Yonkers Man Gets 20 Years For 2011 Drug Murder In White Plains

WHITE PLAINS, NY — A calculated plan to rob a drug dealer cost a 21-year-old man his life more than a decade ago, and now the mastermind of the crime has learned his fate.

Marcus Chambers of Yonkers, a/k/a "Chino," a/k/a "Chi D," a/k/a "SP," was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison for the 2011 murder of Jonathan Johnson, 21, on March 18, 2011, in White Plains, Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced today. Chambers entered a guilty plea in U.S. District Court on December 20.

According to court documents, on March 18, 2011, Chambers and his co-defendant Darnell Kidd murdered Jonathan Johnson by shooting him during an armed robbery in White Plains. Chambers arranged by phone to purchase the marijuana from Johnson. Chambers and Kidd then met with Johnson to rob him of marijuana, and during the robbery, Johnson was shot and killed.

In addition to his prison term, the 31-year-old was sentenced to three years of supervised release.

Williams praised the investigative work of the White Plains Police Department and the FBI Westchester County Safe Streets Task Force, which comprises agents and task force officers from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Probation Office, New York State Police, the NYPD, the Mount Vernon Police Department, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, the Town of Ramapo Police Department, the Yonkers Police Department, the Greenburgh Police Department, the Peekskill Police Department, the Westchester County Police Department and the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office.

"In March 2011, Jonathan Johnson was shot dead, the victim of senseless drug-related violence," Audrey Strauss, then acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said at the time of the pair's arrest. "As alleged in the indictment, Marcus Chambers and Darnell Kidd are responsible for that murder."

Chambers and Kidd are already serving prison sentences from prior federal convictions.

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