VIRGINIA
A federal judge sentenced a Bloods Gang member to five life sentences plus 50 years in prison for RICO conspiracy and multiple murders, according to officials.
Nathaniel Tyree Mitchell, aka Savage, 26, was sentenced for his involvement in a violent crime spree, including four murders, robbery, attempted robbery and firearms offenses.
Mitchell, of Portsmouth, is a Nine Trey Gangsters member, a street gang affiliated with the United Blood Nation
From Thanksgiving through Christmas in 2015, the gang members were said to have murdered two men and three women. The victims had no affiliation with the gang, according to news reports.
Six defendants were charged in federal court, and defendants Mitchell, Antonio Lee Simmons, and Malek Lassiter were convicted last month after a seven-week trial. Three other defendants previously pleaded guilty, according to news reports.
The case was investigated as part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces or OCDETF, Operation Billy Club, officials stated.
The OCDETF program is a federal multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional task force that supplies supplemental federal funding to federal and state agencies involved in the identification, investigation, and prosecution of major drug trafficking organizations.
The principal mission of the OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and money laundering organizations, and those primarily responsible for the nation’s illegal drug supply.