Baltimore gang member sentenced to 28 years in federal prison Tuesday
A gang member from Baltimore was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison Tuesday.
Wayne Prince, 24 and a member of the Black Guerrilla Family since 2018, pleaded guilty in January to one count of racketeering conspiracy for his participation in the organization in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Prince, also known as Taz according to court documents, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar.
According to court documents, Prince admitted on recorded jail calls to conspiring to collect money for an attempted murder. In August 2018, Prince and two co-conspirators attempted to murder Ryan Brunson and instead murdered a construction worker at his home in Northeast Baltimore on the 4500 block of Woodlea Avenue in the Frankford neighborhood, according to a sentencing memorandum. The murder weapon and Prince’s cellphone were recovered from the same vehicle about a week later.
Brunson was later killed March 18, 2019, in the 800 block of Appleton Street in the Midtown-Edison neighborhood, according to The Baltimore Sun’s homicide tracker.
According to a news release from the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Black Guerrilla Family is a nationwide gang that began operating in prisons and is now involved in criminal activity such as murder, murder-for-hire, robbery, extortion, drug trafficking, obstruction of justice and witness intimidation.