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    Grand Rapids: Sentences Imposed in Federal Drug Trafficking and Murder Case - ATF

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    Four men from Lansing, Michigan were sentenced in federal court for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy, robbery, and murder. Charles Lewis received life plus seven years, brothers Wallee and Mustafa Al-Din received 60 and 50 years respectively, and Ralphael Crenshaw received 47 1/2 years. The men, who were members of the violent Block Burners gang, had brutally kidnapped and murdered 19-year-old Shayla Johnson in 2010 while attempting to steal marijuana from her. The case was prosecuted in federal court due to concerns about intimidation from gang members.

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    Four men from Lansing, Michigan were sentenced in federal court for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy, robbery, and murder. Charles Lewis received life plus seven years, brothers Wallee and Mustafa Al-Din received 60 and 50 years respectively, and Ralphael Crenshaw received 47 1/2 years. The men, who were members of the violent Block Burners gang, had brutally kidnapped and murdered 19-year-old Shayla Johnson in 2010 while attempting to steal marijuana from her. The case was prosecuted in federal court due to concerns about intimidation from gang members.

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    Four men from Lansing, Michigan were sentenced in federal court for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy, robbery, and murder. Charles Lewis received life plus seven years, brothers Wallee and Mustafa Al-Din received 60 and 50 years respectively, and Ralphael Crenshaw received 47 1/2 years. The men, who were members of the violent Block Burners gang, had brutally kidnapped and murdered 19-year-old Shayla Johnson in 2010 while attempting to steal marijuana from her. The case was prosecuted in federal court due to concerns about intimidation from gang members.

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    5/23/2014 Sentences Imposed in Federal Drug Trafficking and Murder Case | ATF

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    Field Division:
    Detroit
    Western District of Michigan

    www.justice.gov/usao/miw
    For Immediate Release
    Thursday, May 22,2014
    Patrick A. Miles, Jr., United States Attorney
    Contact: Kaye Hooker
    (616) 808-2053
    Kaye.Hooker@usdoj.gov
    U.S. Department of Justice
    United States Attorney
    Western District of Michigan
    SENTENCES IMPOSED IN FEDERAL DRUG TRAFFICKING
    AND MURDER CASE
    GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Four Lansing men were sentenced this week in U.S. District
    Court, announced U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. The men - Charles Kunta Lewis, age 36, Wallee
    Abdullazeem Al-Din, age 24, his brother, Mustafa Al-Din, age 25, and Ralphael Crenshaw, age 24 - were
    tried by a jury before U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker during August, 2013. After a two-week trial,
    they were convicted of conspiring to commit drug trafficking crimes and robbery, and using a firearm
    during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime resulting in murder. The four defendants were found
    guilty of abducting and murdering Lansing resident Shayla Johnson, age 19, in an effort to obtain drugs.
    The sentences imposed were 50 years for Mustafa Al-Din, 60 years for Wallee Al-Din, life plus a
    consecutive term of seven years for Lewis, and 47 years for Crenshaw.
    Evidence at trial established that the defendants were members and associates of a violent
    Lansing street gang known as the Block Burners. The prosecutions evidence demonstrated that during
    one six-week span in the summer of 2010, the defendants were involved in a pattern of robbing and at
    times beating victims for drugs, money and other valuable items. Their violent conduct culminated in the
    kidnaping and first degree murder of Shayla Johnson. The defendants wrongly believed Shayla Johnson
    had access to a large number of marijuana plants. The defendants planned to kidnap her in order to
    compel her to disclose the location of the marijuana plants. Acting on their plan, the defendants entered
    her home, forced her from her bedroom, and brutally shoved her into the trunk of a vehicle. When Ms.
    Johnson resisted, she was fatally shot multiple times with an assault rifle.
    In the fall of 2010, the Ingham County Prosecutors Office sought the assistance of the U.S.
    Attorneys Office in the prosecution of the matter because of serious concerns over allegations of
    obstruction and intimidation by gang members. The decision was made to transfer the case to federal
    court for prosecution.
    "These lengthy sentences highlight the acts of senseless violence committed by these
    individuals; their actions were particularly heinous and brutal," said Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
    Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven Bogdalek. "It is my hope that these
    sentences will bring some measure of comfort to the family of Shayla Johnson and to the other victims. I
    want to commend the investigative efforts our ATF Special Agents, Lansing Police Department, Meridian
    Township Police Department, Ingham County Prosecutors Office, and the United States Attorneys
    Office."
    This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Timothy P. VerHey and Brian K.
    Delaney and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Catherine Emerson, on assignment from the Ingham
    County Prosecutors Office.
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