Posted on March 31, 2022

Gangbanger Who Got Light Sentence After Crippling NYPD Detective Is Busted After Yet Another Car Chase

John Annese, New York Daily News, March 29, 2022

A gangbanger who got a light sentence for dragging and crippling an NYPD detective in 2017 has been busted for again leading cops on a chase in a stolen car, police sources said.

Justin Murrell, 20 — who was free on bail after a May 2021 car chase in Brooklyn — led Port Authority cops on yet another chase in a stolen vehicle at John F. Kennedy Airport on Feb. 16 {snip}

Justin Murrell

Justin Murrell

Port Authority police found the stolen car a few days later, linked Murrell to it through surveillance video, and tied him to a string of car thefts at LaGuardia and Kennedy airports. {snip}

He’s already been released on his own recognizance, court records show, after he was charged with criminal possession of stolen property and other offenses.

The JFK car chase and the May 2021 case are strikingly similar to the fateful 2017 pursuit that forever changed Detective Dalsh Veve’s life {snip}

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Veve was responding to a shots-fired call when he questioned Murrell {snip}

Murrell, then 15 years old, hit the gas, reaching up to 60 mph as he dragged Veve for two blocks.

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He faced a maximum sentence of 3⅓ to 10 years on that charge; Judge Ruth Shillingford gave him 1⅓ to four years at a juvenile detention center. {snip}

Murrell, a reputed member of the G-Stone Crips, went free on parole in March 2020, and finished his parole last June.

Before that, however, he was busted on May 23, 2021, after causing a dramatic crash in a stolen car in Brooklyn.

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