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Bloods Gang Members, Associates Indicted For Racketeering, Violent Crimes On LI's East End

Six alleged members of the Red Stone Gorillas “set” of the Bloods street gang are facing a host of charges for racketeering, murder, robberies, narcotics trafficking and firearms offenses on the East End of Long Island.

Six members of the Bloods street gang were indicted for crimes on Long Island's East End.

Six members of the Bloods street gang were indicted for crimes on Long Island's East End.
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It is alleged that six Bloods gang members committed acts of violence and distributed large quantities of crack cocaine, powder cocaine and heroin in the Riverhead area for nearly a decade. 

Those charged:

  • Terrill Latney, 39, of Riverhead;
  • Corey Belcher, 34, of Riverhead;
  • Jimmy Dean, 41, of Calverton;
  • Roger Foster, 22, of Baiting Hollow;
  • Eric Ross, 27, of Flanders;
  • Willie Belcher, 33, of Flanders.

On Nov. 17, 2015, while attempting to carry out Dean’s order to kill an individual, Latney, and others fatally shot Thomas Lacolla as he sat in the intended victim’s car.  On Aug. 1, 2015, Foster and others allegedly shot and wounded a suspected member of the rival Crips gang and a female bystander.  Following Dean’s arrest in 2016, Latney, Foster, and others assumed control of the gang’s drug distribution operations.    

“Through murder, assaults and drug sales, these members and associates of the Bloods’ Red Stone Gorillas posed a grave danger to communities on eastern Long Island,” U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said. “This Office, together with our federal and local law enforcement partners, will continue working tirelessly to prosecute defendants like these and eradicate violent street gangs throughout Long Island.”

“These arrests are the culmination of several years of intensive investigation to take out the worst-of-the-worst gang members terrorizing Eastern Long Island communities,” FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William Sweeney added. “These subjects have allegedly created such a violent environment in parts of the town where they operate that they were dealing out in the open, without fear. We put a huge dent in that practice with the first round of arrests in this case." 

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini stated, “these are extremely dangerous gang members who are responsible not only for conspiring to commit murder, but for consistently driving crime on the East End through drug dealing and illegal firearm offenses. Eradicating violent street gangs from our community is a top priority for my office." 

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