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BREAKING: 20 Alleged 'Outlaw Gangsta Crips' Arrested for 'Reign of Terror Over East Flatbush'

Brooklyn crime ring dismantled in early-morning bust.

NYPD officers and FBI agents swarmed East Flatbush early Thursday morning for a raid targeting a local ring of “Outlaw Gangsta Crips.”

OGC membership drew from a confusing web of gangs including the Shoota Gang, the Eight Trey Gangsta Crips, the Bosses In Business and the Bloods, according to a report from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in East New York.

Twenty Brooklyn residents were arrested in the raid — and the list of charges against them is staggering.

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“This prosecution effectively ends OGC’s reign of terror over East Flatbush,” says U.S. Attorney Kelly Currie in a presser on the indictment.

Their alleged crimes, committed between summer 2013 and summer 2015 all up the East Coast, include “racketeering conspiracy, murder conspiracy, attempted murder, bank fraud, narcotics trafficking and firearms offenses,” says the report.

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A few examples from NYC:

On October 9 and 10, 2013, Solomon Artis and others conspired to break into and rob at gunpoint a check-cashing store at 1446 Nostrand Avenue. They entered a vacant apartment above the check-cashing business and began cutting a hole in the floor. Their plan was to enter the store during the day and to force an employee — at gunpoint — to open the safe. The plan was thwarted when an employee noticed damage to the ceiling.

On October 12, 2013, Brogdon shot victims identified in the indictment as John Doe #2 and John Doe #3 in front of 1404 Nostrand Avenue. The shootings were part of an ongoing dispute with rivals of OGC.

On June 3, 2014, Brogdon, Malik Campbell, Brandon Greenidge, Jeffrey Joseph, and Stephon Rene attempted to murder a victim identified as John Doe #1. The defendants surrounded John Doe #1 inside of the Big Boy Deli at 1452 Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn and attempted to steal his chain. During the confrontation, Brogdon handed Campbell a gun, and Campbell shot John Doe #1 multiple times.

On July 19, 2014, Cordero Passley and others assaulted and stabbed — in the torso, throat, and neck — a victim identified as John Doe #4 in front of 116 Lenox Road. The incident began when Passley ordered a woman to stop playing a song by alleged rival gang member Ackquille Jean Pollard, better known as the rapper “Bobby Shmurda.” When John Doe #4 defended the woman, which Passley viewed as disrespectful, Passley and others attacked him, sending him to the hospital.

OCG members also planned a complex assassination scheme against a member of their own gang who they called “Pops,” says the report.

Below are the names of the 20 defendants, all from Brooklyn.

SOLOMON ARTIS, 25

LEONARD BARLETTO, 27

DERRICK BIENAIME, 20

CONELL BROGDON, 28

DAVON BROWN, 21

MALIK CAMPBELL, 27

STANLEY CHERENFANT, 24

STEVEN CHERENFANT, 23

COURTNEY COY, 28

PARRIS DESUZE, 26

BRANDON GREENIDGE, 29

CORY HARRIS, 26

JAMAR HARRY, 26

ANDRE HOLMAN, 27

JEFFREY JOSEPH, 30

SILBERT NICHOLSON, 23

CORDERO PASSLEY, 20

GABRIEL PATTERSON, 20

STEPHON RENE, 28

AKEEM WATSON, 23

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