11, 2014: Stubbs was repeatedly shot with both a high-powered rifle and a handgun, but refused to cooperate with investigators.ĭec. An 8-month-old was injured in one of the shootings. Over the next 12 hours, the gangs shot back and forth at least five times, according to police records. 9, 2014: Cartriel “Lil Cott” Gibbs Jr, 20, a member of the rival Broadmoor Clique, is killed in Riviera Beach. 3, 2013: Travis Stubbs threatens to shoot Andrew Dixon, a member of the rival Monroe Heights gang, and his cousin after someone shot at Stubbs' mother's home.Īug. In the arrest report filed for the racketeering cases, a sheriff's detective pointed to more than a dozen instances of violence involving the two sects across Palm Beach County:Īug. Authorities have noted that the 042 members appear to be hit men of sorts for the older Fifth sect. In particular, the detective looks at the "Fifth" sect of the gang, along Fifth Street in Riviera Beach, and the younger, more trigger happy "042" sect on 42nd Street in West Palm Beach. Sheriff's records in those cases indicate that local law enforcement officers have been tracking the Clique, their associates and their rivals for more than a decade. "That's just the start," Bradshaw said Wednesday after announcing the arrests. The task force announcement comes one day after authorities arrested 14 Firehouse Clique members on racketeering charges in the two-year investigation called "Operation Prometheus." Fifteen of the guns they picked up are tied to 54 incidents across the county, including guns used in the March 23 fatal shooting of Bobby Coe, 27, in the north end of West Palm Beach and the November 2017 killing of Romario Edwards, 20, outside his home on 51st Street. “The bad guys should be shaking in their boots.”
“We’re going to use every single resource and investigative technique we have” to get gangs," Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw says.
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