The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has announced that twenty individuals were arrested in Dallas on Tuesday in a large-scale sting operation devised to rid the Hamilton Park neighborhood of gang violence and drugs.
The sting was labeled Operation Shut Down Corner. DEA worked for fifteen months investigating a local Dallas gang who called themselves the Hamilton Park Posse during the operation. Dallas DEA Special Agent In-Charge Eduardo A. Chávez shared details of the sting in a news conference on Wednesday.
“As the layers of this investigation began to reveal themselves, we identified a highly organized, poly-drug distribution organization, feeding our streets with cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, and deadly counterfeit prescription drugs containing fentanyl,” DEA Special Agent Chavez shared. “The Hamilton Park area of Dallas was once described to me as a ‘Forgotten Neighborhood.’ That stops now.”
According to WFAA, twenty-one suspects were charged and twenty were arrested on a nineteen-count indictment. One suspect remains at large. Among the long list of offenses was conspiracy to distribute cocaine and fentanyl, maintaining a premise for the purpose of soliciting drugs, possession of firearms, and the use of a cell phone for the purpose of distributing a controlled substance.
During Operation Shut Down Corner, the DEA seized 220 pounds of illegal drugs, including marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine, and counterfeit prescription drugs laced with fentanyl. Police also confiscated thirty-seven weapons and $420,000 in money, jewelry, and vehicles.
The Dallas DEA released a list of those charged in the Operation Shut Down Corner, as shared by NBC DFW. One suspect remains at large.
- Randall Hoskins, aka “Rambo,” charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.
- Demetric Watson, charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.
- Rosie Bush, aka “Shanta,” charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.
- Kemerra Gilbert, charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.
- Jerome Brown, charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.
- Jimmy Reedy, aka “UM-8033,” charged with unlawful use of a communication facility.
- Quientin Titus, aka “QT” or “Quick Trip,” charged with maintaining drug-involved premises and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.
- Devonte Thursby, aka “Wook,” charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances and unlawful use of a communication facility.
- Jerome Miller, charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.
- Brian Williams, charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
- Staecey Logan, charged with two counts of unlawful use of a communication facility.
- Kimmy Blanton (fugitive), charged with unlawful use of a communication facility.
- Tamara Cashaw, charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances and unlawful use of a communication facility.
- Damone Dixon, charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.
- Michael Gipson, aka “Grip,” charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.
- Bridney Fannin, charged with unlawful use of a communication facility.
- Reginald Lamar Denson, charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
- Jahmear Chance Jackson, charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
- Addison Cole, aka “Addy” or “Scat Back,” charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.
- Sergei Gharpetian, charged with conspiracy to launder money.
- Tigran Mkrtchyan, charged with conspiracy to launder money.