Twenty members and associates of the LRGP Crew, which operated in the neighborhoods surrounding the Broadway Market, surrendered at numerous locations
In the first salvo against drug traffickers this year, FBI agents, Buffalo police and dozens of other law enforcers reported Monday that they had begun to dismantle a violent East Side drug gang. Twenty members and associates of the LRGP Crew, which operated in the neighborhoods surrounding the Broadway Market, surrendered at numerous locations starting at 6 a.m., as heavily armed SWAT teams using stun grenades burst into their homes and crack houses. The immediate expectation with the arrests is that the number of shootings in the city will drop, authorities said. Since the New Year started, there have been about 18 shootings, and it is believed that members of the gang were responsible for at least some of them. DeWayne Gray Jr., 27, was identified as the gang's leader, and though he lives on the West Side, LRGP's prime area of operation was the East Side streets of Lombard, Rother, Gibson and Playter -- the gang's initials -- and other nearby streets. U.S. Attorney Will...