Some bloods were busted in newarke yesterday.

4 Newark men, alleged members of Sex, Money, Murder gang, indicted on murder, other charges
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on July 17, 2014 at 7:12 PM, updated July 17, 2014 at 7:37 PM


NEWARK — Four alleged members of a subset of the Bloods street gang were indicted yesterday on murder, attempted murder, racketeering and other charges, the office of U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said.

Narik “Spaz” Wilson; Emil “Diddy” Rutledge, 26; Laquan “Drama” Reed, 25; and Rajohn “1090” Wilson, 23, all of Newark, were charged in a 14-count superseding indictment in connection with their alleged membership in Sex, Money, Murder, a Bloods subset principally active in Essex County, according to a statement from Fishman’s office. They face the possibility of life in prison if convicted of the most severe charges.

With Narik Wilson at the helm, and Rutledge, Reed and Rajohn Wilson as his deputies, the enterprise used “a wide range of violent criminal activity” to secure a stranglehold on the heroin and crack cocaine trade in a Newark neighborhood near Lincoln Park starting in 2007, according to Fishman’s office and the superseding indictment.

“Gang members allegedly engaged in a wide range of violent criminal activity in order to deter rival gangs, secure their drug distribution business, and silence people they believed were cooperating with law enforcement. These acts included numerous murders, shootings, robberies and auto thefts,” the statement says.

The gang was mostly made up of childhood friends and family members, the statement says.

Narik Wilson is charged with all 14 counts, including racketeering, murder and attempted murder. He was initially arrested in August 2011 on drug distribution charges and, following the confiscation of numerous firearms, linked to several homicides, including a July 14, 2011, killing of a member of the Brick City Brims, another Bloods set that has feuded with Sex, Money, Murder.

At the time, then-Newark police Director Samuel DeMaio called Wilson’s arrest “a major blow to the Bloods’ criminal structure in the city.”

Rutledge faces 11 counts, including murder in aid of racketeering. Reed was charged with six counts, including felony murder. Rajohn Wilson is charged with three counts, including charges related to attempted murder.

The four men were already in custody on related charges. They are expected to appear in Newark federal court on a date to be determined.

“The offenses charged in today’s indictment are a checklist of the activities associated with a violent street gang that has plagued Newark for years,” Fishman said in a statement. “Illegal guns, violent assaults, murder — members of this gang allegedly used all of them to maintain control over the illicit drug trafficking that is the lifeblood of their criminal enterprise. Today’s charges call them to account for these crimes.”