‘Heartless Felon’: Troy White, 47, a suspected member of Ohio’s Heartless Felons gang, is accused of sexually assaulting a man with a pipe threader during a Cleveland home invasion
Three suspected members of Ohio’s notorious Heartless Felons gang have been arrested in connection to a violent home invasion, in which one of the victims was raped with a metal tool and doused with gasoline, and another was shot.
Troy White, 47, Nathaniel Ramos Jr, 18, and Keli Dunnican, 22, have been charged in connection to the attack that took place in Cleveland early Thursday morning.
According to police reports obtained by Cleveland.com, the trio of suspected gangsters arrived at the home of a 31-year-old man in the 3000 block of Sackett Avenue at around 12.30am and forced their way inside.
Ramos and Dunnican, who wore masks, and White punched and kicked the 31-year-old man and restrained his hands behind his back with duct tape, according to the reports. They also allegedly beat up a 51-year-old occupant of the house.
The younger of the two victims hurled a homophobic slur at White and accused him of raping prison inmates, which, according to police, enraged the 47-year-old suspect.
Accomplices: Nathaniel Ramos Jr, 18 (left), allegedly poured gasoline on two victims of the home invasion, but Keli Dunnican, 22 (right) dissuaded him from lighting them on fire
Break-in: The trio of men allegedly forced their way inside a home in the 3000 block of Sackett Avenue in Cleveland early Thursday
White allegedly grabbed a pipe threader and proceeded to sexually assault the 31-year-old victim while Dunnican and Ramos held him down.
Ramos then allegedly drenched both victims in gasoline, but Dunnican was able to dissuade his two accomplices from lighting the men on fire.
When a 41-year-old man later showed up at the house on Sackett Avenue, police reports state that White threatened him with a gun and shot him twice in the right leg after a physical altercation.
Dunnican, Ramos and White fled the scene on foot after stealing a cellphone and a pair of shoes, according to the reports.
All three were arrested a short time later after encountering police officers on the street and attempting to run away from them.
At the time of his arrest, White allegedly had a handgun in his pocket. A search of Ramos’ pockets yielded more than a dozen baggies of marijuana, and arresting officers observed in the report that he reeked of gasoline.
Ramos was charged with aggravated burglary and his bond was set at $25,000
Dunnican was found to be in possession of rolls of duct tape, a knife and three cellphones, including the device that had been stolen from the crime scene.
When police entered the residence targeted by the trio of suspects during the break-in, they found a pool of blood, bullet casings, the pipe threader used in the rape and drug paraphernalia commonly used to smoke crack cocaine, according to the reports.
Under questioning, White allegedly told detectives that he was part of a theft ring that also included two of the victims, aged 31 and 51, and that all three of them had smoked crack together just hours before the home invasion.
White was charged with felonious assault and ordered held on $100,000 bond; Ramos was charged with aggravated burglary and his bond was set at $25,000; and Dunnican was booked into jail on $50,000 bond after being charged with aggravated robbery.
White’s past criminal record includes two convictions for armed robberies in Cleveland.
He has a separate burglary case pending against him stemming from an incident that occurred in May. The 47-year-old is set to be sentenced for that crime on October 23.
White’s two younger accomplices do not have adult criminal records.