🔴 Group accused of selling drugs in residential neighborhood
🔴 Authorities linked at least five shootings to the enterprise
🔴 “Double ii” gang was formed in New Jersey in 1993
NEWARK — More than two dozen men and women are charged in a massive conspiracy to take over a city neighborhood through violence and intimidation so they could sell heroin, according to authorities.
On Tuesday, Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced 194 charges against the suspects, who are all from New Jersey except for one man from Brooklyn.
“This impressive list of charges, levied against 26 gang members who blatantly conducted an illicit drug operation aimed at destroying Newark families through violence and addiction, is both appropriate and significant,” Newark Public Safety Director Emanuel Miranda Sr. said…