Clarence Heatley was the leader of a criminal organization, infamously known as "The Preacher Crew", that was responsible for the murder, abduction, and extortion of more than 40 people in Manhattan d ...

Now in the first use of the new federal “drug kingpin” law in New York State Clarence (Preacher) Heatley is looking at the death penalty.

Heatley has been a major drug dealer in Harlem and the Bronx since 1983, with a reputation for violence, prosecutors said. Cuff was charged last year in a 54-count indictment.

Clarence Heatley, leader of the "Preacher Crew," is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole at the Federal Correctional Institution Talladega, Alabama.. In the 1990s ...