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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LOS ANGELES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo: FBI File<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A leader of the Bounty Hunter Bloods (BHB) street gang was sentenced Friday to 168 months in federal prison for leading a manufacturing and distribution of crack cocaine organization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The drugs were sold around the gang\u2019s \u201cterritory\u201d of the Nickerson Gardens public housing projects in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha, a United States District Judge, gave a sentence to Damion Baker, also known as “Fatts,” of the Los Angeles Harbor Gateway neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

Baker pleaded guilty on February 17 to one count of conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, and possess cocaine with intent to distribute cocaine and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.<\/span><\/p>\n

Baker was the lead defendant in an indictment targeting<\/a>\u00a0members and associates of the BHB street gang for drug- and firearm-related crimes. He has been in federal custody since his April 2021 arrest in this case.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"From August 2019 to May 2020, Baker organized and led a drug trafficking conspiracy in which he and his accomplices agreed to distribute cocaine. Specifically, Baker arranged to obtain powder cocaine from at least two drug suppliers. <\/span><\/p>\n

He then directed his co-conspirators to cook, and would himself cook, the powder cocaine and manufacture it into crack cocaine to sell to customers, including back to his powder cocaine suppliers to sell in crack form.<\/span><\/p>\n

Baker directed his accomplices in the packaging, sale, and delivery of crack cocaine to customers, which included co-conspirators and other BHB gang members. Baker also directed the receipt and storage of drug proceeds throughout BHB-claimed territory in South Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of these activities, Baker arranged for an accomplice\u2019s residence in the Nickerson Gardens housing projects in Watts to be used as a stash house, in which Baker and his co-conspirators continuously sold crack cocaine over many months. <\/span><\/p>\n

Baker recruited and hired co-conspirators to work at the Watts stash house. He directed them to sell narcotics to customers there and in nearby areas, restocking the stash house\u2019s drug supply and transporting drug proceeds to Baker and other accomplices at various locations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Baker admitted in his plea agreement to possessing a firearm in May 2020. <\/span><\/p>\n

He was not permitted to do so because he had previously been convicted of felonies in Los Angeles Superior Court, including a cocaine possession charge in 1998 and a domestic violence-related charge in 2001. <\/span><\/p>\n

He has admitted that he possessed the firearm to protect his crack cocaine distribution business.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"blueBaker also agreed to forfeit the firearm and $44,600 in cash that law enforcement seized at his residence in Los Angeles and another residence in Compton.<\/span><\/p>\n

“A member of the BHB gang, [Baker] was the most culpable and essential figure in this serious criminal conspiracy that plagued BHB territory in and around the Nickerson Gardens Housing Projects in Watts\u2026and elsewhere in Los Angeles,\u201d prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other 11 defendants in this indictment either have pleaded guilty or signed plea agreements and await sentencing. <\/span><\/p>\n

Another BHB gang member and Baker\u2019s second in command in the drug trafficking conspiracy, Tony Carr, 52, a.k.a. \u201cT-Bone,\u201d of Watts, pleaded guilty in July 2022 to one count of cocaine trafficking conspiracy and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. <\/span><\/p>\n

In October 2022, Judge Aenlle-Rocha sentenced Carr to 188 months in federal prison.<\/span><\/p>\n

The FBI\u2019s Los Angeles Metropolitan Task Force on Violent Gangs, which consists of the FBI, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department, and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, investigated this matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assistant U.S. Attorney Amy E. Pomerantz of the Violent and Organized Crime Section prosecuted this case.<\/span><\/p>\n

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