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Members of West Baltimore gang Trained To Go guilty of 9 murders, drug trafficking, witness intimidation
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2018-11-02T06:30:00.000Z
2018-11-02T06:30:00.000Z
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<p>Eight men were convicted by a federal jury on Wednesday for their crimes committed for the West Baltimore gang known as Trained To Go (TTG). These included nine murders, drug trafficking, and witness intimidation, and dealing heroin, marijuana, and cocaine. Several of the defendants were also convicted of related drug and firearms charges. </p>
<p>“Federal, state and local law enforcement joined together to target the leaders and key members of one of the most violent gangs operating in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Baltimore" target="_blank">Baltimore City</a>,” said U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur. “Today’s convictions prove our continuing commitment to removing armed, violent criminals from our neighborhoods and bringing them to justice in the federal system, which has no parole—ever.”</p>
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<p>Trained To Go (TTG) is a criminal organization which operated in the Sandtown neighborhood of West Baltimore. Its members sold <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Heroin" target="_blank">heroin</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a>, and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marijuana" target="_blank">marijuana</a>, and used violence and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Murder" target="_blank">murder</a> to defend their exclusive right to control who sold narcotics in their territory.</p>
<p>At trial, evidence proved that between May 20, 2010 and May 25, 2016, TTG gangsters committed acts of violence, including nine murders, shootings, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Robbery" target="_blank">armed robbery</a>, and witness intimidation. The violent acts were intended to further the gang’s activities, protect the gang’s drug territory, and maintain and increase a member’s position within the organization. </p>
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<p>Murders were committed in retaliation for individuals robbing TTG members of drugs and drug proceeds, or while TTG gangsters robbed others of their drugs and drug proceeds, as well as in murder-for-hire schemes. To make sure nobody talked to police, they engaged in witness intimidation through violence or threats of violence.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237104681,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237104681?profile=original" width="296" /></a>Much of this deadly violence was committed by 23-year-old Montana Barronette (right), who was <a href="https://www.wmar2news.com/news/crime-checker/baltimore-city-crime/feds-gang-implicated-in-10-baltimore-killings" target="_blank">singled out</a> by authorities as the number one trigger-puller in the city of Baltimore.</p>
<p>The investigation into the gang’s activities was conducted by the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=FBI" target="_blank">FBI</a> Baltimore Safe Streets Violent Gang Task Force, which includes FBI special agents and task force officers from the Baltimore, Baltimore County, and Anne Arundel County Police Departments. </p>
<p>The eight men all face a maximum sentence of life in prison on the racketeering and drug conspiracies. Three other TTG members, all of Baltimore, previously pleaded guilty. 25-year-old Brandon “Man Man” Bazemore pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, including three murders and an attempted murder, as well as to drug conspiracy. </p>
<p>Bazemore and the government have agreed that if the court accepts the plea, Bazemore will be sentenced to 25 years in federal prison at his sentencing on November 13, 2018. Co-defendants Hisaun Chatman (31) and James Woodfolk (20) pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy and were each sentenced to five years in prison, to be served concurrent to the state sentence each is currently serving.</p>
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<p>Co-defendant Roger Taylor is still a fugitive, and the charges against him are pending. Anyone who may have information on the whereabouts of Roger Taylor is asked to contact the FBI-Baltimore Field office at (410) 265-8080.</p>
<p>The defendants convicted on Wednesday are: </p>
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<li>Montana Barronette, a/k/a Tana, and Tanner, age 23;</li>
<li>Terrell Sivells, a/k/a Rell, age 27;</li>
<li>John Harrison, a/k/a Binkie, age 28;</li>
<li>Taurus Tillman, a/k/a Tash, age 29;</li>
<li>Linton Broughton, a/k/a Marty, age 25;</li>
<li>Dennis Pulley, a/k/a Denmo, age 31;</li>
<li>Brandon Wilson, a/k/a Ali, age 24; and</li>
<li>Timothy Floyd, a/k/a Tim Rod, age 28.</li>
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Baltimore Black Guerilla Family gangster pleads guilty to murder of witness
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2017-11-08T18:00:00.000Z
2017-11-08T18:00:00.000Z
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<p>A member of Baltimore’s Black Guerilla Family (BGF) pleaded guilty on Tuesday to murdering a witness to prevent him from testifying against a fellow gang member in a pending state case. 25-year-old Wesley Jamal Brown also admitted he was a part of the Black Guerilla Family’s Greenmount Avenue Regime, formerly known as the Young Guerilla Family. </p>
<p>Brown kept himself busy between 2005 and his arrest in September 2017. Together with his fellow gang members, he dealt <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a> and protected the group’s interests with deadly force. In his plea agreement, he admits that on April 26, 2013, he sold <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Heroin" target="_blank">heroin</a> and that on June 20, 2013, he possessed 51 grams of heroin and a quantity of cocaine that he planned to sell.</p>
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<p>Brown further admitted that on or about May 2, 2013, in the 600 block of Cokesbury Avenue, he shot and killed Moses Malone with a .22 caliber handgun. In the weeks before his death, Malone had been the victim of a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Robbery" target="_blank">robbery</a> and shooting committed by a member of the BGF Greenmount Regime. </p>
<p>On April 19, 2013, Malone identified the BGF member who robbed and shot him during an interview with Baltimore Police officers. Brown admitted that he shot and killed Malone to prevent him from testifying against his fellow BGF member in the pending state case.</p>
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<p>According to his plea agreement, Brown further admitted that in the days following Malone’s murder, he requested assistance from another BGF member in disposing of the .22 caliber handgun that he had used to kill Malone. He told the other BGF member that the handgun was “dirty” because he had used it to shoot a witness who had implicated a member of the BGF Greenmount Regime in a crime. On May 12, 2013, he exchanged text messages with a BGF associate, in which he agreed to sell the .22 caliber handgun that he had used to kill Malone for $250.</p>
<p>Brown’s sentencing is scheduled for February 5, 2018. He faces between 30 to 35 years in prison.</p>
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Nathan Barksdale, inspiration for The Wire, dead at 54
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2016-02-17T19:01:21.000Z
2016-02-17T19:01:21.000Z
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<p>Nathan Barksdale, the Baltimore drug boss who inspired one of the best, if not the best, television series, has died in federal prison, the Baltimore Sun confirmed yesterday. He was 54. Barksdale ran a violent heroin trafficking organization in the Murphy Homes public housing complex in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/baltimore-a-gangster-history">Baltimore</a> in the 1980s.</p>
<p>His criminal career caught the eye of David Simon, who tailor-made it for the HBO television series The Wire. “We mangled street and given names throughout <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/baltimore-a-gangster-history">The Wire</a> so that it was a general shout-out to the west-side players,” Simon later said in an interview.</p>
<p>Barksdale met with Simon beforehand and told him, “I said to the man, just don't make me a snitch. Ain't nothing I can do to stop it, just don't do that, and I won't kill your ass.”</p>
<p>Simon didn’t. Avon Barksdale became a television icon and one of the show’s most beloved/hated characters.</p>
<p>Nathan Barksdale’s nickname, however, was “Bodie,” and that was also the name of one of the young Barksdale crew members who eventually did wind up informing on his superiors.</p>
<p>The success of The Wire brought Barksdale plenty of attention and in 2010 he released a DVD about his <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/baltimore-a-gangster-history">own life</a>, titled “The Avon Barksdale Story: Legends of the Unwired.” In it, Nathan Barksdale is interviewed by actor Wood Harris, who played the part of Avon Barksdale.</p>
<p>In the documentary, Barksdale talks about growing up in the projects and getting involved in crime. He talks about the time he was shot, saying, “I've been paralyzed, I was temporarily blind. It's horrible being shot.”</p>
<p>But he gave as good as he got. In 1985 he was convicted of torturing three people in an 11th-floor apartment in Murphy Home and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Once out and a minor celebrity thanks to The Wire, he once again got caught up in the drug world and was sentenced to 4 years behind bars.</p>
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