(Washington Insider Magazine) – After a payment that was blocked after a drug sale, Ibn Cheatham went to Staten Island where the victim lived to claim the money for which he violently beat him with a gun, for which he had to undergo surgery to save his life.
A drug dealer beat a Staten Island man so hard he nearly took his life after discovering his client had apparently conned him out of $250.
Brooklyn Federal Court
Identified as 28-year-old Ibn Cheatham, he acknowledged in Brooklyn Federal Court that he gave him a severe, near-death beating in front of the victim’s girlfriend, while his two children were at home.
Prosecutors in charge of the case want the judge to put him behind bars for 17 1/2 to 20 years for the crime.
The attacker, who has a long history of violence, began selling drugs to the victim on a street in Newark, New Jersey, in January 2021, and gave the subject his number so that he could make home visits, the reports indicate. court documents.
The reports presented by federal prosecutors showed the “abominable” details of the crime, where the victim is referred to only as John Doe.
Cheatham went twice to the victim’s home in Staten Island, on January 31 and February 2, 2021, the second visit to the place sparked the anger of the attacker.
John Doe tried to use Cash App to pay the dealer $250 for the heroin and Xanax, and the drug dealer’s Lyft ride to New Jersey, shortly after 1:45 a.m.
The app automatically blocked the transaction, but Cheatham didn’t find out about it until he returned to the Garden State, the Daily News reported.
During 41 minutes, the criminal called the victim more than a dozen times. But John Doe was asleep, as he became unconscious after taking the Xanax pills that he had purchased.
Angered by the situation, Cheatham ordered another Lyft back to Staten Island, and at 5:00 a.m. he banged on the front door of John Doe and yelled, “Police! Open the door!”.
The victim’s girlfriend woke up due to the disturbance and woke up her boyfriend. However, before he could react, Cheatham entered the house with a pistol drawn and began beating and pistol-whipping the man.
Afterward, he put his gun away and told the victim to wash her face and go to an ATM, further warning the woman that he would kill her and her family if he called the police.
The couple’s children, a 2-year-old and an older disabled child who does not speak, were in the house at the time of the beating.
Cheatham and the victim headed to the ATM at a nearby store, where he withdrew $400 and gave the dealer $380.
Several days later, John Doe checked into a detox center to clean himself up, a receptionist noticed “white drool” coming out of his nose, according to court documents. She passed out waiting for an ambulance.
Announcement From Authorities
The authorities announced that the beating was worse than it seemed, as he suffered a broken nose and a subdural hematoma, or “cerebral bleed”, and the doctors had to cut part of his skull and proceed to perform emergency surgery. to remove the hematoma.
Likewise, he was put into a medically induced coma and he needed 70 staples to close the incision.
Cheatham was captured in Montclair, New Jersey, three weeks later, after police responded to a report of theft. He was found leaving the scene in a taxi with a small handgun in his shoe, federal prosecutors said.
The subject was indicted on federal kidnapping, extortion, and weapons charges in August 2021, and pleaded guilty to the extortion and weapons charges in April.
“The defendant has spent more than a decade committing crimes or in prison. And those prison sentences have not deterred or rehabilitated him,” Assistant US Attorney Garen Marshall wrote in a Jan. 8 letter to Judge Eric Komitee.
Cheatham’s defense attorney asked for 11 to 13½ years in jail for her client, describing him as the son of an incarcerated father and an alcoholic mother, who was abused by family members and battled depression and developmental delays while in prison. its stage of growth. He started using drugs at the young age of 12 and became addicted to opioids, Allegra Glashausser said.
“Despite these serious challenges, since becoming a young father at 18, he has been an active, loving and supportive father,” Glashausser said, adding that he is dedicated to helping raise two boys, ages 10 and 5 years. “He is also a devoted caretaker of his ailing mother.”
The attorney said the victim was in a motor vehicle accident two days before the near-fatal beating, which may have contributed to her injuries.
Cheatham is scheduled to receive sentencing on him on January 17.
