Bronx ‘5zzly Crew’ gang members face carjack charges after leaving trail of evidence: feds

Two Bronx pack members busted successful a takedown past twelvemonth present look national charges for carjacking a antheral astatine weapon and knifepoint — and they whitethorn beryllium liable for a drawstring of akin robberies, national prosecutors allege.

Abdoul Azika, 20, and Jaquell Blackwell, 19, some members of the “5zzly Crew,” an offshoot of the Blood Hound Brims, stuck a weapon and a weapon successful their victim’s look connected Brook and Tremont Sts. successful Garden City, L.I., connected March 19, 2023, according to national prosecutors successful Brooklyn.

Both of them near grounds linking them to the robbery erstwhile cops recovered the stolen Honda Civic successful the Bronx a time later, according to a transgression complaint.

Blackwell near a fingerprint connected the backmost licence sheet attached to the stolen car, portion Azika fto the car’s Bluetooth nexus up to his phone, which saved his mother’s telephone fig into the vehicle’s machine nether the sanction “mama,” the ailment alleges.

The Civic’s GPS machine besides showed the car parked extracurricular Azika’s location soon aft the robbery, the ailment alleges.

The 2 men are besides liable for much carjackings successful Queens and Long Island, the feds allege, though they person yet to beryllium charged for those crimes.

“For implicit a year, the defendants terrorized guiltless drivers crossed Queens and Long Island done a drawstring of violent, equipped carjackings,” national prosecutors wrote successful a Wednesday tribunal filing.

Azika and Blackwell person been locked up since September, erstwhile they and 10 others of the 5zzly Crew were indicted by the Bronx DA’s office. The pack waged a years-long run of unit that left an guiltless bystander dead successful June 2021.

The duo were charged successful the Bronx with 4 robberies and 2 shootings arsenic portion of the indictment. In 1 occurrence from October 2021, Azika and Blackwell robbed an on-duty parole serviceman of a compartment telephone and gun, and Azika and different accomplice utilized the weapon successful a shooting successful Crotona, prosecutors allege.