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Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips gangster pleads guilty to racketeering
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2023-10-07T09:38:34.000Z
2023-10-07T09:38:34.000Z
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<p>A member of the Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips gang admitted to his role in a racketeering conspiracy. 22-year-old Tre Byrd, aka “Bands,” aka “G Bandz,” pleaded guilty Tuesday to a superseding indictment that charged him with Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conspiracy.</p>
<p>From 2015 through Sept. 22, 2022, Byrd was a member of the Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips, which, prosecutors say, is “a criminal enterprise responsible for acts of violence and the distribution of controlled substances in the District of New Jersey and elsewhere.”</p>
<p>In March 2019, Byrd worked with other members and associates of the gang to murder a gang rival, who was fatally shot on March 20, 2019, in Irvington, New Jersey. On June 20, 2020, Byrd and at least one other member and associate of the gang robbed a victim at gunpoint in Newark.</p>
<p>He faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000. Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 7, 2024.</p>
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Loose lips sink ships: How Crips boss got charged in murder of rap superstar “2Pac” Shakur
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2023-09-30T15:55:29.000Z
2023-09-30T15:55:29.000Z
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<p>“Loose lips sink ships.” It’s a line that can be found in many a Mafia social club as a reminder not to talk about, alleged, crimes. Why? Because that sort of talk gets you locked up. Something Crips gang boss Duane “Keefe D” Davis found out when he was charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon. Not just any murder either, the killing of famous rap superstar Tupac “2Pac” Shakur.</p>
<p>The murder of Shakur shocked the world. At that time, he was selling millions of records, was nominated for multiple Grammy’s, had recently joined Death Row Records, and was one of hip hop’s brightest stars. He was also one of the principle figures behind the beef between the West Coast and East Coast rap scenes. His public feud with east coast rap star Notorious B.I.G. helped sell records and get attention, but it also increased tension within the (gangsta) rap world.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Brawl at the MGM Grand</strong></span></p>
<p>Shakur, however, was not one to lay low or stay quiet. Pumped after just having watched his friend boxing champ Mike Tyson beat Bruce Seldon by first round knockout at the at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Shakur was ready for a brawl himself.</p>
<p>When an associate of Suge Knight, the CEO of Death Row Records, told Knight and Shakur that he saw Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, a Southside Compton Crip, at the MGM Grand, Shakur and his entourage sped through the hotel looking for “Baby Lane”. Anderson had tried to rob them earlier that year and payback was in the air. Hotel surveillance cameras show the group moving through the lobby and then assaulting Anderson.</p>
<p>It turned out, they fucked with the wrong guy. Anderson wasn’t some gangsta rapper acting tough. He was the genuine article. Part of a crew filled with capable shooters. While Shakur and Knight moved on looking for an afterparty, Anderson got his crew together and began looking for revenge.</p>
<p>And got it.</p>
<p>At least… that is the generally accepted theory.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Tell-all Crip</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}12237353298,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="12237353298?profile=RESIZE_400x" width="350" /></a>Especially since “Keefe D” Davis (right) himself corroborated much of it in his 2019 memoir and numerous interviews – both with authorities and the media. Want to know about Davis’ thoughts on Shakur’s murder? Go to YouTube where you’ll find scores of podcasts and videos in which he discusses it in-depth.</p>
<p>In his memoir “Compton Street Legend”, he writes about a closed-door meeting with federal and local authorities in which he told them all he knew about the Shakur murder. He was facing life in prison at the time and felt he could use his inside knowledge as a get-out-of-jail-free card. Davis in his book: “They promised they would shred the indictment and stop the grand jury if I helped them out.”</p>
<p>In an interview with BET in 2018, Davis admitted to being inside the car from which shots were fired at Shakur. He implicated Orlando Anderson, his nephew, as one of two people in the back seat where the shots were fired.</p>
<p>Anderson didn’t mind having his name thrown out there, by the way, because he was shot dead in Compton, California, in 1998.</p>
<p>Davis, though, should also have thought about what his confession meant for his own legal situation. Maybe he thought that after all these years since the killing, no one cared about solving it. He could have a point, though online theories clearly show everyone was eager to solve this infamous cold case. No, perhaps he thought no one cared enough about this dead black rapper to hold anyone responsible for his murder.</p>
<p>Could you blame him after 27 years?</p>
<p>Still, no reason to then rub investigators’ noses in it by explaining how and why the murder of Shakur went down. That is how you find yourself in handcuffs.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“It's so long overdue”</strong></span></p>
<p>As 60-year-old Davis finally found out when he was arrested on Friday morning near his Las Vegas home. It came two months after Vegas police raided his wife’s home in Henderson and seized multiple items concerning the murder of 2Pac at that time, including multiple computers, a hard drive, a cell phone, a VIBE magazine featuring Shakur, ammunition, and a copy of Davis’ 2019 memoir “Compton Street Legend”.</p>
<p>Davis was described by police as “the leader and shot-caller of the South Side Compton Crips.” Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo added that Davis was viewed as the “on-ground, on-site commander” who “ordered the death” of Shakur.</p>
<p>“Many people who did not believe the murder of Tupac Shukar was important to this police department, I am here to tell you: that was simply not the case," Sheriff Kevin McMahill told the press at a news conference Friday afternoon. “Our goal was always to hold those responsible for Tupac's violent murder accountable.”</p>
<p>Too bad all the other men sitting inside that car - Orlando Anderson, Terrence “Bubble Up” Brown, and DeAndre “Freaky” Smith - have since died and won’t be held responsible. Or that it took Davis tons of podcast interviews and VladTV clips to finally be brought to justice.</p>
<p>“It's so long overdue,” Greg Kading, a retired Los Angeles police detective, told The Associated Press during a recent interview. “People have been yearning for him to be arrested for a long time. It's never been unsolved in our minds. It's been unprosecuted.”</p>
<p>According to Kading, Davis’ public descriptions of his role helped bring this indictment. Kading: “It's those events that have given Las Vegas the ammunition and the leverage to move forward Prior to Keefe D's public declarations, the cases were unprosecutable as they stood. He put himself squarely in the middle of the conspiracy. He had acquired the gun, he had given the gun to the shooter and he had been present in the vehicle when they hunted down and located both Tupac and Suge (Knight).”</p>
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Crips gang members and inmates busted for COVID-19-related unemployment insurance fraud scheme
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2022-10-09T11:04:39.000Z
2022-10-09T11:04:39.000Z
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<p>People usually assume street gangs are only involved in the simpler crimes. Drug dealing, theft, some prostitution. But as they remain on the scene, these gangs evolve and their crimes become more sophisticated. Case in point: Imprisoned members of street gangs submitting fraudulent unemployment insurance claims.</p>
<p>Last week, on October 3, 38-year-old Sholanda Thomas, an alleged Hoover Crips gang member and an inmate at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla, was sentenced to 5 years and 5 months in prison for conspiring to submit fraudulent unemployment insurance claims to the California Employment Development Department (EDD) in the names of other CCWF inmates.</p>
<p>According to court documents, Thomas sent her own and other inmates’ personally identifiable information to Christina Smith, a parolee and also a former Hoover Crips gang member, to submit the unemployment insurance claims in their names.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Plastic surgery and expenses</strong></span></p>
<p>The underlying applications falsely represented that the inmates had been working as carpet cleaners, hair stylists, mechanics, and other jobs. This was impossible because they were incarcerated and ineligible for benefits.</p>
<p>The intended loss to the EDD and the United States was over $250,000 and the actual loss was more than $200,000. The proceeds were spent on various personal expenses, including plastic surgery for Smith.</p>
<p>Smith was sentenced in September 2021 to 5 years in prison for her role in the conspiracy.</p>
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Baltimore Eight Tray Gangsta Crips boss admits to bunch of crimes including murder & conspiracy to kill snitch
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2022-09-06T09:05:08.000Z
2022-09-06T09:05:08.000Z
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<p>The leader of the Eight Tray Gangsta Crips in Baltimore pleaded guilty last Friday to racketeering and drug conspiracy charges. 31-year-old Trayvon “G-Tru” Hall led the Baccwest Eight Tray Gangsta Crips in Baltimore and had traveled to California to get official permission from West Coast bosses to establish his Baltimore set.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>History of the Eight Tray Gangsta Crips in Baltimore</strong></span></p>
<p>The Eight Tray Gangsta Crips is a violent subset of the <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/street-gangs">Crips gang</a> that originated in California in the 1970s. Starting in the 2000s, it began operating on the streets and in correctional facilities in Maryland.</p>
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<p>For many years, the Eight Tray Gangsta Crips controlled the drug trade in particular territories in Baltimore City, including the area around the intersection between West Baltimore Street and South Hilton Street in West Baltimore (the “Baltimore Hilton neighborhood”), the area around the intersection between West Lexington Street and North Fremont Avenue (the “Lexington Terrace neighborhood”), and the area around the intersection between Frankford Avenue and Sinclair Lane in North Baltimore (the “Frankford Sinclair neighborhood”).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10804618701,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="543" alt="10804618701?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a>The Eight Tray Gangsta Crips members from the Baltimore Hilton and Lexington Terrace neighborhoods referred to themselves as the Baccwest Eight Tray Gangsta Crips —modeling themselves after the Baccwest Eight Tray Gangsta Crips in Los Angeles—and Eight Tray Gangsta Crips members from the Frankford Sinclair neighborhood called themselves the Nutty North Side Eight Tray Gangsta Crips . The two groups worked together closely in criminal activities.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;">“G” and social media poison</span><br /></strong></p>
<p>Trayvon Hall was the leader of the Baccwest Eight Tray Gangsta Crips in Baltimore, and was referred to as the “G” of the gang. He flew to California in 2013 to meet with West Coast leaders of the Eight Tray Gangsta Crips and gain their official approval for his Baccwest Eight Tray Gangsta Crips set in Baltimore.</p>
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<p>The Baccwest Eight Tray Gangsta Crips operated street-level drug distribution “shops” primarily in the Baltimore Hilton neighborhood, the Lexington Terrace neighborhood and the Franklin Sinclair neighborhood, distributing heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, and marijuana. Outsiders who attempted to sell drugs in the Eight Tray Gangsta Crips’ territories were targeted for violence by the group.</p>
<p>The Eight Tray Gangsta Crips used social media to assert their claim to drug territories, enhance their status, and intimidate <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/street-gangs">rival gangs</a> and witnesses against gang members. They posted photos and rap videos to social media flaunting weapons and threatening to kill those who stood in the way of the gang.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>War with the Black Guerilla Family</strong></span></p>
<p>Hall admitted that he and his co-defendants sold drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine, and committed robberies to earn money for the gang. From May 2016 through November 2016, Hall and other Eight Tray Gangsta Crips conspired to murder members of the Black Guerilla Family gang who operated a rival drug shop in the Lexington Terrace neighborhood.</p>
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<p>On June 23, 2016, Eight Tray Gangsta Crips members attempted to murder two <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/street-gangs">Black Guerilla Family gang</a> members. For some reason they shot two victims who happened to be in the area at the time.</p>
<p>If you want something done right, you got to do it yourself, Hall must’ve thought. So, on July 18, 2016, Hall himself murdered Black Guerilla Family member Albert Pittman, shooting him to death in the 4800 block of Midline Road.</p>
<p>On November 11, 2016, in the 800 block of West Lexington Street, Hall was at it again as he opened fire on members of the rival Black Guerilla Family gang, killing Black Guerilla Family member Shyheim Brown and wounding two other victims.</p>
<p>Immediately afterward, Hall sent a fellow gang member a series of text messages about the shooting, saying he had “Jus bashed the monkeys” (a derogatory term for members of Black Guerilla Family), and they “Wasn’t exspecting [sic] me be out early lmGCao [laughing my Gangster Crip ass off].”</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Turf wars and snitches</strong></span></p>
<p>After the Black Guerilla Family was dealt with, Hall and his gang shifted their focus to the Abington Avenue drug trafficking organization. From July 2017 through July 2019, Hall and other members of the Eight Tray Gangsta Crips conspired to murder members of this crew, whose territory the Eight Tray Gangsta Crips had taken over.</p>
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<p>Hall directed the Eight Tray Gangsta Crips to use violence to retaliate against anyone who refused to respect the boundaries of their newly claimed turf. Hall admitted that on July 6, 2018, he opened fire on members of the Abington Avenue organization who were playing dice in the unit block of Abington Avenue, killing Steven McKnight and wounding an additional victim.</p>
<p>With so many bodies dropping, law enforcement began taking an interest. They began applying pressure and people began talking about certain crimes. Feeling the heat, Hall and other Crips conspired to murder an individual who they believed had cooperated with law enforcement and threatened a witness who testified against a fellow gang member in a state murder trial.</p>
<p>After pleading guilty, Hall faces 40 years in federal prison.</p>
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Rollin’ 30s Crips boss in City of Roanoke gets 37 years in prison for two gangland killings
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2022-08-26T06:39:59.000Z
2022-08-26T06:39:59.000Z
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<p>The boss and two members of the Rollin’ 30s Crips in the City of Roanoke were sentenced on racketeering and murder charges in federal court on August 15. 31-year-old gang leader Sean “Harlem Denk” Denzel Guerrant (photo above) pled guilty in November 2021 to racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced to 37 years in prison.</p>
<p>The other two gang members are 21-year-old Trayvone Raycron Kasey, who pled guilty in July 2020 to federal racketeering, murder, and gun charges and was sentenced to 36 years in prison. 32-year-old Demonte Rashod Mack pled guilty in November 2021 to racketeering conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, and conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced yesterday to 40 years in federal prison.</p>
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<p>Later this year, 28-year-old Crips member Chauncey Dion Levesy will hear his sentence after pleading guilty in August 2019 to racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10792586259,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10792586259?profile=RESIZE_584x" width="473" /></a><a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/street-gangs" target="_blank">The Rollin’ 30s Crips</a> are a nationwide <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/street-gangs" target="_blank">street gang</a> operating in cities throughout the United States. The Roanoke set of the Rollin’ 30s operated primarily in northwest Roanoke, centered in and around the Lansdowne neighborhood.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Murder</strong></span></p>
<p>Guerrant has admitted that he ordered Nickalas Lee, a 17-year-old, to kill a man to atone for his violations and perceived disloyalty to the gang.</p>
<p>In the early morning hours of June 15, 2017, Kasey drove Nickalas Lee to pick up the intended target, while Levesy and Mack followed them to a nearby Roanoke apartment complex. After arriving at the apartment complex, everyone except Levesy exited their vehicles while their victim ran away and hid, leaving Mack, Kasey and Lee together in one of the parking areas. </p>
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<p>The intended victim was able to escape because Lee warned him that he was in danger. After he escaped, Lee refused to hand over his firearm to Kasey until Mack pointed his own firearm at Lee and told him to give it up. After handing over his firearm to Kasey, Lee ran away in an attempt to escape, but both Kasey and Mack chased him and ultimately shot him twice in the back and killed him.</p>
<p>After the shooting, Mack, Kasey, and Levesy returned to the gang’s “trap house” and met up with Guerrant and other Rollin’ 30s gang members, at which time everything that occurred was reported to Guerrant.</p>
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<p>Eight months later, on February 9, 2018, Kasey arranged to meet with Markel Girty. When Girty arrived, Kasey leaned into the car, shot him once in the chest, and then stole his belongings. Girty was able to drive away from the scene, but later died from the gunshot wound.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“This case touched the lives and careers of many officers and detectives”</strong></span></p>
<p>“This was a long, difficult case for this department and our community,” said Roanoke Police Chief Sam Roman. “Countless hours were poured into this investigation by members of the Roanoke Police Department. This case touched the lives and careers of many officers and detectives, who will never forget the young man who was murdered. While nothing we do will bring him back, we hope this outcome brings some peace to his family, friends and those who loved him. This outcome would not have happened without the successful partnerships between the Roanoke Police Department and our local, state and federal partners. These men are being held accountable for their actions, and Roanoke is a safer place as a result. This is a message to those in our community who choose to perpetuate gun violence and organized crime in our city: we will find you and do everything we can to hold you accountable for your actions.”</p>
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“The system of America is scared when they see us unite” – Profile of devil-worshipping East Coast Crips boss Paul Wallace
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2022-04-22T10:11:48.000Z
2022-04-22T10:11:48.000Z
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<p>The gang life is for the young and up-and-coming. You make a name for yourself in this ultra-violent environment and usually end up in a coffin at an early age. But not Paul Gary Wallace. At 56, he has seen it all and then some as he leads the South Los Angeles-based East Coast Crips with an iron hand in a velvet glove.</p>
<p>Beware of an old man in a profession where most men die young. Especially in the volatile world inhabited by hungry teenage gang bangers of all creeds and colors, surrounded by beautiful women, junkies, and the boys in blue, creating a place where death is around every corner.</p>
<p>Yet, somehow, Wallace managed to not just survive over 30 years of being a member of the East Coast Crips, but rise to become its leader. According to prosecutors, he was the most influential member of the gang’s “6-Pacc” set, a series of cliques of the <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/street-gangs" target="_blank">gang</a> responsible for control over territory in South Los Angeles.</p>
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<li><strong>INTERVIEW: </strong><a href="https://gangstersinc.org/blog/gang-rules-growing-up-inside-the-la-gang-life" target="_blank"><strong>Gang Rules: Growing up inside the LA gang life</strong></a></li>
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<p>Wallace, who went by the nickname “Little Doc”, maintained his control over the gang through violence and intimidation, authorities alleged. He murdered and conspired to commit murder to enhance the gang’s violent reputation and subsequently his own status within the underworld.</p>
<p>Having a fearsome reputation is good as gold on the streets. It helped with doing business. Wallace and his gang extorted local businesses operating in their territory, presided over robberies, and trafficked drugs. </p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Devil worshipping</strong></span></p>
<p>But one can always add some flavor to such a reputation. In Wallace’s case that meant worshipping the devil. He got the idea when he met a white dude in county court, he told the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7aRu4UD2ZE" target="_blank">CaliBanging podcast</a>. “I was in a wheelchair, shot up. Soon as I could walk, got out of the wheelchair. Two years later I get shot 7 more times. So I was just bitter towards God, you know. […] So I wrote these people in Texas, the Devil’s Church, and they sent me a devil’s bible.”</p>
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<li><strong>READ: “Corey Hamlet is as smart as any CEO we’ve prosecuted” – </strong><a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/corey-hamlet-is-as-smart-as-any-ceo-we-ve-prosecuted-profile-of-g" target="_blank"><strong>Profile of Grape Street Crips leader Corey Hamlet</strong></a></li>
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<p>He began reading it and immersed himself in all the rituals. He even shot a dog and cut off its paws and placed them inside a circle of candles. His outlandish behavior had his underlings laughing, he says. But it also put some of them on edge: “I ain’t fucking with cuz, he’s a devil worshipper and shit.”</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7aRu4UD2ZE" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10414351292,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10414351292?profile=RESIZE_584x" width="418" /></a><em><strong>Photo: "Lil Doc" Wallace during his younger days (via <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7aRu4UD2ZE" target="_blank">CaliBanging</a>)</strong></em></p>
<p>While doing time in prison in the late 1980s, he continued his devil worshipping. His cell wall was covered with “666” and all sorts of names for Satan. He even met a fellow worshipper, Cleamon “Big Evil” Johnson, of the Swan Family Bloods, someone who would have been his enemy on the outside. But inside, they were best buddies, bonding over their shared love for Satan. They lifted weights together and posed for pictures holding blue and red bandanas.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Peace negotiator</strong></span></p>
<p>Despite his violent profession, Wallace tried to use his position to make things better in his neighborhood, StreetTV reported in September of 2019. During that time, Wallace took part in peace negotiations between gangs of the Crips and Bloods. These evolved and grew and eventually resulted in peace talks between Wallace’s East Coast Crips and the Florencia 13 gang.</p>
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<p>“It felt good, man,” Wallace told <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xix9Wc9JS-Y" target="_blank">StreetTV</a>. “Just to be amongst your people, sitting with them, knowing they was your rivals, and every time the meeting end, we eating with each other, exchange phone numbers with each other. Then we call each other and talk on phones with each other. The next day we meet again and have breakfast together, lunch and dinner with each other. We letting our kids know each other. It’s beautiful, brother, just being amongst your people and not having to watch your back. That’s what every brother needs to understand: We need to come together. Cause we can be so much stronger together than we are trying to be rivals.”</p>
<p>The truce with Florencia 13 was something Wallace was very proud of. “We came together with [Florencia 13],” he told <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xix9Wc9JS-Y" target="_blank">StreetTV</a>. “That’s something that makes history. They propositioned us with it and I respected that, man.”</p>
<p>Skipp Townsend, of 2<sup>nd</sup> Call, who took part in the peace negotiations, said: “Never seen this. Never seen the Eses say: Let’s squash this.”</p>
<p>It’s an example of the influence Wallace has and how much respect he gets from other gangs. He feels gangs play an integral role in society: “The structure is very important for the black race in these black tribes, these gangs. Cause without we continue to be discombobulated. A lot of people are trying to keep the gangs going, keep the killings going, keep the drama going, all the hatred going, all the disrespect stuff that’s going on and making it harder by not having a structure and accept that structure.”</p>
<p>Structured gangs can be controlled and led. Violence and killings can be stopped. Once control is lost, violence increases. Similar to how the <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/organized-crime-in" target="_blank">American Mafia</a> tried to control portions of organized crime to make sure business ran smooth.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>FBI and LAPD bring the heat</strong></span></p>
<p>Despite the peace talks, the LAPD and FBI had a different picture of Wallace. They had their eyes on him for big time racketeering crimes and two murders and were hot on his trail. Wallace was arrested on July 22, 2020.</p>
<p>According to the prosecutors, Wallace was far from the peaceful figure he claimed to be. If anyone stepped across a line, they were dealt with in violent fashion. Assaults and shootings were part of doing business. Wallace had no problem with getting his own hands dirty either, they claimed.</p>
<p>On November 13, 2014, he ordered the murder of a rival gang member, drove his men to the victim’s house, and personally handed one of his men a firearm, which was then used to murder the rival gangster.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xix9Wc9JS-Y" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10414598098,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10414598098?profile=RESIZE_584x" width="566" /></a>Most men who find themselves in such a position of power tend to opt to let their underlings handle such violent activities. For sensible reasons. Wallace would find that out when the murder weapon, an AK-47-style assault rifle, was later found in his van.</p>
<p>On Monday, April 18, 2022, after an 11-day trial, a federal jury found Wallace guilty of federal criminal charges for conspiring to commit racketeering through various criminal acts including murder, extorting local businesses and the distribution of narcotics.</p>
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<li><strong>INTERVIEW: </strong><a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/california-crip-went-from-selling-drugs-to-funding-his-own-career" target="_blank"><strong>California Crip went from selling drugs to funding his own career as an author</strong></a></li>
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<p>The jury acquitted Wallace of a February 2003 murder of another rival.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“The system of America is scared when they see us unite”</strong></span></p>
<p>When Wallace is sentenced, on July 29, he will face life in prison. A place he is all too familiar with. Locked up behind bars, he will face difficulties reaching out to youngsters on the streets, who might be getting involved in gang wars over bullshit. Just when he was reaching a point where he could make a serious change for good in his neighborhood and city.</p>
<p>“The biggest challenges are getting my people to understand how important it is for us to drop the guns and stop killing each other,” he told <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xix9Wc9JS-Y" target="_blank">StreetTV</a>. “For us to still be dangerous, you know, but not towards one another. Because the system in America is designed for us to continue to kill one another. And they know if we stop killing one another. Then they scared of us. The system of America is scared when they see us unite, that’s fear, we put fear in them. Cause only one thing is gonna come to their mind and that’s for the black race to get their ass back for enslaving us and then for all the shit they done to us. They think that’s what we gonna do if we get united. They think we gonna look upon them […] and say let’s get the white folks for all the shit they did to us. That’s what they fear.”</p>
<p>“But that ain’t what we up to. We trying to come together as a black race. That’s what I’m pushing today. I wanna see my race come together and love one another. Help one another. And be united. Not trying to kill one another. Despising one another. That’s my whole thing. To see my race like that.” </p>
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Gang Rules: Growing up inside the LA gang life
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2021-08-31T09:01:59.000Z
2021-08-31T09:01:59.000Z
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<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9506452654?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>By David Amoruso for <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a></p>
<p>There are over 26 thousand gangs with around 750 thousand members in the United States. From the East to the West, in big cities and the suburbs; gangs have become an integral part of the social fabric of America. What is it like growing up surrounded by gangs? Crips member-turned-successful author Stanley James II shares his experiences with Gangsters Inc.</p>
<p>Stanley James II grew up in a tough neighborhood in North Long Beach on the borderline of Compton in California. Murders, drugs, prostitution, and crime were an everyday thing. He got jumped in – got his ass kicked by fellow <a href="https://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/street-gangs" target="_blank">gang</a> members during the initiation ceremony – at the age of 16 and joined the Notorious 4 Corner Bloc Crips, which operated on the Northside of the Long Beach County borderline of Compton, surrounded by Southside Crips and Neighborhood Compton Crips.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: </strong><a href="https://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/california-crip-went-from-selling-drugs-to-funding-his-own-career" target="_blank"><strong>California Crip went from selling drugs to funding his own career as an author</strong></a></li>
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<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9506459068,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9506459068?profile=RESIZE_400x" width="250" /></a>“The Notorious 4 Corner Bloc Crips was originally established in the early 1960s as the Squarehood Crips and later changed its name to 4 Corner Bloc Crips in the early 1980's,” James II tells Gangsters Inc. James II can be seen in the photo on the right holding a photograph of Crips founder Raymond Washington. For youngsters growing up in the decades since, these well-established gangs are part of the neighborhood like certain mom and pop stores. Its members and bosses are viewed as part of the community and forces for both good and evil. </p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Gang roles</strong></span></p>
<p>“There are many roles <a href="https://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/street-gangs" target="_blank">gangs</a> play in a neighborhood,” James II explains. “For one, the original concept and mission of street gangs was to keep outsiders and rival enemies and different races away from committing various crimes in one neighborhood. But there are many other roles members play within their own area, such as the gang banger who is the poster child for one's set. They got members that make money through various ways such as drugs or robberies.”</p>
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<li><strong>READ: “Corey Hamlet is as smart as any CEO we’ve prosecuted” - </strong><a href="https://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/corey-hamlet-is-as-smart-as-any-ceo-we-ve-prosecuted-profile-of-g" target="_blank"><strong>Profile: Grape Street Crips leader Corey Hamlet</strong></a></li>
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<p>Even within gangs there is a distinction between members. James II: “Within every neighborhood you got gang bangers and gang members. There’s a critical distinction between the two. A gang banger is someone who is on the frontline and still active with everything that's involved with their set and gang. A gang member is one who already went through all the trials and tribulations, has been active and is known throughout their area, but now mostly guides and aides the gang bangers.”</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Born into it</strong></span></p>
<p>With such an organized structure ready and waiting, youngsters are easily absorbed by the gangs. “A majority of members is born into their gangs,” James II explains. “Because their parents or cousins are already well known and established in their neighborhoods with some kind of ranking or stripes within the gang.”</p>
<p>Rankings vary from generations and stripes earned. They contain OOOG (Triple Original Gangsta), OOG (Double Original Gangsta), OG (Original Gangsta), BG (Baby Gangsta), TG (Tiny Gangsta).</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9506463061,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9506463061?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="600" /></a><em>Photo: James II (right) posing with OOOG "Pretty Boy" from the 60s.</em></p>
<p>The other side of recruitment is more brutal. Every new recruit has to fight to show his metal. For those that opt not to, pick your poison. “Some females can be “sexed” into a gang by having sex with various members if they don't want to fight.”</p>
<p>Recruitment starts early. Kids grow up surrounded by gangs and learn from an early age who is who and the wealth, power and respect that comes with their position and status. James II: “Most kids that are being recruited are between 12 years and 16 years of age. Schools are the predominant sites for recruitment.”</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“One way ticket to prison or a plot in the graveyard”</strong></span></p>
<p>“Kids will see the glamorous life of gang banging, the parties, the fast money that's coming in, the women, but rarely or hardly ever see all the pain, destruction, funerals and gang wars that happen on frequent daily basis,” James II sighs.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9506465093,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9506465093?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="700" /></a><em>Photo: Scene from the 1988 movie Colors</em></p>
<p>“Gangs don't offer anything except a one way ticket to prison or a plot in the graveyard, truthfully,” James II says bluntly. “Gangs we're originally designed to offer protection and the love that was missing from family in one's life. But they have transformed into an all-out clout war for attention and popularity. Gangs today don't really hold as much weight and or adhere to the same principles as they once did in the previous decades, which Bloods and Crips originally stood for.”</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="https://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/sex-money-murder-the-violent-rise-and-fall-of-deadly-bronx-gang-i" target="_blank">Sex Money Murder</a>: The violent rise and fall of deadly Bronx gang ingrained in New York underworld’s history</strong></li>
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<p>Teenagers are easily manipulated and even when they are not forced, the choices they make at that age, are not always in their own best interest. When they join a gang, however, they made a decision that is cast in blood and comes with lifelong consequences.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Reality creeps up on ya</strong></span></p>
<p>“To some - and especially to the real gang members – the gang is for life and even after death. There have been times when it is completely acceptable for some individuals to go and walk a straight narrow honest path. But for the majority of members that been through it all, the good and bad, normally, they can't turn their backs on the gangs. Simply because that is all they know. They have given so much of their life to the gang and know nothing else. A gang member can have done so much in their life that even if they wanted to get out and go straight your past will always creep back up on ya and remind you what your reality really is.”</p>
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T&A Crips hitman gets 30 years for murdering man who was thought to “disrespect” the gang
https://gangstersinc.org/blog/t-a-crips-hitman-gets-30-years-for-murdering-man-who-was-thought
2021-08-19T11:02:40.000Z
2021-08-19T11:02:40.000Z
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<p>A member of the Trevitt and Atcheson Crips gang known as T&A was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday. 26-year-old Charles Carson pleaded guilty in February 2020 and admitted to the murder of Quincy Story. Carson shot and killed Story on S. James Road in Columbus, Ohio, on January 24, 2015.</p>
<p>Carson and 18 other members and associates of the T&A Crips gang were charged with a variety of crimes, including murders, attempted murders, drug trafficking, firearms trafficking, witness tampering, robbery, and assault.</p>
<p>The group was named after the Trevitt and Atcheson streets in the King-Lincoln District of Columbus. Most of its members live here. The gang controlled the neighborhood through intimidation, fear and violence. Members were expected to retaliate with acts of violence when their members and associates were disrespected, threatened, intimidated or subjected to acts of violence.</p>
<p>Quincy Story was one such person who was perceived as having disrespected a fallen associate of the T&A subgroup Waun Gang. For that, he had to die. On the streets respect is everything.</p>
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