Place-based index for the federal Cash Money Brothers case and related Bedford-Stuyvesant narcotics violence.
This page indexes a specific crime-history cluster associated with the Lafayette Gardens Houses. It should not be read as a general characterization of the residential community or its residents.
Federal prosecutors identified Lafayette Gardens as the principal territorial base of the Cash Money Brothers. The government alleged that CMB controlled narcotics trafficking there for more than ten years and used apartments within the development to cook, store, and package crack cocaine.
The most important documented conflict involved CMB and rival dealer Ivery “Peanut” Davis. The 1999 killing of Myron Hardy during a turf dispute triggered a retaliation cycle that extended through Brooklyn and into Manhattan.