz defendants were responsible for multiple armed robberies and shootings in the City of Newburgh, including the November 3, 2020, attempted murder of a rival gang member. During that attempted murder, which involved co-defendants Justice Jackson, a/k/a “Tweak,” Tyrell Simon, a/k/a “Rello,” a/k/a “Insane,” Thomas Rodriguez, a/k/a “Tom Tom,” a/k/a “Checks,” and others, Rodriguez shot a rival gang member multiple times while the rival gang member sat in his vehicle.

The rival gang member survived after receiving life-saving medical treatment at two different hospitals. The Grimz were also responsible for trafficking large amounts of deadly narcotics, like crack cocaine and heroin, on the streets and for trafficking K2, a synthetic cannabinoid, within the New York State prison system. The YG defendants were responsible for at least approximately 13 shootings, three armed robberies, and a large-scale narcotics trafficking conspiracy responsible for flooding the streets with fentanyl, heroin, crack cocaine, and other drugs. In addition, some of the YG defendants also participated in a widespread scheme to defraud the New York state unemployment insurance program during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In total, these defendants made just over $1,000,000 through this scheme and caused at least one of their victims to fall into financial ruin because, as a result of YG’s fraud, the victim lost her total disability social security payment. * * *The counts of conviction and sentences imposed on the defendants in the Sampson and Williams cases are contained in the chart below.Mr. Clayton praised the outstanding investigative work of the FBI’s Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force, City of Newburgh Police Department, New York State Police, Town of New Windsor Police Department, Town of Newburgh Police Department, New York City Police Department, and Nassau County Police Department. Mr. Clayton also thanked the FBI’s Westchester Safe Streets Task Force, the New York City Department of Correction, Correction Intelligence Bureau, the Department of Labor Office of the Inspector General, and the City of Poughkeepsie Police Department for their assistance in the investigation.This case is being handled by the Office’s White Plains Division.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jennifer N. Ong, Ryan W. Allison, and Margaret N.

Vasu are in charge of the prosecution.United States v. Kashad Sampson, et al., 22 Cr. 640 (KMK)DefendantAgeCounts of ConvictionSentenceKashad Sampson, a/k/a “Shoca”27Racketeering ConspiracyDischarge of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence200 months in prisonFive years’ supervised releaseGeorge Delgado,a/k/a “Groc”26Racketeering ConspiracyAssault with a Deadly Weapon in Aid of RacketeeringPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime144 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseGabriel Roman, a/k/a “Gabe”26Racketeering ConspiracyPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of ViolenceAggravated Identity Theft160 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseDallas Archer,a/k/a “Muggas”29Racketeering ConspiracyPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime90 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseBruce Allen,a/k/a “Bam”28Racketeering ConspiracyPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking CrimeBrandishing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence154 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseSyncere Tatum,a/k/a “Syn”25Racketeering ConspiracyDischarge of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence160 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseJohn Lalanne,a/k/a “JJ”27Racketeering ConspiracyBrandishing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence120 months in prisonFour years’ supervised releaseRaekwon Jackson,a/k/a “Tree”26Racketeering ConspiracyDischarge of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence170 months in prisonFour years’ supervised releaseBashir Mallory,a/k/a “BG,”a/k/a “Bear”22Racketeering ConspiracyDischarge of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence140 months in prisonFive years’ supervised releaseMekhi McDonald, a/k/a “Khi”22Racketeering ConspiracyDischarge of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence168 months in prisonFour years’ supervised releaseChristopher Tate,a/k/a “Bag”23Racketeering ConspiracyNarcotics Conspiracy140 months in prisonFour years’ supervised releaseKristopher Burgess Cunningham,a/k/a “KG”32Racketeering ConspiracyPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime90 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseDejon Scott,a/k/a “Red Dot”30Racketeering Conspiracy60 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseDavon Waddell,a/k/a “Spotem,”a/k/a “Light Skin Day Day”28Racketeering ConspiracyPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of ViolenceBrandishing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence164 months in prisonFour years’ supervised releaseZyrell Williams,a/k/a “Zabb”21Racketeering ConspiracyPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime96 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseDemetrius Ware,a/k/a “Doom Doom”21Racketeering ConspiracyPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime90 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseAntonio Pittman,a/k/a “Ant”24Racketeering ConspiracyPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence84 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseDaquan Cueto24Racketeering ConspiracyPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime108 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseChristopher Johnson,a/k/a “Brisko”32Brandishing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence and Drug Trafficking CrimeHobbs Act RobberyNarcotics Conspiracy144 months in prisonFour years’ supervised releaseHarry Pimentel24Racketeering ConspiracyPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence130 months in prisonFour years’ supervised releaseEric Steadman,a/k/a “Little Man”25Racketeering ConspiracyPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence120 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseDonald Leid,a/k/a “Big Lip Day Day”32Narcotics ConspiracyBrandishing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence and a Drug Trafficking Crime94 months in prisonFive years’ supervised releaseTevin George,a/k/a “Tev Roc”32Brandishing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence84 months in prisonFive years’ supervised releaseDevin Williams,a/k/a “Twin,”a/k/a “Dev”29Racketeering Conspiracy54 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseDante Johnson, a/k/a “D Rose”28Racketeering Conspiracy60 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseGeorge Tatum,a/k/a “Buddy”48Narcotics Conspiracy140 months in prisonFive years’ supervised releaseColeridge Lewter,a/k/a “Korrupt”45Narcotics Conspiracy72 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseRodney George,a/k/a “Taco”49Narcotics ConspiracyPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime108 months in prison5 years’ supervised releaseUnited States v. Jeremy Williams, et al., 22 Cr. 641 (PMH)DefendantAgeCounts of ConvictionSentenceJeremy Williams,a/k/a “Dubs”37Racketeering ConspiracyPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime300 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseJames White,a/k/a “Infared”47Racketeering ConspiracyNarcotics Conspiracy300 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseMessiah Jackson,a/k/a “Two”25Racketeering ConspiracyNarcotics ConspiracyPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime210 months in prisonFive years’ supervised releaseJustice Jackson,a/k/a “Tweak”25Racketeering ConspiracyDischarge of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence180 months in prisonFive years’ supervised releaseOctavious Griffin,a/k/a “Tate”39Racketeering ConspiracyBrandishing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence234 months’ imprisonmentFive years’ supervised releaseMarkell Williams,a/k/a “15”25Racketeering ConspiracyDischarge of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence204 months in prisonFive years’ supervised releaseTyrell Simon,a/k/a “Insane,”a/k/a “Rello”25Racketeering ConspiracyDischarge of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence180 months in prisonFive years’ supervised releaseJoshua Hendrick.a/k/a “Hendrix”26Racketeering Conspiracy121 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseElijah Briggs,a/k/a “Eli”29Racketeering Conspiracy87 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseShamell Williams,a/k/a “Mello Trend”33Racketeering Conspiracy87 months in prisonThree years’ supervised releaseThomas Rodriguez,a/k/a “Tom Tom,”a/k/a “Checks”34Racketeering ConspiracyAttempted Murder and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon in Aid of RacketeeringDischarge of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of ViolenceNarcotics ConspiracyPossession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime360 months in prisonFive years’ supervised release