A Bellport man known on the street as “G Money” was sentenced to 280 months in federal prison — 23 years and 4 months — for selling fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin across Long Island, after three people suffered non-fatal overdoses in 2020. The sentence was handed down in Central Islip to 41-year-old Gary Johnson, identified by federal authorities as a leader of the G-Shine set of the Bloods street gang.
Johnson had faced a mandatory minimum of 20 years up to life in prison under federal law, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Federal prosecutors proved that between June 2013 and November 2020, Johnson distributed cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin across Long Island, directly causing three non-fatal overdoses in March and May 2020, per the same agency. The victims suffered life-threatening injuries but survived after receiving emergency medical treatment.
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and the Suffolk County Police Department issued statements about the case. The case involved fentanyl and cocaine distributed by Johnson and three non-fatal overdoses in 2020.
A Jury's Mixed Verdict
The case traces back to a four-week trial that ended when a federal jury in Central Islip convicted Johnson on 22 counts of a second superseding indictment, including narcotics distribution resulting in serious bodily injury and firearms offenses, according to Newsday. Prosecutors had originally charged Johnson in February 2025 with supplying drugs to a 39-year-old Rocky Point mother who later died in May 2020, but the jury convicted him only of selling narcotics to her while acquitting him of causing her death, the report noted. Hoodline previously covered the initial charges against Johnson when the 26-count indictment was first unsealed.
The firearms charge stemmed from a search of Johnson's Bellport residence, when officers executing a federal search warrant recovered a semi-automatic firearm, leading to his conviction on a firearms charge, the Justice Department said in a separate release announcing his conviction.
Federal Overdose Enhancements and a Regional Pattern
The statutory basis for Johnson's sentence rests on 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C), which imposes a mandatory minimum of 20 years up to life for distributing a controlled substance that results in serious bodily injury or death, according to Cornell Law School. The investigation and prosecution were conducted jointly by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York and the Suffolk County Police Department, with FBI cooperation, the Justice Department said.
Johnson's case fits a broader pattern of federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York pursuing overdose-injury charges against Long Island gang members. Just last month, Huntington Bloods member Joshua Crowell was sentenced to 27 years for a fentanyl sale resulting in death, a case Hoodline covered in its report on the Hamptons shooting sentencing, which also stemmed from a gang shooting at a Hamptons house party.
The Gang's Roots and the Local Overdose Landscape
Johnson was identified as a leader of the G-Shine set of the Bloods on Long Island, per Newsday. G-Shine was identified as the set Johnson led on Long Island.
Suffolk County has seen its own shifting overdose numbers during the years Johnson's operation was under investigation. The county recorded more than 400 fatal drug overdoses in 2022, according to Newsday. Fatal overdoses were primarily driven by fentanyl, according to the Crowell report. The cases described here include severe sentences in prosecutions involving serious harm from drugs.
