{"id":84895,"date":"2017-09-24T23:25:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T03:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=84895"},"modified":"2017-09-24T20:20:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T00:20:55","slug":"schneiderman-announces-39-guilty-pleas-as-part-of-operation-bricktown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=84895","title":{"rendered":"Schneiderman announces 39 guilty pleas as part of Operation Bricktown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-70131\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman.jpg 260w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman-150x128.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Attorney General\u2019s SURGE Initiative Focuses On Drug Trafficking Networks In Suburban and Upstate NY\u2014<\/i>\u00a0<i>Part Of Multi-Faceted Approach To Tackling The Opioid Epidemic<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>Last Week, A.G. Schneiderman Announced 55 Guilty Pleas As Part Of Operation Gravy Train, Another SURGE Takedown<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the guilty pleas of 39 individuals related to Operation Bricktown, the takedown of a drug trafficking ring by the Attorney General\u2019s Organized Crime Task Force and the Syracuse Police Department in and around Onondaga County. The operation, which focused on Syracuse\u2019s violent Bricktown street gang, was part of Schneiderman\u2019s Suburban and Upstate Response to the Growing Epidemic (\u201cS.U.R.G.E.\u201d) Initiative\u2014a crackdown on New York\u2019s growing heroin, opioid, and narcotics trafficking networks, just one element of a multi-faceted approach the office is employing to fight the opioid epidemic. Last week, Schneiderman announced 55 guilty pleas in Operation Gravy Train, another SURGE Initiative takedown.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Over the course of the 12-month Operation Bricktown investigation, authorities seized:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Over two kilograms of cocaine<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1,128 envelopes of heroin and over 20 grams of loose heroin<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">9mm Lorcin handgun, loaded and with the serial number obliterated (through ballistics testing, this gun was linked to thirteen incidents in Syracuse from 2015 to 2016)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">.40 caliber Glock handgun, loaded with a 30-round magazine<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">9mm Sig Sauer handgun, loaded with a 15-round magazine<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">.45 caliber Taurus handgun, loaded<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">12-gauge shotgun<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Drug paraphernalia, including scales, packaging and cutting agents<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">$3,657<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">ecstasy pills and psychedelic mushrooms<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re committed to stopping the flow of dangerous drugs into New York communities,\u201d said\u00a0Schneiderman. \u201cFrom taking dangerous traffickers off our streets, to improving access to addiction treatment and vital overdose antidotes, to reducing doctor shopping, we\u2019ll continue to use all the tools in our arsenal to tackle the drug epidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sentencing details of the defendants are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rasue Barnett: Will be sentenced on\u00a0October 2 to 2\u00a0years in prison and 1 year post-release supervision, concurrent to his sentence in Operation Gravy Train<\/li>\n<li>Bishop Black:\u00a0 Sentenced on August 28 to a 1 year jail sentence<\/li>\n<li>Delaughn Brown: Sentenced on September 7\u00a0 to 1-3 years in prison<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Caldwell: Will be sentenced on\u00a0October 16\u00a0to 4 years in prison and 1 year post-release supervision<\/li>\n<li>Devon Christman:\u00a0 Sentenced on September 18 to probation<\/li>\n<li>Artel Clarke: Sentenced on\u00a0July 5\u00a0to 2 years in prison and 1 year post-release supervision<\/li>\n<li>Khalil Davis: Will be sentenced on\u00a0September 29\u00a0to 5 years in prison and 2 \u00bd years post-release supervision, concurrent to a sentence on an unrelated robbery in Onondaga County Court<\/li>\n<li>Kivon Davis:\u00a0 Sentenced on\u00a0July 7\u00a0to 5 years\u2019 probation<\/li>\n<li>Savon Ellick-Sanders: Sentenced on September 7 to 3-9 years in prison to run concurrently with an additional sentence of 6 \u00bd years in prison with 5 years post-release supervision<\/li>\n<li>David Floyd: Sentenced on\u00a0July 20\u00a0to 2 years in prison and 1 year post-release supervision<\/li>\n<li>Lyndard Funderbrug:\u00a0 Sentenced on\u00a0July 7\u00a0to probation<\/li>\n<li>Raymond Harris: Sentenced on August 28 to 1-year in jail<\/li>\n<li>Joshua Hester: Sentenced on September 7 to 3 \u00bd years in prison and 2 years post-release supervision<\/li>\n<li>John Horton: Sentenced on August 28 to 5 years\u2019 probation<\/li>\n<li>Shantajah Hunter: Sentenced on September 7 to 5 years\u2019 probation<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Hutchins:\u00a0 Sentenced on September 18 to probation<\/li>\n<li>Quincy Jones: Sentenced on August 29 to 8 years and 1 \u00bd years post-release supervision to run concurrent with a sentence of 2-4 years in prison<\/li>\n<li>James Kelly: Sentenced on\u00a0July 7\u00a0to time served and 5 years\u2019 probation<\/li>\n<li>Terrence Kilmer: Sentence will be determined by the court on\u00a0October 16<\/li>\n<li>Shakeem Kitchen: Sentenced on\u00a0July 7\u00a0to 2 years in prison and 1 \u00bd years post-release supervision<\/li>\n<li>Antwan McGee: Sentenced on\u00a0July 27\u00a0to 4 years in prison and 1 \u00bd years post-release supervision<\/li>\n<li>Gary Moore: Sentenced on September 7 to probation<\/li>\n<li>Michael Morgan: Will be sentenced on\u00a0September 29\u00a0to 5 years in prison and 1 \u00bd years post-release supervision to run concurrently with an additional sentence of 3-6 years in prison<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Muldoon: Sentence will be determined by the court on\u00a0September 29<\/li>\n<li>Michael Myers: Sentenced on\u00a0July 20\u00a0to 4 \u00bd years in prison and 1 \u00bd years of post-release supervision<\/li>\n<li>Kamar Parke: Sentenced on\u00a0July 5\u00a0to 3 to 6 years in prison<\/li>\n<li>Joshua Poole: Sentenced on\u00a0July 7\u00a0to 2 years in prison and 1 year post-release supervision, which will run consecutively to a prison sentence he is serving from an unrelated Cortland County case<\/li>\n<li>Reggie Robinson: Sentenced on\u00a0July 5\u00a0to 3 years in prison and 3 years post-release supervision<\/li>\n<li>Kendrick Rowser: Sentenced on\u00a0July 27\u00a0to time served and probation<\/li>\n<li>Miquan Russo: Sentenced on\u00a0July 20\u00a0to 5 years in prison and 1 \u00bd years of post-release supervision<\/li>\n<li>Charles Scott: Sentenced on September 7 to 6 years in prison and 5 years post-release supervision<\/li>\n<li>Lacy Sellers: Will be sentenced on\u00a0September 29\u00a0to 5 years\u2019 probation<\/li>\n<li>Daquan Sullivan: Will be sentenced on\u00a0October 2 to 3\u00a01\/2 years in prison and 3 years post-release supervision<\/li>\n<li>Demetrius Sullivan: Will be sentenced on\u00a0October 16\u00a0to 3 years in prison + 2 years post-release supervision, which is anticipated to run consecutively to a Federal violation of probation<\/li>\n<li>Terri Tyler: \u00a0Sentenced on\u00a0July 27\u00a0to probation<\/li>\n<li>Glen White: Will be sentenced on\u00a0September 25\u00a0to 4 \u00bd to 9 years in prison to run concurrently with another sentence of 7 years in prison with 1 \u00bd years of post-release supervision<\/li>\n<li>Emerson Kinsey: Will be sentenced on\u00a0October 16\u00a0to 4 years in prison and 1 \u00bd years post-release supervision<\/li>\n<li>Asian McArthur: Will be sentenced on\u00a0October 10\u00a0to 2-4 years in prison<\/li>\n<li>Kelly Babbitt: Sentenced on\u00a0August 4 to 5\u00a0years\u2019 probation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Attorney General\u2019s Organized Crime Task Force has now taken down 25 large drug trafficking gangs, made more than 580 felony narcotics arrests, and seized more than $1.5 million and more than 2,000 pounds of illegal drugs since 2011.\u00a0 In the past several months alone, Attorney General Schneiderman\u2019s\u00a0<a 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href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTcwOTE4Ljc4Mjg4MjYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE3MDkxOC43ODI4ODI2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2OTUyMjk0JmVtYWlsaWQ9bWFyZ29AbTNwbWVkaWEuY29tJnVzZXJpZD1tYXJnb0BtM3BtZWRpYS5jb20mdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/press-release\/operation-bricktown-ag-schneiderman-syracuse-police-chief-fowler-announce-takedown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" 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shopping\u201d by 90%; the Community Overdose Prevention program, equipping law enforcement with naloxone; and more.<\/p>\n<p>The charges against the remaining defendants are accusations and the defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<wbr \/><\/p>\n<p>Several additional agencies participated in the investigation, including the New York State Police, Onondaga County District Attorney&#8217;s Office, Onondaga County Probation Department, New York State Division of Parole, the United States Marshals Service, and the New York National Guard Counterdrug Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation was conducted by OCTF Investigator Tim MacConaghy under the supervision of Supervising Investigator Thomas M. 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