A man who used drug mules to transport heroin and crack between Columbus and Portsmouth was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Columbus on Thursday.
According to the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, drug trafficking was only one of 25-year-old Steve Henderson’s many criminal enterprises. Henderson was a member of the Crips and back in 2014, he attempted to murder a rival Bloods gang member. A year later he shot at someone else over some allegedly stolen drugs.
He is a member of a street gang known as T&A. (The name comes from Trevitt and Atcheson streets in Columbus where its members live).
Henderson and his gang moved a steady supply of drugs down US 23 from Columbus to Portsmouth to sell in trap houses. Starting in 2015, weekly deliveries of large quantities of crack, oxycodone, and heroin were made to Portsmouth using female associates and drug-addicts to transport the drugs. Gang members then sold the drugs from the trap houses.
Henderson was indicted last fall with a racketeering conspiracy involving five murders and what the State calls ‘multiple’ attempted murders as well as drug trafficking and other serious crimes.
Henderson was indicted last fall for a racketeering conspiracy involving five murders, what the State calls ‘multiple’ attempted murders, as well as drug charges and other serious crimes.
For the past 10 years, gang members committed murders, robberies, assaults, and trafficked in drugs and weapons. They also went after witnesses to their crimes.
The gang was also adept at acquiring illegal firearms. U.S. Attorney David DeVillers said the gang took advantage of vulnerable drug addicts, many with no criminal records to buy and steal guns.
Co-defendant Eric Henderson, Jr. was sentenced last week to 78 months in prison. He sold gram quantities of crack cocaine in Columbus and Chillicothe on behalf of the racketeering conspiracy.
Terrance Pyfrom, 21, was also sentenced last week. Pyfrom was sentenced to 78 months in prison for conspiring to distribute crack cocaine and shooting at members of the Easthaven Bloods gang on Aug. 8, 2014, after a drive-by shooting.
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