13 indicted on charges related to gang activity

A grand jury indicted 13 people on gang charges — including charges related to the June 2017 killing of bartender Sebastian Dvorak in Canton — following a yearlong investigation into a Bloods gang in East Baltimore, prosecutors said Monday.

Dvorak's parents stood by a poster-size photo of their son — his mother wiping away tears — as Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced the indictments at a press conference in Baltimore.

Addressing reporters, David Dvorak thanked investigators and said his son was likely looking down from above saying: “It's about time.”

The investigation into the “500” or “500 L” gang by the state attorney general's Organized Crime Unit, the Baltimore Police Department and the FBI involved wiretaps and undercover purchases of drugs and guns — including heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, oxycodone, marijuana, synthetic drugs and a sawed-off shotgun, prosecutors said.

The group, which involved both sworn members of the Bloods gang and nonmembers, had operated since 2014 primarily in the 500 block of N. Rose Street in the McElderry Park neighborhood, several blocks east of Johns Hopkins Hospital, prosecutors said.

Malik Mungo, 18, of the 1500 block of Lochwood Road in Northeast Baltimore, faces more than a dozen criminal charges, including first- and second-degree murder in the killing of Dvorak in the 2500 block of Boston St., on the night of Dvorak's 27th birthday.

Prosecutors said Dvorak, a bartender at several Ryleigh's Oyster locations, including in Mount Vernon and Hunt Valley, was robbed and shot by Mungo and an associate while Dvorak was walking home after celebrating his birthday.

Frosh said the gun Mungo used was purchased by Robert Lewis, a higher ranking member of the gang. After the murder, Frosh said, other gang members suggested ways Mungo could evade investigators and disposed of the gun for him.