RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A Raleigh gang member has been sentenced to 24 years in federal prison for his involvement in a racketeering-related violence and drug trafficking operation.
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Michael Easley, reported that in 2021 Dexter Maxwell pled guilty to distributing of at least 50 grams of methamphetamine and violent crimes in aid of racketeering for conspiring to kill a rival Eight Trey Gangster Crip.
Maxwell was identified as the leader of ETGC throughout the North and South Carolina with direct ties to gang hierarchy in Los Angeles, California.
“We are dismantling violent gang and drug traffickers across North Carolina with our expansive network of law enforcement partners. Maxwell was a well-known gang leader in the Carolinas who directed violence around Raleigh, while trafficking narcotics that fueled addiction throughout the region,” said U.S. Attorney Michael Easley. “This operation brings an end to Maxwell’s racketeering enterprise and dismantles his network, with over 20 co-conspirators convicted, and their leader spending the next 24 years in federal prison.”