KINGSTON – 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 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.
The music store in Poughkeepsie is a registered corporation engaged in the production of music, but in recent years it allegedly 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.
In Kingston, U.S. Attorney Richard Hartunian said authorities are confident this was a significant bust and expect there to be noticeable, positive impacts on the local community.
“We think it’s going to have a major impact and the reason we say that is because there was a lot of drugs being distributed by this organization: Cocaine, Heroin, pills- these are the drugs that are the scourge of our communities,” said Hartunian. “There are families that are affected. People who abuse drugs are being negatively impacted; and so, we think, based on the large scale nature of this operation, the fact that we’ve arrested so many defendants, that we’re going to really have taken some major steps toward helping the community become a safer place to live.”
Those arrested 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
Those arrested in the Kingston operation are:
Marcus Fisher
Romell Hearn
Recardo Langston
Jalen Allen
Jonathon Jones
Eunice Allen
Emiliano Alonso
Guy Cain
Jamal Clinton
Marc Douglas
Kevin Drake
Jose Francisquini
Greg Hardy
Mark Howard Codal Johnson
Phillip Keith
Kareem McFarlane
Robert Medley
Michel Monsanto
Ryan Rios
Dwan Scafe
Dionn Spencer
Leonard Vandyke
Daniel Williams
Keshia Williams
Robert Curry
Jadon Douglas
Jeffrey Keith
Kashsawn Watson
Jahkeem Ryan
Maurice Wood
In connection with the investigation, authorities seized 20 firearms, approximately five kilograms of cocaine, 153 grams of heroin, 90 grams of crack cocaine, 1.5 kilograms of marijuana, and 75 Oxycodone pills
