![]() Layne and Owes - who authorities said no longer attends Deerfield - were in the thick of the drugs and violence, according to the conspiracy and weapons charges against them. Layne was one of 14 alleged gang members arraigned in the 137th Street gang takedown yesterday - many of them directly by Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance, who also presented the case himself before a grand jury.Īnother of those busted was Layne’s boarding-school-beauty girlfriend, Afrika Owes, who was only 16 and a student at the prestigious Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts when Layne allegedly used her to deliver guns among his soldiers. ” ‘Cause they’ll all come see you, boom, boom, boom, ’cause that’s the morning. ![]() “You’ll catch all the morning flow,” Layne allegedly told his man on 137th Street, where the gang’s army of teen crack dealers allegedly commandeered apartment stoops and lobbies in the shadow of some of Harlem’s most famous churches. Just sit in front of the stoop in the morning. “The morning, the morning, from like the morning. “You gotta be out there in the morning,” Layne allegedly hectored. The first - meaning the first of the month - is a good time to “hug the block” because that’s when crack addicts cash their public assistance checks, advised Layne, 20, who prosecutors say continued to run his crack business while in Rikers on armed-robbery charges. ![]() “Hug the block on the first,” accused gang leader Jaquan Layne, a k a “Jay Cash,” allegedly counseled a less-than-motivated dealer minion over the lockup’s pay phone a year ago. Authorities say a motor-mouthed gang banger gave them an incriminating earful over the monitored phone lines at Rikers, including delivering a crack-dealer motivational speech that’s as savvy as the sales-force pep talks at any Amway convention. ![]()
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