#Brooklyn Bloods members slapped with federal charges for brazen gun warfare

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Tyshawn Corbett, alleged member of a violent sect of the Bloods street gang Elite Assasin Millas
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Seven members of a Brooklyn Bloods street gang called the Elite Assassin Millas — including the crime outfit’s reputed “godfather” — were busted Wednesday for terrorizing East New York with a campaign of gun violence, racketeering and murder, officials said.

Quandel Smothers, 29, known as “Chucky,” led the group with an iron fist, and in 2011 allegedly shot a fellow EAM gangster, who he believed was planning to harm another group member in a dispute over drugs, the Brooklyn US Attorney’s office said Wednesday.

“Gang-related violence begets more violence, and we will not tolerate the violent crimes allegedly committed by these defendants in our communities,” said Brooklyn US Attorney Richard Donoghue in a statement.

Another member of the group, Tyshawn “Reck” Corbett, 30, is accused of fatally shooting a rival gangster named Michael Tenorio in 2015, as payback for the murder of an EAM member, the feds said.

“Surveillance video of the murder shows that Corbett chased Tenorio down the residential block while firing at him, then continued shooting the victim after he fell to the ground,” the US attorney’s office said in a press release.

Corbett is also accused of twice trying to gun down the same man on separate occasions in 2016 and 2018.

The second attack was successful after Corbett teamed up with fellow suspects, brothers Devon Bristol, 29, and Marlon Bristol, 32, to plant a GPS device on the victim’s car.  He blasted the man and left him paralyzed on June 28, 2018 before fleeing in a car driven by Desmonn “Des” Beckett, 27, who was also charged, the feds said.

EAM members Qawon Allen and Andrew Campbell have also been accused of plotting to put out a hit on another rival who they believed had fired a shot at Corbett in 2018.  The that victim was also left paralyzed.

Smothers, Corbett, Campbell, Allen, the Bristol brothers and fellow defendant Qawon “Phorty Wap” Allen, 26, each face various sentences for murder and murder-related racketeering charges in the joint investigation carried out by the NYPD and FBI.

If convicted on murder charges, Corbett faces life in prison.

Allen is charged with providing the gun used in the Glenmore Avenue killing and faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum of life in prison.

Smothers and the Bristol brothers each are staring down a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum of life in prison.

And Campbell and Beckett each face up to 10 years in prison.

Five of the defendants were arrested last night with arraignments scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. The other two suspects are in federal custody and will be arranged at a later date, according to Donoghue’s office.