Feds are trying to take down a violent N.J. gang. One member just got 19.5 years in prison.

A member of a violent Jersey City street gang has been sentenced to 19-and-a-half years in prison for a homicide and several other gang-related crimes.

Jervon Morris, 35, of Jersey City, received the federal prison sentence on Wednesday after pleading guilty to racketeering, violent crimes in aid of racketeering, drug trafficking, and firearms offenses, the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of New Jersey said in a news release.

Morris, who also went by the street name of “Sticky,” is a member of a gang associated with the Marion Gardens Housing Complex, authorities said. Members of the gang sell cocaine and other drugs in addition to partaking in violent acts such as assaults, shootings and killings of members of rival gangs, according to federal prosecutors.

On July 11, 2011, Morris and other members of the gang murdered a victim at the intersection of Gifford Avenue and Bergen Avenue, authorities said.

Multiple law enforcement agencies spent years investigating the gang before the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a superseding indictment against eight of its members in the summer of 2021. The indictment charged the eight men with various violent acts dating back to 2010.

Another member, Kevin Williams, was sentenced to 16-and-a-half years last week. Williams, who was also known by the street name of “KK,” was an accomplice in the the 2011 murder and also assaulted a person in February 2018, authorities said.

Terick Rogers, a.k.a “Moot,” one of the gang members who shot five people in 2018, received a 16-year-sentence, officials said.

Jakeem Gibson-Madison, a.k.a. “Beanz,” who in 2019 shot at three people and injured two of them, has been sentenced to 15 years, prosecutors said.

Morris will be subject to three years of parole once he is released.

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Nicolas Fernandes may be reached atnfernandes@njadvancemedia.com.