The Arrest x Federal Indictment Of Ra Diggs = The Tweets Is Watching!

"Rapper Ronald 'Ra Diggs' Herron who bragged about violence on Twitter, YouTube is drug kingpin: feds

By John Marzulli
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, October 6th 2010, 3:15 PM

A rapper who boasted on Twitter about beating a murder rap is a violent drug kingpin who flooded Brooklyn's Gowanus Houses with crack and heroin, the feds said Wednesday.

Ronald (Ra Diggs) Herron, charged with eight others in a federal indictment, provided prosecutors with a wealth of incriminating evidence in his YouTube videos and in his Twitter musings.

He tweeted that he has "5000 n----- with them lorcins [handguns] ready to turn the pigs kids into orphins," federal court papers reveal.

The videos depict the ex-con wearing body armor and brazenly firing guns at a target range.

In them, he boasts he ordered a shooting from his hospital bed and "beat a body" - a reference to his 2002 murder acquittal after two witnesses were threatened and refused to testify against him.

Herron warned against people "snitching" and mentioned a murder in the Gowanus Houses housing project of a victim who reportedly helped authorities, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Shreve Ariail and Carter Burwell said.

The prosecutors said Herron was wounded by a rival drug dealer in 1998 and the gunman was killed two days later by Herron's cousin.

Herron, 28, was arrested by NYPD detectives early Tuesday outside Club Amnesia in Chelsea. He was arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court and ordered held without bail.

A loaded 9-mm. handgun was found in the glove box of the Dodge Charger that Herron was riding in, authorities said.

"That s--- ain't mine and you ain't gonna find my prints on it," the driver, Algenis Caraballo, said after taking cops on a brief chase along W. 29th St.

Herron's crew had been linked to four killings but none is charged in the three-count indictment.

Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said the crew "victimized an entire housing development."

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CHRIS LIVE AKA SHAKER SAYS: With specific regard to the arrest and federal indictment of up and coming Brooklyn, NY rapper Ronald "Ra Diggs" Herron et. al., I will refrain from issuing any official Livestyle commentary concerning these alleged crimes until such time that I have more than mere government hearsay to back my story. I will, however, take this time to, once again, implore all of Y.O.U. to respect the unique power of the internet.

With a few misguided keystrokes and the pressing of an "Enter" key, a fleeting thought, indeed, a temporary and careless impulse can forever be etched in stone - impervious to any sober minded "Delete" action invoked in hindsight. We are well past the point of no "Return" button. Nobody is safe. Stop playing.

Message To Ra Diggs: Hold ya head homie. GOD bless.