28 Young Gunnaz Gang Members Trafficked Narcotics: Feds

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY — A 34-count superseding indictment was unsealed in federal court Wednesday charging 28 members of the Young Gunnaz Gang, including its high-ranking street leaders, with committing various racketeering, narcotics and firearms offenses.

The new indictment adds 15 additional defendants and 26 new charges.

Twenty-three of the gang members and associates were charged with acts of violence.

That includes Kashad Sampson, aka Shoca, a Young Gunnaz Gang leader who is charged with participating in multiple assaults with a dangerous weapon in Poughkeepsie and Newburgh.

In addition to serious acts of violence, the gang was also responsible for trafficking large amounts of narcotics across the city of Newburgh and New York state and perpetrated fraud schemes to enrich members of the gang.

Prosecutors said the indictment called the gang “a racketeering conspiracy” whose members and associates are Kashad Sampson, aka “Shoca,” George Delgado, aka “Goc,” Gabriel Roman, aka “Gabe,” Dallas Archer, aka “Muggas,” Bruce Allen, aka “Bam,” Syncere Tatum, aka “Syn,” John Lalanne, aka “JJ,” Raekwon Jackson, aka “Tree,” Bashir Mallory, aka “BG,” aka “Bear,” Mekhi Mcdonald, aka “Khi,” Christopher Tate, aka “Bag,” Kristopher Burgess Cunningham, aka “KG,” Dejon Scott, aka “Red Dot,” Davon Waddell, aka “Spotem,” aka “Light Skin Day Day,” Zyrell Williams, aka “Zabb,” Demetrius Ware, aka “Doom Doom,” Antonio Pittman, aka “Ant,” Daquan Cueto, Christopher Johnson, aka “Brisko,” Harry Pimentel, Eric Steadman, aka “Little Man,” Donald Leid, aka “Big Lip Day Day,” Tevin George, aka “Tev Roc,” Devin Williams, aka “Twin,” aka “Dev,” Dante Johnson, aka “D Rose,” George Tatum, aka “Buddy,” Coleridge Lewter, aka “Korrupt,” and Rodney George, aka “Taco.”

Among the accusations outlined in the indictment were shooting at rival gang members in Poughkeepsie, Newburgh and Yonkers, attempted murder of rival gang members in Poughkeepsie, robbing a narcotics dealer at gunpoint in Newburgh and participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, crack cocaine, heroin, oxycodone, marijuana and promethazine HCL mixed with codeine, commonly known as “lean.”

Waddell, 26, Zyrell Williams, 18, Ware, 18, Pittman, 22, Christopher Johnson, 29, Tevin George, 30, Lewter, 43, and Rodney George, 47, were all arrested Tuesday and Wednesday. Cueto, 22, Pimentel, 21, Steadman, 23, Leid, 29, Devin Williams, 27, Dante Johnson, 26, and George Tatum, 45, are all in state custody and will be transferred to federal custody at a later date.

Sampson, 24, Delgado, 24, Roman, 24, Archer, 26, Allen, 25, Syncere Tatum, 23, Lalanne, 24, Jackson, 23, Mallory, 20, McDonald, 20, Tate, 20, Cunningham, 29, and Scott, 27, were all arrested following the Nov. 29, 2022, indictment.

For all charges and maximum penalties, go to the Southern District of New York.