
5-9 Brims street gang member sentenced to life in prison

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — IN BROOKLYN FEDERAL COURT on Tuesday, Marvin “Mukk” Pippins, a member of the 5-9 Brims Bloods gang, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Pamela K. Chen to life imprisonment for murdering a rival gang member in 2015 by shooting at him six times. Following a three-week trial in April 2023, Pippins was convicted by a federal jury of racketeering conspiracy, murder conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, drug conspiracy and related firearms charges.
Pippins was also sentenced Tuesday to a concurrent term of 30 years for racketeering conspiracy and to a consecutive term of five years in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, among other things.
As reported in a Brooklyn Eagle article from April 2023, Pippins admitted to the shooting but said that it was not a gang-related killing. Pippins claimed that the victim, Sean Peart, had murdered his brother and that he was seeking to avenge his brother’s death. Peart, while an alleged member of the rival Real Ryte gang, was found to have been in California at the time of Pippins’ brother’s killing. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s office, Pippins bragged about the crime afterwards, to friends and in detailed rap lyrics describing Peart’s death.
“Marvin Pippins will deservedly spend the rest of his life in prison for this cold-blooded murder, undertaken in service of a years-long gang war,” stated Acting U.S. Attorney Carolyn Pokorny on Tuesday. “Pippins committed predatory and deadly crimes on behalf of a violent street gang that, for years, polluted the streets with drugs, preyed on unsuspecting victims of financial fraud and subjected rivals and innocent civilians alike to acts of violence.”
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