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The Department of Justice has announced that seven individuals tied to a crime ring known as the “Fentanyl Robbery Gang” have been arrested.

This group, known to authorities as the F.R.G., lured victims with promises of prostitution before drugging and robbing them, leading to four fatalities. According to the Department of Justice, their methods included using dating websites to connect with people seeking to hire prostitutes. They would then offer narcotics laced with fentanyl, either forcing the individuals to take the drug or “surreptitiously introducing it into the victim’s body” before robbing them. Consequently, four people died from overdoses induced by the group.

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The Justice Department added, “If a victim was not incapacitated, or not incapacitated quickly enough, members of the F.R.G. would instead change course and simply commit home-invasion robberies where they would be let into the victim’s home by other members and associates and then steal items of value at gunpoint or through other violent means, including threats, beatings, and aggravated assault.”

Those charged:
The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Amanda Marie Correa (29), Robert Andrew Barnes (24), Christine Deann DiCarlo (50), Shaqare Jaymont Blackwell (23), Shakur Serafin Brownstein (27), Dylan Wilson Small (35), and Samual Jordan (42) have all been charged with various offenses. These charges include distributing a controlled substance resulting in death and serious injury, conspiracy, kidnapping, aggravated identity theft, and brandishing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

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