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City pays $12.5G over NYPD search of killer's sons' townhouse
Two son of the infamous St. John’s Pentecostal Church of Our Lord leader Devernon (Bishop) LeGrand were among nine arrested when detectives raided their Crown Heights building in 2011. Charges against the pair were later dismissed.
By John Marzulli / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Devernon (Bishop) LeGrand was convicted of beating his ex-wife and two teenage girls to death and dismembering them. He died in prison in 2006.
The city has settled a lawsuit filed by two members of a notorious Brooklyn clan who claimed the NYPD illegally searched their Brooklyn townhouse, where the family patriarch was convicted of dismembering three women in the 1970s.
Two family members, Lagarthucin and Shavaston LeGrand, were among nine people arrested in the ramshackle four-story building on Brooklyn Ave. in Crown Heights on drug and weapons charges when detectives raided the place on Sept. 15, 2011.
Criminal charges against Lagarthucin, 40, and Shavaston, 56, were dismissed and the cases sealed, authorities said. The city Law Department paid $12,500 to end the civil suit, according to papers filed Monday in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Jesse Ward/for New York Daily News
A 2011 NYPD raid of the house where LeGrand killed the women led to a civil suit against the city.
Cops recovered an imitation pistol, a loaded rifle and marijuana during the search, according to a spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.
Aaron LeGrand, 44, pleaded guilty to an administrative code violation for an illegal weapon, and Sabaston LeGrand, 55, pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a controlled substance, the spokesman said. Details of the other arrests were sealed.
“They kicked down all the doors and pulled guns on my grandkids,” said a man at the house who told the Daily News he was a member of the LeGrand family.
“The bottom line is the police had no right coming in. They said we had drugs in the house and they didn’t find nothing. Simply because a lot of kids from the neighborhood come here. We don’t turn anybody away. We feed them.”
LeGrand's St. John’s Pentecostal Church of Our Lord sent women dressed in nuns’ garb to seek donations on the streets and in subways.
“Every few years you people come looking for f---ing s--- that doesn’t exist anymore!” he said.
The flamboyant Devernon LeGrand died in prison in 2006. He was a self-proclaimed bishop of the St. John’s Pentecostal Church of Our Lord, headquartered in the building, which deployed women dressed in nuns’ garb to panhandle on the streets and in subways.
The well-attired, Cadillac owning LeGrand insisted the donations went to orphans.
LeGrand drove a Cadillac, wore silk suits and had an expensive toupee, but insisted the donations went to orphans.
There were even darker secrets in the bowels of the church
Even after LeGrand's conviction,the Brooklyn Ave. building continued as the base for the so-called church.
While serving time with his son for raping a young woman, Devernon was convicted in 1977 of beating to death and dismembering his former wife Ernestine Timmons and two teenage sisters in the house of horrors. The sisters’ charred body parts were recovered in a pond near LeGrand’s 58-acre Catskills farm.
Devernon fathered at least 67 children, and the Brooklyn Ave. building continued to function as the base for so-called church under several different names in the ensuing years.
The plaintiffs’ lawyer, Michael Hueston, declined to comment on his clients’ ties to Devernon, but said the location’s grisly history had nothing to do with the raid.
“It never came up,” Hueston said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ons-townhouse-article-1.1563931#ixzz2pJDGYnmL
City pays $12.5G over NYPD search of killer's sons' townhouse
Two son of the infamous St. John’s Pentecostal Church of Our Lord leader Devernon (Bishop) LeGrand were among nine arrested when detectives raided their Crown Heights building in 2011. Charges against the pair were later dismissed.
By John Marzulli / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Devernon (Bishop) LeGrand was convicted of beating his ex-wife and two teenage girls to death and dismembering them. He died in prison in 2006.
The city has settled a lawsuit filed by two members of a notorious Brooklyn clan who claimed the NYPD illegally searched their Brooklyn townhouse, where the family patriarch was convicted of dismembering three women in the 1970s.
Two family members, Lagarthucin and Shavaston LeGrand, were among nine people arrested in the ramshackle four-story building on Brooklyn Ave. in Crown Heights on drug and weapons charges when detectives raided the place on Sept. 15, 2011.
Criminal charges against Lagarthucin, 40, and Shavaston, 56, were dismissed and the cases sealed, authorities said. The city Law Department paid $12,500 to end the civil suit, according to papers filed Monday in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Jesse Ward/for New York Daily News
A 2011 NYPD raid of the house where LeGrand killed the women led to a civil suit against the city.
Cops recovered an imitation pistol, a loaded rifle and marijuana during the search, according to a spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.
Aaron LeGrand, 44, pleaded guilty to an administrative code violation for an illegal weapon, and Sabaston LeGrand, 55, pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a controlled substance, the spokesman said. Details of the other arrests were sealed.
“They kicked down all the doors and pulled guns on my grandkids,” said a man at the house who told the Daily News he was a member of the LeGrand family.
“The bottom line is the police had no right coming in. They said we had drugs in the house and they didn’t find nothing. Simply because a lot of kids from the neighborhood come here. We don’t turn anybody away. We feed them.”
LeGrand's St. John’s Pentecostal Church of Our Lord sent women dressed in nuns’ garb to seek donations on the streets and in subways.
“Every few years you people come looking for f---ing s--- that doesn’t exist anymore!” he said.
The flamboyant Devernon LeGrand died in prison in 2006. He was a self-proclaimed bishop of the St. John’s Pentecostal Church of Our Lord, headquartered in the building, which deployed women dressed in nuns’ garb to panhandle on the streets and in subways.
The well-attired, Cadillac owning LeGrand insisted the donations went to orphans.
LeGrand drove a Cadillac, wore silk suits and had an expensive toupee, but insisted the donations went to orphans.
There were even darker secrets in the bowels of the church
Even after LeGrand's conviction,the Brooklyn Ave. building continued as the base for the so-called church.
While serving time with his son for raping a young woman, Devernon was convicted in 1977 of beating to death and dismembering his former wife Ernestine Timmons and two teenage sisters in the house of horrors. The sisters’ charred body parts were recovered in a pond near LeGrand’s 58-acre Catskills farm.
Devernon fathered at least 67 children, and the Brooklyn Ave. building continued to function as the base for so-called church under several different names in the ensuing years.
The plaintiffs’ lawyer, Michael Hueston, declined to comment on his clients’ ties to Devernon, but said the location’s grisly history had nothing to do with the raid.
“It never came up,” Hueston said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ons-townhouse-article-1.1563931#ixzz2pJDGYnmL
