Man Gets 33 Months For Threatening Witness In Brooklyn Trial

BROOKLYN, NY — A Brooklyn man has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for his attempt at threatening witnesses during a high-profile home invasion trial in 2019, prosecutors announced.

Kysheeq Randolph — a relative of Devone "Moneybags" Jefferys — was handed the sentence Wednesday after federal authorities charged him with witness retaliation for making threatening hand gestures at a government witness during the trial.

The six-day trial eventually convicted Jefferys, who was charged with terrorizing a family while searching their Williamsburg apartment for heroin in a 2015 attack.

“It is a solemn duty of law enforcement to protect witnesses who testify at trial and attempts to brazenly intimidate or terrorize them will never be tolerated,” Acting United States Attorney Seth D. DuCharme said following Randolph's sentencing. “Today the defendant learned that such flagrant disregard for the rule of law will be punished with incarceration.”

Prosecutors said that during Jefferys' trial, Randolph mimicked pointing a gun to his head and his chin while he sat in the public gallery as a witness testified.

He was charged in late 2019 and pleaded guilty in February 2020.

Jefferys is serving a 224-month sentence for his role in the home invasion, when he and and co-conspirators posed as NYPD officers to break into a drug dealer's apartment.