With murder spiraling up in Flatbush, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, together with New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton, yesterday, announced that 15 people have been arrested on drug trafficking, and other charges including murder, in connection with allegedly selling crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana to undercover officers over the past year during an anti-drug.
Thompson said that one of the alleged drug dealers, Oshane Fyffe, 18, is also charged with the July 15, 2015, shooting death of Abetonji Ajakaye, 25, in the vicinity of East 17th Street and Newkirk Avenue.
Fyffe is believed to have shot the victim in retaliation for a July 13, 2015, incident in which Migly Jean-Jacquez, 18, allegedly shot and killed Harold Abadia Sandoval, 21, in the vicinity of East 21st Street and Newkirk Avenue.
Jean-Jacquez was arrested on July 31, 2015 and is charged with second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
“These arrests underscore our determination to reclaim our streets from drug dealers and other criminals who endanger the safety and degrade the quality of life of our communities. Gun-related street violence puts everyone at risk and has left two young men dead,” said Thompson.
The busts came as murder is up considerably in both the 67th and 70th precincts, the two jurisdictions of where the arrests were made. There have been 17 murders thus far in 2015 within the confines of the 67th and 70th precincts as compared to seven at this time last year.
The investigation began in August 2014 following community complaints about narcotics trafficking and violence within the confines of the two precincts, which cover Flatbush and East Flatbush.
Specifically, the investigation focused on a several block radius from Bedford Avenue to East 21st Street and Foster Avenue to Ditmas Avenue.
Over the course of the investigation, undercover officers made approximately 100 buys of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana. Police recovered a 9 mm Beretta, as well as a quantity of crack cocaine, marijuana, heroin, and drug paraphernalia during the execution of search warrants yesterday.
“I want to thank the NYPD’s Brooklyn South Narcotics Division and the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office for working together to remove these drug dealers from our streets. The NYPD remains committed to working with our law enforcement partners to stop the flow of illegal narcotics into our city,” said Bratton.
