Members of the Fruit Town Brims and Milltown Mafia were arrested in a months-long operation conducted jointly by law enforcement agencies at the city, county and state level.Salem County Prosecutor John Lenahan said 49 people were arrested in the city of Salem and adjacent Quinton Township on Tuesday alone. During those raids, he added, police seized five cars, almost $9,000 in cash, more than $1,500 in cocaine and marijuana and two weapons.According to a news release issued by Lenahan’s office, Tuesday’s arrests and seizures capped a 4-month investigation that yielded almost 200 arrests of gang members or their associates.
''They may have been into drugs but they didn't do anything to harm anybody,'' said their aunt, Cheryl Watkins. ``It was cold-blooded murder to lay them out like that.''Miami-Dade County's 80th and 81st homicides of 2008: Rashawn and Deon Beneby, brothers and suspects in a string of violent robberies, shot dead Thursday afternoon next to the Liberty City middle school they once attended. ''It's cold-blooded, outright killing out there -- and we're not even in the summer yet,'' said the Rev. Richard Dunn, a community activist who lives three blocks away. Witnesses said a group of men were gathered outside an apartment at the Annie Coleman Gardens housing project when the shooting started.Someone mowed down the brothers, some 15 yards apart, on a grassy strip next to the chain-link fence that separates the community from the baseball field at Charles R. Drew Middle School, 1801 NW 60th St. Rashawn was executed -- shot in the head an...
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