Reward offered for Crips gang members’ arrest

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is offering a $ 5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of two men under federal indictment accusing them of being members of a local Crips gang.

Thomas Seals, 24, and Eric Henderson Jr., 19, were indicted last month, along with 17 other members of a local Crips gang, in a racketeering conspiracy involving five homicides and multiple attempted homicides, as well as other violent crime and drug trafficking.

Seals and Henderson are the only two members who have not been taken into custody.

Seals goes by the street name “Bhomo” and is believed to travel frequently between California, Las Vegas and the Columbus area.

Henderson goes by the street names “Little Go” and “Little E” and is believed to be in the Columbus area.

The men are associates of the Trevitt and Atcheson Crips gang, also known as the T and A gang.

The gang is accused of being involved in the sale of multiple types of drugs and using the proceeds to buy more drugs and Henderson Seals

guns; the guns were then used to fight in “gang wars.” Gang members even smuggled drugs into Ohio’s prison system, the federal indictment states.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said during a news conference announcing the indictment that members of the gang who were in prison for other crimes were still able to orchestrate actions.

Gang members produced music to “boast of the gang’s existence, communicate their violent methods and threaten non- members and rival gang members,” according to a release from the U. S. Department of Justice.

Anyone with information about the whereabouts of these two men is asked to call the ATF at 1- 800- ATFGUNS or the United States Marshals Service at 614- 469- 5540.

Information also can be submitted online at www. atf. gov/ contact/ atftips and anonymously through the ReportIt app.