By Dan Murphy
Most of us within the media had by no means heard concerning the 300 Bloodhound Brims Gang from Yonkers till June 17, 2021, when greater than a dozen members of the gang violently assaulted and stomped a sufferer outdoors of a North Broadway bodega whereas they had been filming a Rap Video.
The road nook the place the assault came about, at North Broadway and Warburton Avenues, had a number of video surveillance cameras, which recorded the incident. Yonkers police shortly arrived and arrested 5 of the younger males for the assault. Ultimately, 16 younger males, aged 16-23 years previous, had been charged, and most have now been sentenced to a number of years in jail.
The response to our first two tales on the 300 BHB was so nice that we determined to learn and study extra about how they got here to be. Thus far, there was little written concerning the gang. A couple of movies on YouTube do overview their actions, together with one video of curiosity from Rocky, who has good perception into this gang. His video may be discovered at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcDprWJvm-g&t=41s, the place you can also subscribe.
On Nov. 4, Westchester DA Mimi Rocah introduced the sentencing of 1 member of 300 BHB. “Westchester County District Lawyer Miriam E. Rocah introduced {that a} member of the 300 Bloodhound Brims road gang faces 5 to 25 years in state jail for a violent gang assault in Yonkers. After a weeklong trial, on November 3, 2022, a jury discovered the defendant, Develle Coates, 20, responsible of Gang Assault within the First Diploma, a violent felony, and Felony Possession of a Weapon within the Fourth Diploma, a misdemeanor. The defendant is scheduled to be sentenced on December 2, 2022.
On June 17, 2021, at roughly 9 p.m., the defendant hit the 33-year-old sufferer within the head with a glass liquor bottle, rendering the sufferer unconscious, on North Broadway in Yonkers. The assault on the sufferer continued as numerous gang members and associates repeatedly struck and kicked the sufferer.
The sufferer, who was transported to Westchester Medical Middle in Valhalla, suffered protracted disfigurement, facial scarring and was identified with a traumatic mind harm.
The Yonkers Police Division arrested the defendant shortly after the incident and recovered a set of steel knuckles from the defendant’s waistband.
Twelve different people, together with three beneath the age of 18, concerned within the incident had been arrested following a joint investigation by the Yonkers Police Division, the Westchester County District Lawyer’s Workplace, the FBI’s Westchester Secure Streets Process Pressure, the Westchester County Division of Laboratories and Analysis, and america Workplace of Probation. “
The 12 co-defendants every pled responsible on this case. 9 have been sentenced and three are awaiting sentencing:
Three 300 Bloodhound Brim members plead responsible in 2022 and will probably be sentenced to eight years in state jail after pleading responsible to Gang Assault within the First Diploma. They’re: Dior Moore, 19, Timothy Whitney, 24, Perryon McKenny, 19. Drayquan Inexperienced, 21, pled responsible to the identical, Gang Assault within the First Diploma and will probably be sentenced to 5 years in jail.
Latrell Murray, 23, and Darden Thomas, 22, will probably be sentenced to eight years in state jail after pleading responsible to Theft within the First Diploma, a felony.
Vance Main, 23, pled responsible on September 1, 2022, to Gang Assault within the Second Diploma and will probably be sentenced to eight years in jail.
Two adolescent offenders, (names withheld) ages 18 and 19, had been sentenced to 5 years in state jail after pleading responsible to Gang Assault within the First Diploma.
Jahnai McNeal, 20, was sentenced on Might 26, 2022, earlier than Decide Warhit, to three.5 years in state jail, after pleading responsible to Gang Assault within the Second Diploma, a violent felony.
One Adolescent Offender, 18, was adjudicated a Youthful Offender and sentenced to 1 12 months of detention.
Peter Thompson, 20, pled responsible on October 12, 2022, to Riot within the First Diploma, a felony, and Disorderly Conduct, a violation, and is awaiting remaining disposition of his case.
Former YPD Commissioner Mueller known as the Bloodhound Brims, “considered one of Yonkers most violent gangs.” The 300 Bloodhound Brims gang originated within the Cottage Place Gardens Housing Complicated in Yonkers. Some level the beginning date of the gang to 2016, following the dying of their good friend and fellow teen age thug Jerry Crawford, who died after a police chase by Yonkers in a stolen automotive that resulted within the dying of one other harmless driver.
Crawford might or might not have been a member of the gang, however after his dying, the group coalesced into the 300 gang and started getting energetic as a approach to honor him and enrich themselves, in addition to to prepare felony actions higher. Try Crawford’s Fb web page in his reminiscence to see how younger, however extraordinarily harmful these guys are. https://www.fb.com/Macdady2
In 2017 the 300 BHB made information after they had been concerned in a stabbing on the Ridge Hill film theaters late one evening. One movie show worker was stabbed and later died.
300 BHB member Michael Pettiford was arrested, charged and convicted of twond diploma homicide, and is serving an 18-year sentence. Pettiford has known as his gang members from Westchester County Jail bragging about his crime and the sunshine sentence he obtained.
In 2019, 300 BHB member Jamir Thompson stole a gold chain at Grant Park in Yonkers. The sufferer of the crime discovered Thompson on Lake Avenue and chased him down. However Thompson pulled out a gun and tried to shoot his sufferer however missed, killing an harmless bystander, 18 Marilyn Cotto-Montanez who died.
Thompson finally turned himself in and was charged with 2nd diploma homicide and pled responsible. In 2021, the 17 12 months previous Thompson was sentenced to 9.5 years in jail.
On June 10, 2021 on Elm Avenue and Oak Avenue in Yonkers, police discovered three victims of gunshots. Video surveillance on the road exhibits 300 BHB gang members concerned in a drive by capturing on a gaggle hanging out on the road nook. 4 victims sustained gunshot accidents, and days later Yonkers police made three arrests.
Outdoors of Yonkers, in 2017, 16 12 months previous Trevon Main shot and killed Joseph Smith in a Greenburgh residence constructing after Trevon’s brother, Vance Main, robbed a cellphone and necklace. Trevor was sentenced to fifteen years for the homicide; his brother Vance was noticed on the 2021 gang assault-rap video in Yonkers as a result of he was sporting a T-shirt calling for the discharge of his brother.
With so many 300 BHB members in jail or going to jail shortly, some imagine that the gang has misplaced quite a few key members.
However the Blood Hound Brims gang extends throughout New York Metropolis and the metropolitan space, and has operated since 2005, based on the FBI. And the BHB is a faction of the Bloods road gang, which operates nationwide, together with right here in Westchester.
Again in Yonkers, members of the 300 BHB are energetic on YouTube posting rap movies, known as drill rap movies, bragging about their lives of crime. Extra on this in our subsequent story.
