Monroe gang member sentenced on drug trafficking, gun charges

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Deshaun Lipscomb, 26, of Monroe County, to 120 months’ imprisonment for drug and firearms crimes.

According to United States Attorney David J. Freed, Lipscomb pleaded guilty in December 2017 to distribution and possession with intent to distribute over 100 grams of heroin (which is equivalent to approximately 4,000 individual doses), along with quantities of cocaine and marijuana, between January 2016 and February 2017.

Lipscomb also plead guilty to possession of a 9 mm handgun in furtherance of drug trafficking.

Lipscomb is a member of the Brick City Brims, a set of the Bloods criminal street gang.

In May, Judge Mannion sentenced Lipscomb’s co-defendant and fellow gang member, Pablo Martinez, to 150 months’ imprisonment for the robbery and shooting of a drug dealer in Stroudsburg.

Martinez admitted to shooting the victim twice and pushing him from a pickup, all at high speed. A third co-defendant, Orrett Campbell, fired several rounds from a .40-caliber handgun at the pickup while giving chase.

Judge Mannion sentenced Campbell to 96 months’ imprisonment in July.

The case was investigated by the FBI and the Pennsylvania State Police and was being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean A. Camoni.

This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and make neighborhoods safer.