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Pittsburgh Man Sentenced for Crips Gang Conspiracy
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Pittsburgh Man Sentenced for Crips Gang Conspiracy

A Pittsburgh man was sentenced to 72 months in prison for conspiring to conduct a racketeering enterprise related to his membership in a Pittsburgh Crips gang, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer and U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton.

Terrell Henson, 26, aka ‘50,’ pleaded guilty on February 1, 2011, before Senior U.S. District Judge Gustave Diamond to one count of conspiracy to engage in a racketeering enterprise.

According to the guilty plea, Henson and others participated in a pattern of racketeering activity that included multiple acts involving robberies at gun point, attempted murders, distribution of controlled substances, including cocaine, heroin, and crack cocaine, and obstruction of justice and witness intimidation.

The Brighton Place Crips, a criminal street gang that controlled an area of Brighton Place and Morrison Street, also known as the Mad Cave, and Federal Street in the Northside area of Pittsburgh, formed an alliance with the Northview Heights/ Fineview Crips in 2003.

The Brighton Place/Northview Heights Crips gang maintains exclusive control over drug trafficking in these neighborhoods through continuous violence and intimidation of rivals and witnesses.

Terrell Henson served as a ‘hustler’ for the gang, distributing controlled substances on behalf of the gang in the territory controlled by the Northview Heights/ Brighton Place Crips.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Charles A. Eberle and Troy Rieve of the Western District of Pennsylvania and Trial Attorney Kevin Rosenberg of the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section.

The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the City of Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, the Allegheny County, Penn., Police Department, and the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office.