A Newark mother and aunt of a 14-year-old who killed a New Jersey police officer last month have been arrested and charged with running a drug syndicate, authorities say.
“Illegal drug trafficking continues to impact the lives of New Jerseyans, and gangs like the one described in today’s criminal complaints seek to profit from the sale of these potentially fatal drugs. This particular drug enterprise is charged with routinely engaging in violence for the sake of intimidating others, maintaining gang discipline, and controlling their territory. We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to protect our cities and towns from these criminal organizations,” said Attorney General Matthew Platkin, reported the New Jersey State Department of Law and Public Safety.
On March 24, the New Jersey Police Department arrested 43-year-old Rabiyah Sorey, the mother of the teen, and her twin sister, Hadiyah Sorey, who runs the Double II, a.k.a. Queen Street Blood Gang, a street gang affiliated with the notorious Bloods Street gang.
The arrests came two weeks after Sorey’s 14-year-old son fatally shot Detective Joseph Azcona on March 7. According to the New York Post, authorities claim the twin sisters ran an open-air drug market at the 200 Block of North 9th Street, near Branch Brook Park. Furthermore, investigators arrested 24 other gang members who helped facilitate the distribution of the heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl that the gang sold, while carrying out violence upon anyone who crossed Rabiyah the wrong way.
Officers raided Sorey’s home, which was reportedly used for the production of the drugs. There, they found $17,000 in cash and other apparatus used for the drug trade, including digital scales.
Sorey is currently charged with first-degree racketeering, conspiracy, weapons offenses, assaults, and other drug offenses.
Before Hadiyah Sorey’s arrest, she boasted to the Post about making $4,000 a day from the lucrative drug trade.
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