Gang Member Pleads Guilty To Assault, Conspiracy Charges

YONKERS, NY — A member of the gang called the Blood Stones Army pleaded guilty Monday to assault and conspiracy charges.

Westchester County Court Judge Barry Warhit accepted the plea from Travis Pearson, 27, to one count of Attempted Assault in the First Degree, a class C violent felony, and one count of Conspiracy in the Second Degree, a class B felony.

Pearson will be sentenced Feb. 13, 2019, to seven years in state prison for Attempted Assault and 4.5-9 years in state prison on the Conspiracy charge. He will be adjudicated as a second violent felony offender, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. said in the announcement.

Pearson was arrested and arraigned following a gang sweep in the Nodine Hill section of Yonkers at the beginning of May of 12 members of the violent street gang known as the Blood Stones Army. All were charged in a multicount indictment. The investigation leading to the arrest was a collaboration between the Yonkers Police Gang Unit and the District Attorney’s Office Investigations Division Gang, Firearms and Narcotics Bureau.

Specifically, the incident which led to the Attempted Assault charge took place Jan. 20, 2017. Pearson approached a gang rival in the vicinity of Yonkers Avenue and Walnut Street in Yonkers. He slashed at the face of his victim with a sharp instrument.

On the count of Conspiracy, Pearson pleaded guilty to conspiring with other Blood Stones members to assert control over the Nodine Hill area by means of violence, including, but not limited to, shootings, assaults and firearms possession. He along with other members and associates were parties to a conspiratorial agreement to kill rivals.

The case was prosecuted by District Attorney’s Office Investigations Division Gang, Firearms and Narcotics Bureau.