Heroin-Dealing Bushwick Crew Busted For Murder, Feds Say

BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN — Five members of the lethal “Bushwick Crew” who took part in a conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin into Brooklyn and plastered social media with pictures of their luxury cars and boats were slapped with murder charges Thursday, prosecutors announced.

Maurice Brown, Jaquan Cooper, Lance Goodwin, Tyquan “Ty Goon” Griem and Norman Marrero were named in a nineteen-count indictment that includes charges of murder, racketeering, heroin distribution and weapon possession, among others on Thursday, Brooklyn federal prosecutors said.

The Bushwick Crew members were arrested after investigators seized nearly a million dollars in drug proceeds, more than 10 kilograms of heroin, fentanyl, and “an impressive fleet of exotic cars,” that included a Lamborghini, Rolls Royce Ghost and a Maserati, court records show.

The Bushwick Crew earned their luxurious lifestyle dealing millions of dollars worth of heroin they received from a Mexican cartel and enjoyed posting photos of their yacht trips, diamond-encrusted jewelry which they wore on trips to nightclubs to social media, prosecutors noted.

When not on Instagram, the Crew members dealt heroin, collected payments, recruited members for the Young Gunners, another local street gang, to help enforce their reign and shot dead those who retaliated against them, prosecutors said.

Brown was among Bushwick Crew members who tortured and killed Gary Lopez and Rudy Superville, two men who tried to rob them of heroin and $150,000 in cash in March, 2013, said prosecutors.

Griem killed Kelvin Johnson, an innocent bystander, in a New York nightclub in September, 2014, when a fight broke out and the Bushwick Crew member shot into the crowd and missed his target, prosecutors said.

Donte Williams was fatally shot in the stomach by Goodwin during a fight in Bushwick on Aug. 12, 2012, said prosecutors.

Four members were arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court on Thursday afternoon and one is slated to be arraigned in North Carolina, said prosecutors.

Photos courtesy of the United States Attorney's office