CLEVELAND, Ohio (WKBN) — A Youngstown man was one of several people indicted earlier this year in a gang and corruption investigation that federal prosecutors have issued more indictments against.
Elijah Johnson, aka Loon, 37, faces charges of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, interstate travel in aid of racketeering and use of a communications facility to facilitate a drug offense.
Johnson was arrested in April in Texas when the first set of indictments in the case were issued against members of the Fully Blooded Felons gang, or “FBF”. He was also named in the superseding indictment issued Wednesday — the second superseding indictment in the case. Eighteen people were named in Wednesday’s superseding indictment.
This indictment was issued Nov. 14 but was kept under seal until the people who were named were arrested.
The gang, made up primarily of members in the east side of Cleveland, has also “established strongholds” in Akron and Youngstown.
Indictments in the case accused members of drug dealing, murder and firearms violations.
Johnson is presently in federal detention. He was named in several wiretapped conversations in the first superseding indictment and also accused of traveling to the Southwest, primarily Texas, to get fentanyl pills to bring back to Cleveland to sell.
In a wiretapped conversation in the first superseding indictment, a co-defendant of Johnson’s told another person he was looking for someone to work as a corrections officer at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, the private prison on the East Side, to smuggle drugs and other contraband into the prison. The indictment doesn’t say if that plan worked out.
A news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Cleveland said all members of the FBF had to follow a set of rules established by the person they said was the head of the gang, Raven Mullins, 35.
Members had to memorize and recite the rules and there was also a “commission” set up in the gang to administer discipline and determine which illegal activities would be pursued.
The indictment issued Wednesday accuses Mullins and two other men of a Sept. 12, 2023, shooting death on the west side of Cleveland.
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri said in the release that the people named in the superseding indictment are among the gang’s leaders.
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Rebecca Lutzko said in the release that organizations like the FBF will always be in the crosshairs of investigations because of the harm they cause the community.
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