They often traveled to Huntington, West Virginia, Portsmouth, Ohio, and Chillicothe, Ohio, (among other locations) to sell and purchase drugs and guns. T&A members used the drug proceeds to purchase firearms to use in gang wars in Columbus. They also used “trap houses” in other individuals’ names to store and sell narcotics.
The murder of seven-year-old Deonte Fisher on March 4, 2016.Īdditionally, from Juntil March 15, 2017, there were at least 26 separate incidences in which T&A gang members attempted to murder more individuals by shooting at them.Ĭo-conspirators also threatened and/or intimidated witnesses, using violence or the threat of violence to deter them from providing information to law enforcement and to enforce a “no snitching” code.ĭefendants distributed cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, oxycodone and marijuana. The murder of Marvin Ector on December 23, 2013, on East 5 th Avenue The murder of Franky Tention on July 1, 2012, in the area of 431 Ellison Street Specifically, co-conspirators in this case have been convicted of five murders: Gang members were expected to retaliate with acts of violence when their members and associates were disrespected, threatened, intimidated or subjected to acts of violence. T&A controlled the neighborhood through intimidation, fear and violence. These songs were posted on various social networking sites used by the T&A members. Members also produced songs to boast of the gang’s existence, communicate their violent methods and threaten non-members and rival gang members. T&A members marked the gang’s territory with graffiti and themselves with common tattoos. Its local rival Blood gangs include, but are not limited to, the Easthaven Bloods, Poindexter Thug Life (PTL) and the Milo Bloods. T&A identifies with the national Crips gang, adopting the traditional colors, symbols, culture, codes and enemies of the Crips gang. The criminal organization included various subgroups, including, Atcheson Crip Gangsters (ACG), Catch A Body (CAB), Kwamie Gang (KMG), Waun Gang, Family Over Everything (FOE), Go Gang, On The Family (OTF), Toe Tag and Go Crazy. The gang derived its name from Trevitt and Atcheson streets in the King-Lincoln District of Columbus, where its members predominantly resided. The United States Attorney’s Office charged 19 total defendants in 2018 as part of the local gang T&A Crips.
Nelms was scheduled to stand trial beginning next week and pleaded guilty at a pretrial conference yesterday evening. Nelms’s plea includes a recommended sentence of 34 to 40 years in prison. During a robbery in 2011, one of several rounds shot by Nelms went into a nearby house and struck a young girl, who also survived.
According to his plea, in 2011, Nelms shot another man in the chest, and the gunshot victim survived. and agreed to kill the man for the purpose of maintaining and increasing their positions within T&A. Nelms and others spotted Moore, a rival Poindexter Thug Life Bloods gang member, walking on Mount Vernon Ave. 8 to participating in the 2013 murder of William Moore. Shawn Nelms, 28, admitted in federal court on Sept.
The racketeering conspiracy first charged in 2018 includes five murders, at least 26 attempted murders, and other violent and drug-trafficking crimes. District Court for his part in furthering the violence of the local Crips gang. COLUMBUS, Ohio – The final of 19 defendants to be convicted in a Columbus gang-related racketeering conspiracy pleaded guilty in U.S.