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GSU Gets Guns And Gang Members
posted (July 24, 2013)
Tonight, 27 year-old Michael Young, 26 year-old Kareem Gladden, and 2 minors are on remand after they were arraigned for an unlicensed firearm.

On Tuesday night, the Gang Suppression Unit searched Young's residence on Zericote Street where all 4 men were present. They found a .22 caliber revolver under one of the beds, and charged all 4 men with keeping an unlicensed firearm. They were arraigned and remanded today at the Magistrate's Court.

The GSU states that Young and Gladden are reputed gang members.

And, the self-proclaimed Leader of the Ghost Town Crips gang, Roger Anthony is facing additional deportee related charges after the GSU found him associating 5 gang members.

The GSU searched a house on Mayflower Street on Tuesday morning, and they found Anthony hanging out with 5 other reputed members of the Ghost Town Crips.

As we've reported, he was deported from the US for Illegal entry, and one of the conditions he had to comply with was not associating with a criminal gang. Because he was caught with these 5 men, he was charged with associating with a criminal gang.

2 weeks ago, he had been arrested for the very same offence.

The GSU is also reporting that a firearm they recovered 2 months ago, has been confirmed as the weapon used for a murder committed early this year.

This weapon, a Taurus 9mmm pistol was found on May 18 in a bushy yard next to the residence of a key gang member on Gill Street. This weapon was later identified as one which the Police Department reported as stolen or missing.

The expended shells from the murder of Marvin Foreman in January were matched to this weapon. So, the GSU is now certain that this gun was one of 2 used in the slaying of Foreman.

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