JAMAR TRAYLOR, also identified as “J-Hop,” 23, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Choose Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 168 months of imprisonment, followed by a few several years of supervised launch, for offenses connected to his participation in a violent Bridgeport street gang.
Today’s announcement was built by Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Lawyer for the District of Connecticut Joseph T. Corradino, State’s Lawyer for the Fairfield Judicial District Bridgeport Law enforcement Main Roderick Porter Jean Pierre Njock, Acting Special Agent in Demand of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation James Ferguson, Special Agent in Demand, ATF Boston Industry Division Brian D. Boyle, Unique Agent in Demand of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Acting U.S. Marshal Lawrence Bobnick.
In accordance to court docket documents and statements built in courtroom, the FBI, ATF, DEA, U.S. Marshals Services and Bridgeport Law enforcement have been investigating numerous Bridgeport-based gangs whose users are concerned in narcotics trafficking, murder and other acts of violence. Traylor was a member of the Initial North Conclusion (“O.N.E.”), a gang centered in the Trumbull Gardens region of Bridgeport that dedicated acts of violence towards rival gang, including the East Conclusion gang, the East Side gang, and the PT Barnum gang. O.N.E. customers also robbed drug dealers, sold narcotics, and stole automobiles from within and outside Connecticut and made use of the autos to commit crimes.
On August 8, 2018, Traylor and other O.N.E. associates stole a Jeep Grand Cherokee in Newburgh, New York, and drove it back to Bridgeport. In the pursuing times, Traylor and other individuals conspired to use the automobile to eliminate East Conclusion gang members and their allies who they experienced discovered by way of social media have been at a deli on Stratford Avenue in Bridgeport. While that prepare fell as a result of, in the early morning several hours of August 13, 2018, O.N.E. users drove the stolen Jeep to Stratford and Union Avenues in Bridgeport in which they shot and killed Len Smith, 25, who they mistook for a rival East Conclude group member, and shot and critically wounded Smith’s feminine companion, both of whom were seated in a parked vehicle. Immediately after the shooting, O.N.E. associates transported the Jeep to Indian Wells Condition Park in Shelton wherever they burned the car or truck in an hard work to damage proof of the murder.
On Oct 22, 2018, Traylor and other O.N.E. users fully commited a violent robbery of a cannabis seller.
On June 1, 2021, Bridgeport Law enforcement arrested Traylor, who at the time was on point out probation following a weapons conviction, when a research of his residence disclosed five Glock handguns 14 gun magazines, like a 50-round drum and three extenders velocity loaders laser attachments ammunition human body armor bags of cannabis and goods use to system and bundle narcotics.
Traylor has been detained considering that his arrest. On June 10, 2022, he pleaded guilty to conspiring to engage in a sample of racketeering activity.
This ongoing investigation is staying performed by the FBI’s Secure Streets and Violent Crimes Job Forces, ATF, DEA, U.S. Marshals Support, Bridgeport Law enforcement Division, Connecticut State Police and the Bridgeport State’s Attorney’s Place of work, with the help of the U.S. Postal Inspection Provider, Connecticut Forensic Science Laboratory and the Waterbury Law enforcement Division. The scenario is remaining prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Karen L. Peck, Rahul Kale, Jocelyn C. Kaoutzanis and Tara E. Levens.
This prosecution is a component of the Justice’s Department’s Task Secure Neighborhoods (PSN), Task Longevity and Structured Crime Drug Enforcement Endeavor Forces (OCDETF) courses.
PSN is the centerpiece of the Division of Justice’s violent crime reduction endeavours. PSN is an proof-primarily based method established to be helpful at lowering violent crime. By PSN, a wide spectrum of stakeholders perform alongside one another to identify the most urgent violent criminal offense problems in the group and build complete remedies to deal with them. As portion of this strategy, PSN focuses enforcement attempts on the most violent offenders and partners with domestically centered prevention and reentry applications for lasting reductions in crime.
Challenge Longevity is a complete initiative to lessen gun violence in Connecticut’s important cities. As a result of Undertaking Longevity, community members and regulation enforcement instantly have interaction with users of groups that are vulnerable to dedicate violence and supply a neighborhood information against violence, a legislation enforcement message about the implications of further more violence and an present of assistance for these who want it. If a team member elects to interact in gun violence, the focused attention of federal, condition and regional law enforcement will be directed at that overall group.
OCDETF identifies, disrupts and dismantles drug traffickers, revenue launderers, gangs and transnational legal corporations as a result of a prosecutor-led and intelligence-driven approach that leverages the strengths of federal, point out and nearby legislation enforcement organizations. More information and facts about the OCDETF Software can be found at https://www.justice.gov/OCDETF.
