Federal verdict · Northern District of Ohio · Announced November 5, 2026
A federal jury in Cleveland convicted Raven Mullins, Malik Brooks and Jayon Florence after a three-week trial involving the Fully Blooded Felons, the Justice Department announced November 5. The department listed murder and kidnapping tied to racketeering, a racketeering conspiracy, drug trafficking and firearms offenses among the convictions in the trial.
The announcement describes the verdict across the three defendants. It does not give a count-by-count verdict sheet for each man. In a prosecution with several people and several episodes, that distinction matters. A list of offenses from the trial is not a substitute for the counts recorded against each defendant.
Why prosecutors described an organization
Prosecutors described an enterprise with a governing commission and rules enforced through punishment. They said Mullins oversaw that commission. They pointed to text messages and face-to-face instructions as ways the rules reached members. Their account ties the structure to decisions about the acts prosecuted at trial, rather than relying on the group’s name alone.
One episode involved the abduction and killing of a woman in July 2022. Prosecutors said all three defendants participated in holding her captive. The department also described a separate killing in September 2023, when a sheath recovered at the scene carried Mullins’ DNA, according to evidence described by the department. Those were separate incidents; the DNA evidence described in the second does not, by itself, establish what happened in the first.
The convictions and the sentences are separate
Several defendants in the broader investigation had already pleaded guilty. The November announcement concerns the three men tried before the jury. Prosecutors said they face maximum penalties of life in prison and that the court had not set a sentencing date when it issued the release. No sentence is being reported here. See the Courtroom archive for more coverage of verdicts and sentencing.
File photograph: U.S. Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, March 31, 2026. This is not the Cleveland courthouse or the scene of any offense. Photo: APK, CC BY 4.0. Original photograph · License. Re-encoded for display.
