Bail status: remanded. Crime & Safety Leader Of Brooklyn 'Folk Nation' Gang Behind Flatbush Shooting: Feds Kwyme Waddell bragged about firing 11 shots into a crowd in Flatbush earlier this year, according to prosecutors. This indictment makes clear that we will not cede our streets to armed criminals but will do everything in our power to keep our streets safe for all., Commissioner Bratton said, These defendants are not just crew members but part of a criminal enterprise that has been responsible for a significant amount of the violence which has plagued the Flatbush and Canarsie sections of Brooklyn over the last two years. Before firing, Roberts allegedly declared his presence by announcing: Im Fresh, Corey is my name, from Ditmas, Newkirk.. It was abandoned by Prospect Park and found to have multiple bullet holes, as well as Fremonts fingerprints and Moises blood. NYPD will continue to quickly apprehend anyone responsible for gun violence in our city and take every step to make sure they remain off our streets.. They are rivals of the People Nation. Brooklyn Man Indicted for Posing as Securities Broker and Selling Nearly $17,000 in Fraudulent Stock to Four Individuals, Pennsylvania Man Indicted on Attempted Murder and Arson Charges for Allegedly Setting Fire to Rabbis Brooklyn Home. 70th Precinct community policing officers will be hosting their district meetings as follows, all meeting are at 7:00PM: Sign in or become a Bklyner member to join the conversation. More than a dozen reputed gangbangers eyed in a series of shootings were swept up in a massive takedown in Brooklyn Thursday with police officials calling them as dangerous a group as they come.. Kwyme Waddell, 30, was brought in . Video . Marcellus, Denzel, dob: 5-18-95, Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn. On July 13, 2015, defendant Corey Roberts entered a courtyard at 866 Coney Island Avenue filled with people, including children playing on scooters, and opened fire, striking two innocent bystanders and narrowly missing two others. A 20-count superseding indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Oluwagbenga Agoro, Lorenzo Bailey, Quincy Battice, Davon Brown, Hans Destine, Jean Fremont, Ricardo Hepburn, McKoy Lima, Triston Lawrence, Deryck Thompson and Michael Williams with violent crimes in-aid-of racketeering including attempted murder and related firearms offenses. The shooting, which injured two victims, was revenge for a Folk Nation member who had been shot the night before, prosecutors said. Subscribe From approximately 2007 until their arrests in 2011 and 2012, the defendants were responsible for numerous acts of gang-related violence, including homicides, non-fatal shootings, and robberies in and around Crown Heights and Flatbush, and elsewhere in the tri-state area. Barrington Songue, 26, of Flatlands, Brooklyn. The 21 alleged members of subsets of the Folk Nation street gang have been variously charged with murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder robbery, weapons possession and other charges in a 65-count indictment, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Tuesday. Police recovered dismantled pieces of two separate pistols inside the vehicle, a .40 caliber pistol and a .38 caliber pistol that were used in the four shootings detailed above. Dismantling the Brooklyn sets of the Folk Nation Gangster Disciples. After the gun battle, a black Cadillac was seen fleeing at a high rate of speed through Carroll Gardens. Eastern District of New York (718) 254-7000 A superseding indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn this morning charging seven members, associates, and leaders of the violent. Note: audio/visual materials that were displayed in the press conference are availablehere. Age: 19 They face various penalties ranging from 25 years to life for second-degree murder and up to 25 years for second-degree attempted murder. Folk Nation Superseding Indictment. On October 18, 2015, following the shooting death of Richard James in California defendants Javanni Moise, Jean Fremont, Jarmel Blake and others drove down to the DUMBO section of Brooklyn and engaged in a gun battle with rival gang members. Two weapons were discarded en route: a Glock 26 9mm had Moises DNA and matched shell casings at DUMBO and in the car; a Smith & Wesson 9mm matched Moises fingerprint on the magazine. 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After leaving the hospital, Williams and other members of GD retaliated against the Crips gang by driving to an area of Brooklyn they believed to be Crip territory where Williams and another gunman opened fire into a crowd of people, wounding two victims in the knee and chest. Led by MCTIER, the gang was notoriously violent and murdered, shot at, stabbed, and robbed rival gang members as well as innocent bystanders. Brooklyn, New York, QUINCY BATTICE (also known as Hush Dinero and George Ayala) As part of this strategy, PSN focuses enforcement efforts on the most violent offenders and partners with locally based prevention and reentry programs for lasting reductions in crime. He had been in custody since his 2014 arrest on conspiracy and weapons possession charges. While two of the individuals were taken in critical condition, following a memorial for another gun violence victim at Rose Fantasy restaurant earlier that nigh, shots that were fired at E21st and Albemarle on April 10, also no one was injured, Shots were fired on Tuesday night at Ocean Ave and Woodruff, Palumbo acknowledged, but no one was injured. The defendants who were arraigned were ordered to return to court on March 22, 2016. 4. Fourteen alleged members of the Babiiez street gang a Flatbush-based subset of the Insane Crip Gangstas face charges in an 81-count indictment including conspiracy to commit murder and weapons possession. We believe these kinds of cases are a reason why Brooklyn is the only borough where shootings are down this year., Commissioner ONeill said, This group posed a significant threat to the members of our community and were known to be involved in serious criminal activity including attempted murder, illegal guns and robberies. Prosecutors said the Babiiez and Insane Crip Gangsta territory spans the Flatbush area, specifically East 21st Street with buildings on that block referred to as The Castle and serving as the gang members hub. Welcome to the first newsletter of 2023. 11. A Post reporter and photographer were on hand as authorities arrested Gaye, 19, at his home on Eastern Parkway near Pacific Street in Ocean Hill. Remanded. Bail status: remanded. [2] Larry Hoover, the chairman of the Gangster Disciple Nation, created the idea for the alliance and persuaded many leaders of large black, white, and Latino gangs from Chicago to join. The District Attorney said that, according to the investigation, the defendants, whose ages range from 18 to 27 years old, are members of No Love City (NLC), a subset of Folk Nation, and operate primarily within the confines of the 63rd, 67th, 69th and 70th precincts, mostly in the vicinity of Flatbush Avenue, Newkirk Avenue and Ditmas Avenue in Brooklyn. He was caught on ATM cameras in August. Bailey and Battice were arrested this morning in Atlanta, Georgia, and are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Catherine M. Salinas at the federal courthouse in Atlanta. NYPD Wilson also has two court dates next month, April 14 and 20, on a pair of armed robberies in Queens from 2020. On June 17, 2014, Jerome Myrie and Deleon Hutchinson, again riding out in the Flossy, shot a rival gang member from a car, then got out and shot him several more times. This case is being prosecuted as part of the joint federal, state, and local Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program, the centerpiece of the Department of Justices violent crime reduction efforts. During the escalating violence, SRK-Folk and Newkirk-Folk members discussed their intentions and efforts to engage in attacks and took credit for past attacks through text messages and social media, prosecutors say. Immediately after the shooting, Lawrence sent an encrypted message to Brown using the Telegram encrypted application stating that he had just boomed at the intended target. In the first November 7 shooting, Agoro, Bailey, Battice, Fremont and Thompson drove to Canarsie, where they shot at a group of individuals. It's the FBI's latest success in its campaign against America's violent street gangs. Vincent, Rahim, dob: 2-16-95, 286 East 45th Street, Brooklyn. Myrie, Jerome, dob: unknown, East 104th Street, Brooklyn. The final incidents in the indictment are part of a shooting spree in November, when Folk Nation members carried out four drive-by shootings in a matter of days. The residents of the Ebbets Field Houses should not be plagued by this type of violent criminal behavior. On April 17, 2015, defendant Oshane Fyffe shot and injured a rival gang member on Bedford Avenue, in Flatbush. Eleven members and associates of the Folk Nation Gangster Disciples were hit with a 20-count superseding indictment on Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn. Remanded. The suspects were involved in shootings against rival gangs, including Folk Nation and 8 Trey, and nabbed as part of a long-term probe by the Brooklyn District Attorney's Violent Criminal. Bail status: remanded. The Folk Nation gang active in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn operated out of the Marcus Garvey Village and Riverdale Towers housing facilities. The subsets are known as Super Rich Kids, a.k.a., Street Rich Kartel (SRK-Folk) and Newkirk (Newkirk-Folk) and operate primarily in and around the East Flatbush and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn. Among the acts of violence charged in the indictment are the following: The investigation was conducted by New York City Police Department Detective Kevin Muirhead, under the supervision of Sergeant Edward Deighan and Lieutenant Richard Zacarese of the Gun Violence Suppression Division. //