The Brief Federal prosecutors secured lengthy prison terms this week for multiple members of the violent, Atlanta-based GoodFellas street gang. Gang members De'Andre Jackson and Trayvon Hawkins received sentences yesterday for a child-maiming drive-by shooting and an armed robbery. The sweeping multi-agency investigation also dismantled a prison-drone contraband ring trafficking methamphetamine and cocaine.



A federal judge ordered several members of the violent GoodFellas street gang to prison this week following convictions for armed robbery, drug trafficking and a drive-by shooting that wounded two children in Atlanta.

Atlanta gang dismantled

What we know:

Five members of the Atlanta-based GoodFellas street gang have been sentenced to federal prison following a collaborative investigation by local and federal law enforcement. U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg announced that the sentences target a criminal enterprise involved in drug trafficking, armed robbery and firearms offenses.

The gang primarily recruits from Atlanta neighborhoods, jails and state prisons. According to court information, the group funds its operations through drug trafficking, carjacking, fraud and weapons sales, using extreme violence to protect its territory.

Children shot at mailbox

What we know:

De'Andre Jackson, a 23-year-old Clarkston man known within the gang as  Gen,   Glock,  and  Glizzy,  was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years and six months in prison. Jackson pleaded guilty on March 9 to discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.

The conviction stems from a Jan. 17, 2021, ambush at an Atlanta apartment complex where gang members targeted a woman they deemed disloyal. Gunmen fired approximately 50 rounds as the woman and her 6-year-old son walked to a mailbox. The mother was shot more than six times, her son was shot three times-including in the abdomen and knee-and a 14-year-old bystander was shot in the ear. All three survived.

Assault and prison drones

What we know:

Trayvon Hawkins, a 27-year-old Atlanta man known as  Baby Cold World  and  Freeze,  received a nine-year prison senten

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