Two men who led criminal organizations responsible for two murders and dozens of shootings – including several drive-by shootings which police say injured innocent people – were recently sentenced to prison time.
The two men were the last of two dozen members of the Few But Plenty and Too Damn Smooth crews caught and prosecuted. Both men commanded “brutal criminal organization(s) that terrorized neighborhoods” on Denver’s west side during the COVID-19 pandemic, as Denver District Attorney John Walsh stated in separate press releases.
Phillip Baca, Sr., the 44-year-old purported leader of the Few But Plenty (FBP) gang, was sentenced to 33 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections on Friday. Baca was originally charged with 136 criminal counts. He pleaded guilty in March to one count of conspiracy to commit murder and one count of violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act, and prosecutors dropped the remaining 134 charges.
FBP, between January 2020 and March 2022, committed at least 14 shootings, mostly drive-by shootings that targeted the gang’s rivals in west Denver, according to investigators. Forty-seven people were injured in those shootings…