Is the Hip Hop Industry Dirtier Than the Dope Game?

Federal marshals searching for a notorious Bloods drug thug say their man has ties to hip-hoppers and was spotted at an event hosted by rap star Cam'ron last summer.

They even went looking for suspect Jared Gomes following MTV's Video Music Awards at Radio City in August, crashing after-parties in a hunt for the fugitive.

But they didn't find him.

Gomes, 27, has been on the run since December 2005, when cops and federal agents busted a massive Co-op City crack and gun-selling ring, arresting 16 members of the operation, marshals say.

The yearlong operation netted more than 50 weapons headed for sale on the streets but Gomes, the head of a Bloods faction in the Bronx housing complex, got away.

Since then, he has been indicted on a series of charges in Manhattan federal court claiming he was a crack dealer from 2000 to 2005.

The feds say he's the lead suspect in a Co-op City shooting and is wanted in a shooting in North Carolina in which he blasted a waiter at a diner.

And now the feds are looking into Gomes' possible links to Cam'ron's label, Dipset, which is run by former Harlem drug dealer Ezekiel "Freekey Zekey" Jiles.

The feds say a tipster told them Gomes was at a Cam'ron party in Harlem in July.

A spokesman for Cam'ron said he "has nothing to do with anyone who is a fugitive."

SOURCE: NYpost.com