Hempstead gang members indicted for violent crimes

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Members of the Insane Crip Gang from Hempstead committed more than a dozen shootings and three murders between 2016 and 2022.

Eight alleged gang members and associates were indicted April 13 for several violent crimes across Long Island, according to the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

"As alleged, the defendants participated in a staggering amount of extreme violence that shattered lives, maimed rivals and endangered countless bystanders on Long Island," said Breon Peace, the Eastern District attorney.


The alleged members and associates of the Insane Crips Gang from Hempstead are accused of committing over a dozen shootings and three murders between 2016 and 2022. The men have been charged with racketeering, murder, robbery and fraud.

Akeem Chambers, 21, from Uniondale, Jahziah Dindyal, 19, from Hempstead Jalen Rogers, 20, from Hempstead, Jonathan Vasquez, 21 of Hempstead, Leslie Pardo, 26, and Rob Pardo, 25, both from Mount Sinai, were arrested in New York.

Jonathan Gonzalez, was arrested in North Carolina and was arraigned in federal court in Winston-Salem on April 13/14. One member is yet to be arrested.

“This Crips faction has wreaked havoc in the Hempstead area for nearly a decade, killing perceived rivals and innocent bystanders alike,” Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly stated in a news release. “In just two years, Akeem Chambers allegedly participated in two homicides and more than a dozen shootings.

"This gang celebrated its violence on social media, using that same social media as a recruiting tool, and financed its activities by systematically stealing from government benefit programs designed to aid the unemployed and those adversely impacted by Covid."

Donnelly added that dismantling what she called "gang networks" is difficult work. She noted the efforts of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the FBI and the Nassau County police .

If convicted the men could face up to a maximum sentence of life in prison.