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Who Really Told? Unraveling Staten Island's Street Allegations
From behind prison walls comes a raw, unfiltered conversation that peels back the layers of street allegations, betrayal, and the consequences of life choices. This gripping phone call shines light on the complex world of reputation in street culture, where accusations of "snitching" can follow someone for decades.
Our caller Enver Mehmeti, currently serving his 17th year of a 27-year federal sentence, finally breaks his silence about the rumors that have shadowed him throughout Staten Island. With remarkable detail, he recounts how two individuals—Gerald "Spree" Johnson and Morris "Power Just" Fuller—allegedly fabricated stories about his cooperation with authorities. The conversation walks through critical moments: a 2002 apartment raid where guns and drugs were discovered, recorded conversations meant to expose lies, and the strategic decisions that resulted in his lengthy sentence.
Beyond simply defending his name, the caller delivers a powerful, heartfelt message to young people who might be seduced by portrayals of street life in media. "Please don't live a life that I lived," he implores, detailing the real-world costs of his choices. His support for community anti-violence initiatives reveals a man grappling with his past while trying to prevent others from following the same path.
The most compelling moments come when he addresses why he's remained silent until now, citing threats of additional charges if he spoke out, and his surprisingly supportive comments about a local rapper who referenced the allegations against him in music.
Whether you're interested in street culture, criminal justice, or personal redemption, this conversation offers a rare window into a world few get to glimpse directly. Listen and decide for yourself where truth lies in these long-standing street allegations.
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Speaker 2:Hello, what's the word?
Speaker 3:Hello Elliot, how are you today?
Speaker 2:I'm good Talk to me.
Speaker 3:Well, first of all, I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity, and I'm proud of you and your show. You continue to do good work. You have a very good platform here and then you go forward with it. Also, I'd like to say before I begin don't condone anyone selling drugs or committing violence. I feel sorry for the stuff that I have done in the past and I don't want anybody to do it. If they do it, stop. There's other ways to get money, especially to you. Don't do it. Go to school, Create your own platform On the Internet now. There's many ways of getting money a legit way. That being said, I want to speak about a couple of guys that were saying false rumors about myself. First off, did my people send you them documents?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got everything.
Speaker 3:When I say something, I want to say something with the proofs. I don't want to sit here and just be shooting off the hit. Regarding this guy it's free. Daryl Johnson. Regarding this guy three. Daryl Johnson. This guy was a cousin of my baby mother, yasmia, my ex right.
Speaker 3:I found this guy one day on the road we were driving and he just I think they did something. They robbed some soup on him and some other guys that I'm not going to put their names out there. I'm not going to put other people's names out there, the only people that said something slick about me, because I want to clear all this up. Anyway, I picked this guy up and I took a liking to him. I was getting locked up for that robbery or whatever. I bailed him out $20,000. I heard he said his brothers or somebody bailed. That's a lie. I bailed him out $20,000. I heard he said his brothers or somebody bailed. That's a lie. I bailed this kid out, paid for his attorneys.
Speaker 3:I didn't know at the time that this guy was a real scumbag. Excuse my language right? I found out later on that he was a snitch. He told on some when he caught a first robbery case. He told the police that he didn't do it. It was some guy named Super Police didn't believe him or whatever, somebody named Super from Stapleton I don't know who that is. Anyway, he went to prison for some robberies and came out. I started taking a liking to him. I was giving him you know stuff to get on his feet because he had nothing. No money, no nothing. He didn't even have a phone. I heard he mentioned that when I had got shot by people, even if I knew who did it. I'm not going to say it. I don't know why he's going around telling people who shot me or anything like that. Why would you do that? You open up your mouth for no reason me anything like that.
Speaker 3:Why would you do that? That's you open up your mouth for no reason. Now this guy said that, um when, when the cops questioned him, they said I'm an informant, what kind of cop or police officer is going to sit there and say, oh yeah, he's a, he's an informant. That was total bullcrap I never called him on his phone.
Speaker 3:I never called him on his phone because he didn't have a phone. When I got shot, I didn't even know I was shot until I sped up the block and I don't know who did it Some masked guys, I don't know. I don't know what the reason's for and I don't care. I respect whatever happens happens. But when I drove up the block and proceeded to make a U-turn to go run, these guys over my leg gave out. I got hit in my leg and then I said, oh, I'm hit. So I drove to the hospital, got to the hospital, I told him yo, get out the car, take the car back over to the house and see what's going on. He went back over there. I didn't know anything would happen.
Speaker 3:He's completely lying, saying that the police called him. That was false. Police wound up at the house, took everybody to the precinct. I came out to the hospital later that night and went to the precinct because they was all in the precinct. I picked them all up and took them home. So that's false. There's things I want to discredit about him. Then he says that I told on him. This kid is a liar. This kid told on myself and Garland Tyree, who is known as SI. He was my best friend and my dear friend. He was my brother. May he rest in peace.
Speaker 2:What case did he tell on y'all when?
Speaker 3:They were on. I forget the date exactly. It was in June sometime when the cops kicked in.
Speaker 1:This call is from a federal prison.
Speaker 3:Kicked in an apartment that Yasmina and I had and me and I had in on 693 Henderson. It's that now this was in 2002. I had in on 693 Henderson in Staten Island. This was in 2002. Now Spree threw some a little bit of crack out the window when the cops came a couple bags, four or five bags.
Speaker 3:They raided the house. They found two big guns on the garland's bed and then in my room they found like 40 bags of coke and some crack in my room. Now we get arrested. Now me and Garland make no statements. That's SI. Me and SI make no statements, we just sit there.
Speaker 3:We're in the bullpen, this kid Spree. They pulled him out about four times. We're like why are they pulling you out for? He's like oh, they're asking me about some deuce mob stuff. Come to find out later on. It was not about. It was about some deuce mob stuff. But he was also lying to these people, said all kinds of crazy stuff.
Speaker 3:So then the next, the next day, we went to court and at court they like I don't know how they do this, but they knew everything. What happened? They charged him with like some little bit of drugs, nothing, not even a felony. I bailed him out, I think for $1,000. Or he might have even got an R, I can't remember. I bailed out the $10,000. That's why I bailed him out, like Monday. I think this happened on a Friday or a Thursday, I can't remember. I bailed him out on Monday because they want to know where the bail money came up with. I bailed him out for $20,000. My baby mother let her go. Ror. Arlene Thomas, who was in the house they let her go. Ror. And Latoya Jackson, who was Spree's girlfriend, was ROR. A couple months after this I mean a couple weeks after this we pull up looking for the spree. He was around us still after that we didn't know he was cooperating.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Until later on, and we didn't know the depth of what the stuff that he was saying until later on.
Speaker 3:Well we go looking for him. And we're looking for him over some kind of remarks he made towards Arlene that's SI's girlfriend, who I hooked them up together with. So we're looking for him for that. So one of his family members says, yo, they're coming looking for you, we're not coming to look for him for nothing, crazy. But I guess you know his guilt and that he was telling on us, was thinking that we're going to come tell on him and they're going to come get him because he told on us which wasn't true. So we finally we come back and we see him on fort richmond and let go speak a minute. So he goes into a store. We're going to say, yo, what's up, bro, why you ducking us? He's like oh man, now y'all crazy, y'all gonna try to do something to me. So he asked the guy in the store to give me some. Give him some razors. He bought you know the little gem star razors. So as I grabbed him from the, from his hand, what you doing with these? You're trying to cut me. You ain't going to cut me. What's wrong with you? You drunk or something? He starts running his mouth.
Speaker 3:One thing leads to another. My brother rest in peace, frankie, he was there also. We're outside now on Port Richmond Avenue my brother pulls SI away and was like come on, let's just leave this guy alone, he's drunk, we'll see him tomorrow. Somebody one of Spree's family members sees this and hits SI, blindsided him, didn't knock him down or none of that stuff. He hit him and then it was on. From this we got into it with Spree and some of his people or whatever, and it was on. We wound up cutting Spree in the face. So now, after the melee, we proceed to leave. We already did what we did and left as we're leaving. We went up on Harrison Avenue. We're leaving excuse me, not Harrison on Herberton.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Behind Port Richmond Avenue by the school. I don't know if it's PS 20, 21, whatever that school is right there, yeah, in the car leaking, and he's like and he looks at us and then all of a sudden they let us go Later. He said nah, I told them that wasn't you guys but I could've did that. We're like what you mean. You could've did that. Like why would you even think about doing something like that?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So you know it became. We talked to. Spree about that later was like yo, you instigated that whole thing for no reason, bro. We came over here for this and he was like okay, mother. So we started talking to him again Right Later on we get arrested that's I and myself.
Speaker 3:They're trying to give us a whole bunch of all kind of shootings and all kind of this and that selling all these drugs, which was a lie. We didn't know. Mr Gerald Johnson that's free was fabricating a bunch of stories on us and a bunch of other people, people that I'm not even going to mention. So we get locked up. I get locked up first, SI gets locked up a week or two after me and we're sitting in MDC.
Speaker 3:The feds come and say because we're not cooperating with the feds at all, we have nothing to do with them. But now we're in jail and we have all these charges that's about to be put on us on lies. They come up to me and say one day and I'm thinking it's a legal visit, I'm in court. They come in there. I'm like what are you doing here? They're like well, we want to speak with you. I said my lawyer's not here. They're like he's going to come down right now, but we don't want you. We want to know the truth about Mr Gerald Johnson, the lies that he's, the stuff that he's saying, because it was about some pretty influential people.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And I'm like, listen, that's bullcrap. They were like, listen, that's bullcrap. They were like, all right, but we want to know the truth about what you was doing. I said you give me full immunity. I'm going to tell you what I'm going to tell you. They said, okay, bet, my lawyer came down. We agreed I got full immunity. I copped out I don't know if you got the form, I mean the paper when I pled guilty. I pled out 20-something shootings right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've seen that.
Speaker 3:Nobody else got arrested but me. I mean, nobody got charged with that but myself. Now, that was a ploy which me and SI came up to. I told him what happened. He was like yo just go home and just take care of me. I'm going to take this one on the team. There's nothing you can do because the guns are found under my bed. I'm going down for that anyway, but all the other stuff you know.
Speaker 1:Just tell them that you alone this call is from a federal prison.
Speaker 3:Tell them that you and you alone did that. And I did that. I took the rap for everything and everybody. I even tried to take the rap for the guns for him later. Someone sent you that document as well. Do you have that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think so, yep.
Speaker 3:Okay, now SI scripted me what to say, told me everything what to say and later on they found that letter after his trial and everything. So I never ratted on him, or anybody for that matter except I did get Spree back for what he did to me and had him tell the truth. If you want to call that rat, you can call that whatever, but I'm no rat. If I was a rat, there'd be a whole bunch of people cases that I'd be on and I wasn't.
Speaker 2:So why do you think everybody calls you a rat?
Speaker 3:that I'd be on and I wasn't. So why do you think everybody calls you a rat? Because Mr Spree over there had fabricated a bunch of papers saying things about me. He said he got them from SI, which is false. The day he seen SI in court was, first of all, they have a separation, so they're not going to be together. They'll be on the bus and they'll be in different bullpens in the court. He's seen him at SI's trial because Spree was going to testify against SI on that day.
Speaker 3:So this guy made up a whole bunch of false paperwork and there was a recording of myself when I came home to clarify the lies that Spree was saying. I'm on recording with him on a conversation with him. I have him admit that things that he said were false. I have him not knowing it, but we're just talking about the things and that was the gist of any conversations I had with him. Only bad thing is one day Spree was in the car with me with his brother, cecil, who's a very excellent person and he can corroborate a lot of these things. I said Cecil happened to be in the car and he was about to do something to somebody. I told him no, don't do it.
Speaker 3:But I told him this because I knew it was being recorded, but it was recorded for the purpose of spree and spree alone. Now he put this whole propaganda out there, put all this stuff out there, and I couldn't say anything because me and SI had something going on. So if I said this stuff, it would come to light that him and I were lying and we're setting this whole thing up and to get us in trouble. This is going to hang up, but I will call you back in 30 minutes. Okay, all right cool.
Speaker 3:And I'm going to get into power just as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I really want to talk about.
Speaker 3:I got him I believe you have the paperwork on him when he was arrested on November 7th of 2009?.
Speaker 2:Yes, I do.
Speaker 3:Okay, I will get into that as well. I will call you in 30 minutes, all right, and pick up where we left off, because I might forget exactly where we left off, so remind me please when I call you back, all right.
Speaker 2:I got you All right.
Speaker 3:Thank you, Ellie.
Speaker 1:To accept this call. Press five To block this call. You may begin speaking now.
Speaker 2:Elliot, yeah, you was getting into power just.
Speaker 3:Okay, but right before I get into that, give me one second. You asked me about why people were saying these things about me. Mostly because of Gerald Johnson's spree, because there was a recording with me and him. Solely for the purpose of obtaining that, this kid, spree lied and made false statements on myself, on Mr Garland Tyree, which was SI, and numerous other people, a lot of influential people as well. Then you get this guy Power Judge, but real quick. So this kid put these recordings and the fake paperwork saying that I told on all these people. He told on a bunch of people. He told on all these people on his case. I had nothing to do with none of these people. None of these people purchased drugs off me and a lot of them. I'm not going to toot my horn, but I was on a way, different level than a lot of these guys and I'm not shooting no shots at anybody. If somebody comes and says something at me, I'm going to put them out there. It's bottom line.
Speaker 3:Now, whatever happened with Spree he's a chump, he's lied, he's made all this fake stuff up. He stated that Junie was a rat. That's not true. Was a rat? That's not true. Junie didn't rat on anybody. Spree actually ratted on Junie got him on his case. He's trying to say Arlene was a rat. That's not a lie. That was a very wonderful woman, stand-up woman. She was actually trying to take the case for SI and myself in the beginning until the feds knew what was going on from Spree.
Speaker 3:Now let's get to Power Just. Power Just also spread these lies because Power Just has been a rat. He was on Spree's case. Spree told and said that he purchased drugs off of him. Spree also told on a bunch of dudes from North Carolina and Power Just, I heard, told on a bunch of people from the Virginia area. I didn't know that until on this bid right here a couple dudes were saying oh, you know this Power Just guy. He told them Power just got arrested on November 7th or 9th, on the day that Big Dan Jermaine Dickerson was shot.
Speaker 3:I've already been incarcerated for a year almost on this charge but you know when you're arrested there's a bunch of people that on my indictment that are blacked out. So I don't know who some of these people are. I'm not saying Power Just was already cooperating, I don't know that. But I know from that day that he got arrested. He started singing to the police.
Speaker 3:I sent it to my people and they sent it to you documents saying when he was arrested on November 7th or 9th I'm not sure of the date he kept talking to the police and telling them that he sold drugs and bought drugs from people such as myself and other people. Do you have that document there? Yeah, I got it. Okay now. I only printed it out and sent to my people the gist of it and my people sent it to you and sent to my people the gist of it and my people sent it to you. But if you pull that up, you can pull the whole thing up from that case and that date. I believe that was like February 24th of 2022, which is how a justice's real name is Morris Fuller. Now he was on Spree's case back in the day. He lied he never got on a turnaround from state parole. That's not true. If you look at his his id number, it will coincide with some of the other people that were arrested on that case. Their numbers all close, close entwined together. He came home at 06.
Speaker 3:I gave him seven outfits, seven clothes with jackets, shoes, sneakers, all that, and I gave him seven outfits seven clothes, jackets, shoes, sneakers, all that and I gave him money so he could get himself right. Me and him was all right. We were pretty cool together. I liked this guy at the time I don't know for what reason, other than to discredit the writing that he was doing that he would go and say something about me. This man was arrested November 7th, pled guilty a year later.
Speaker 1:This call is from a federal prison.
Speaker 3:And then got sentenced a year after he pled guilty. There's no way possible that you could get sentenced a year after you pled guilty unless you went to trial. He didn't go to trial, he pled guilty. So either he was working with these people and they were going to use him on another case and just decided not to.
Speaker 3:Now he goes on and says that people were squeezing me for money, which is a lie. All right, nobody can, never. I was nothing to play with back in the day and I don't condone the way I was and I'm telling everybody they shouldn. And I don't condone the way I was and I'm telling everybody they shouldn't do those kind of things at all. But this guy made all these kind of statements about people. This guy has been a rat and he will continue to be a rat. He's not even on Staten Island, neither is Spree. Spree's hiding in Irvington, new Jersey. Howard Justice is hiding in Ocean County, maryland, ocean City, maryland. Excuse me, so that's the gist of it that I have to say about these guys. Any questions that you have for me?
Speaker 2:So are you denying the allegations that you told on anybody?
Speaker 3:Besides free, yes, and I only did that for free, to obtain the truth.
Speaker 3:Okay, and there's nobody that has me on their media trial or anything like that. On anybody they're lying. A lot of people would have been in prison if it was something like that. I was a good guy. I bailed a lot of people out of jail. Gave a lot of people would have been in prison if it was something like that. I was a good guy. I bailed a lot of people out of jail, gave a lot of people money and took care of a lot of people. People that are listening will tell you and they know this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so also Powell just mentioned. You know a lot of people were saying to stay away from you at a certain point because everybody heard you went sour. What do you have to say to that?
Speaker 3:Well, from what people heard with these allegations from Spreet, power Just and Big Dan and everybody knew they were lying. They knew the paperwork was false. Even SI sent out there and was saying, yo, this guy's lying Spree lied and said he was in the bullpen with SI. That would have never happened. I sent you the paperwork on me and SI, how all that was deployed, how he asked me to do this all individually, just like myself. When I got arrested, the guys that got arrested with me, I let them go home. I took all the weight. I got sentenced to 27 years. I've been in 17 years now. I took the weight so everybody can go home. So this is a lot of BS lies coming from this free guy and Power Just. If he felt that way, why did he continue to be around me and be up under me? I would love to know that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I would love to know that as well.
Speaker 3:As soon as he came home in 06, I set him out and I heard he mentioned like he had all these cars. He didn't have no car. He didn't have nothing. He sold my car. He had his money. Look on his appeal. When the Court of Appeals we appealed together, him and myself, for the First Step Act, he went pro se and then they gave him a lawyer. He has no money for lawyers. Tells people he's a rock boy and he's this and that. Bro, he was leasing a car back in the day, Didn't own it, Leasing it under his sister's name.
Speaker 3:Like come on Everything I had. I had a mansion in Jersey, two houses in Staten Island, a fleet of cars cab company, three different clothing stores, two pizzerias. I had everything my own paid for. My lawyer even tried to help his lawyer out because I was just lawyers, didn't know how to argue on the appeal and they denied him. I got granted my appeal and I'm waiting for a re-sentence now, any day.
Speaker 2:Re-sentence him for what?
Speaker 3:For the crack law for the 18 to 1, compared to the 100 to 1 crack.
Speaker 2:So if that goes through, for you what happens?
Speaker 3:I come home any day. Now they've been mentioning shootings in my case thanks to uh, I don't even I hate to even say, but this man passed away. But Mr Alafian Rodriguez, known as Laf, from the harbor, said I had a shootout with him and I was involved in all these kind of stuff. It's funny, right. Why am I the only one ever arrested for this stuff of stuff? It's funny, right. Why am I the only one ever arrested for this stuff? If he says he's never been arrested? Whoever was with him has never been arrested, or anything like that only myself.
Speaker 2:Was Lafayette Rodriguez a rat?
Speaker 3:Yes, he was. He was an informant for the NYPD and he was an informant had I went to trial on this federal case right here. The foreman had.
Speaker 2:I went to trial on this federal case right here and you're saying he told on you as well.
Speaker 3:Yes, he did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did hear that he went sour.
Speaker 3:He mentioned a shooting at a club. That happened. One of his people got shot at a club. Then he came with some other people and I'm not mentioning who them people are. I know who they are. None of them ever got arrested, only myself and he said that it was a shootout that occurred after that with me and him and you got arrested for that.
Speaker 3:Yes, I did. I can have my people send you the documents of that and other shootings. Some had nothing to do with me. That will show you. The shootings of those dates were part of my discovery. Yeah, Then he tried to lie and say it had something to do with his friend getting killed in a house fire. I had nothing to do with any of that kind of stuff, it was an electrical fire. And I'm still prosecutors still bring that up to this day on me.
Speaker 1:This call is from a federal prison.
Speaker 3:Also real quick. I would like to once again tell these young people out there please listen to this. Like the stuff that you see on TV about rappers and gangsters, like this stuff is false. I don't condone this and I don't want you to do this. This is really wrong. I actually have a guy with one of my co-defendants, ramon Vaughn, about a group organization called Occupy the Block to help young people to deter them from these kind of things, and I commend people like Malcolm Penn and their True to Life organization and I encourage people to go and donate to these places and spend time with these places, to spend time with the youth. The youth is important to get to. And also I want to say something.
Speaker 3:You know, I really got offended one day when I heard on a song. A guy named C Black mentioned me. I like the song, I really like the song and I think this guy has a wonderful talent and I feel he's a wonderful rapper and I would love to see him blow up. And he's from Staten Island, born and raised, and I would like to people and to other people go support this guy. And I reached out to this guy. I had my people talk to him and you know he was like I only rapped about it because I heard this and that's what people were saying and I said I fully understand. And I explained to him how I like this song and I like other songs that he's done and I'm proud of this guy. So people listen to his stuff and he told me that you know. He would say you know, if I see it written down, I will give you an apology. I don't care about an apology, I know what I did in there, but I didn't do it and did you clear that up with him?
Speaker 2:Yes, we did, and where did y'all leave off? Did he say he's going to issue that apology?
Speaker 3:I mean, if he does, he does. You know, I feel he's a good person and I feel he has a wonderful career and I would love to see him further his career and he sounded like a very intelligent young man. I've never met him before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know C-Black personally. That's my man. He's a good guy. Yes, I believe he is. This interview is about to be cut short because your time is about to run out. So, before it ends, do you have anything you want to say to the people, any message you want to deliver to clear your name or get anything off your chest?
Speaker 3:Yes, I've sent paperwork. I've had sent paperwork to Mr Elia Cotto over here and you can see that all this stuff was lies. I didn't come out with this stuff in the past because the feds were threatening me because of the ongoing cases that Mr Spree had going on saying that if I would indulge this that they would charge me with tampering with witnesses and messing up their cases. So at the end of the day I never told on anybody. If they told that they're full of crap and that said anything else you want to say.
Speaker 2:Not right now, but if there's anything else that I'll need to clear up, you know, because once I put the interview out, a lot of people are going to have some questions, so we'll probably have to circle back.
Speaker 3:No problem, I don't have a problem with that, Elliot, and I thank you, and you know how to get in touch with me through my peoples anytime you want. Also, I really emphasize on the people that, especially these young people. Man, please don't live a life that I lived. It's not good, it's not cool. It's not cool. You wind up in here with all this time. You could lose your families, you could lose your loved ones, your girls, whatever. Please go on the right path and if anybody needs any help and me talking to them about it, I feel free to reach out to me. I will try to help you any way I can, and all I wanted to do was clear my name. I let it go on for so long because of the threats of being arrested and stuff like that, but it gets too much to you sometimes. So with that I'll end this and, Elliot, thank you. Feel free to reach out to me anytime and thank you for this opportunity.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:And I respect and commend your platform and your podcast.
Speaker 2:I appreciate that.
Speaker 3:All right, thank you very much. Have a your podcast. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2:All right, thank you very much. Have a nice night, yes, sir.
