NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that
RUBEN GEIGER, age 22, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced today for his
participation in a drug conspiracy and a conspiracy to possess and use firearms
in connection with the drug trafficking activities of a local gang known as the
“Young Melph Mafia” or “YMM.”
U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt sentenced GEIGER to
220 months imprisonment, to be followed by four years of supervised release.
GEIGER was originally charged in a five-count Superseding
Indictment with nine other YMM members, who frequented the area of the former
Melpomene Housing Project. According to the factual basis filed in open court,
GEIGER and other YMM members participated in a wide ranging conspiracy to
distribute street level quantities of crack cocaine in Central City and
participated in several acts of violence against rival gangs, such as the
110ers. The members of the YMM were
associates of the members of the Allen family, who were also indicted and
convicted in federal court last year.
Three members of the 110ers gang were convicted on January 29, 2015, in
Orleans Parish Criminal Court for the Briana Allen shooting.
U.S. Attorney Polite praised the work of the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) in leading this investigation
along with members of the NOPD led Multi-Agency Gang Unit (MAG UNIT). Assistant United States Attorneys Edward J.
Rivera and Maurice E. Landrieu, Jr. were in charge of the prosecution.
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