Cape Cod Gang Leader Gets Long Sentence For Drug Dealing

The 26-year-old leader of a Cape Cod gang and accused murderer will spend nearly the next three decades in prison for trafficking drugs throughout the area, the US Attorney's Office said Friday. Denzel Chizom, the leader of the Nauti Block gang, was sentenced in federal court in Boston to 28 1/2 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release for trafficking multiple kilos of heroin and fentanyl across the Cape.

A gang associate from Hyannis was also sentenced Friday for her role in the operation. Molly London, 33, was sentenced to 20 months in prison and three years of supervised release.

Chisholm and co-defendant Tyrone Gomes also face state charges for the 2015 murder of Christine Ferreira at a rest stop on Route 6 on Cape Cod.

Chisholm and London were convicted of drug charges in June 2017; Chisholm was convicted one count of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, nine counts of possession of heroin with the intent to distribute, and one count of conspiracy to distribute suboxone, which was intended to be trafficked into MCI-Norfolk prison. London was convicted of aiding and abetting Chisholm and maintaining a residence for drug purposes.

Thirteen members of the Nauti Block gang, which is based in Cape Cod, were arrested on federal drug trafficking and firearms charges on April 5, 2016, following a nearly eight-month long investigation. There ended up being 19 defendants after two subsequent superseding indictments.

The Department Of Justice said Chisholm moved huge amounts of heroin throughout lower Cape Cod. London was among the people he used to store and deliver the heroin.

A search of London’s home resulted in finding 77 grams of heroin in a Starbucks cup and a 55-pound package of mannitol (a heroin cutting agent) by her bed, the DOJ said. Text messages and phone calls indicated London made her home available to Chisholm's drug deals.

Fifteen of their co-conspirators have pleaded guilty to various drug distribution and conspiracy charges and seven have been sentenced.