A Jersey City gang member received a 234-month, or 19-and-a-a-half year, prison sentence after admitting to racketeering and violent crimes, U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger announced.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
Jervon Morris, also known as “Sticky,” 35, of Jersey City, was among five who pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Claire C. Cecchi in Newark federal court in April to racketeering conspiracy and related crimes.
Morris and his co-defendants are all members and associates of the neighborhood street gang associated with the Marion Gardens Housing Complex, which routinely distributes cocaine and heroin, among other drugs, in and around the aforementioned apartments.
Members and associates of the gang also engaged in acts of violence, including numerous assaults, shootings, and murders, which targeted rival gang members and others.
On July 28th, 2011, Morris, Kevin Williams, aka “KK,” aka “Kay Kay,” 31, and other members of the Marion Gardens street gang, murdered a victim in the area of Gifford Avenue and Bergen Avenue in Jersey City.
In addition to the prison term, Cecchi sentenced Morris to three years of supervised release.
On February 7th, 2018, Williams and another member of the Marion Gardens street gang assaulted a victim in the area of Summit Avenue and Magnolia Avenue in Jersey City.
As a result, Williams was sentenced on October 3rd to 198 months, of 16-and-a-half years, in prison.
On June 30th, 2018, Terick Rogers, aka “Moot,” 32, and two other members of the enterprise shot five people while celebrating “Meech Day” in honor of a deceased fellow gang member. On August 21st was sentenced to 192 months, or 16 years, in prison.
On January 9th, 2019, Jakeem Gibson-Madison, aka “Beanz,” 30, and another member of the enterprise, traveled to the area of Grant Avenue and Ocean Avenue to target a rival gang member, at which time three victims were shot at, two of whom were hit.
Gibson-Madison was then sentenced to 180 months, or 15 years in prison, on August 20th.
Sellinger credited special agents of the FBI, investigators of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Jersey City Police Department for the investigation leading to the charges.
This investigation was conducted as part of the Jersey City Violent Crime Initiative (VCI).
The VCI was formed in 2018 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Jersey City Police Department, for the sole purpose of combatting violent crime in and around Jersey City.