A federal judge this week sentenced Eric “Bubba” Correia to 15 years in prison for his role in the activities of the Cameron Street Gang that included targeting for assassination a rival gang member whose life was saved by surgeons at Boston Medical Center.

Correia pleaded guilty in April to a RICO violation and distribution of marijuana, according to the US Attorney’s office in Boston, which noted that the RICO plea covers a range of crimes and threats of violence, many against the rival NOB/Wendover Gang, and includes armed robberies.

Correia is the latest Cameron Street member to be sentenced following a federal roundup of its members in 2022.

In a sentencing memorandum calling for a 16-year sentence, assistant US attorneys Christopher Pohl and Charles Dell’Anno wrote: “There are only two reasons why Correia is not facing murder charges – random chance and the close proximity of the victim to excellent medical care.”

Prosecutors say Correia enlisted other Cameron Street members to set up the murder of a rival on Clayborne Street and also robbed a victim at gunpoint in a different incident. In 2020, he was convicted of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for assaulting an individual outside Suffolk Superior Court. He served 132 days in prison and was placed on probation for two years for that crime.

Correia’s attorney, Mark Shea, argued for a sentence of no more than 10 years, saying the father of two and the member of “a close-knit and supportive family” has turned himself around while in a federal prison in Rhode Island awaiting sentencing.

Shea wrote that Correia’s spiral into a world of violent drug dealers began in 2014, when his brother, Jeffrey Goncalves, committed suicide. Eric, who was 16 at the time, spiraled into untreated mental health problems and self- medication with street drugs and alcohol. He began skipping school, dropped out of basketball, and sought refuge with friends, many of whom were Cameron Street gang members.

“After his federal arrest, and since his confinement, Eric has made tremendous strides in acknowledging the harm he has done, and seeing what his future holds for him, his family, and his community, by making the difficult changes that are before him,” Shea wrote.