VIRGINIA
Five members of the Mad Stone Bloods gang were sentenced this week in federal court in Roanoke, Virginia in Roanoke for smuggling drugs and other contraband in and outside of the prison walls, according to authorities.
The gang members got help in smuggling drugs from corrections officers.
“Gangs that operate out of our prison systems not only bring drugs and violence into prison facilities – they also breed drug-fueled violence in our communities,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General John Cronan. “The Criminal Division will continue to work together with local, state, and federal law enforcement partners to ensure that these career criminals and those who conspire with them are brought to justice.”
“Our office will continue to work with our state and local partners to target gang members who engage in violence, drug trafficking, and other illegal activities,” said U.S. Attorney Thomas Cullen of Virginia.
- This week, Terrance Nathaniel Brown, aka War, 29, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on a drug conspiracy conviction.
- Clifford Alexander Jennings, aka Big Cliff, 48, of Salem, Virginia, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on narcotics conspiracy offenses.
- Ronnie Monroe Nicholas Jr., aka RG, 37, of Crewe, Virginia, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on a racketeering conspiracy conviction.
- Michael Jamal Jones, aka M. Stone, 30, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced to serve 41 months in prison on a drug conspiracy conviction.
- Jermaine Shiquill Epps, aka Money, 28, of Madison Heights, Virginia, was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison on a drug conspiracy conviction.
According to the guilty pleas of Nicolas and Epps, and the evidence presented at the trials of Brown, Jennings, and Jones, this is what the evidence indicates:
MSB gang operates in Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, North Carolina, Georgia, Texas and Maryland, and engages in activities involving murder, narcotics trafficking, wire fraud and mail fraud both in and outside of prisons.
The gang’s national leaders are based in New York and MSB leaders in Virginia report to those New York leaders.
The gang members conspired with Virginia Department of Corrections employees, including correctional officers and an inmate counselor, to smuggle controlled substances, cellular phones and accessories and other contraband into various Virginia Correctional facilities to aid incarcerated MSB members.