BOSTON - A member of the Orchard Park Trailblazers pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to selling crack cocaine in and around Roxbury’s Orchard Gardens Housing Development.
Jeremiah Mines, a/k/a “Germ Gee," a/k/a “Jerm," 24, of Boston, pleaded guilty to two counts of distribution of cocaine base within 1,000 feet of a school. U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin scheduled sentencing for Jan. 9, 2017.
On Nov. 12, 2015 and March 8, 2016, Mines sold cocaine base to a cooperating witness near the Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School in Roxbury. Mines is one of 12 defendants arrested and charged in June 2017 following a nearly two-year investigation into the high concentration of crime in and around the Orchard Gardens Development, the largest publically funded development in Roxbury, which is also adjacent to Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School and Dudley Square. According to court documents, the crime stems, in part, from the illegal activities of the members and associates of the Orchard Park Trailblazers, who allegedly have active feuds with rival gangs throughout the city that have produced numerous crimes of violence.
The charge of distribution of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school provides for a mandatory minimum sentence of one year and no greater than 40 years in prison, a minimum of six years and up to a lifetime of supervised release, and a fine of up to $2 million. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb; Mickey D. Leadingham, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Boston Field Division; and Boston Police Commissioner William Evans made the announcement today.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
