WHITE PLAINS – Authorities are charging 15 people with using a Poughkeepsie
music store, “Outta They League,” (OTL) as a front to run
a drug trafficking business in Poughkeepsie. Twelve of the defendants
were taken into custody on Thursday as law enforcement officers from the
City and Town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Sheriff’s Office and State
Police swooped down earlier in the day.
The arrests in Poughkeepsie were coordinated with an investigation in
and around Kingston resulting in 31 Bloods street gang members being indicted
for narcotics and other charges. Many of those defendants were trafficking
in cocaine and other drugs obtained from OTL, police said.
It is alleged that the music store in Poughkeepsie is a registered corporation
engaged in the production of music, but in recent years has served primarily
as a front used by its owner, Malcolm Kinyon, also known as “M.A.”
to facilitate wholesale cocaine transactions and help launder the proceeds
of those drug sales.
Each month the company, distributed several kilograms of cocaine in and
around Poughkeepsie and to other locations in southern and central New
York.
Those charged in the Poughkeepsie operation are:
Malcolm Kinyon
Eric Antonmarchi
Star Bermudez
Brian Bowman
Derrick Ensley
Aaron Hardy
Andrew Hardy
Nicholas Leyva
Davion McAdam
Dante McNair
Jaquan McNair
Anton Miller
Daniel Spotards
Vaughn Stokes
Bryan Whittle
The Dutchess portion of the investigation and arrests was conducted by
the FBI, State Police, Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office and City
of Poughkeepsie Police Department.
