Gang members get 50-year federal sentence for 2019 murder
Two members of a Memphis street gang have each been sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for the 2019 retaliatory killing of a fellow gang member.
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Two members of a Memphis street gang have each been sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for the 2019 retaliatory killing of a fellow gang member.
“This successful federal prosecution has significantly disrupted the leadership of the UVL street gang here in Memphis,” said U.S. Attorney Michael Dunavant.
A new federal racketeering indictment unsealed Thursday in Memphis federal accuses six alleged Ghost Mob gang members of conspiracy to murder and attempted murder in the aid of racketeering for a 2020 incident firefight with a rival gang.
The case began with the Jan. 10, 2019, murder of the “supreme elite chief” of the Unknown Vice Lords Ronald Terry and his girlfriend, Candid Sanders.
Ronald Terry and Tim Johnson were in the same street gang and died five days apart in 2019. The investigation led to a guilty verdict in Memphis federal court last week and told the story of violence within the gang known as the Ghost Mob.Related stories:
Police brass have frequently said that it has become more difficult to stem gang violence because underlings in the gangs will often team up, sometimes with members of rival gangs, to commit crimes.
The weeklong jury trial in Memphis federal court ended with the conviction of Ghost Mob leader Vincent Grant for the 2019 murder of a fellow gang member.
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