A harsh Brooklyn Bloods “godfather” president who previously blasted a hostile gang person’s leg off was sentenced Thursday  , to 23 years in federal prison.
Quandell” Randy” Smothers, 33, was like a dreadful appearance in East New York that the guy whose leg he shot off lied about it on the witness stand, the feds said — despite identifying him as the shooter on the scene, at the hospital, in a line- upwards and in great jury testimony.
Despite that turnabout witness, Smothers was convicted at a Brooklyn Federal Court trial , in February 2023 , of criminal conspiracy and weapons charges.
Suffocates, who in 2014 survived being shot by police, was a member of the Elite Assassin Millas group from 2006 to 2019,  , rising through its divisions  , to become the”” uncle “or” great comfortable,” the prosecution established. Additionally, he rose to the position of authority in the New York Bloods, which was in charge of the Elite Assassin Millas. The group referred to itself as” Homicide Town,” and called East New York” Gun Town.”
Under his tenure, the crew got into many shootouts, two of which left sufferers paralyzed. One of the group’s shootings ended in , the 2015 death of Michael Tenorio , in Cypress Hills, lawyers said.
People were expected to earn money through credit card fraud and drug smuggling, then share their money in a” friend” for the group’s profit.
Smothers sold drugs when also, on a bend of Ashford St. between Liberty Ave. and Glenmore Ave. known as” A- Block,” which he ruled over with weapons crime, the feds said.
The foot shooting took place on April 30, 2011, after Smothers ‘ correct- hand man”, Dooley, “robbed a foe gang member nicknamed” Nuke. ” Nuke, it turned out, was in business with Elite Assassin Millas member Damian” Hex” Bullock.
Smothers had other ideas when Bullock and Nuke arrived at the A-block in search of revenge. The feds claimed that he shot Bullock several times in the leg at close range, but the damage was so severe that the leg needed to be amputated.
Bullock, who testified at the trial from his wheelchair, lied to protect Smothers at his trial, the feds allege,  , repeatedly denying , Smothers shot him and at one point calling him his” best friend.”
He was charged with perjury in March, and that case remains pending.
” Mr. Smothers caused harm not only to the victims of his conspiracy, but to the entire community, which lived in an atmosphere of fear,” said U. S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto, who handed down the sentence.
Six other members and associates of the gang have pleaded guilty to crimes including murder, murder conspiracy, assault, and interstate stalking. Tyshawn” Reck” Corbett, described as a” shooter” for the gang, got the most serious sentence of the bunch, 45 years, in January. He was convicted of Tenorio’s murder, as well as of two attempts to kill the same man in 2016 and 2018.
” Smothers, who fancied himself the gang’s ‘ Godfather” and East New York his ‘ Gun Town,’ deserves the decades behind bars imposed today for leading a criminal enterprise that endangered the community with their mindless killing, shootings and assaults of rivals”, U. S. Attorney Breon Peace said Thursday.
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