Federal indictment alleges drug-ring inside Youngstown private prison run by Cleveland street gang

A newly unsealed federal indictment from the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio claims a Cleveland street gang ran a drug ring inside Youngstown's private prison on the city's East Side.

The 33-count indictment claims that members of a Cleveland street gang known as Fully Blooded Felons were running and recruiting people from January 2022 through April 2, 2024, and attempted to distribute fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, crack, and other illegal drugs inside the facility.

The indictment names 14 defendants charged with allegedly trying to recruit people to become corrections officers to get the aforementioned drugs into CoreCivic Northeast Ohio Correctional Center facility in Youngstown on Hubbard Road.

According to the court document, the gang is an off-shoot of the Heartless Felons, a criminal street gang in Northeast Ohio and within the prison system.

The indictment says that gang members used multiple telephones to conduct drug trafficking and receive text messages and social media messages to communicate.

Names in the indictment are: Raven Mullins; Henry Burchett; Cortez Tyree; Rodney Linson; Elijah Johnson; Demarcus Elliott, Dontez Hammand; Jeffrey Lee; Jerrell Jones-Ferrell; Jerry Mullins; Devonte Johnson; Jerome Williams; Christopher Horton; Deeundra Perkins and Deon Blackwell and all are alleged members the Fully Blooded Felons gang.

Some of the group members are accused of getting drugs from Texas to Arizona for distribution in Ohio and were using apartment locations in Cleveland for the alleged illegal activities.

The indictment counts possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, possessing a firearm of a drug trafficking crime, intent to distribute fentanyl, intent to distribute crack, intent to distribute methamphetamine, intent to distribute controlled substances, interstate travel in aid of racketeering, and use of a communications facility to facilitate a felony drug offense.

The indictment also alleges the group operated drug smuggling and distribution rings inside numerous Ohio prisons and federal detention centers.