Georgia – Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said that the major gang network in Barrow County has been dismantled. This is one of the biggest successes for Georgia’s Gang Prosecution Unit since it was established. After years of concerted investigations into violence, drug trafficking, contraband activities, and getting children to join the gang, sixteen members of the 1-8 Trey Gangster Bloods were convicted.
Jamar Ramsay, the statewide head of the gang, was at the center of the case. He is already serving a life term for murder. Prosecutors alleged that even from inside Hays State Prison, Ramsay ran criminal operations that spread across Georgia and even into California.
Investigators found conversations in which he told members to focus their recruiting on youngsters, talked about drug distribution inside the prison, and ordered attacks. Officials also said that Ramsay relied heavily on illegal cell phones to plan the gang’s activities across several counties…