The crew’s name is derived from the Caucasus region of Eurasia, which includes countries such as Armenia, Uzbekistan, Russia, and Azerbaijan. KavKaz gangsters have been known to associate with members of the Bloods, the notorious street gang with a strong set in nearby Coney island, federal prosecutors allege. NYPDīoth suspects were arrested by the feds soon after they were caught allegedly plotting how Mordukhaev could steal away to the Golden State.īut even the escape was a stunning coup for the crew, which draws its members from the Eastern European enclave in southern Brooklyn. Nikoghosyan had planned to sneak Rikers escapee David Mordukhaev to California, but the cross-country escape plan was eventually foiled, in part because the FBI had wiretapped Nikoghosyan’s phone, authorities say.ĭavid Mordukhaev pleaded guilty last week to a violation of federal supervised release. Yet KavKaz crew members recently made headlines over a bold jail escape from the city’s floating lockup at Rikers Island, officials say.īrooklyn federal prosecutors allege that a top-ranking KavKaz member, Roman Nikoghosyan, provided help to a cohort after the escapee shimmied down a rope from his fifth-floor cell at the jail barge, known as the Vernon C. Roman Nikoghosyan planned to sneak Rikers escapee David Mordukhaev to California. But most of them are minor-leaguers compared to the more sophisticated Eastern European organized criminals linked to Thieves-in-Law,” said Matt Jacobs, a former assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “KavKaz Nation gangsters are absolutely violent and dangerous. The “minor-leaguers,” known as the “KavKaz Nation,” have wreaked havoc in the criminal underworld in southern Brooklyn for nearly a decade by stealing from drug dealers, staging home-invasion robberies and working as cocaine and marijuana traffickers, authorities say.īut the hoods - who consider their turf to be Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach - typically fail to rise to the highest level of ex-Soviet organized crime, whose top leaders are referred to as “Thieves-in-Law,” according to a former Brooklyn federal prosecutor specializing in Eastern European rackets. Russian mobster convicted in Brooklyn slay helped feds win fraud conviction: docsįeds say Russian rapper laundered money, flaunted wealth onlineĪ ragtag crew of Eastern European criminals in Brooklyn recently managed to do something they haven’t in years - grab the spotlight from more “sophisticated” gangs, thanks to a daring jail break from Rikers Island, law-enforcement experts say. Gangster who busted out of Rikers barge sentenced for daring escape
Russian oligarch’s NYC property manager arrested, faces 60 years in prison
0 kommentar(er)
