The Newark man was sentenced to 15 years for supplying drugs to the Grape Street Crips
NEWARK -- A 36-year-old Newark drug dealer who supplied heroin to the Grape Street Crips has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Gabriel Henderson Gabriel Henderson, 36, previously admitted he sold bricks of heroin in and around the Pennington Court public-housing complex on Pennington Street and the John W. Hyatt public-housing complex on Hawkins Street in the city. The drugs were sold between December 2014 and May 2015, the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey said in a news release.
Henderson will also be be on supervised release for five years after completing his prison term.
Henderson pleaded guilty on June 30, 2015 to one count of conspiring to distribute heroin He was one of 50 alleged members and associates of the Grape Street Crips were charged in criminal complaints that alleged drug-trafficking, physical assaults, and witness intimidation.
Henderson previously spent 12 years in prison on manslaughter, weapons and drug charges before being released in 2014.
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