Black Guerilla Family member who pleaded guilty to the murder of a witness to prevent him from testifying against a fellow gang member has been sentenced to more than 31 years in prison, federal prosecutors said.

Wesley Jamal Brown, 25, of Baltimore, had admitted to killing Moses Malone in the 600 block of Cokesbury Ave. in May 2013 to keep Malone from taking the stand in a state case. Malone had been robbed and shot previously by Brown’s half-brother and fellow gang member Norman Handy, had identified Handy to police as the suspect, and had been planning to testify against him, prosecutors said.

Brown, who also admitted to drug dealing, robbery, witness tampering and witness retaliation, was one of nine reputed BGF members charged in a federal case with allegations they previously faced in state court.

The BGF Greenmount Avenue Regime operated in the Northeast Baltimore corridor between 2005 and September 2017, federal prosecutors said. Brown admitted to personally dealing cocaine and heroin on at least two separate occasions in 2013.


A little over a week after Malone’s murder, Brown exchanged text messages with a BGF associate and agreed to sell the .22-caliber handgun that he had used to kill Malone for $250, federal prosecutors said.

Harry J. Trainor Jr. and Christopher Michael Davis, the attorneys who represented Brown through his plea and sentencing, declined to comment.

The 378-month prison sentence is to be served consecutively with any state sentence, and is to be followed by five years of supervised release.

A former Baltimore Safe Streets employee who also was a member of the Black Guerrilla Family gang has pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges, authorities announced Tuesday.

Ricky “Dorsey” Evans, 38, of Baltimore, served as a BGF gang leader while working for the city-funded program that hires ex-felons to mediate disputes, the Maryland U.S. attorney’s office said. Prosecutors said Evans worked out of the Safe Streets office in the 2300 block of Monument St., where he also held BGF meetings and used it to store and distribute drugs as well as firearms used in crimes.

Evans and co-defendant, Shawn “Bucky” Thomas, also 38, admitted to serving as high-ranking members of the gang, which sold drugs through BGF-controlled open-air drug shops in their territories in East Baltimore and the 2700 block of Greenmount Ave., according to their plea agreements.

Their attorneys did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday.

Baltimore police charged Evans and eight others in 2015 after a raid found seven guns and drugs at the Safe Streets office. Baltimore prosecutors later dropped all charges against all nine defendants, after prosecutors said they received "exculpatory information that called into question the identity of the defendants."

According to court files, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was investigating an armed drug-trafficking organization operating at Monument and Rose streets in McElderry Park, which was led by Evans. Investigators conducted surveillance at Evans’ apartment in November 2016, attached a GPS tracking device to his vehicle and in February 2017 began wiretapping his cellphone.


Court records show he was arrested again and detained in March 2017 and charged with drug and gun-related offenses. He was later charged with racketeering.

According to his plea agreement in the federal case, Evans accepted payments to have violence committed against individuals, and then assigned other BGF members .

2 BGF Leaders Indicted

Bgf is prob the most powerful group in O.C. in Baltimore rn. Crazy how much of a presence they have in Baltimore.

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