The FBI has arrested two New York gangsters for the armed robbery of an illegal gambling den in the Queens neighborhood of Flushing in 2023.
conspiracy to commit robbery, weapons possession, and discharging a firearm”
Local media firm Queens Post revealed earlier this week that the FBI arrested Jamel Berry of Astoria and Chinese national Zhong Wang. A federal grand jury in Brooklyn indicted the pair on charges of “conspiracy to commit robbery, weapons possession, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.”
Court documents state that on July 19, 2023, Wang allegedly cut the Flushing gambling den’s power in a premeditated move just before midnight. Berry and two accomplices, who the feds are still searching for, entered by force into the property minutes later.
Berry and the two men allegedly beat one person with a metal pipe, brandished a firearm, and pocketed around $3,000 in cash. Upon fleeing the scene, the robbers shot a man in the stomach. The victim survived his wounds after medical personnel transported him for treatment to the New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital.
The federal judge presiding in the case ordered Wang into custody because he posed a flight risk and placed Berry under home detention.
Despite pleading not guilty to their charges, the two men face a mandatory sentence of ten years in prison if convicted.