no I'm just saying if you know I know
but I've got you behind a poster okay
well good morning everybody today we're
pleased to announce the disruption of
another major gang active in Westchester
County
the eight-trey Crips or et Cie based
inner shell with ties to other gangs and
other cities in the county as well as
neighboring New York City these gangs
and their leaders are responsible for
violence and intimidation they make
their money through the sale of deadly
drugs drugs which Roone lives and take
lives
this week's gang and and drug sweep is
the latest in a series of such
indictments and arrests throughout the
county
starting with Mount Vernon and
Porchester in April and in Yonkers a
year ago like puzzle pieces every
investigation leads us to another
connected part and potentially another
jurisdiction and another indictment and
our continued effort to make our County
a safer and more secure place to live
work and play we are focused on working
with all of our law enforcement partners
to send a message to gangs and drug
dealers we will find you and prosecute
you to the fullest extent of the law
before I go any further with the details
let me introduce some of the people who
are here with me today from the nurse'll
Police Department
I have Commissioner Joseph shalour here
as well as Deputy Police Commissioner
Robert Gazzola captain Cosmo Costa and
detective lieutenant Brian Fagan from
the Westchester County Department of
Public Safety Lieutenant James Greer of
the Narcotics Division to assist us in
answering any questions from my office
I've asked our first Deputy District
Attorney Patricia Murphy chief of
criminal operations second deputy
district attorney William Shafer chief
of the Investigations Division and an
assistant district attorney Celia Curtis
the from the investigations division if
they're needed now to the heart of
today's story yesterday 16 defendants
were arrested in and around New Rochelle
by law enforcement officers from
multiple agencies they included the
nourisher Police Department Westchester
County District Attorney's Office
investigators Westchester County police
Westchester County department of
probation and the Yonkers and Mount
Vernon police departments with the
assistance of the FBI the arrests
followed more than a year of intensive
focus on the eight-trey Crips by
prosecutors in our Investigations
Division gang guns and Narcotics Bureau
will work closely with the nurse'll
police with additional assistance from
the Westchester County Department of
Public Safety throughout this
investigation police recovered five
handguns and an assault rifle these
defendants who you see on the posters
all are alleged violent gang members and
drug dealers and they were named in two
separate indictments handed up by the
Westchester County grand jury the
indictments were unsealed yesterday when
the defendants were reigned before
Westchester County Court Judge George
fulfill yeah here are some of the
details the first indictment covers a
period of time from March 1
20:17 to the end of april this year it
contains a total of 50 counts against 14
members of the 8 Trey Crips it charges
conspiracy attempted murder robbery
burglary and sales and possession of
narcotics the indictment details the
gangs cocaine trafficking operation
inner shell as well as numerous violent
incidents including a home invasion and
three attempted murders on this
indictment all 14 are charged with
conspiracy to commit crimes including
assault criminal sale and possession of
narcotics and weapons offenses
additionally seven of them were charged
with conspiracy to kill rival gang
members and perceive police informants
and they were charged with attempted
murder in separate incidents on October
10 2017 May 8 2010 23 2018 the
indictment alleges that several of the
defendants distributed cocaine from a
home at 110 Washington Avenue in nura
shell there Brandon brown known as bones
fielded calls from cocaine buyers and
sent other Crips including Artest
Jackson known as tez to make the sales
on his behalf the gang often used coded
language to communicate over the
telephone and Facebook private messaging
the second indictment charges Corey
James and a tray [ __ ] member also
charged in the first indictment as well
as four other men involved in his
cocaine trafficking operation with that
I would like to ask Commissioner Joseph
shalour of nura shell to say a few words
in regards to this investigation
Commissioner okay
Thank You mr. District Attorney district
attorney has already related most of the
details in this operation but the
investigation began about a year ago in
June of 2018 when investigators from our
Special Investigations Unit and general
investigations unit working that cases
here in New Rochelle detected what they
believed to be a connection among a
number of drug trafficking cases violent
crimes and gun arrests in the city
dating back as far as March 2017 a
closer look confirmed that the incidents
what connected and related to the
activities of a local branch of the
Crips gang Network known as the
eight-trey Crips at this point the nura
shell police department enlisted the
support of the Westchester County
District Attorney's Office the
Westchester County Police Department's
Narcotics Unit and a local unit of the
FBI's organized crime task force to
launch a joint investigation into the
gangs activities operation cryptic
Cryptkeeper
operation Cryptkeeper concluded
yesterday morning with the execution of
multiple search and arrest warrants and
nervous shell Mount Vernon and Yonkers
and the arrests of 16 gang members on
charges of attempted murder weapons
possession criminal sale of controlled
substances criminal possession of
controlled substances and conspiracy the
nura shell police department thanks it's
law enforcement partners in the
Westchester County District Attorney's
Office the Westchester County Police
Department and the FBI organized crime
task force for their collaboration in
this investigation and those agencies
again and the arcus Police Department in
Westchester County department of
probation for their assistance and the
execution of the warrants and the
arrests yesterday morning thank you
Thank You commissioner so we'd be happy
to try to answer some questions
yeah if some of you do have it we have
some people that might be able to help
answer them as well as I will try
what's the status with the truth not
been arrested we're searching for them
yes we're still searching for names that
we can't provide that they haven't been
on sealed yet was the main locations my
understanding is the Commissioner or
lieutenant money come over here
lieutenant Fagan Air Show police one
time Washington was the location where
one of the individuals lived and the
gang frequent they didn't hung out
anywhere at any point you would see
anywhere from five to seven members
there and they would conduct their
business out of there we used everything
we could do any kind of electronic
surveillance any kind of social media
that we could access we we did that it
was a wiretap investigation but we also
we executed search warrants for social
media accounts and these investigations
involve undercover police officers and I
pretty much when you're trying to break
up a gang like this you use all of those
techniques and this in this case we did
this is William Chantry 19 they've all
been arrested so it's 18 that the the
third board is the second indictment and
Cory
James is named also in the first
indictment so it's 18 total targets only
two or have not been arrested yet so 69
custody
well I think that you know the the fact
matter is it's always a continuing
battle when you're dealing with any form
of organization and organized crime and
this has done a substantial damage to
this group and you know when it comes to
law enforcement it is a continuing
battle all the time it never never stops
because as the demand is still there
others will eventually try to come into
the into the stream and you know that's
why we have to continue doing it but
this has done tremendous damage to this
this group of the Crips
I mean just what you're looking at there
by about 2,000 to 3,000 dollars revalue
but during investigation more was
recovered that was just when the search
warrants the other day the the assault
rifle assault shotgun up top
that's 155 Main Street inner shell the
two handguns in the middle and the
marijuana and the bullets that's from
207 South First Avenue amount Vernon and
the handgun on the lower left was from
know what they Avenue in New Rochelle we
recovered it from one of the gang
members and then the oh that's the one
that was used in the attempted murder
that we recovered the one on the right
on the bottom right that was what the
one that was used in one of the
attempted murders we recovered that one
took police on Washington Avenue in New
Rochelle where two rivals two of those
members decided to not get along any
longer and shot it he shot at one of
them shot at the other one I don't know
what's that man yeah that's where
everything started the group eventually
fractured and it kind of splint it out
are we searching for the two people are
we still looking into this game
that's pretty much the whole New
Rochelle gang there are some other [ __ ]
members out there that we're aware of
that will actively try to investigate
but as of right now well they are all
involved in semi connected because one
investigation led to another leads and
the others and you know this is the
nature of any type of organized type of
crime you know they have their
territories sometimes they they deal
with similar suppliers they're very
protective of their of their territory
which leads to violence among themselves
as well as accidental when I say
accidental no unintended victims such as
the sad cases we had in Mount Vernon
with gang members fighting in Sharjah
Moria Mackenzie so the importance of
what we we do here is that that we
recognize you know we're not targeting
the community of nourish al we're
targeting individuals that are violent
criminals when you have a mixture of
money and drugs and an organization like
that like this violence follows and if
as you as we watch and as we target
these gangs whether they be these types
of gangs organized other types of
traditional organized crime you will
notice that those communities become
safer there will be less violent crimes
because it's a small number of people
that commit these violent acts and it's
usually related to money drugs and and
the weapons that are that they carry and
so that's the one of the main spin-offs
that you get from these types of arrests
with these individuals off the street
you will notice at
and this difference in the safety of the
communities that surround them and
that's why we you know we focus on on
these types of cases thank you folks
you