NEW YORK – The last gang members and narcotics distributors to be arrested as a result of a long-running investigation conducted by the FBI in Newburgh and Poughkeepsie have been sentenced.
Twenty-six were convicted of being members, associates, and co-conspirators of the violent street gang Young Gunnaz (YG), including YG leader Kashad Sampson.
Twelve of the defendants were convicted of being members and associates of the violent street gang the Double Nine Grim Reapers (Grimz), including Grimz leaders Jeremy Williams, Randy Jones, and James White.
Rodney George, part of the Sampson case, was the last to be sentenced and received 108 months in federal prison.
“For years, members and associates of the Young Gunnaz and the Double Nine Grim Reapers brought shootings, armed robberies, narcotics trafficking, and fraud to communities across the Hudson Valley,” said US Attorney Jay Clayton.
“No gang should get to claim a block, a neighborhood, or a city as its own, and this office will continue to work with our federal, state and local partners to dismantle violent criminal organizations and protect the communities they prey upon.”
For at least the last eight years, the gangs with hundreds of members in Orange and Dutchess counties and the state prison system, have been involved in narcotics trafficking, wire fraud, armed robberies, and shootings.
On November 3, 2020, the Grimz defendants were involved in an attempted murder of a rival gang member, who was shot several times while sitting in his car.
He was treated at two hospitals and survived.
Assisting in the investigations were the FBI Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force, city police in Newburgh, Poughkeepsie and New York, New Windsor and Newburgh town police, State Police, New York City Department of Correction, Correction Intelligence Bureau, and Department of Labor Office of Inspector General.
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