IN THE STREETS & ON THE WEB

100 Bronx Gang Members Arrested In New York City

About 100 Bronx gang members responsible for multiple murders — including the slaying of a 92-year-old woman — were busted early Wednesday in the largest takedown in city history, sources said.

The raids by the NYPD, members of Homeland Security Investigations and other federal authorities took place at more than 100 locations in and around the Eastchester Gardens NYCHA housing complex in Williamsbridge at dawn, officials said.

Court documents show 120 alleged gang members have been indicted on racketeering charges — the largest number of any bust in city history, officials said. Some suspects are believed to be still on the loose after not being found during Wednesday’s raids.

Those busted are affiliated with the 2Fly YGZ (Young Gunnerz) and the Big Money Bosses — two rival street gangs authorities say wreaked havoc on the area as they fought over turf around the Eastchester Gardens and the nearby Edenwald Houses, which is less than a mile away.

Of the 100 or so people taken into custody, more than 60 are expected to face criminal charges in federal court for a string of violent crimes, including at least five homicides, according to court documents.

The alleged gang members didn’t seem fazed by the charges, with one flipping off reporters and news photographers outside the 50th Precinct as he was being loaded into a U.S. Marshals bus.

“F--- you,” another screamed as he was carted away in handcuffs.

Another claimed his innocence.

"I didn't do it,” he said. “I already did my time. I just got out on parole yesterday. I didn't do nothing."

Still another took time to blow kisses toward a young woman who had the misfortune of happening to walk by the precinct as he was escorted to the bus.

Police and federal authorities had search warrants for 120 targets.

“This was a major gang sweep across the Bronx,” one law enforcement source said of Wednesday’s takedown. “The charging documents were quite severe.”

The gangs were responsible for the death of Sadie Mitchell, 92, who was killed by a stray bullet in her living room on E. 224th St. in 2009, officials said.

The two gangs are are also accused of murdering Keshon Potterfield, 18, in 2014; Alexander Walters, 17, stabbed to death in 2012; Donville Simpson, also 17, shot to death in 2013; and Jeffrey (Famous) Delmore, 15, stabbed to death on E. Gun Hill Road last May.

Gang members are also charged with conspiracy, robbery, credit card fraud, weapons possession, and selling marijuana, crack and Oxycodone at area playgrounds like the Agnes Haywood Playground on Barnes Ave. and the Rienzi Playground on White Plains Road, officials said.

They also doled out drugs near the Young Scholars Academy on Barnes Ave. and the St. Mary School on Carpenter Ave.

Mitchell, known as “a mother to everyone on the block,” had lived in her home since 1954.

She was walking into her living room to watch a game show when she was hit with a .9-mm bullet.

Cops later arrested 18-year-old Jamal (Fish) Blair, who claimed at the time that the shooting was an accident and that he had been “framed.”

Blair was later identified as a member of the Big Money Bosses. He ultimately pled guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

He was pulled out of the Elmira Correctional Facility and was brought to federal court to be charged in the gang conspiracy Wednesday, officials said.

The Big Money Bosses operated along White Plains Road between E. 215th and E. 233rd Sts. — an area known to members as the “Forts.”

The crew also operates along Boston Road near Eastchester Road, which they call “B-Road,” according to court papers.

The 2Fly YGZ operate out of the Eastchester Gardens houses and Gun Hill Road, known to its members as the “valley.”

The NYPD-led operation involved more than 300 HSI members along with representatives from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Drug Enforcement Agency and U.S. Marshals, law enforcement sources said.

Meanwhile in Brooklyn …… Cops arrested The Pop Out Boyz for $414,000 in credit card scams.

More than three dozen members of a Bloods-affiliated gang were charged Tuesday with running a $414,000 identity-theft ring focused on making purchases with stolen credit card accounts at Barneys, prosecutors said Tuesday.

In all, 39 gang members, who called themselves the “Pop Out Boys,” used stolen bank information it pulled from the Dark Web to create their own credit cards to shop at Barneys and Saks Fifth Avenue, said NYPD Inspector Joseph Dowling.

Their gang name referred to their flashy lifestyle. “They sort of pop out, wearing expensive clothes, a lot of popping the cork on champagne bottles,” Dowling said.

One defendant, Larry Dathan, raps under the name Big B’Z, Dowling said. In one song, “Trapping out da Uber,” he raps about using the car service for getting around while committing crimes.

Detectives executed eight search warrants, finding five handguns and five “credit card mills,” which included computers, credit-card making equipment and cash, Dowling said.

Investigators recovered the equipment at the apartments of defendants in Brooklyn and Queens.

"In at least one case, an individual is accused of making nearly twenty trips to the same luxury department store to buy designer clothes and merchandise," DA Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a statement.

The suspects bought and resold Goyard handbags and other luxury items, then used the cash to fund nightclub outings and trips to Miami, California and Georgia, police said.

Dowling said the crew has 59 members, with ages ranging from 16 to the 30s.

Detectives caught wind of the alleged fraud while investigating another case at Barneys. They saw some of the defendants shopping with a stack of credit cards, Dowling said.

“If one didn’t work, they’d use another one,” he said.

Younger gang members, millennials in particular, have been moving towards credit card and identity theft crimes because they grew up using computers, Dowling said.

“It's a little safer for them to do. It takes more of an investigation to uncover the fraud and the use of the fraud, so they hide behind it a little bit better, but we're attacking it from all angles,” Dowling said.

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