Leader Of One Of Newark’s Largest Open-Air Drug Markets And Last Of 26 Defendants Sentenced To 168 Months’ Imprisonment

NEWARK, N.J. – a Newark, New Jersey man was sentenced today for his role as the leader of an expansive drug trafficking organization that distributed significant quantities of drugs and used firearms to protect their drug operation in Newark, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna announced.

Shaheed Blake, a/k/a “Sha Gotti,” a/k/a “Sha,” a/k/a “Bruh,” 41, was sentenced to 168 months’ imprisonment followed by 5 years’ supervised release by U.S. District Judge Evelyn Padin in Newark, New Jersey. He was the last among his 25 co-defendants to be sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in Newark.

Blake’s 25 conspirators were previously sentenced as follows:

Anderson Hutchinson was sentenced to 168 months’ imprisonment;
Jabaar Blake was sentenced to 163 months’ imprisonment;
Jason Colon was sentenced to 144 months’ imprisonment;
Keyenn Rodgers was sentenced to 150 months’ imprisonment;
William Teal was sentenced to 132 months’ imprisonment;
Brian White was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment;
Todd Garrett was sentenced to 84 months’ imprisonment;
Anthony Bowens was sentenced to 88 months’ imprisonment;
Dorrell Blake was sentenced to 84 months’ imprisonment;
Daquan Lockhart was sentenced to 90 months’ imprisonment;
Aldoray McClain was sentenced to 72 months’ imprisonment;
Sharif Davis was sentenced to 72 months’ imprisonment;
Roger Thomas was sentenced to 70 months’ imprisonment;
Lamont Pugh was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment;
David Rogers was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment;
Hanif Yarrell was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment;
Aaron Watson was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment;
Marquise O’Neal was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment;
Jaleel Metz was sentenced to 66 months’ imprisonment;
Bernard Brown was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment;
Jesse Scott was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment;
Rasheem Langley was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment;
Shadesasha Ford was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment;
Linwood Lyles was sentenced to 42 months’ imprisonment; and
Andrew Knox was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment.

This case was the result of a long-running wiretap investigation led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Newark Police Department.

According to the documents filed in this case and statements made in court:

Defendants were members and associates of a Bloods-affiliated gang that called itself the “CKarter Boys,” a play on “the Carter”—the name of the drug distribution building in the 1991 film New Jack City. As Bloods members, the CKarter Boys used the letters “CK” to signify “Crip Killer,” a sign of disrespect to their rival street gang, the Crips.

The investigation revealed that the organization’s leaders—Blake and Anderson Hutchinson, a/k/a “Murda Rah”—operated a massive drug market that flooded the streets of Newark with heroin and crack cocaine 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

Blake, Hutchinson, and members of their organization sold heroin and crack cocaine to customers out of two neighboring houses near the Newark-Irvington border. These drug dens were located in the heart of a residential community, just two blocks from the Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, a public school serving children from Pre-K to Fifth Grade. On average, just one of these locations, which Blake controlled, generated approximately $10,000 per day in revenue from narcotics sales, and, on at least one occasion, revenue exceeded $13,000 in a single shift.

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