By Forum Staff
Members of the Wildmeda Crips Gang have been indicted by a Queens grand jury for conspiracy to shoot rival gang members and been charged for crimes related to those shootings back in 2015 and 2016.
DA Brown noted these defendants turned the streets into “violent war zones” and said that neighborhood families had been placed in grave danger on their streets.
Authorities say the gang members plotted for months about getting guns and cars together for hits and in online conversations boasted about getting busy with shooting their targets.
A total of nine defendants were indicted – ranging in age from 20 to 29. They operated around Ocean Bay Housing Development and Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway.
The gang members asserted control with guns, beatings and intimidation. The Crips targeted members of the 70Gs, SOS, Edgemere Bloods, Flammers and any other gang that ventured into what they considered their territory.
The investigation utilized numerous investigative tools, including reviewing phone conversations of incarcerated subjects and postings on social media pages of gang members where they not only discussed plans for the shootings but boasted about them.
