New York Daily News

Gang? Bang! 15 face drug raps

- Andrew Keshner

MORE THAN a dozen dope-dealing Brooklyn gangbanger­s are about to learn who’s really the boss.

Manhattan federal prosecutor­s announced a sprawling indictment Wednesday against 15 members of the “Boss Crew,” an armed gang they said sold crack cocaine and heroin in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

The operation stretched back at least to 2015, according to court papers.

The takedown charged everyone from the Boss Crew’s alleged head, Tyshawn Burgess, 24, to its street-level distributo­rs.

Burgess and several other defendants face charges carrying up to lifetime imprisonme­nt if convicted.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said the men “were allegedly members of a street gang that terrorized a Brooklyn neighborho­od.”

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