Afrika Owes, Teen In Harlem Gang Case, Out Of Jail Before School
A former prep school student who admitted with carrying guns for her boyfriend's Harlem drug gang has gotten out of jail as she prepares to start her senior year in high school.
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A former prep school student who admitted with carrying guns for her boyfriend's Harlem drug gang has gotten out of jail as she prepares to start her senior year in high school.
Prosecutors and Owes' lawyer said they expected her to plead guilty July 7 and be freed sometime in September to finish her senior year of high school and prepare for college.
Owes, 17, was all smiles after the Abyssinian Baptist Church posted her $25,000 cash bail. The former Deerfield Academy prep student will go on trial in September.
Owes, 17, had been a student at the prestigious Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. Prosecutors say she was also a member of a drug gang that terrorized 137th Street in Harlem.
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