The feds have announced charges against nine inmates at a Brooklyn detention center for a series of savagely violent assaults that have left two men dead and others critically injured.
Each of the suspects were already being held on other charges at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park.
But they made a bad situation worse when they went after their fellow inmates, according to a statement from US Attorney Breon Peace, of the Eastern District of New York.
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“Violence will not be tolerated in our federal jails,” Peace said. “Let these charges serve as a warning to those who would engage in criminal conduct behind bars, and anyone else who facilitates those crimes: your conduct will be exposed, and you will be held accountable.”
Two of the men — Andrew Simpson, 26, of Brooklyn, and Devone Thomas, 24, of Queens — have been indicted for allegedly stabbing inmate Uriel Whyte to death on June 7, Peace said.