A total of 120 Bronx gang members and associates were arrested, authorities said Wednesday, in what investigators believe is the largest gang takedown in the city’s history. Numerous others arrested belonged to rival gang Big Money Bosses, which reportedly caused the 2009 murder of 92-year-old Sadie Mitchell.
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Hundreds of NYPD officers and federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, and the U.S. Marshals Service were involved in the roundup.
Authorities swooped in the early hours on dozens of members of the Bronx gangs, which are accused of as many as 39 homicides, use of firearms, robbery, bank fraud, racketeering and drug dealing, capping a years-long pursuit by authorities to smash the two groups.
Bharara publicized each gang member’s indictment in the statement. Allegedly, they also committed numerous acts of violence and at least eight murders in the course of their illicit operations.
Those killed by members of both gangs are 18-year-old Keshon Potterfield, in 2014; 17-year-old Alexander Walters, who was stabbed to death in 2012; Donville Simpson also 17 and shot to death in 2013; and Jeffrey (Famous) Delmore, 15, stabbed to death on E. Gun Hill Road last May.
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The New York Daily News says as the gang members were walking handcuffed into the 50th precinct, many seemed unfazed at the charges leveled against them.
