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Police arrest ten people with ties to criminal gang

Thursday, March 19th, 2009 by Ana X. Ceron

Harry Lee Cooper Jr.

FORT PIERCE — Ten people with links to a long-running gang in the city are behind bars, with some facing charges that police have filed for the first time in the department’s history.

But authorities are asking the public’s help to find another two men they’ve linked to a gang operating in the city for more than a decade: Harry Lee Cooper Jr., 24, and Willie Works Jr., 22.

Police announced the arrests on Thursday, saying that investigators for the first time charged three men with threatening victims to help protect a gang leader.

Willie Works Jr.

That leader, police said, is Ned Childress, 29, who’s been at the St. Lucie County jail since August on an aggravated assault charge.

From jail Childress had been directing orders to Oliver Bell, 21; Childress’s 24-year-old girlfriend Krysty Bradley; Henry Housing, 34; Yolanda Lampkin, 40; Andravious Pride, 22; and Dujuan Warren, 27, court records show.

“They miss their general,” Childress allegedly told Lampkin during a recorded phone conversation. “The general is got to get back out there.”

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Tags: Andravious Pride, Brandon Cummings, Dujuan Warren, gang, Harry Lee Cooper Jr., Henry Housing, Krysty Bradley, Labarius Works, Ned Childress, Oliver Bell, Willie Works Jr., witness tampering, Yolanda Lampkin
Posted in Crime, Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County | 5 Comments »

Police aide accused of tipping off gang members

Thursday, February 5th, 2009 by Ana X. Ceron

Ebony Baret

FORT PIERCE — Police arrested one of their own employees after they say she was caught feeding information to a jailed gang member to help intimidate witnesses in his pending jury trial.

Ebony Baret, 28, was a community service aide who worked with the Fort Pierce Police Department since late 2001.

She was arrested today after a joint investigation by police and the 19th Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office revealed she was using department equipment to tip off gang members about the department’s operations, Chief Sean Baldwin said. (more…)

Tags: 19th Judicial Circuit State Attorney's Office, aggravated assault, Ebony Baret, gangs, Ned Childress, Sean Baldwin, witness tampering
Posted in Crime, Fort Pierce | 4 Comments »