A North Philadelphia street-gang hitman wanted in connection with three murders, including the execution-style shooting of a 16-year-old boy, was taken into custody Wednesday morning in Delaware County, officials said.
Tyvine “Blumberg Eerd” Jones, 25, was apprehended by U.S. Marshals in an apartment where he had been hiding at the Stratford Court complex in Lansdowne. Jones was considered one of the city’s most wanted fugitives, and in October, marshals issued a $5,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
Eric Gartner, the United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, said Jones’ “unrestrained existence serves only to diminish our great city,” and his arrest demonstrates the agency’s commitment to keep Philadelphians safe.
Investigators say Jones is a suspect in three murders that took place between 2020 and 2022: The killings of Heyward Garrison, 16, Wesley Rodwell, 20, and Ryan Findley, 23.
Jones is a self-identified member of the Blumberg gang, which federal prosecutors say operates in the area around the now-shuttered Norman Blumberg Apartments on Oxford Street in North Philadelphia.
Members of the gang, including Juan Jarmon, have been convicted of drug trafficking in that area, and others have been tied to assaults and shootings.
Jones was an associate of Antony “Blumberg Steez” Watson, and the two recorded rap songs together. In one song, “Blow Up,” the two brag about stalking and shooting their criminal rivals.
Like Jones, Watson, 21, was sought by investigators as a suspect in Heyward Garrison’s killing, but was gunned down in an unrelated shooting after a year on the run.
Garrison was found shot multiple times in the back of a Honda Pilot parked near 22nd and Diamond Streets in August 2020.
Two years later, in May 2022, Rodwell was gunned down on Erie Avenue near 16th in a broad-daylight shooting.
And in September 2022, Findley was killed on Creston Street near Oakland in Oxford Circle.
Investigators say Jones was involved in all three murders. When announcing the reward for his arrest, Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Robert Clark called Jones “the very worst society has to offer,” and said he demonstrated a complete disregard for human life.