A ruthless street gang that turned Queens into a war zone has been knocked out of commission -- allowing local neighborhoods to finally enjoy a Labor Day weekend free of gun violence, authorities said.
Numerous members of the notorious Floss Money Ballers crew, which lit up parts of Queens during a bloody year-long turf war, were nabbed last week following a joint investigation between the NYPD and the Queens District Attorneys Office, officials said Thursday.
"It was a very quiet weekend for violent crime in Southeast Queens," Queens DA Melinda Katz told reporters. "It is a direct correlation between the arrests and remand of these gang members and the streets of our city. With these arrests, we made the neighborhoods in Southeast Queens much safer."
The gang, an offshoot of the Money World crew taken down by cops in 2023, sparked a wave of violence in Laurelton, Queens Village, Springfield Gardens and Baisley Park for more than a year during a turf war with the rival Blitz Gang 4, authorities said.
Police said the gang was behind the "vast majority" of shootings in the area since early last year.
"This is a crew that used violence as currency," NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Thursday. "For more than a year they waged a campaign of retaliatory shootings across South Jamaica, targeting Blitz Gang 4 rivals, escalating petty beefs into gun battles."
According to prosecutors, the bloodiest exchange came on Sept. 27, when 18-year-old gang member Akim Cisse was gunned down while sitting in a Nissa Altima in a McDonald's parking lot on South Conduit Avenue, allegedly by members of the Blitz Gang 4.
The following day, a car full of Floss Money Ballers allegedly drove to a rival's home and riddled the house with bullets in retaliation, prosecutors said.
The gang also allegedly opened fire on a suspected rival while he was with his grandmother over Mother's Day weekend, and riddled the home of another suspected rival with bullets in April.
Investigators said they seized more than a dozen weapons while executing search warrants at the reputed gang members' homes over the course of the investigation, including a loaded .40-caliber Glock that was stashed in a couch cushion that one suspect threw out of his window.
Prosecutors said eight of the suspects were rounded up last week, while four were already behind bars, and are facing charges that include conspiracy, attempted murder and felony weapons possession.
The reputed gangbangers were identified as Larry "LB" Spencer, 20; Julio Frias, 21; Jamari "Mari B" Spaulding, 18; Kaleo "Kah" Davis, 26; Kevin "KG' Pettit-Dieu, 20; Jacob "Kap" Lam, 22; Malik "Speedy" Williams, 22; Jordan McFarlane, 22; Jackson Cross, 21; Tahnel "TB" Williams, 20; Kaimi "K Dot" Davis, 22; and Kevson "Kev Floxks" Hankey, 20, according to authorities.
"These gang takedowns, there's a clear correlation to decrease in violence," Mayor Eric Adams said of the arrests. "This is how we keep our city safe."