An anime-loving Rikers Island correction officer testified Thursday that he smuggled drug-soaked issues of the hyper-popular manga “Demon Slayer” into the jail at the behest of a Brooklyn gang leader. Darius Murphy told a jury in Brooklyn Federal Court how he got the comics from one of accused Bully Gang leader Moeleek Harrell’s accomplices, then slipped one issue into a janitor’s closet so .
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The arrests of the guards came as part of a sweeping indictment of 45 members and associates of the Bedford-Stuyvesant-based “Bully Gang,” which ran a drug trafficking operation that shipped heroin, fentanyl and crack between Maine and New York on top of the Rikers Island scheme, according to prosecutors.
UpdatedThu, Feb 25, 2021 at 3:46 pm ET
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A third round of arrests was unveiled Thursday in an elaborate drug ring accused of smuggling drug-soaked comic books into Rikers Island. (Shutterstock / Leonard Zhukovsky)
BROOKLYN, NY A current and former New York City corrections officer are among the latest associates arrested from an elaborate Brooklyn-based drug ring that spanned four states and included smuggling narcotics into Rikers Island.
Federal officials unveiled a third round of arrests Thursday in their takedown of the Bully Gang, a street gang that trafficked crack cocaine, heroin and fentanyl across the east coast.
The gang, first busted last summer, has been connected to a string of armed robberies in Manhattan and an attempted murder in Brooklyn during its years-long reign, according to prosecutors.