ALBANY — A city man convicted in a 2009 federal takedown of a violent South End street gang has been indicted in the gunpoint stickup of a poker game inside a private Albany social club last summer.
Terrence Anthony, 43, has at least five state convictions in addition to a federal racketeering conspiracy conviction for his crimes in the Original Gangsta Killas, also known as the OGK gang. He is charged with first-degree robbery and felony assault in the predawn July 15, 2022, robbery of the A.C. Milan social club at 112 Central Ave., according to a seven-count indictment handed up in Albany County Court.
The indictment alleged that Anthony and others robbed the poker game at about 12:15 a.m. The Times Union reported last July that a dozen or so poker players were competing in high-stakes Texas Hold’em when five masked intruders entered through an unlocked door. Wielding automatic rifles, they tied players’ hands behind their backs, pistol-whipped two poker players and robbed them of thousands of dollars.
Anthony, known as “T-Black” and “Black,” is serving a sentence of 20 years to life in Elmira Correctional Facility after being convicted in March of an attempted robbery in the South End. And he faces a pending murder case in the Jan. 30, 2021, shooting death of Shanita Thomas, 35, at a Central Avenue party.
On Friday, Daniel Smalls, the defense attorney for Anthony, said that his client received the 20-to-life sentence from acting Supreme Court Justice Roger McDonough, who determined Anthony to be a persistent felony offender. Smalls said he is appealing that conviction. Smalls also said he has every intention of taking Anthony’s poker robbery case to trial.
“You’ve got to question why did it take the district attorney’s office so long to get an indictment against him,” Smalls said, adding that he believed he had information that…
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