Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the unsealing of a 10-Count Indictment charging 14 members of the Young Gunnaz Gang (“YG”), including the gang’s high-ranking street leaders, with committing various racketeering, narcotics and firearms offenses. The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas.
The Indictment charges several YG members and associates with acts of violence. This includes Kashad Sampson, a/k/a “Shoca,” a YG leader who is charged with participating in multiple assaults with a dangerous weapon in Poughkeepsie and Newburgh, New York. In addition to serious acts of violence, the gang was also responsible for trafficking large amounts of narcotics across the City of Newburgh and New York State and perpetrating fraud schemes to enrich members of the gang.
As alleged in public court filings and the Indictment unsealed in White Plains federal court:
Kasha Thompson, a/k/a “Shoca,” George Delgado , a/k/a “Groc,” Gabriel Roman , a/k/a “Gabe,” Dallas Archer, a/k/a “Muggas,” Jasiah Wooten, a/k/a “Hov,” Bruce Allen, a/k/a “Bam,” Syncere Tatum, a/k/a “Syn,” John Lalanne, a/k/a “JJ,” Raekwon Jackson, a/k/a Tree,” Bashir Mallory, a/k/a “BG,” a/k/a “Bear,” Mekhi McDonald , a/k/a “Khi,” Christopher Tate, a/k/a “Bag,” Kristopher Burgess Cunningham, a/k/a “KG,” and Dejon Scott, a/k/a “Red Dot,” are members and associates of a racketeering conspiracy known as YG.
On August 15, 2020, Sampson, Archer, Lalanne and Jackson for the purpose of maintaining and increasing their positions in the YG enterprise, participated in and facilitated the attempted murder of rival gang members in Poughkeepsie.
On April 27, 2021, Tatum, Roman and Tate, for the purpose of maintaining and increasing their positions in the YG enterprise, attempted to rob and shot at a rival drug dealer in Newburgh.
On November 17, 2021, Sampson, Delgado, Wooten and Allen, for the purpose of maintaining and increasing their positions in the YG enterprise, shot at four rival gang members in Newburgh, New York.
On November 10, 2020, Lalanne robbed a narcotics dealer at gunpoint and discharged his firearm in Newburgh, New York.
From at least 2019 to the present, the accused individuals participated in a conspiracy to distribute a substantial amount of narcotics, including crack cocaine, heroin, Oxycodone, marijuana, and Promethazine HCL mixed with Codeine, commonly known as “lean.” These individuals also possessed numerous firearms in connection with this narcotics conspiracy.