Moore
KINGSTON – An Ulster County Court jury has convicted a Bloods gang
member from Poughkeepsie of illegally possessing a loaded .38 caliber
firearm. He was indicted for using the gun to injure a woman at 200 Fair
Street in Kingston, but the jury hung regarding the assault charge. This
is the fifth felony conviction.
Raymond Moore, also known as “Face,” of 32 Bement Avenue,
Poughkeepsie, has 13 prior criminal convictions in Dutchess County in
the last 12 years. One of those involved his possession of a loaded .38
caliber handgun during a chase with a Poughkeepsie Police officer.
The most recent case occurred some three months after he was released
from prison on the Poughkeepsie conviction for gun possession.
The jury of seven men and five women reached its verdict late Friday afternoon
following a full day of deliberations.
The evidence in the case included letters written by Moore to his friends
and witnesses trying to threaten and intimidate witnesses who he referred
to as “rats.” He also offered to pay $1,000 each to witnesses
for them to change their testimony.
Moore also tried to get a female friend to deliver a false statement.
That witness has since been convicted of tampering with a witness.
He is expected to be sentenced in December.
