LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT
NARCOTICS INVESTIGATIONS
Delroy Wilcox and Associates OrganizationJuly 26, 2010
Los Angeles Police Department
In association with the Drug Enforcement Administration, the LAPD Narcotics Major Enforcement Section has initiated an investigation targeting Delroy Wilcox and his associates as members of a recent drug trafficking network throughout Los Angeles County. Through the testimony of confidential informants, Wilcox has been identified as the leader of a major narcotics operation that has had a major impact on current drug sales in the region. Recent buy-bust and raid operations have proved futile at convicting higher-ranking members of the organization due to the complex organizational hierarchies that govern the syndicate. A sense of comradery and unwillingness to cooperate with the authorities shared by the group possibly stemmed from Wilcox and associates Sharif Reynolds and Muhammad "Big Moe" French being under Nelson Emmonds' leadership.* This has led investigators to the belief that this is a more tightly-knit group than other cocaine trafficking entities composed of independent dealers who are willing to cooperate in the name of profit.
*The following excerpt from Washington authorities explains:
- Nelson Emmonds and Associates Organization
December 18, 2006
Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, DC
The group’s structure has been compared to the likes of Young Boys, Inc. and the Chambers Brothers Organization, drug cartels that came to their pre-eminence during the early stages of the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic. In the organizational chart released by the LAPD in June 2006, Nelson Emmonds, 46, was identified as the organization’s leader while Cameron Grigsby, 31, and Muhammed "Big Moe" French, 25, were mentioned as lieutenants. Emmonds' nephew, Grigsby is regarded as second-in-command, the organization's main drug distributor and hitman.
Little is known about Emmonds, besides the insubstantial information submitted by Steven St. Hugh during the 2006 crackdown. George Anastasia (with the Philadelphia Inquirer)—an expert on Philadelphia’s own Junior Black Mafia and an avid follower of the Emmonds Organization investigations—theorizes that both French and Grigsby, along with Emmonds in the organization's early years, found their start under Washington, DC-based drug kingpin Marvin “the Martian” Randall, an associate of Rayful Edmond III’s:
“The summer of ’01 saw a string of drug-related killings in and around the Sursum Corda housing cooperative and Temple Courts bordering North Capitol Street. It was thought to be the culmination of tensions between Marvin Randall and Escolástico “Mantequilla” Castañeda’s crews. Six Salvadoran-American males, ranging between the ages of 18 and 24, were killed—five of which were identified as members of Mantequilla’s crew.”
Anastasia goes on to point Grigsby and French out as key suspects in the investigation of two of the murders. “Charges were never filed,” concludes Anastasia, “due to insufficient evidence and the withdrawal of several key witnesses.”
Although not targeted in the September 2006 indictments, Emmonds was subject to a separate assets investigation. Several addresses in the Greater Los Angeles area were raided by the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department on 11/09/06 to no avail. Suspicions of All Cap One Records and Real Deal Autos serving as money laundering fronts for the organization were dismayed. Four All Cap One Records employees were, however, arrested for possession of unlicensed firearms and class B drugs, all of who denied knowing Emmonds.
The investigation's main target, Delroy Wilcox, 30, of 6882 Westmont, Normandie Ave., Apt. #22, Los Angeles has been identified as the leader of the drug ring. While Wilcox's crime sheet (including illegal firearm possession and breaking and entering) is short, he is nevertheless alleged to be a conspirator of murder, cocaine wholesaling, heroin wholesaling, illegal sale of prescription pills, money laundering, robbery and extortion. It is believed that upon Emmonds' arrest in the summer of 2008 Wilcox assumed leadership of the Emmonds Organization with the use of Emmonds' previous supply who, according to a protected informant close to Emmonds who assisted police in his 2008 arrest, is allegedly a Utah or Arizona connect listed as Mario and/or a Henderson, Nevada resident listed as Corey.
An LAPD probe into the sale of counterfeit clothing and accessories in the city of Calabasas, involving "knock-off" and copyright theft of Adidas, Dolce and Gabana, Ecko Unlimited, Coogi, Nike, Hugo Boss and Calvin Klein clothing and accessories, lead to the arrest of Alexis Afrokeyshia Alicia Abernathy-Reynolds, common-law wife to Sharif Reynolds. Upon Abernathy-Reynolds' 5/13/10 arrest, she became a cooperating, protected witness to the pending investigation of the Wilcox Organization to avoid charges.
On 9/12/10, Alexis Abernathy-Reynolds, who was at the time a resident of the Bahama Apartments in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles was, according to a forensic investigation report, thrown through her third-floor apartment window. The EMS report filled out by medics who arrived on scene reported Abernathy-Reynolds dead on arrival and listed the cause of death as blunt trauma to the skull as a result of the fall. Homicide investigators, cooperating with investigators from the Gang and Narcotics Division, named Sharif Reynolds as the main (and only) suspect. Information provided by Abernathy-Reynolds before her death consisting of Sharif Reynolds' narcotics clientele within the downtown Los Angeles and Hollywood club scene turned out to be inconclusive. Sharif Reynolds' supposed address has been empty since the day of Alexis' murder. It is unknown if Abernathy-Reynolds' status as a protected informant was leaked and subsequently lead to her death.
Reynolds is also listed as a suspect in the murders of Hollywood nightclub owner, Jorge Villalobos, 34; a Louisville, KY street-level drug trafficker, Jamiel Price, 23; and Barbara Jones, 45, mother of Stephen "Jonesy" Jones who turned state's witness to avoid felony charges pending a wiretap investigation on a Denver, CO heroin and cocaine trafficking network connected to above-street-level members of various Bloods satellite street-gangs in Colorado.
Included in the "muscle" portion of the operation are several career criminals and drug dealers who are speculated to answer to Nathaniel "Young Ogre" Lewis, who was recently released from Twin Towers Correctional Facility on 7/16/2009 after serving eight months for a possession of an unregistered firearm charge. Accounting for the rest of the crew are soldiers such as Sylvester Garcia, a Puerto Rican immigrant who was arrested during a raid on a marijuana grow operation in San Antonio, TX and Mark Ferguson, who has spent over 10 years in jail throughout his life for various gun sales charges.
Detectives and agents assigned to the case conclude that the syndicate controlled by Delroy Wilcox is a well-organized drug-trafficking group whose influence has heavily impacted the California drug trade. The organization's complex structure makes investigations difficult but its take-down is necessary to improve quality of life and decrease crime. Already, the organization is known as the official narcotics supplier of a large portion of street gangs in South Los Angeles, Hollywood and Long Beach, although its body count and overall level of violence remains relatively low. It is unknown how the group so quickly and easily rose to prominence but it is essential the group is incapacitated in order to strike a direct blow against organized crime.
Inset: A shipment of drugs, money, and guns seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in El Paso, Texas, suspected have been being shipped to Wilcox by Ignacio Castillo-Reyes, who holds connections to the Arizona Mexican Mafia. Castillo-Reyes was held in contempt of court for 271 days in a maximum security facility outside of Houston before his deportation to Mexico.
Inset: $300,000 and seven prepaid cellphones seized by the LAPD from a private residence in one of five 11/09/06 raids authorized by indictments unsealed the previous day pertainting to the ongoing Emmonds Organization investigation. Lorraine Anderson and Muhammad "Big Moe" French, close associate to Wilcox, Reynolds and Nathaniel "Young Ogre" Lewis were arrested. No charges were laid.
