A teen party at an East Flatbush club ended in gunfire Sunday, police said.
Officials said that a fight broke out in front of Jumbala at Ralph Avenue and Clarendon Road as the hotspot hosted a teen party at 9 p.m. on October 11.
During the fray, a 15-year-old pulled a gun and shot a few rounds into the air, sending everyone scattering. No one was hit, police said.
Responding officers apprehended the shooter, who, despite the young age, had been twice charged for robbery in East New York, without incident and charged him with attempted assault and criminal possession of a weapon. The gun was also recovered, officials said.
Police officer Gregory Gingo was credited with the arrest.
Two hours after the above arrest, cops were back at the corner of Ralph Avenue and Clarendon Road for another shooting — this one with an injury.
Police said that a 17-year-old was hit in the ankle when shots were fired near the corner at 11 p.m. The victim was listed in stable condition after treatment.
Investigators were still looking for the shooter. The incident is believed to be connected to the activities at the club, sources said.
Cops are asking anyone with information regarding this incident to come forward.
Calls can be made to the 67th Precinct at (718) 287-3211. All calls will be kept confidential.
Police stopped the marring of a religious institution in progress last week when they rolled up on a graffiti vandal trying to leave his tag on a temple on East 16th Street near Albemarle road.
Cops from the 70th Precinct were patrolling the area on the evening of October 11 where they came across the vandalism.
The unidentified tagger was apprehended and taken into custody without incident, officials said.
Two prolific taggers were arrested Sunday when they were caught marring up a train station on Avenue H near East 16th Street.
Officials said that members of the NYPD Transit Vandals Squad arrested the two teens, both juveniles, at 7:15 a.m. on October 11.
The two vandals had been leaving their tags on borough train stations for months, officials said. Members of the Transit Vandals Squad launched an investigation and identified the suspects, who they trailed until they were caught vandalizing public property.
Cops charged both teens with making graffiti and criminal possession of graffiti instruments.
Some old school wrestling action erupted on Rogers Avenue last week when a 16-year-old allegedly struck another teen about the head with a folding chair.
Cops said that the teens were arguing at the address near Clarendon Road at 6 p.m. on October 1 the teenage suspect, identified as Kashawn George, allegedly grabbed a folding chair and charged his victim.
George allegedly went to town on his victim, leaving him with a fractured nose, multiple facial fractures and a cut to his head.
The victim had to be taken to an area hospital for treatments which included having the deep wounds closed with staples.
Cops took George into custody, charging him with attempted assault, assault, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon.
Members of a notorious Flatbush drug gang that are routinely targeted by narcotics cops didn’t just make their money selling crack.
Several of them supplemented their income by suing the city.
Officials said that a handful of members of the East 21st Street crew had received anywhere between $200,000 to $500,000 in settlements for civil rights lawsuits that have been filed over the years.
According to the New York Post, at least one member, identified as Shamel King, allegedly filed six lawsuits over the last four years stating that the police unfairly arrested him and had violated his civil rights. All of the suits were filed after his arrests for drug possession didn’t lead to indictments, court records show.
King received $132,500 in settlement payouts, officials said.
Other crew members, including Anthony “Chosen” Lawrence — who was shot when a rival drug crew raided his apartment — also received payouts. Lawrence settled his lawsuits for $17,500, according to published reports.
Lawrence and several other East 21st Street Crew members again found themselves in lockup two weeks ago, following the end of an extended Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York investigation.
Officials allege that the East 21st Street Crew ran the crack trade from Foster Avenue to Dorchester Road and from Ocean Avenue to Flatbush Avenue and was responsible for some of the violence in the area.
Following up on community complaints, undercover investigators infiltrated the crew beginning in 2007, making undercover buys of quantities of crack ranging from two to 12 plastic packages %u2013 known as twists %u2013 to multiple grams of the highly addictive and deadly drug.
Investigators said that the arrests stem from the 171 undercover sales that totaled $10,460 over the past 25-month investigation, which also led investigators to two other drug crews operating in East Flatbush as well as the five boroughs and Long Island.
All told, 75 people have been arrested and indicted during the three operations.
