Blood gang leader Howard Davis, of Bellport, sentenced to life in prison
Howard Davis appears in an undated photograph. Credit: USAEDNY
A Long Island Bloods gang leader was sentenced Tuesday to life plus 132 years in federal prison for his 2021 conviction on 48 charges that included attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Howard Davis, 36, of Bellport, was also convicted of assault, robbery, distribution of controlled substances, obstruction of justice and brandishing and discharging firearms following his six-week trial before U.S. District Judge Joan Azrack, who sentenced him Tuesday.
“Davis and his violent gang tormented our Long Island neighborhoods for years,” United States Attorney for the Eastern District Breon Peace said in a statement. “Today’s sentence ends his reign of terror.”
Prosecutors said Davis, also known as “Mousey” and “Mr. Fedup,” directed violence against his rivals, which included issuing orders to kill certain people whenever and wherever they were found. Davis was the leader of the Long Island-based G-Shine Bloods set, which engaged in multiple violent crimes and drug trafficking, prosecutors said.
Between June 2016 and November 2017, Davis ordered two shootings that left two people wounded, prosecutors said in a news release. He also ordered two armed home invasions and actively participated in three shootings, including one in which three victims were struck by gunshots and one person was left in a coma for a long time, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors and witness testimony at trial also established that Davis ordered an armed robbery of two individuals, assaulted a person at a bar, possessed illegal firearms and sold fentanyl, heroin and crack.
“Howard Davis’s tyranny over Long Island has come to an end,” FBI Acting Assistant Director in Charge Christie M. Curtis said in a statement. “His myriad crimes repeatedly violated the law as Davis used his status as the gang’s leader to breed further criminality and gun violence.”
Defense attorneys Shannon McManus and Cesar de Castro, who took over the case after conviction, noted in a presentencing memo the minimum sentence was 137 years but probation had sought an additional 15 years, which they called “inconscionable.”
“The mandatory minimum sentence is greater than 100 years. No additional imprisonment is necessary,” the attorneys argued, adding that their client deserves “some mercy.”
Davis has received nine disciplinary violations while incarcerated at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, including a slashing and a Christmas 2018 incident in which the mother of one of his children was caught smuggling drugs into the jail, prosecutors said.
The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations, the FBI and Suffolk County police, officials said.
Grant Parpan covers Suffolk County courts and federal courts for Newsday. A Long Island native, he joined Newsday in 2022.
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