NEBRASKA
A federal grand jury indicted six alleged members of the Crips for their alleged roles in a racketeering conspiracy involving murder, attempted murder and other offenses in Nebraska, officials said today.
The indictment charges Jerell Haynie, aka Bootie and T; Gregory Bahati, aka Pooh Bear and Murk 2x; Dionte Dortch, aka Killa Tay; Kendell Tealer; Brandon Heard, aka B; and Julio Arias, aka Rudy, all of Omaha, Nebraska with conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity.
All defendants are in custody. Heard is a fugitive.
The indictment makes the following allegations:
- The Crips is a violent street gang originally based in Los Angeles with members located throughout the country.
- The Crips are divided into local chapters, referred to as “sets.” There are numerous “sets” of Crips in the Omaha area, including but not limited to the “40th Ave Crips” and the “44th Ave Crips.”
- The 40th Ave. Crips and the 44th Ave Crips have “cliqued up” in response to, and in order to protect themselves against, rival Blood gangs in Omaha.
- The 40th Ave Crips operated a drug-distribution organization dealing mainly in crack cocaine and sought to protect that enterprise through threats and violence.
- The 40th Ave Crips also sought to keep victims and witnesses in fear of the gang through acts of violence.
- Specifically, for example, the indictment alleges that in December 2010, Tealer used a firearm to shoot and kill a victim
- In September 2012, Haynie shot at an occupied residence
- In April 2015. Dortch was in a vehicle with Crips associates, leaned out of a window and shot at four victims, including an infant, in another vehicle.
- The defendants are innocent unless proven guilty.