Alleged Long Island Boys gang member who authorities said peddled heroin in the Sherman Hills apartment complex and tortured a 15-year-old boy
Alleged gang member who authorities said peddled heroin in the Sherman Hills apartment complex and tortured a 15-year-old boy also wanted to kill the teen and informants, police say. Authorities claim in arrest records that Daniel “Max” Davenport, 24, of West Hempstead, N.Y., while jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility, attempted to have the teen boy “eliminated.” Davenport also was trying to get released from jail last month and “track down all confidential informants in the cases against him and kill them,” arrest records say. Davenport was charged by Wilkes-Barre police on two counts of intimidation of witnesses. He was arraigned late Monday afternoon by District Judge Diana Malast in Plains Township and remanded to jail for lack of $250,000 bail. Davenport has been jailed at the county correctional facility for lack of $75,000 bail since Nov. 19 on separate charges he tortured the teen boy and drug offenses, according to court records. Authorities said the teen boy is ...