31 year old Steven Martinez of Egg Harbor City, 36 year old Shiraz Khan from Bergen County and 28 year old Deshawn Hose of Atlantic City were sentenced for their involvement in a racketeering organization operating
throughout Atlantic County between 2016 and 2020. Each defendant previously entered
guilty pleas before the court with sentencing pending until all codefendants had resolved their
respective cases.
These convictions follow a several years long investigation into the murders of Demond Tally, 45,
and his son Demond Cottman, 21, both of Atlantic City as well as a large-scale drug trafficking
network. The murder of Demond Cottman occurred at the Hamilton Mall on Black Friday of 2016
when he was shot numerous times in the parking lot just after 1:00 a.m. That homicide
investigation remained open and unsolved until additional information was learned as a result of
the homicide investigation into Cottman’s father, Demond Tally, two and a half years later on
February 10, 2019.