Chappaqua man sentenced to 21 years in gunpoint robbery of 176 kilos of cocaine

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WHITE PLAINS – A 48-year-old Chappaqua man has been sentenced in White Plains federal court to 21 years in prison for his participation in a May 29, 2019 gunpoint robbery in the Bronx targeting 176 kilograms of cocaine; is participation in a conspiracy to smuggle contraband, including narcotics and a firearm, into a federal detention facility; and his possession of that gun while incarcerated.

Deejay White pled guilty to the charges on July 23, 2021.

According to information, court documents and statements made in court, in Late May 2019, White learned that a Bronx-based member of a Puerto Rico-based drug trafficking organization – DTO – was expecting a delivery of furniture, which concealed some 176 kilograms of cocaine.

White and others planned a violent, gunpoint robbery of the drugs.

On May 29, 2019, White drove to the Bronx apartment where the DTO’s cocaine was stored and parked outside with his wife and young child in the car.

Minutes later, four coconspirators forced entry into the apartment and held up 10 victims, including four children, at gunpoint. Two of the victims were pistol-whipped during the robbery, and a third sustained serious injuries after jumping out of the apartment’s third-floor window in an attempt to flee to safety.

One of the robbers threw a duffel bag containing dozens of kilograms of cocaine into White’s car, which then drove off.

White was arrested on November 25, 2019 on charges related to the robbery and conspiracy to distribute the stolen drugs. He was detained at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

Days after entering the jail, he began using contraband cellphones to conspire with others, including his wife, to smuggle drugs into the prison, including cocaine and oxycodone, which his wife did on several occasions.

In January 2020, White conspired with his wife and others to have a loaded gun smuggled into the prison, which they did successfully.

When prison officials discovered a cellphone in White’s cell, he told an investigator there was a gun inside the facility, but he lied about his own role in smuggling it in.

A lockdown was imposed for several days until the gun was located inside a wall of White’s jail cell.




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