Gang Leader “BoBo” and His Companions Get Life Sentences in Prison in Miami
Miami, FL: The Miami court handed down harsh prison terms to four individuals for their participation in a daring plot to brutally rob drug dealers, according to the Justice Department.
Palacio Valdes Farley, better known by his stage name BoBo, is the mastermind behind the drug trade and money laundering schemes; he is currently serving a 14-year sentence. He will get an extra 20 years in prison.
Slightly lighter punishments were handed down to the remaining three crew members.
Last December, a jury found Joassaint Josiah Aristil Jr., or JoJo, and Jamar Brandon Nattiel, aka Debo and D-Boy, guilty; in November, Andrew Francois Martin pled guilty.
In addition to a 25-year conviction for an armed robbery he committed in Florida alongside Farley, Martin is notably sentenced to 210 months in federal prison. The sentences will run consecutively.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office stated that the conspiracy began in May 2016 and continued until December 2017. During that period, the group carried out violent house invasions, with one victim in California being shot multiple times.
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U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman exacerbated Farley’s punishment for orchestrating cross-country crimes by imposing a sentence that would run consecutively with his existing term.
Following Farley’s orders, Aristil, Nattiel, Karen Williams, and Lisa Flood staged a robbery in Orange County in December 2017 in which they seized narcotics, money, and jewelry from a drug dealer and his wife while holding them at gunpoint.
Farley, who was in Miami at the time and was subject to house detention, was later given the illicit goods by them.
The crime was solved thanks to a joint effort by the Broward Sheriff’s Office and the FBI’s Miami Field Office; the police departments of Lauderhill, Daytona Beach, and Los Angeles also contributed. Project Safe Neighborhoods and the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces are efforts of the Justice Department that aim to tackle violent crime and drug trafficking.
