BELLPORT MAN WITH GUN FLEES POLICE AND IS AIDED BY OPTIMUM CABLE CONTRACTOR TO ESCAPE IN CABLE VAN

(SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y.) – Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney today announced the indictment of Borndivine Intelligence Jackson, who is accused of illegally possessing a loaded firearm, and Danyel Anderson, a former Optimum Cable repair contractor who aided Jackson’s escape from police in his company van.

“Mr. Jackson endangered himself, police and his community through his alleged actions of carrying a loaded, unlicensed handgun, and discarding it in a public place where it could have been picked up by anyone, as he attempted to avoid arrest by the police,” said District Attorney Tierney. “Mr. Anderson’s alleged unsolicited decision to aid and abet an armed criminal mid-flight from police, likewise endangered the community. Neither action will be tolerated by Suffolk County law enforcement.”

According to the investigation, on June 22, 2022, members of the Suffolk County Police Department were searching for a suspect in an unrelated shooting investigation when they encountered Jackson, 26, in possession of a loaded firearm in a deli parking lot on Neighborhood Road in Shirley. Jackson fled from police on foot, throwing the firearm into a wooded area as he ran into a nearby residential neighborhood.

While Jackson was running from police, Anderson, 21, who was an Optimum Cable repair contractor at the time working in the vicinity, offered to help Jackson get away from the police by hiding Jackson in the back of his Optimum van.

Jackson asked to be driven to a location in Mastic, allowing him to elude capture. After the investigators identified the van which had assisted Jackson in eluding the police, they also discovered the van was equipped with video and audio recording devices.

Video and audio footage obtained from inside the van captured Jackson’s escape and Anderson’s intentional assistance. The audio and video documents the entire flight, in the defendants’ words, including Jackson’s explicit description of where he threw his gun while running from the police. Members of the Suffolk County Police Department recovered a loaded green and black .9 mm ghost gun from the vicinity where they observed Jackson throw the weapon.

Jackson is charged with Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, a Class C violent felony, Criminal Possession of a Firearm, a Class E non-violent felony, and Obstructing Governmental Administration, a Class A misdemeanor. Anderson is charged with Hindering Prosecution in the Second Degree, a Class E non-violent felony and Obstructing Governmental Administration. Jackson faces up to 15 years of imprisonment on the top charge; Anderson, who has since been terminated from his employment as a contractor working with Optimum, faces a maximum indeterminate sentence of up to 1 1/3 years to 4 years in prison.

At their arraignment on the indictment today, the Honorable Richard Ambro ordered Jackson held on $1 million cash bail, $2 million bond or $5 million partially secured bond. Anderson was placed on supervised release as the charges against him are not bail eligible. Jackson is being represented by Matthew Hereth, Esq. of the Legal Society and Anderson is being represented by Natasja Bellinger, Esq. Jackson is due back in court on November 29, 2022. Anderson is due back in court on December 2, 2022.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Donald Barclay of the Violent Criminal Enterprises Bureau.

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