Molinelli's gang unit got the ball rolling in July, gathering information about drug and weapons sales in the county's three major cities.
An undercover squad of detectives from the County Sheriff Leo McGuire's department and Teaneck police began making street buys of pot, Ecstasy, cocaine and unspecified weapons.
Then came a flurry of arrests:
Kashawn West (Bloods: Sex Money Murder), DOB: March 23, 1991; 46 Newman Street, Apt A6, Hackensack; drug possession within 1,000 feet of a school and 500 feet of public property;
Anthony Drakeford (Bloods: Sex Money Murder) DOB: March 12, 1981; 195 Central Avenue, Hackensack; drug dealing within 1,000 feet of a school zone;
Michael Feola (Bloods Associate) DOB: March 20, 1988; 56 Genesee Avenue, Teaneck; drug and weapons possession, drug dealing within 500 feet of public property;
Reggie Sowell (Bloods Associate); DOB: June 14, 1989; 13 Newman Street, Apt 1B, Hackensack; drug dealing within 500 feet of public property;
Peter Martinez (Bloods, Sex Money Murder Associate) DOB: October 4, 1986; 22 76th Street, North Bergen; drug dealing within 500 feet of public property;
Brandon Randolph (Crips, Rollin 60s) DOB: December 4, 1979; 515 North Grand Avenue, Englewood; weapons possession, weapons sale without a license;
Ashlin Hayer (Crips Associate) DOB: March 22, 1987; 1277 Beaumont Avenue, Teaneck; employing a juvenile to conduct narcotic offenses;
Also taken into custody and charged with selling drugs within 1,000 feet of a school zone was a juvenile suspected of belonging to the Bloods Fruit Town Piru, Molinelli said.
Detectives in the operation arrested another man with no known gang affiliations, reaching out to downtown North Bergen to find him: Edgar Cabrera, DOB: February 19, 1980; 2508 Cottage Avenue, Apt A, North Bergen; drug dealing within 1,000 feet of a school zone.
Molinelli thanked Teaneck, Hackensack, Englewood, and Ridgefield police, as well as the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office and the U.S. Secret Service.
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Lillian
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... Its hard to believe that this is happening in my own backyard! How naive is suburban Jersey thinking that gangs are only in the ghetto. |
Catalina Perez
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... These gangs are not only in the ghetto. Proof of that is when they sprayed my brother's house in the suburbs with bullets, while his wife, and daughter slept in the wee hours of the night. They were caught, and the police told my brother, they were from the Bloods looking for a Crips member. They obviously had the wrong house! |
Johnny DeCarlo
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... I guess neither of you gals have been to Teaneck, Englewood or Hackensack. Those three towns are divided into two parts, which are: the ritzy upper-class section of beautiful homes (mostly occupied by very wealthy Jewish families), and then the section that is the absolute slummiest of projects, minorities and plenty of crime (constitutes ghettos to me.) In fact, those are the three towns in Bergen County which immediately come to mind when I think of these types of incidents. |
Jerry DeMarco
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... Actually, one of them owns a business in Teaneck --a very successful and philanthropic business. The other lived in an urban area of Jersey and moved out of state to get away from it.... You're talking cities here, which accounts for the demographic. Bucolic Bergen has its all-green towns -- plenty of them. But like other counties, it also has its cities: Teaneck, Englewood and Hackensack being the main ones. Highest population, greatest density, greatest disparity. The county was built on the backs of these urban areas, where workers could find inexpensive places to live while they worked on the homes and in the businesses that service the "finer" neighborhoods. Englewood literally has "both sides of the tracks," with the finer homes up on the hill and the slums down below. There will always be poor, Jesus said. And poverty means poor nutrition, poor education, no guidance. To feel a sense of belonging, kids enlist in gangs. The irony is that these aren't much different than the crews we had back when I was in high school, only we didn't sell hard drugs and few of us had more than a knife or a .22. We broke into rail cars in the Meadows, we got into "rumbles" at dances in other parts of town, and we started drinking at 15. In today's society, we'd have been labeled a gang. And we came from a working-class section of town! It's the only thing that saved us when the po-po rolled up. These kids have no shot with anyone. So they ignorantly insulate themselves in a group that accepts them for what they are. I feel for the ones who try to break out; it's so tough to go against the grain of your peers. Yet, somehow, they do it.... |
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