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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 E.

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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 ruin lives and take lives.

This week's gang and drug sweep is tthe e latest in a series of such indictments and arrests throughout the county, starting with Mount Vernon and Poor Chester in April and in Yonkers a year ago.

Like puzzle pieces, every investigation leads us to another connected part and potentially another jurisdiction on 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 inertial police Department.

I have Commissioner Joseph Shaller here, as well as Deputy Police Commissioner Robert Zola, Captain Cosmo Acosta and Detective Lieutenant Brian Fagan from the Westchester County Department of Public Safety.

Lieutenant James Career 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 Schaefer, 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 Ner Shel Police Department Register, county District Attorney's office investigators, Westchester County Police, Westchester County Department of Probation and the Yonkers in Melbourne and 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 in Narcotics Bureau, who worked closely with the nurse up 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 Paul, are alleged violent dying 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 arraigned before Westchester County Court Judge George Video.

Here are some of the details The first indictment covers a period of time from March 1 2017 to the end of April.

This year, it contains a total of 50 counts against 14 members of the eight Trey Crips, charges, conspiracy, attempted murder, robbery, burglary and sales and possession of narcotics.

The indictment details the gang's cocaine trafficking operation in New Rochelle, 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 perceived police informants, and they were charged with attempted murder and separate incidents on October 10 2017 May 8 2018 and September 23 2018.

The indictment alleges that several of the defendant's distributed cocaine from a home at 1 10 Washington Avenue in New Rochelle.

They're Brandon Brown, known as Bones, fielded calls from cocaine buyers and sent other Crips, including our Tez Jackson, known as has 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 Cori James and eight Trey Crips 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 a commissioner, Joseph Shallower of New Rochelle, 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 case is here in New Rochelle detected what they believe 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 New Rochelle Police Department enlisted the support of the Westchester County District Attorney's office, the Westchester County Police Departments narcotics Unit and a local unit of the FBI's Organized Crime Task Force to launch a joint investigation into the gang's activities.

Operation Crypt Crypt Keeper Operation Crypt Keeper concluded yesterday morning with the execution of multiple search and arrest warrants in New Rochelle, Mount Vernon and Yak is on 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 New Rochelle Police Department thanks it's little 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 on the office police department, the Westchester County Department of Probation for their assistance in the execution of the warrants and the arrest yesterday morning.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

So we'd be happy to try to answer some questions.

Some of you do have it.

We have some people that might be able to help answer them.

Smallest, I will try.

So what was established with two would have been arrested.

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We're still searching for names.

We can't provide that they haven't been on shield.

You wanted Washington Street?

How much of that operation worked out there?

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That was the main locations.

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One time Washington was the location where one of the individuals lived and the gang frequented.

It hung out anywhere at any point.

You would see anywhere from 5 to 7 members there and you conduct their business out of there Commission.

What cool did you have work terrible to the operation one.

We used everything we could do Any kind of Elektronik surveillance, any kind of social media that we could access.

Way did that.

So I could just add it was a wiretap investigation.

But we also, um we execute search warrants for social media accounts on these investigations, involved undercover police officers.

And pretty much when you're trying to break up a gang like this, you use all of those techniques at this.

In this case, we did.

This is William Shaper 19.

They're all moving arrested.

So it's it's 18 that the third board is the second indictment.

Cori James is named also in the first time in 18 total targets.

Um, tour have not been arrested yet.

So 16 in custody blood court.

Do you think you made well, I think that, you know, the fact matter is, it's always a continuing battle when you're dealing with any form of organization and organized crime.

And, uh, this is done a substantial damage to this group.

Um and you know, when it comes to law enforcement, it is a continuing battle all the time.

It never never stops, because if the demand is still there.

Others will eventually try to come into the into the stream.

And, um, you know, that's why we have to continue doing it.

But this has done a tremendous damage to this group of the Crips.

You have a street value on the narcotics.

That was I don't have that.

Does anyone have a street value on those during the cold?

I mean, wait, just what you're looking at there.

Um, now, just cocaine right there during the investigation is, But during the investigation, more was recovered.

That was just from the search warrants the other day.

Mr.

Carver, this is from 1 10 Washington street.

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The assault rifle sold shotgun on top.

That's when 55 main street in your shell, the two handguns in the middle and the marijuana on the bullets.

That's from 207 South First Avenue, a Mount Vernon.

And the handgun on the lower left was from North Avenue in New Rochelle.

We recovered it from one of the gang members, and then the what?

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 the one that was used in one of the attempted murders we recovered.

Where did that take place?

Um, that one took police on Washington Avenue in your show where two rivals, two of those members decided to not get along any longer and shot it.

Shot it.

Uh, want a shot at the other one?

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Yeah, that's where everything started.

Um, group eventually fractured, and it kind of splintered out.

Is there any more to this investigation or besides searching for the two people are still looking into this gang.

Um, that's pretty much the whole new shell gang.

There are some other crypt members out there that we're aware of that will actively tried to investigate, but has it right now.

That's everybody.

I think that's urge to the It's probably for the district attorney.

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Gangs compared similarities.

Sure, they sell drugs and guns.

What are you noticing?

So similarities between these three Well, they are all involved in and semi connected because one investigation led to another and 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 deal with similar suppliers, the very protective of their of their territory, which leads to violence among themselves as well as accidental, say, accidental unintended victims such as the said cases We had to Mount Vernon with gang members fighting shot Shimoyama can see.

So the importance of what we do here is that that we recognize we're not targeting the community of inertia.

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 a CZ 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.

It 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 the weapons that air that they carry.

And so that's the one of the main spinoffs that you get from these types of arrest.

With these individuals off the street, you will notice a tremendous difference in the safety of the communities that's around them.

That's why we we focus on on these types of cases.

Thank you.

Thank you, folks.