Seven men, including three alleged gang members, are facing drug and gun trafficking charges after a year-long undercover investigation dismantled a Brooklyn-based operation, law enforcement officials announced Friday.
The investigation, code-named “Get Sturdy,” began in September 2024, when detectives zeroed in on the stretch of Schenectady Avenue between Lincoln Place and Park Place, “a corridor long plagued by drugs and violence,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
The Commissioner said detectives uncovered a group of individuals, consisting of two members of the G-Stone Crips and one member of the Bloods, who set aside gang rivalries to sell crack cocaine and traffic guns in Crown Heights and Weeksville.
Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny remarked at the Oct. 3 press conference t