Crack Dealer Found Guilty Of Botched Bed-Stuy Gang Hits, Feds Say

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN-- A Bed-Stuy crack dealer whose lackeys repeatedly killed innocent bystanders while trying to shoot down his rivals could spend life in prison, prosecutors announced.

A Brooklyn jury found Nicholas "Face" Washington, 35, guilty Friday, more than a decade after two people died during his gang's botched assassination attempts in Bed-Stuy, U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue announced.

As leader of the G'z Up gang — which sold crack out of the Marcy Houses, in upstate New York and Pennsylvania between January 2004 and December 2006 — Washington ordered two members to kill rival drug crew leaders on Feb. 10, 2005, said prosecutors.

The pair shot up the Marcy Houses, missed their targets, and killed bystander Steven Negron instead, prosecutors said.

Washington organized a second hit the day of his brother John Hayes's funeral in July 2006, prosecutors said.

Five G'z members went to the Tompkins Houses, shot at the men they believed murdered Hayes, missed, and killed innocent bystander Andrell Napper, prosecutors said.

Police only arrested Washington in 2016, two years after he was indicted for murder but evaded arrest by providing false information to an NYPD officer, according to federal prosecutors.

Washington faces a mandatory life sentence after his three-week federal court trial on charges of murder-in-aid of racketeering, causing death with a firearm and attempted obstruction of justice, prosecutors said.

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