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Leader of Newark drug trafficking gang gets 20 years in prison
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2021-05-15T06:46:18.000Z
2021-05-15T06:46:18.000Z
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<p>The boss of a drug trafficking gang operating in Newark, New Jersey, was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison. 33-year-old Keith Herd (photo above) previously pleaded guilty by videoconference to a third superseding indictment charging him heroin trafficking.</p>
<p>Herd was the leader of a drug trafficking organization that dealt <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Heroin" target="_blank">heroin</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Crack" target="_blank">crack cocaine</a> in and around Newark, specifically around Hayes Street and 14th Avenue in the area of the New Community Corporation community development (NCC). The organization was comprised of members of the Brick City Brim set of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bloods" target="_blank">Bloods street gang</a>.</p>
<p>The investigation revealed that in addition to selling <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a>, members of the organization alerted each other to police presence and the presence of rival gang members or drug dealers within NCC. The members also shared narcotics supply, narcotics proceeds, and customers, and raised bail money for each other following their numerous arrests. Members of the organization have also engaged in violence and been the subjects of violent crime in connection with their narcotics trafficking activities.</p>
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T&A Crips hitman who killed rival gang member and shot at potential witness pleads guilty
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2021-05-13T05:30:00.000Z
2021-05-13T05:30:00.000Z
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<p>One of 19 defendants charged in a 2018 Columbus gang-related racketeering conspiracy pleaded guilty Tuesday for his part in the deadly activities of the local Crips gang. 28-year-old Jonathan Dantzler admitted to murdering a rival gang member and to shooting at a potential witness in 2012.</p>
<p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Crips" target="_blank">T&A Crips</a> derived its name from Trevitt and Atcheson streets in the King-Lincoln District of Columbus, Ohio, where its members predominantly reside. T&A controlled the neighborhood through intimidation, fear and violence. Gang 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>Specifically, the co-conspirators in this case are charged with five murders:</p>
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<li>the murder of Franky Tention on July 1, 2012, in the area of 431 Ellison Street;</li>
<li>the murder of William Moore on March 15, 2013;</li>
<li>the murder of Marvin Ector on December 23, 2013, on East 5th Avenue;</li>
<li>the murder of Quincy Story on January 24, 2015; and</li>
<li>the murder of Deaonte Fisher on March 4, 2016.</li>
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<p>As part of his plea, Dantzler admitted to shooting Franky Tention in 2012. According to court documents, Dantzler shot at the victim because he was a member of the rival Milo Bloods gang and was driving into T&A territory in a “sign of disrespect.”</p>
<p>Dantzler also discharged a firearm into the residence of a potential witness to intimidate her from cooperating with law enforcement authorities.</p>
<p>Parties involved in Dantzler’s case have recommended a sentence of 30 years in prison. The defendant is currently serving multiple life sentences at the local level for separate murder convictions.</p>
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A Death in London
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2020-12-05T14:20:03.000Z
2020-12-05T14:20:03.000Z
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<p>This is a story of gangs of London, or at least one of them, the ruthless murder of a truly innocent man, and the irony of coincidence on a scale that is almost impossible to believe: A man shoots a man dead in broad daylight in the West-End of Britain’s biggest city. Another man walks by the scene a few minutes later, sees the victim being attended to and carries on. A few months later, this man will kill the killer. Legally.</p>
<p>In 1947 England, hanging was the ultimate corporal punishment. Murder is illegal. Citizens cannot kill each other. The State, however, retains the right to kill its citizens. The executioner maintains social order.</p>
<p>This is their story.</p>
<p>I am not Jack Webb but I want the facts. These are they, perhaps. After over seventy years, it’s still difficult to pin down even some basics.</p>
<p>The victim is Alec de (De) Antiquis. His name spelled in various ways and his age varies from 26 to 31 or 34 according to the source used. He was in fact born in 1911 in London, to an Italian father and English mother, surname Spense. (1)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237162101,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237162101?profile=original" /></a>There seems to be no image of him in the public domain, other than the famous photograph taken by press agency photographer, Geoffrey Harrison, which shows only a crumpled figure lying in a gutter being attended to by two men crouching by his side.</p>
<p>Married to Gladys Irene Collins, three years younger than her husband, they have six children. He has a small repair shop called L & A Motors in the High Street, in Colliers Wood, South London catering to local motor-bike and car owners. He’s up to his neck in debt and struggling to make things work. A good man, doing his best in hard times.</p>
<p>He is shot dead a little after 2:30 pm on the afternoon of Friday, April 29.</p>
<p>The man who walks past the scene is Albert Pierrepoint, the official hangman for the British government on his way to meet some friends in a nearby pub. Before he left England to go to Germany and execute convicted war criminals. The most prolific hangman ever in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=England" target="_blank">England</a>, he dispatched 430 men and women over his twenty-five-year career.</p>
<p>Or was he actually already in the place, The Fitzroy Tavern, down the street already, and watched the whole thing from a bar stool?</p>
<p>Except the public bar is a hundred yards south of the corner where all the action was taking place.</p>
<p>He may have seen three men running past the pub as they fled the crime scene.</p>
<p>Someone once said how outstanding the human capacity was for self-delusion. Or is it the law of unintended consequence in action?</p>
<p>The one thing we know for sure is that in five months, less ten days, Albert will execute two men in a double hanging for the crime committed in this part of North Soho, known as Fitzrovia.</p>
<p>The brutal killing traumatized the capital and the country and for many people, its random, almost off-hand cold-blooded ferocity seemed to personify the ever-growing crime wave that threatened post-war <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=London" target="_blank">London</a>. The gangs were murdering anyone who got in their way. Of course, it wasn’t quite that bad. Then again, maybe it was. By 1947, over 10,000 men between fourteen and twenty had been convicted as members of criminal gangs.</p>
<p>In a metro area of over 7 million people, there were twenty-five <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Robbery" target="_blank">robberies</a> involving guns in the first four months of 1947. (Hansard. London. May 8, 1947 (2)). The gangs of London would grow and expand as the city slowly returned to normal following the end of the Second World War in 1945.</p>
<p>The Billy Hill mob, the Krays and Richardsons and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/british-boss-terry-adams" target="_blank">Adams</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/profile-london-crime-boss-bekir-the-duke-arif" target="_blank">Arifs</a>, thieving and extorting, murdering each other and those around them. Along with the scrawny packs of illiterate tearaways like the one prowling the streets of North Soho on a gray, spring day long before <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-boys-from-bethnal-green-how-the-infamous-kray-twins-ruled-the" target="_blank">Ronnie and Reggie Kray</a> and their peers would come to haunt the streets.</p>
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<p>It began that afternoon, just after two, when three men attempted to rob Jay’s the Jewelers near the corner of Charlotte Street and Tottenham Street. A second-hand precious metal dealer and pawnbroker. It looked an easy nut to crack but turned out anything but.</p>
<p>They stopped their stolen black 14 Vauxhall car in front of the shop, adjusted their hats and face masks, and checked their guns. One carried a.455 English Bulldog revolver, and another a.320 revolver. Hand guns were easy to buy from dodgy dealers in London’s West End, especially in Ham Yard, off Great Windmill street, a veritable kasbah for the up-coming criminal on the prowl for a piece. The third, the driver, dropped his gun in the street after their abortive raid. He was also the youngest. A mere seventeen-year-old. As events would proceed, his youth was everything he had going for him on this day.</p>
<p>The men who stormed into the small, grubby-looking building were:</p>
<p>Charles Henry Jenkins, 23 years old, a lighter-man (small barge operator) from Bermondsey,</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237162664,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237162664?profile=original" /></a><em>Photo: Charles Jenkins</em></p>
<p>Christopher James Geraghty, 20, a laborer from Finsbury</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237163280,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237163280?profile=original" /></a> <em>Photo: Christopher Geraghty</em></p>
<p>and the youngest, 17 year-old Terence John Rolt, a warehouse man, also from Bermondsey.</p>
<p>Jenkins and Geraghty both had previous form and had served time either in prison or Borstal (young offenders detention.) (3)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237163289,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237163289?profile=original" /></a>Shouting and brandishing their guns, one of the gang went to grab a tray of rings and was blocked by one of the staff, who he slashed with his pistol. The owner, 70-year-old Betram Keats, slammed the safe shut and another staff member threw a stool at the gunmen, as one of them fired a wild shot. Keats then set off the shop alarm. People started to gather at the street corner and the robbers decided retreat was the only option. Now farce turns to tragedy.</p>
<p>Scrambling into their car, they discover it is blocked by a truck that had arrived and parked in front of the Vauxhall. Unable to flee the scene, they abandon the vehicle and head east on foot, down Tottenham Street. Two of them try to hi-jack a taxi, and even though one is armed, the driver, Albert Grub, dislodges them. George Grimshaw, a surveyor is passing the store and tries to intervene. Luckily for him, he only gets punched and kicked to the ground as the thugs scuttle away.</p>
<p>Racing down the street in their direction is a man riding a big, red, Indian motor-bike. He wears a leather jerking, goggles and gauntlets. A knight riding in to rescue. He’s finished his jobs for the day and is heading home.</p>
<p>As he reaches the corner of Charlotte Street, he slides his bike into the men, trying to slow or stop them. One of the thieves, shoots him once at point-blank range, tumbling the rider into the gutter, dropped like a bundle of laundry on its way to the cleaners, as the thieves scramble off towards Whitfield Street, before heading towards a building at 191 Tottenham Court Road a few hundred yards away.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-untouchables-how-britain-s-top-gangsters-rich-off-armed-robbe" target="_blank">The Untouchables</a>: How Britain’s top gangsters got rich off armed robberies and smuggling tons of drugs</strong></li>
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<p>For some reason, one of the men will leave something here. For the police, it will break the case.</p>
<p>Back outside Jay’s the Jewelers the crowds gather and soon the police arrive and the area is swarming with Bobbies in their blue uniforms and custodian helmets. (4)</p>
<p>People rush to help the man sprawled in the gutter. It’s claimed he died of a gun-shot wound to the head. To the chest. He died in the street. Two hours later in Middlesex General Hospital, only minutes from the scene of the shooting, in the ambulance on the way.</p>
<p>The facts and truth are getting confused so often in this story. People seem hungry to consume lies. Perhaps innuendo and gossip have been triggered by so many years of tight war-time censorship. The autopsy on di Antiquis, performed by the famous pathologist, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, did in fact confirm that Alec had been shot in the head, the bullet falling out as the doctor probed the wound.</p>
<p>The Bulldog revolver is later found, along with the murder weapon on the mud flats of the River Thames by schoolboys fossicking for river treasures.</p>
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<li><strong>READ:</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/exclusive-the-art-of-smuggling-by-britain-s-first-drug-baron" target="_blank"><strong>‘The Art of Smuggling’ by Britain’s first drug baron</strong></a></li>
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<p>Firearm expert, Robert Churchill, the country's foremost authority in investigation and courtroom testimony, proves the.32 revolver is the gun used by the shooter.</p>
<p>The police interview twenty-seven witness. Take statements. No one actually saw a face, so we have, long raincoats, flat caps, scarves around faces. Variable heights and weights. No forensics, no prints, no nothing. Leading the investigation is Superintendent Robert Fabian, who will become a legend in his lifetime, his career and exploits triggering a famous movie and long-running police television show.</p>
<p>Brook House becomes the catalyst for the investigation. The office block a few minutes from the crime scene is the key to unlocking the mystery of the de Antquis murder. Just why two of the suspects stopped here is hard to know. Without police or court records, none of which are on-line, it’s a mystery.</p>
<p>Solving this case hinged on the information supplied by a cab driver, who had been carrying a fare along Tottenham Court Road moments after the murder when a man jumped on the running board, wearing what looked like a bandage round his jaw. The man was pushed off by the driver and vanished into an office block called Brook House. This incident may have somehow morphed from the one reported just after the shooting in Charlotte Street. Someone once said truth evolves over time. Multiple sources often present the same incident in different way.</p>
<p>Three days passed before this news came to the police, and when they searched the building, they found the key to the getaway car, a raincoat and other outer clothing, plus a scarf which had obviously been used as a mask. As it turned out, there was a numbered maker’s ticket, 7800, sewn in the raincoat, which led to a manufacturer in Leeds and then to Montague Burton Limited, a retail outlet in Bermondsey, South London, which recorded the sale to a George Vernon.</p>
<p>Whoever bought the raincoat needed wartime clothing coupons, as rationing was still in force in England. The buyer’s name hit the spot with Fabian, because he knew of someone called George Vernon, a known-criminal, who had a young and violent relative, recently released from Borstal. The cousin was Charles Henry Jenkins and Vernon said he had purchased the coat and loaned it to Jenkins, who had been released a week before the raid on Jay’s.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: Profile of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/profile-of-british-drug-boss-robert-the-voice-dawes-he-was-prepar" target="_blank">British drug boss Robert “The Voice” Dawes</a> - “He was prepared to use extreme levels of violence”</strong></li>
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<p>Jenkins wasn’t picked out at an identity parade held on May 10 at Tottenham Court Road police station, and had to be released, but his loose tongue generated remarks about the raincoat before the police had even mentioned it. He claimed he had himself loaned it to a man called William Henry Walsh, who’d been involved in a previous robbery with Jenkins and his accomplices, another jeweler, in Bayswater, about two miles to the west of Charlotte Street.</p>
<p>Walsh admitted the earlier offense but had no intention of going down for murder and he named the other members of the gang: they were Christopher James Geraghty and Terence Peter Rolt. (5)</p>
<p>Geraghty under questioning admitted shooting de Antquis, claiming he had not meant to kill him, only frighten him. And then it was all over.</p>
<p>On May 19, the three men were remanded for trial at the Central Criminal Court, better known as the Old Bailey, which began on July 21 and lasted a week. After less than an hour, the jury found all men guilty of the murder of Alec di Antiquis and sentenced them to death under the law. Rolt is too young, so is to be held in His Majesty’s Pleasure, a quaint euphemism for time in the nick. He served nine years before his release in 1956.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237163492,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237163492?profile=original" /></a>The circle turns full wheel when the two other men end their day standing side by side in the execution wing of Pentonville Prison in North London. Friday, 19 September, Albert Pierrepoint (right), executioner extraordinaire, leads them from their cells at nine in the morning, and with the help of two assistants, Harry Allen and Harry Critchell, has them dead within minutes. His fastest solo hanging on record was seven seconds.</p>
<p>Britain’s hangman’s second job was running a tavern in Preston, in the north of England, which had a sign behind the bar declaring, “No hanging around.”</p>
<p>The tragic story of Alec de Antiquis is now lost in the pages of history. Although there was great public protest at the hanging of his killers, the true victim in this story was an ordinary man who decided to do an extraordinary thing and sacrificed his life in the process.</p>
<p>George Orwell, the famous author saw developing in England a new casual approach to murder, victim meeting killer purely by chance, with no depth of feeling in it. It was in post-war Britain becoming the norm, rather than the exception.</p>
<p>In our modern world of gratuitous, self-entitlement, it’s hard to conceive there once were people, like Alec, who performed acts of immense courage without hesitation in order to help strangers in peril. His family would live out a lifetime without his love and support that would be sorely needed in the long years that stretched ahead.</p>
<p>The gangs of London would keep growing like a huge, noxious weed. The National Crime Agency (the British government-controlled agency, that leads the UK’s fight to cut serious and organized crime, protecting the public by targeting and pursuing those criminals who pose the greatest risk to the UK,) estimates there are in excess of 200 criminal cartels in the greater London area. </p>
<p><em>(1) Ancestry.com</em></p>
<p><em>(2) Hansard is the traditional name of the transcripts of Parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth Countries.</em></p>
<p><em>(3) In an almost implausible prequel to this senseless killing of an innocent victim, in December, 1944, Captain Ralph Binney of the Royal Navy, attempted to stop a similar robbery taking place in Birchin Lane in the City of London and was killed for his efforts. The passenger in the stolen getaway car was Thomas Jenkins, brother of Charles. He was serving time in prison for this crime (eight years penal servitude) when Alec de Antiques died for his efforts. It was also suspected, but never proved, that Charles Jenkins was also in the car that night. This group and the killers of de Antiquis, may well have been part of the same Bermondsey mob, known as “The Elephant Boys.”</em></p>
<p><em>One of the complex, interlocking gangs of London, the “Boys” had historical links to the other forty or so criminal groups across the city, many of which emerged as early as the Victorian period of 1850-1900.</em></p>
<p><em>(4) London and eventually all British police became known as “Bobbies” after Sir Robert Peel who headed the London Metropolitan police when they formed in 1829.</em></p>
<p><em>(5) Some accounts claim a similar story line but refer to a Thomas Kemp who was a brother-in-law to the Jenkins brothers. He was not a known criminal.</em></p>
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Camorra Mafia takes advantage of opportunities created by COVID-19
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2020-10-24T08:45:02.000Z
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<p>The thing about operating outside the rules of the law is that you can always find ways to make money. Case in point: The Italian <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/camorra-overview" target="_blank">Camorra</a>. When the corona pandemic hit it sent much of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/italian-organized-crime" target="_blank">Italy</a> into a lockdown. Many businesses went bust as a result. The Camorra, however, was eyeing multiple fresh opportunities, as VICE News reports in the video below.</p>
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“Corey Hamlet is as smart as any CEO we’ve prosecuted” – Profile of Grape Street Crips leader Corey Hamlet
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2018-09-23T17:47:04.000Z
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<p>Newark gang boss Corey Hamlet went by many nicknames. “Blizzie”, “C-Blaze” or simply “Blaze”. But it’s the name “Castor Troy” that sticks out when reading his indictment. The character portrayed by Nicholas Cage in the 1997 movie Face/Off was a criminal mastermind who reigned by engulfing the world around him in violence and death. As such, the nickname fitted Hamlet perfectly.</p>
<p>Born on the gritty streets of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Newark" target="_blank">Newark</a>, New Jersey, Hamlet grew up in the Hayes Home projects until the age of 11 when he moved to Hyatt Court to live with his grandmother until she passed away, before moving to Prince Street with his mother.</p>
<p>As a teenager, Hamlet shined on the football field. At 6’1” and over 200 pounds he was an athletic powerhouse. His athletic achievements earned him a scholarship at Lackawanna College, but he was kicked out after a year.</p>
<p>He then spent his days smoking <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marijuana" target="_blank">weed</a> and joking around with his friends on the streets of Newark. Pretty soon he fell in with the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Crips" target="_blank">Crips gang</a>. “I ain’t really had no sense of direction,” he testified in court about those days. “I ain’t really know like what my next phase or next step in life was, and I just gravitated towards it. Before I looked up, I was kind of like caught up in it.”</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Becoming a CEO of the underworld</strong></span></p>
<p>Not just that, he excelled at it. His physical appearance combined with his charisma and brains made him a perfect leader. If he messed up, he quickly learned to adapt and get better. When he was sent to state prison on a drug charge, he became more cautious than before.</p>
<p>“He was very, very careful,” assistant U.S. attorney Osmar J. Benvenuto told <a href="https://www.nj.com/crime/index.ssf/2018/08/guns_murder_and_instagram_insi_1.html" target="_blank">NJ.com</a>. “He was a ghost.” The paper added: “There was nothing on his phone to link him to the Grape Street Crips heroin trade. No texts sending out marching orders to gang members. No burner phones, nothing on paper, no code words.”</p>
<p>Still, it was pretty clear what he was all about. Tattoos covered his body from his fingers up to his neck, most of them references to the gang life he lived every day. “100% Grape Street” was inked on his back. “Feared By Many, Hated By Most, Loved By Few, and Respected By All,” on his chest.</p>
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<p>Entering his late 30s, Hamlet was still there. Every day. Walking up and down the block. Flaunting his wealth without a fear in the world. He owned Newark. And people knew it. The youngsters respected him as the O.G., the original gangster, they feared him like anyone fears an old man who’s active in a world where most men die young.</p>
<p>As leader of the Grape Street Crips, one of Newark’s largest and most violent <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Gangs" target="_blank">gangs</a>, Hamlet commanded an army of eager men and boys willing to execute any order he gave. His organization controlled a large portion of the illegal drug trade in Newark, moving multiple kilograms of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Heroin" target="_blank">heroin</a> a week for almost two decades. The drug money was laundered through restaurants and retail businesses.</p>
<p>“People think street gang members are not as smart as white-collar criminals. But Corey Hamlet is as smart as any CEO we’ve prosecuted,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito told <a href="https://www.nj.com/crime/index.ssf/2018/08/guns_murder_and_instagram_insi_1.html" target="_blank">NJ.com</a>.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Murder galore</strong></span></p>
<p>Besides the narcotics, the Grape Street Crips also engaged in numerous acts of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Murder" target="_blank">murder</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Robbery" target="_blank">robbery</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Extortion" target="_blank">extortion</a> throughout the city. All of it at the behest of Hamlet, the group’s longtime leader. He was a man who was serious about the gang life. In order to maintain an edge on his rivals he ordered several murders – both outside and within the Grape Street Crips, it wasn’t smart to threaten his position as boss.</p>
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<p>The murders, in turn, attracted the attention of law enforcement. In November of 2016, Hamlet and 14 members and associates of the Grape Street Crips were charged in a 22-count indictment alleging the gang committed seven murders, numerous attempted murders, and numerous other violent and drug trafficking crimes committed as part of the racketeering conspiracy.</p>
<p>At Hamlet’s trial these brutal acts were highlighted by prosecutors:</p>
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<li>June 14, 2010: The murder of Leroy Simmons</li>
<li>Dec. 23, 2010: The murder of Rodney Kearney</li>
<li>Oct. 10, 2011: The attempted murders of eight individuals who were caught in the cross-fire when Hamlet’s second-in-command Kwasi Mack, aka “Welchs,” and another Grape Street Crips member attempted to murder a gang member who they suspected had cooperated with law enforcement</li>
<li>May 3, 2013: The murder of Tariq Johnson</li>
<li>Oct. 27, 2013: The attempted murders of Almalik Anderson and Saidah Goines</li>
<li>Nov. 12, 2013: The murder of Anwar West</li>
<li>March 3, 2014: The murders of Wesley Child and Velma Cuttino—an innocent bystander—as well as the attempted murder of Maurice Green</li>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Instagram Gang Boss</strong></span></p>
<p>The trial revealed that Hamlet ordered many of the murders as revenge against Almalik Anderson, a rival with whom he had a long-running dispute. One of Hamlet’s fellow gang-members attempted to broker a truce with Anderson at the Short Hills Mall. After the meeting there, Hamlet used his <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Instagram" target="_blank">Instagram</a> account with over 12,000 followers to assert that Anderson had cooperated with law enforcement.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237115868,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237115868?profile=original" width="600" /></a>“I just put it on Instagram,” Hamlet himself later testified in court. “Social media has a lot of benefits. Social media has a way to get people to understand like maybe a mood you were in or what you, like, see where you at the moment, you might be in the park, it might got nice scenery, whatever the case may be, or even promote events. But I used it on that day to show that you trying to come at me when, all actuality, you the rat.”</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Painting the town red</strong></span></p>
<p>On Hamlet’s orders, four gang members then hunted Anderson down and sprayed his Porsche Panamera with bullets at a busy intersection in Newark, nearly killing him and passenger Saidah Goines, a relative.</p>
<p>Within two weeks, Hamlet successfully ordered two other gang members to murder Anwar West, the fellow gang member who had attempted to broker peace between Hamlet and Anderson. On Hamlet’s orders, co-defendant Rashan Washington left West alone inside a Jeep Cherokee knowing that another gang member intended to walk up and shoot West in the head.</p>
<p>Hamlet then ordered the murder of Maurice Green, Anderson’s brother. On March 3, 2014, Manley and Hamlet, the long-time leader of the New Jersey Grape Street Crips, were riding in Manley’s Jeep Cherokee when they pulled alongside a car being driven by Green. Although Hamlet aimed a firearm at Green and the car’s other occupants, Green pulled off before any shots were fired.</p>
<p>A short time later, Ahmad Manley found Green, and a car chase ensued. The chase concluded when Green’s car crashed into other vehicles at the intersection of Irvine Turner Boulevard and Spruce Street in Newark. Numerous shots fired from Manley’s Jeep Cherokee at Green’s vehicle struck Green and killed Wesley Childs, a passenger in Green’s car. In addition, Velma Cuttino – an innocent bystander who was a passenger in one of the vehicles that had crashed at the intersection – was shot through the head and killed.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“I never shot nobody”</strong></span></p>
<p>“I never shot nobody,” Hamlet declared at his trial. “You can check my criminal history. I never been locked up, I don't have no violence on my jacket. I have no violence on my criminal history.”</p>
<p>At first, the jury seemed to be on his side. His first case ended in a mistrial, but in July of 2018, after a two-month trial, a jury found Hamlet guilty of racketeering, several murders and shootings, and drug crimes.</p>
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<p>Twelve of the 14 defendants charged in the indictment have now been convicted. An additional 68 members and associates of the Grape Street Crips who were arrested in a coordinated takedown in May 2015 were separately charged with <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drug trafficking</a>, physical assaults, and witness intimidation. 66 individuals also have been convicted, and charges remain pending against two.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Life</strong></span></p>
<p>On September 19, 2018, 41-year-old Corey “Castor Troy” Hamlet was sentenced to two concurrent terms of life in prison for his role in six murders, an attempted murder, drug trafficking, and firearms offenses as part of a racketeering conspiracy involving the New Jersey Grape Street Crips.</p>
<p>“The sentencing of Corey Hamlet closes the chapter on one of Newark’s most violent offenders,” Special Agent in Charge Valerie Nickerson said. “The residents of Newark can be confident that the men and women of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=DEA" target="_blank">DEA</a> and our law enforcement partners will continue to pursue those who choose to violate the rule of law. Every citizen has the right to live without fear, and the conviction and sentencing of Corey Hamlet helps to make that possible.”</p>
<p>The fight is far from over, however, Hamlet’s lawyer Anthony Iacullo plans an appeal and told <a href="https://www.nj.com/crime/index.ssf/2018/08/guns_murder_and_instagram_insi_1.html" target="_blank">NJ.com</a>: “Our position was Corey is not responsible for any of these murders. There is no leader as they portray of the Grape Street Crips. It’s not one entity. It’s an affiliation of people from different neighborhoods. It’s a bunch of guys from different neighborhoods who did their own things.”</p>
<p>Though this could very well be true, it does sound very familiar to “There is no <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Mafia" target="_blank">Mafia</a>,” a line used by members of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=LCN" target="_blank">La Cosa Nostra</a> for several decades until it turned into a running gag among mobsters, cops, and the public.</p>
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Frank Smith, a hitman of the Coney Island-based Rival Impact gang, gunned down rivals in war with Thirty-O Crew
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2018-06-05T06:30:00.000Z
2018-06-05T06:30:00.000Z
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<p>They called him “Fresh.” But chances were that after a meeting with him, you were anything but and more likely rotting away in a shallow grave. As a hitman for the Rival Impact street gang, Frank Smith was a cold-blooded killing machine on the streets of New York.</p>
<p>The gang life was all Smith knew. He’s been a member of Rival Impact since 2000 and would remain one until they locked him up. The Rival Impact <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/street-gangs">gang</a> was based at the Mermaid Houses in Coney Island. For more than a decade, the gang engaged in heroin and crack distribution and violence, including murders, attempted murders, robberies and assaults. </p>
<p>Its members had been at war for some time with members of Thirty-O, a <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/street-gangs">street gang</a> based in and around the Coney Island Houses. After Rival Impact gang member Vincent Carmona was slain by Thirty-O crew members, Smith plotted killing members of Thirty-O, specifically Terrance Serrano and Rashawn Washington, whom he believed shot Carmona. </p>
<p>On October 4, 2010, Smith and a Rival Impact gang member drove to East 19th Street in Manhattan where they found a parked car belonging to Serrano and Washington. After Serrano and Washington approached and entered the car, Smith ran to the car and opened fire, killing both men sitting inside.</p>
<p>On June 4, 2018, following a three-week trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn returned a guilty verdict against Smith on charges of racketeering and two counts each of murder-in-aid-of racketeering and causing a death through the use of a firearm. When sentenced, Smith faces two mandatory terms of life imprisonment for the murders of Terrance Serrano and Rashawn Washington.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>UPDATE</strong></span>: On Monday, September 27, 2021, 36-year-old Smith was sentenced to two mandatory life sentences plus an additional 20 years’ imprisonment for racketeering, including predicate acts of murder conspiracy and narcotics offenses, as well as two counts of murder-in-aid-of racketeering for the murder of rival gang members Terrance Serrano and Rashawn Washington. He was convicted by a jury in June 2018 following a three-week trial.</p>
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The Big Hen: Regional enforcer of Gangster Disciples gets 30 years in prison for decades-long crime career
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2018-03-24T10:00:00.000Z
2018-03-24T10:00:00.000Z
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<p>A high-ranking member of the Gangster Disciples was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Thursday for racketeering conspiracy. 37-year-old Henry Cooper went by the nickname “Big Hen” and functioned as the organization’s enforcer, making sure all other gang members toed the line and followed the rules.</p>
<p>Cooper became a Gangster Disciple in 1992 and remained one up until the time of his arrest in 2016. The <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=GD" target="_blank">Gangster Disciples</a> is a highly organized national gang active in more than 24 states. The group protects its power through deadly violence and its own members and associates are subject to a strict code of discipline and are routinely fined, beaten, and even murdered for failing to follow the gang’s rules. Enforcers within the enterprise ensure that members who violate the rules are punished.</p>
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<p>Among those enforcers was Cooper, who served as the Regional Enforcer for the State of Tennessee. As such, he was responsible for enforcement in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Tennessee" target="_blank">Tennessee</a> and six other states, including Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Wisconsin. </p>
<p>One of his responsibilities was to pass along information from the Chief Enforcer for the Gangster Disciples to enforcers in these states. Cooper also oversaw the enforcement of punishments, supervised the criminal activities of other members, issued orders to commit violent offenses against rivals and subordinates, and presided over Gangster Disciple meetings where criminal activity was discussed.</p>
<p>Of course, when the time came to get his own hands dirty, Cooper was willing and able. He participated directly in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Murder" target="_blank">murder</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Kidnapping" target="_blank">kidnapping</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Assault" target="_blank">assault</a>, witness intimidation, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">narcotics distribution</a>, and weapons trafficking. </p>
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United Blood Nation Godfather says he is part of “the last ones that God put in power”
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2018-03-15T15:30:00.000Z
2018-03-15T15:30:00.000Z
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<p>Omari Rosero might have been locked up in a New York State prison, his power still flowed through the cement walls to the outside world. As a Godfather in the United Blood Nation gang he was considered the highest authority in the nationwide organization.</p>
<p>It was a long climb for 41-year-old Rosero. Starting out as a member of the Nine Trey Gangsters, a subset of the United Blood Nation, he paid his dues and devoted his entire life to the gang. He went from a “Scrap” to become a “5-Star General” on to a “Low” then a “High” until he eventually rose to the very top: Godfather of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bloods" target="_blank">United Blood Nation</a> (UBN).</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Gang Rules</strong></span></p>
<p>As Godfather, he led what once started out as a prison gang in 1993 and now was a violent criminal organization operating throughout the east coast of the United States and counting thousands of members. The group is governed by a common set of 31 rules, known as “The 31,” which were originally written by the founders of the UBN. </p>
<p>Members are expected to conduct themselves and their illegal activity according to rules and regulations set by their leaders. Prominent among these is a requirement to pay monthly dues to the organization, often in the amounts of $31 or $93. A percentage of these funds are transferred to incarcerated UBN leadership in New York, among them Rosero; these funds also are used locally to conduct gang business. Gang dues are derived from illegal activity such as <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drug trafficking</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Robbery" target="_blank">robberies</a>, wire fraud, and bank fraud, among other forms of illegal racketeering activities.</p>
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<p>UBN members often wear clothing with the color red and share common tattoos or burn marks to show their affiliation. Tattoos include a three-circle pattern, usually burned onto the upper arm, known as a “dog paw”; the acronym “M.O.B.,” which stands for “Member of Bloods”; the words “damu,” or “eastside”; the number five; the five-pointed star; and the five-pointed crown. </p>
<p>Members have distinct hand signs and written codes, which are used to identify other members and rival gang members. For example, the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bloods" target="_blank">Nine Trey Gangster</a> set of the UBN refer to themselves as “<a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/two-united-blood-nation-gangsters-sent-to-federal-prison-on-drug" target="_blank">Billies</a>.”</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Federal Target</strong></span></p>
<p>Running such a well-oiled and violent organization tends to attract some heat. Not just from your rivals in the underworld. If you become big enough the law will take notice. Chief among them the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=FBI" target="_blank">FBI</a>.</p>
<p>In May of 2017, federal agents <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/83-bosses-and-members-of-united-blood-nation-indicted" target="_blank">hit 83 alleged leaders and members</a> of the UBN with federal racketeering conspiracy and charges related to murder, attempted murder, violent assault, narcotics distribution, firearms possession and Hobbs Act robbery. Some were also charged with white-collar offenses like bank fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft related to financial crimes.</p>
<p>The indictment showed the government took the threat the UBN posed seriously. These weren’t just simple gang bangers fighting over corners. This was an organized criminal group which ran sophisticated schemes and was highly structured with enough muscle to back up threats of violence with the real thing.</p>
<p>“When my office indicted 83 Bloods gang members and senior leaders, the goal was to deliver a major blow to this organized criminal enterprise responsible for raging turf wars, rampant drug distribution and bloody gang violence,” U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray told reporters.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Guilty Pleas</strong></span></p>
<p>Confronted with the government’s full judicial power, on March 12, 2018, Rosero and 34 other UBN bosses, members, and associates pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and related charges in North Carolina, including drug trafficking, wire fraud, firearm possession, and the use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and drug trafficking.</p>
<p>“The assaults, the robberies, the drug deals, each and every crime committed by these ruthless gang members was a blow to the safety of our communities,” said John Strong, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Charlotte" target="_blank">Charlotte</a>. “The guilty pleas by these suspects are the next step in securing justice for every innocent person who was impacted by the violent actions of these gangs members.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237094469,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237094469?profile=original" width="471" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>The Godfather speaks</strong></span></p>
<p>Rosero (photo above), who goes by the nickname “Uno B,” pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy. He admitted to holding the leadership rank of “High,” and to serving as an acting “Godfather” of the entire UBN gang. </p>
<p>In a recorded jail call, Rosero admitted to being, together with Pedro “Magoo” Gutierrez and James “Frank White” Baxton, “the last ones that God put in power” over the UBN. He conducted gang business and participated in the distribution of gang dues while incarcerated in the New York State Department of Corrections.</p>
<p>In order to communicate with the outside, he used 35-year-old Porsha Talina Rosero, nicknamed “Lady Uno B” for obvious reasons. She maintained a Facebook account through which private messages were sent from Rosero to other Bloods leaders. She pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and admitted participating in the distribution of gang dues and a phone call during which Rosero stated that a suspected cooperator would be “faded straight up.”</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Fallen Bosses</strong></span></p>
<p>In addition to Omari and Porsha Rosero, seven other defendants with high-ranking leadership positions have previously pleaded guilty in this investigation:</p>
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<li>Montraya Antwain Atkinson, aka Hardbody, 31, of Raleigh, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy. According to the factual basis of his plea agreement, Atkinson admitted to holding the leadership rank of “High,” and admitted to possessing <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marijuana" target="_blank">marijuana</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> with intent to distribute, and to purchasing and selling powder cocaine;</li>
<li>Adrian Nayron Coker, aka Gotti, 28, of Gastonia, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and three counts of possession with intent to distribute narcotics. According to the factual basis of his plea agreement, Coker admitted to holding the leadership rank of “Low,” and to possessing a stolen firearm and ammunition, despite having previously been convicted of a felony. Moreover, according to a court-approved wiretap, Coker was recorded discussing a potential murder of a rival gang member;</li>
<li>Quincy Delone Haynes, aka Black Montana, 39, of Lawndale, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and three counts of trafficking cocaine. According to the factual basis of this plea agreement, Haynes admitted to holding the leadership rank of “Low”;</li>
<li>Barrington Audley Lattibeaudiere, aka Bandana and Bobby Seale, 31, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. According to the factual basis of his plea agreement, Lattibeaudiere admitted to holding the leadership rank of “High,” and coordinating the transmission of hundreds of dollars of UBN gang dues to Gutierrez and Baxton. Lattibeaudiere further admitted to participating in a scheme to make and attempt to make over $64,000 in purchases using fraudulent credit and gift cards;</li>
<li>Bianca Kiashie Harrison, aka Lady Gunz, 28, of Midway Park, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy. According to the factual basis of Harrison’s plea agreement, Harrison admitted to holding the leadership rank of “High,” and to participating, at facilities within the New York Department of Corrections, in gang leadership meetings with alleged UBN Godfathers Gutierrez and Baxton;</li>
<li>MyQuan Lamar Nelson, aka Dripz, 27, of Charlotte, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and heroin trafficking, and according to the factual basis of his plea agreement admitted to holding the leadership rank of “Low”; and</li>
<li>Tywlain Wilson, aka 5 Alive, 25, of Shelby, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and firearm possession in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. According to the factual basis of his plea agreement, Wilson admitted to holding the leadership rank of “Low.”</li>
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Gangster Disciple who held repo men at gunpoint as he took his car back sentenced to over 17 years in prison
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2018-02-17T18:00:02.000Z
2018-02-17T18:00:02.000Z
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<p>The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Perhaps that is why the public has a love for outlaws and gangsters who stick it to the man. Are you being sucked dry by banks and credit card companies? Are repo men hounding you? Gangster Disciples member Marvin Meux knows the feeling, and he was having none of it.</p>
<p>When repo men, also known as repossession employees, were attempting to hook up Meux’s car on October 21, 2015 in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Memphis" target="_blank">West Memphis</a>, Meux, himself a known gang member with several convictions for <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a> and violence, did something plenty of honest, hardworking, law abiding citizens thought about doing: He said “Fuck this.”</p>
<p>He jumped into the driver’s seat and drove off in the vehicle with one of the employees still in the passenger seat. After fleeing a short distance, Meux drove back to his residence. One of the repo men exited the vehicle, as he did so he saw Meux running towards him with a small black gun.</p>
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<p>Shocked and in utter terror, the two repo men forgot about repossessing the car and quickly got into their truck. They drove off while Meux pointed his gun at them, making certain they left. Of course, one might hate their deeds, these repo men were just doing their job. Can't fault them for that.</p>
<p>West Memphis police officers were dispatched to the area shortly thereafter, arresting Meux and searching his residence. There, they found an SKS assault rifle and a .38 caliber revolver. Meux was immediately identified as a member of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=GD" target="_blank">Gangster Disciples</a> in West Memphis.</p>
<p>Faced with two witnesses and overwhelming evidence, the hot-headed Meux pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Because of his previous convictions, the Judge threw the book at the 45-year-old Gangster Disciple on Thursday, sentencing him to 17 and a half years in federal prison.</p>
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The Governor of Tennessee: Gangster Disciples boss Byron Montrail Purdy ruled state’s underworld
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2018-01-26T07:30:00.000Z
2018-01-26T07:30:00.000Z
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<p>In the underworld of Tennessee, Byron Montrail Purdy’s reign was unquestioned. He ruled the state as a governor. Not the political kind, mind you. His power went beyond the rule of law. As a governor in the Gangster Disciples, Purdy coordinated racketeering activity and gangland killings in his territory with fellow leaders around the country.</p>
<p>Founded in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Chicago" target="_blank">Chicago</a> in the 1960s, the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=GD" target="_blank">Gangster Disciples</a> have grown into a highly organized national crime syndicate operating in more than 24 states. The group protects its power through threats, intimidation, and violence, including murder, assault, and obstruction of justice.</p>
<p>Members and associates of the gang are subject to a strict code of discipline and are routinely fined, beaten, and even murdered for failing to follow the rules. Taking a page out of the book written by Italian Mafia groups like <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=CosaNostra" target="_blank">Cosa Nostra</a> and the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Camorra" target="_blank">Camorra</a>, the Gangster Disciples also provide financial and other support to members doing time for gang-related offenses or those who are fugitives from law enforcement.</p>
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<p>38-year-old Byron Montrail Purdy, known on the streets of Jackson, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Tennessee" target="_blank">Tennessee</a>, by his nicknames “Lil B” or “Ghetto,” was the highest-ranking Gangster Disciple within the State of Tennessee, holding the title of governor. He had earned his rank, having been a loyal and integral part of the group for over two decades.</p>
<p>As governor, Purdy manages gang activities within Tennessee and is responsible for coordinating much of the criminal activity that occurs within the state. He did this in cooperation with other Gangster Disciples bosses throughout the United States, supervising the criminal activities of the gang, issuing orders to kill rivals and disobedient subordinates, and presiding over gang meetings.</p>
<p>A typical workday saw Purdy direct his underlings to carry out a wide variety of criminal activities. They handled largescale drug distribution – <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Heroin" target="_blank">heroin</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marijuana" target="_blank">marijuana</a>, you name it, they sold it, weapons trafficking, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Robbery" target="_blank">robbery</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Kidnapping" target="_blank">kidnapping</a>, assault, and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Murder" target="_blank">murder</a>. The life of a gangster isn’t pretty, but it brings in plenty of cash. One should call it hazard pay, though, since the risk of getting whacked or imprisoned is always there and only increases as time passes by.</p>
<p>It was no different for Purdy. On Friday, January 19, 2018, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise.</p>
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<p>“[This] sentence of 30 years for Byron Purdy’s gang activity should send a serious warning to gang members of all factions in Jackson, Memphis and throughout West Tennessee that their continued reign of terror through actions of violence, intimidation, and all manner of firearms and narcotics trafficking will eventually come to an end,” Captain Phillip Kemper of the Jackson Police Department’s Special Operations Division said.</p>
<p>He continued: “This investigation of Purdy included crimes involving racketeering activity, which spanned two and half decades. Byron Purdy, who was the head of the Gangster Disciples enterprise for the State of Tennessee will now spend the majority of his adult life in Federal Prison. Gang life only leads to two places: the grave, or prison for an extended period of time.”</p>
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New York drug boss Jimmy Rosemond guilty of murder – Gangster-turned-businessman never changed ways
https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/new-york-drug-boss-jimmy-rosemond-guilty-of-murder-gangster-turne
2017-12-03T14:23:58.000Z
2017-12-03T14:23:58.000Z
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<p>Rappers want to be gangsters and gangsters want to be rappers. Still, you are what you are as the case of James “Jimmy the Henchman” Rosemond illustrates perfectly. As the founder of rap music management company Czar Entertainment, he mingled with New York’s top hip-hop talent. But as the head of a violent drug trafficking organization, he mingled with wolves and coyotes, hitters and sicarios. It didn’t take much for both worlds to collide.</p>
<p>Made famous by rapper <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=50Cent" target="_blank">50 Cent</a>, rap group G-Unit scored a bunch of hits with their brand of New York gangster rap. They believed their own hype and in March 2007, several of its members, including Marvin Bernard, known to rap fans as “Tony Yayo,” and Lowell Fletcher, known as “Lodi Mack,” assaulted James Rosemond’s son.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237098892,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237098892?profile=original" width="320" /></a>Though he was not seriously injured in the assault, and Fletcher ended up serving prison time for his involvement in the assault, “Jimmy the Henchman” (right) could not let such disrespect fly. You had the rules of society and then you had the rules of the underworld. He may have strut around the legitimate world of music and industry, at his core Rosemond remained a hardcore gangster. One that commanded an army of killers.</p>
<p>Rosemond recruited a crew of men to murder Fletcher upon his release from prison by promising at least $30,000 in payment for his murder. At Rosemond’s direction, members of the murder crew selected a dark and secluded location for the murder in the vicinity of Mount Eden and Jerome Avenues in the Bronx, and lured Fletcher to that spot.</p>
<p>When Fletcher arrived there in the evening on September 27, 2009, a member of the murder crew stepped out of the shadows and fired five bullets into Fletcher’s back and arms using Rosemond’s .22 caliber handgun with a silencer. Fletcher died later that night. On October 2, 2009, the crime boss had a trusted employee of his drug organization provide a kilogram of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> – worth about $30,000 in street value – to a member of his murder crew as payment for the murder.</p>
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<p>All of this came out in the open when prosecutors hit Rosemond with a murder indictment and he stood trial. In February and March 2014, a mistrial was declared after the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the counts against Rosemond relating to the murder-for-hire of Fletcher. </p>
<p>A second trial was set for December 2014 in which Rosemond was convicted on all counts. On appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Rosemond argued in part that his conviction in this murder-for-hire case should be overturned because certain rulings by the trial court effectively barred him from advancing a line of defense that Rosemond wanted to pursue – namely, Rosemond’s claim that although he ordered hitmen to shoot Fletcher, he did not intend for the shooting to result in Fletcher’s death. </p>
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<p>In November 2016, the Second Circuit vacated Rosemond’s conviction and remanded the case for a new trial. The case was reassigned to Judge Kaplan for retrial. Rosemond presented that defense at this third trial, which began on November 6, 2017, and ended on November 28, 2017, when a unanimous jury found Rosemond guilty of all the charges against him.</p>
<p>For his role in ordering, planning, and paying for the murder of Lowell Fletcher, Rosemond was convicted of one count of substantive murder-for-hire, one count of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and two firearms counts.</p>
<p>Rosemond faces a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on March 13, 2018. Not that it will matter, he is already serving a life sentence after he was convicted of drug trafficking, obstruction of justice, firearms violations, and financial crimes in the summer of 2012. </p>
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VIDEO: Up close and personal as VICE films initiation of Crips gang member in Brooklyn
https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/video-up-close-and-personal-as-vice-films-initiation-of-crips-gan
2017-11-18T13:30:00.000Z
2017-11-18T13:30:00.000Z
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<p>Becoming a gang member isn’t easy. And most gangsters are forced into the gang life because of poverty and a troublesome situation at home. They take to the streets to find a new family and find it in the older guys wearing colors that identify them as part of something bigger.</p>
<p>VICE followed JT, a youngster trying to become a member of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Crips" target="_blank">Crips</a> in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Brooklyn" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>. The film crew finds out what it took for the wannabe gangster to get this far and why he’s willing to become an official Crip.</p>
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Baltimore Black Guerilla Family gangster pleads guilty to murder of witness
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2017-11-08T18:00:00.000Z
2017-11-08T18:00:00.000Z
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<p>A member of Baltimore’s Black Guerilla Family (BGF) pleaded guilty on Tuesday to murdering a witness to prevent him from testifying against a fellow gang member in a pending state case. 25-year-old Wesley Jamal Brown also admitted he was a part of the Black Guerilla Family’s Greenmount Avenue Regime, formerly known as the Young Guerilla Family. </p>
<p>Brown kept himself busy between 2005 and his arrest in September 2017. Together with his fellow gang members, he dealt <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a> and protected the group’s interests with deadly force. In his plea agreement, he admits that on April 26, 2013, he sold <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Heroin" target="_blank">heroin</a> and that on June 20, 2013, he possessed 51 grams of heroin and a quantity of cocaine that he planned to sell.</p>
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<p>Brown further admitted that on or about May 2, 2013, in the 600 block of Cokesbury Avenue, he shot and killed Moses Malone with a .22 caliber handgun. In the weeks before his death, Malone had been the victim of a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Robbery" target="_blank">robbery</a> and shooting committed by a member of the BGF Greenmount Regime. </p>
<p>On April 19, 2013, Malone identified the BGF member who robbed and shot him during an interview with Baltimore Police officers. Brown admitted that he shot and killed Malone to prevent him from testifying against his fellow BGF member in the pending state case.</p>
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<p>According to his plea agreement, Brown further admitted that in the days following Malone’s murder, he requested assistance from another BGF member in disposing of the .22 caliber handgun that he had used to kill Malone. He told the other BGF member that the handgun was “dirty” because he had used it to shoot a witness who had implicated a member of the BGF Greenmount Regime in a crime. On May 12, 2013, he exchanged text messages with a BGF associate, in which he agreed to sell the .22 caliber handgun that he had used to kill Malone for $250.</p>
<p>Brown’s sentencing is scheduled for February 5, 2018. He faces between 30 to 35 years in prison.</p>
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Operation Bloody Prince: Brunswick gang leader Calvin Lewis gets 25 years in federal prison for drug trafficking
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2017-09-01T09:17:24.000Z
2017-09-01T09:17:24.000Z
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<p>The Brunswick-area leader of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bloods" target="_blank">Rolling 20’s Bloods gang</a> was sentenced earlier this week to 25 years in federal prison for his role in a violent drug trafficking organization that operated in Southeast Georgia and elsewhere. 38-year-old Calvin Lewis was caught on a wire encouraging his underlings to use guns to protect their territory and attack rivals.</p>
<p>Lewis was one of 19 conspirators in Brunswick convicted as part of an investigation dubbed by law enforcement as “Operation Bloody Prince.” The operation was investigated through the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), which is comprised of local, state and federal law enforcement agents. Melvina Lewis, Calvin Lewis’ wife, was previously sentenced to 165 months in federal prison; their step-son, Jamar Bradley, was sentenced to 215 months in prison.</p>
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<p>Evidence presented during numerous hearings revealed that members of the Rolling 20’s Bloods gang endured “beat ins” as part of their initiations. During a lengthy undercover investigation, FBI agents and Glynn County Police Department investigators conducted multiple wiretaps to gather evidence and to dismantle Lewis’ drug organization.</p>
<p>Wire intercepts revealed that Lewis encouraged his fellow gang members to gather firearms to protect their drug trafficking organization and to retaliate against threats, both perceived and real. Investigating agents were also able to determine that Lewis and other conspirators sold kilograms of cocaine and crack cocaine from “trap” houses located throughout Brunswick, Georgia.</p>
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Eight Trey Crips gang leader charged with murder in crowded Brooklyn nightclub
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2017-06-14T11:37:53.000Z
2017-06-14T11:37:53.000Z
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<p>A leader of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Crips" target="_blank">Eight Trey Crips</a> gang in New York was charged with murder in-aid-of racketeering on Monday. 37-year-old Larry Pagett, photo above, also known as “Biz,” “Biz Loc,” and “Molotovbizzz” faces life in prison if convicted.</p>
<p>The murder Pagett is charged with has been caught on surveillance video. On August 28, 2015, a man can be seen entering the Buda Hookah Lounge in the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens section of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Brooklyn" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a>. The place was crowded, with people enjoying themselves.</p>
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<p>Then the man pulls out a gun and shoots alleged <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/street-gangs" target="_blank">Folk Nation</a> gangster Chrispine “Droppa” Philip several times in the back of the head as the victim tries to run away.</p>
<p>With “Droppa” Philip “dropped” for good, the hitman got his ass out of there, climbing over several other bar patrons who were lying on the ground in terror.</p>
<p>Prosecutors claim it was Pagett who fired the shots. “As alleged, the defendant in this case shot and killed a rival gang member to elevate his status in the Eight Trey Crips,” stated NYPD Commissioner James P. O’Neill. “The deadly shooting happened inside of a crowded lounge, injuring several others in the shooting, and several more with the panic that ensued.”</p>
<p>“Gang members have shown they will do whatever necessary to maintain their control over their turf and retaliate against those who they see as a threat,” stated Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney. “The violence these gangs spread impacts people every day, so we will continue to go after the leadership who use murder and violence to threaten our communities.”</p>
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Bronx gangster who killed rival as he held his baby daughter in his arms gets 42 years in prison
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2017-06-07T07:12:25.000Z
2017-06-07T07:12:25.000Z
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<p>Even among hardcore gangsters the heinous crime committed by James Capers (photo above, left) is considered crossing a line. Dealing drugs? Of course! Some robberies? Fine! Murder? Part of business. Shooting a rival while he is holding his 1-year-old daughter in his arms? Fuck no.</p>
<p>Yet, that’s exactly what Capers did, according to a federal jury that found him guilty of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Murder" target="_blank">murder</a>, racketeering, and narcotics conspiracies in December of 2016. As a member of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/street-gangs" target="_blank">Leland Avenue Crew</a>, which controlled the distribution of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Crack" target="_blank">crack cocaine</a> in and around Leland Avenue in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bronx" target="_blank">Bronx</a>, New York, Capers sold drugs, carried weapons, and committed robberies of unsuspecting people on the street. </p>
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<p>He also did his part in the Leland Avenue Crew’s long-running war with a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Gang" target="_blank">gang</a> on Taylor Avenue in the Bronx. As the two groups battled over drug territories, there were several shootings, some of which resulted in death.</p>
<p>One of them involved Capers, who went by the nickname “Mitch.” On July 7, 2015, he went looking for Allen McQueen, a rival gang member on Taylor Avenue. He spotted McQueen (photo above, right) walking down the street holding his 1-year-old daughter. Rather than deciding to wait for another shot, Capers ran up behind McQueen and fired several shots, striking his rival once and killing him on the spot.</p>
<p>On June 2, Capers was sentenced to 42 years in prison for his vicious crimes.</p>
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Brooklyn Bloods gang enforcer remains loyal to his boss and gets 30 years in prison for drug trafficking
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2017-06-02T13:30:00.000Z
2017-06-02T13:30:00.000Z
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<p>Shondell “M-Dot” Walker, a member of the Brooklyn-based Murderous Maddawg Bloods, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday for narcotics trafficking and his role as an enforcer for Bloods gang leader <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bloods-gang-leader-charged-with-three-murders" target="_blank">Ronald “Ra Diggs” Herron</a>. The 31-year-old gangster (photo above) had pled guilty pursuant to a plea agreement on October 6, 2011, to conspiring to distribute narcotics.</p>
<p>During Herron’s trial, Walker was called as a defense witness and testified falsely on Herron’s behalf. He testified that Herron had served as a positive role model in the Gowanus and Wyckoff Gardens communities, that he had never seen Herron sell narcotics, and that he had never worked, sold drugs, or carried a firearm on Herron’s behalf. Walker’s claims were substantially undermined by the admission into evidence of a letter he had written from prison in which he stated that he intended to remain loyal to Herron because of their membership in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bloods" target="_blank">Bloods</a>.</p>
<p>Bloods leader Herron was convicted after trial and has already been sentenced to multiple life terms consecutive to 105 years in prison. He had done little, beforehand, to evade the eyes of law enforcement as he posted videos of himself on the Internet in which he identified himself as the leader of the Murderous Mad Dogs set of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bloods" target="_blank">Bloods gang</a>, and claimed that he headed a “murder team.”</p>
<p>The videos also showed Herron firing weapons and threatening to use them to kill people. He also posted messages on Twitter in which he boasted that he had “beat the stabbing,” “beat the attempt,” and “beat the body.”</p>
<p>Herron and Walker’s convictions followed dozens of successful prosecutions over the past decade conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, along with the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=FBI" target="_blank">FBI</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=NYPD" target="_blank">NYPD</a>, of violent gang members and drug dealers from the Gowanus and Wyckoff Gardens housing developments.</p>
<p>“This case proves the lengths gang members will go to protect their own,” stated FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney. “The subject will spend the bulk of his life in federal prison all because he felt allegiance to a deadly and criminal gang. The work of our FBI New York Metro Safe Streets Task Force and our law enforcement partners is vital to stopping the spread of criminal enterprises like these gangs, and we won’t back off until these gangs no longer exist.”</p>
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Black P-Stones lieutenant gets 30 years in prison for racketeering and murder
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2017-04-22T14:10:20.000Z
2017-04-22T14:10:20.000Z
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<p>Desmond Finnell, a lieutenant in the Black P-Stones gang in Newport News, Virginia, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for racketeering conspiracy and murder on Thursday. 30-year-old Finnell had already pleaded guilty in November of 2016.</p>
<p>For several years, Finnell was one of several violent members of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/black-organized-crime" target="_blank">Black P-Stones</a> crew led by Michael Hopson. The gang was into drug dealing, robberies, and various other violent schemes. Finnell was responsible for multiple shootings in Newport News and Hampton as part of his <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/street-gangs" target="_blank">Black P-Stones gang</a> activity.</p>
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<p>As is customary in organized crime, things are never personal, just business. This was also the case for Finnell.</p>
<p>When he had a falling out with a friend about a missing batch of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marijuana" target="_blank">marijuana</a>, Finnell decided there was no use in sitting down and having a drink and talk with his pal. Believing his friend, Ernest “Critter” Crudup, had robbed him of around 20 pounds of marijuana, on November 28, 2010, he lured him to a location in Newport News where he shot him to death.</p>
<p>Whoever said drug business was easy money, needs to check the numbers. While the price of bricks remains high and stable, the price of life is going down faster than the Titanic.</p>
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President Obama reduces Gangster Disciples boss' sentence
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2017-01-19T16:00:00.000Z
2017-01-19T16:00:00.000Z
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<p>Eric “Fat Eric” Wilson, a former leader in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=GD">Gangster Disciples</a>, was given a sentence reduction by President Barack Obama on Tuesday. Wilson (photo above, left) was serving a life sentence for drug trafficking, but that has been reduced to 35 years, which means he’ll be eligible for release in 7 years.</p>
<p>The former gang boss can thank U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush for sending a letter to Obama in which he wrote that Wilson deserved a break in his sentence because of his “extraordinary rehabilitative efforts,” the <a href="http://chicago.suntimes.com" target="_blank">Chicago Sun Times</a> reported. “Wilson earned a 4.0 grade average in college in prison while working in the prison steel factory as a skilled welder,” Rush wrote, adding that he did not believe Wilson would’ve gotten the same life sentence had he been subjected to current laws.</p>
<p>As a “governor” in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/black-organized-crime">Gangster Disciples organization</a>, Wilson reported directly to supreme leader Larry Hoover and himself ruled over large areas of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Chicago">Chicago</a>, commanding hundreds of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/street-gangs">gang members</a>. In the late 1990s, Hoover, Wilson, and several others were busted and convicted of participating in a drug conspiracy. In 1998, Wilson was sentenced to life behind bars.</p>
<p>Not far from Chicago, in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Rockford">Rockford</a>, a leader of the Black Gangster Disciples also received a sentence reduction. <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/profile-rockford-s-black-gangster-disciples-boss-karl-fort">Karl Fort’s life sentence was reduced</a> to 35 years as well. He’ll be out in 2019. Though no one can predict how both these men will behave once outside, they might play a role in the community, telling kids to stay away from the gang life and perhaps mediating between various groups currently at war with each other.</p>
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New Jersey Bloods gang boss pleads guilty to murder, racketeering charges
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2016-12-14T23:30:00.000Z
2016-12-14T23:30:00.000Z
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<p>Rajohn “1090” Wilson, a leader of the Sex Money Murder set of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bloods">Bloods street gang</a> in New Jersey Tuesday admitted his role in a racketeering conspiracy involving murder and heroin trafficking charges.</p>
<p>The 25-year-old is a younger brother of Narik “Spaz” Wilson, the leader or “O.G.” of the Sex Money Murder set of the Bloods gang. <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/violent-bloods-gang-leaders-admit-racketeering-murder-conspiracy">Narik Wilson pleaded guilty</a> to related charges last month and is looking at 30 years behind bars.</p>
<p>Rajohn served as a “five-star general” and admitted that from 2007 to 2011 he committed a series of violent crimes to expand the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Gangs">gang</a>’s power and influence in Essex County, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=NJ">New Jersey</a>. The violence Wilson and fellow gang members poured out onto the streets included several drive-by shootings. He also distributed over a kilogram of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Heroin">heroin</a>.</p>
<p>By pleading guilty, Wilson looks to be sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison, minus time served in jail on a related case, and five years of supervised release. His sentencing is scheduled for March 23, 2017.</p>
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FBI arrests Jamaican gangster sought for 4 murders day after it placed him on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list
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2016-12-03T09:27:50.000Z
2016-12-03T09:27:50.000Z
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<p>Just one day after the FBI placed Jamaican gangster Marlon Jones on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, he is in custody. He is charged with involvement in the shooting murder of four individuals in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>Jones has a violent criminal history in the United States, where the FBI believes he is residing illegally. Authorities allege he is a member of an East Coast <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Jamaica">Jamaican organized crime</a> group involved in the illegal distribution of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marijuana">marijuana</a>.</p>
<p>While attending a birthday party on October 15, 2016, Jones allegedly shot and killed a rival Jamaican gang member. The party was being held at a crowded home in the West Adams District of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=LA">Los Angeles</a> that had been temporarily converted into a restaurant.</p>
<p>According to detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Criminal Gangs Homicide Division, an exchange of gunfire took place between rival gang members, leaving four dead and ten others wounded. They believe Jones was deliberately sent to the party to settle a disagreement with the rival gang.</p>
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<p>On October 21, 2016, a local arrest warrant was obtained by the Los Angeles Police Department for Jones after he was charged with four counts of murder by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.</p>
<p>“The crimes allegedly committed by Marlon Jones are extremely violent, earning him a place on the FBI’s Top Ten list,” said Deirdre L. Fike, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office. “The publicity the Top Ten list affords investigators cannot be overstated, as its continued success has shown. Our Fugitive Task Force is highly capable at finding dangerous fugitives and will use their expertise, coupled with the public’s assistance and a large reward offer, to locate and capture Marlon Jones.”</p>
<p>Indeed, they did. A $100,000 reward was enough incentive. Acting on a tip from the public, the FBI’s fugitive task force arrested Jones yesterday after a freeway pursuit.</p>
<p>His arrest brings to end a difficult search by <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=LAPD">LAPD</a> detectives investigating the case. They received information that Jones had been visiting from New York and staying with associates in Los Angeles, but were unable to locate him.</p>
<p>As an internationally operating gangster with ties to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, California, Tennessee, the Virgin Islands, and Jamaica, Jones had plenty of options for escape. Furthermore, he was very savvy by using multiple identities, all with different dates of birth between 1970 and 1981.</p>
<p>In the end, though, the heat that comes with being one of America’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives proved too much.</p>
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Violent Bloods gang leaders admit racketeering, murder conspiracy
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2016-11-03T06:23:36.000Z
2016-11-03T06:23:36.000Z
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<p>Two leaders of the Sex Money Murder set of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bloods">Bloods street gang</a> Tuesday admitted their roles in a racketeering conspiracy that involved murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and conspiracy to distribute heroin.</p>
<p>32-year-old Narik “Spaz” Wilson (photo above) and 27-year-old Emil “Diddy” Rutledge, both of Newark, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in Newark federal court to Count Two of a 14-count superseding indictment charging them with racketeering conspiracy.</p>
<p>The plea agreements require both men to be sentenced to 30 years in prison, minus time served in jail on related cases, and five years of supervised release. Sentencing is scheduled for February 15, 2017.</p>
<p>Wilson and Rutledge, high-ranking members in Sex Money Murder a subgroup of the Bloods street gang that operates primarily in Essex County, New Jersey, admitted to a series of violent crimes they committed between 2007 and 2011 to expand the group’s power and influence.</p>
<p>As the O.G. or leader of Sex Money Murder, Wilson admitted that he directed the murder and attempted murder of eight rival gang members in and around Newark. Rutledge, a “captain,” or “shot-caller,” of Sex Money Murder, admitted that he and others carried out a number of the shootings ordered by Wilson, causing series injuries to others and the death of a victim.</p>
<p>Wilson pleaded guilty to conspiring with and directing other members of Sex Money Murder to commit eight murders, one of which succeeded. Rutledge admitted that, acting at Wilson’s direction, he and others carried out drive-by shootings and also admitted that he and others killed one rival gangster in a drive-by shooting. Wilson and Rutledge admitted conspiring to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin in and around Newark.</p>
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West Coast Crips gang boss gets life for drug crimes
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2016-07-27T21:30:00.000Z
2016-07-27T21:30:00.000Z
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<p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Crips">West Coast Crips</a> gang leader Randy Alton Graves (photo above, center) was sentenced in federal court Tuesday morning to life in prison for multiple drug-related crimes. The 53-year-old gangster has more than a dozen felony and misdemeanor convictions from 1976 to 2012, ranging from voluntary manslaughter to gun crimes to multiple drug offenses.</p>
<p>Graves was convicted by a federal jury on April 4, 2016 of conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Meth">methamphetamine</a>; conspiracy to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marijuana">marijuana</a>; and possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine. Following a five-day trial, the jury deliberated for about three hours before returning its verdict.</p>
<p>During sentencing, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw noted that he also considered Graves’ role in the murder of a government witness, sex trafficking, possession of firearms, and other instances of drug dealing in determining that a life sentence was appropriate - even without a mandatory minimum requirement.</p>
<p>According to evidence presented at trial, Graves sold meth to a confidential informant on four occasions between August and October of 2013. The government also played intercepted phone calls for the jury in which Graves recruited three men to travel to Lompoc, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=California">California</a>, to unload a boat carrying 5,000 pounds of marijuana from <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Mexico">Mexico</a>. Prosecutors also presented evidence obtained from a search warrant executed on Graves’ residence which showed Graves in possession of 79 grams of methamphetamine found in Graves’ refrigerator and two loaded guns.</p>
<p>Graves was initially indicted in June 2014 with racketeering charges connected to the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Crips">West Coast Crips</a> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/street-gangs">street gang</a>. The racketeering activity alleged in that indictment included several homicides, drug, and sex trafficking crimes. Graves’ case was severed from the larger racketeering trial and proceeded to trial only on certain drug charges.</p>
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Russian mob boss orders the internet to ‘fuggedabout’ him
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2016-06-02T11:30:00.000Z
2016-06-02T11:30:00.000Z
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<p>Russian crime boss Sergei Mikhailov (photo above) has been whitewashing his dirty past. Known around the globe as one of the world’s most powerful gangsters, he has used a new law to remove information about his criminal past from major internet search engines in Russia, including Google.</p>
<p>Though 58-year-old <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/russian-boss-sergei-mikhailov">Mikhailov</a> has never been convicted of any crimes, he was arrested several times in connection with extortion and organized crime activity. However, cases against him never resulted in a guilty verdict because witnesses were either afraid to testify or <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/russian-boss-sergei-mikhailov">wound up dead</a> or missing.</p>
<p>His links to and alleged leadership of the Moscow-based <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/russian-mafia-overview">Solntsevskaya mob</a> which he founded has been well-documented since the late 1980s. As his organization grew and expanded, Mikhailov was along for the ride. By the 1990s, he was operating in Switzerland allegedly controlling a vast network of banks to launder billions of criminal money.</p>
<p>After some legal trouble in Switzerland - of which he was acquitted - Mikhailov moved back to Russia. Back home in Moscow he was surrounded by friends in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-dark-knight-of-mother">very high places</a>. As a member of the country’s rich elite, he began making a new name for himself, that of an honest, successful and legitimate businessman and philanthropist.</p>
<p>In the old days, that wouldn’t have been so hard, but with the internet… Well, let’s just say the internet never forgets. Thankfully, a new law went into full effect last January. Titled the “Right to forget” law, it gives Russians a chance to block fellow citizens from looking up any information about them they deem harmful.</p>
<p>For Mikhailov that meant blocking a long list of websites and texts discussing his alleged criminal deeds and operations. Search engines Google.ru, Mail.ru, and Yandex.ru have already removed content related to his shady past.</p>
<p>Whether it will be enough to launder Mikhailov’s dirty history remains in doubt. The law is only effective in Russia and reporters continue to write about his connection to and role in Russian organized crime.</p>
<p>As far as mob bosses go, Mikhailov has reached the very top of the mountain, but if he really wants to erase his criminal past and wash it clean, maybe he should just run for president. It would make censoring stuff a lot easier.</p>
<p>We at Gangsters Inc. hope that with all this deleting of criminal histories going on, Mikhailov doesn’t forget to delete his own browser history as well. It could perhaps save him from some awkward moments with his wife.</p>
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Bloody knife attacks as Triad gangs go to war in Hong Kong
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2016-05-19T17:24:13.000Z
2016-05-19T17:24:13.000Z
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<p>It was a typical Wednesday at the Yau Yim Kee fruit store on Hong Kong’s Shek Lung Street. For over a century the store has been a staple for shoppers and passersby. Yesterday was no different. It was business as usual until the door opened and violence poured in.</p>
<p>Four men wearing surgical masks and gloves entered the store around 7 pm and slashed three people inside with knives, including the 37-year-old manager, whose neck received a seven-inch-long cut wound.</p>
<p>Within 30 seconds the assailants fled the scene in a waiting car, leaving behind a bloody mess.</p>
<p>Authorities believe the attack is linked to a feud between the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/triads-overview">Wo Shing Wo</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/triads-overview">14K Triad</a> gangs and that it fits in a spate of violent incidents that find its origin in the alleged beating of Kwok Wing-hung - photo above, the leader of the Wo Shing Wo Triad.</p>
<p>Six months ago, Kwok Wing-hung, also known as “Shanghai Boy,” was hanging out in the ground-floor café of the five-star Peninsula Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui around five in the afternoon when an unknown man approached him and allegedly punched him in the face.</p>
<p>The 57-year-old Triad boss kept it lighthearted after the attack, saying, “Someone said [I was] killed. You see. I’m in good shape. [I] just bumped into a table corner. You see how handsome [I am].”</p>
<p>But last month, one of his close associates - and Wo Shing Wo member - Pa Ki Ming was badly wounded in an ambush by a squad of eight rival gangsters.</p>
<p>It was time for revenge.</p>
<p>This brings us back to the Yau Yim Kee fruit store where three people, including one woman – the sister of the manager – and her husband, were badly wounded in a vicious knife attack.</p>
<p>According to an anonymous source close to the investigation, one of these three people “has close links with the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/triad-boss-wan-kuokkoi-aka">14K</a> triad gang involved in the ongoing dispute with Wo Shing Wo.”</p>
<p>To get to one person the gangsters were willing to injure two more people who were simply at the wrong place at the wrong time. Say what you want about the man who started the violence when he decided to punch a crime boss in the face, but at least he went straight for the source and didn’t mess with innocent bystanders.</p>
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Former Playboy model goes to prison for mob hit
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2016-03-03T16:47:13.000Z
2016-03-03T16:47:13.000Z
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<p>Looks can be deceiving. Looking at photos of Slobodanka Tosic, a former Playboy model and 2005 Miss Photogenic for Bosnia and Herzegovina, one can see many things, but mostly a beautiful, harmless, young, perhaps dumb, blonde woman. However, that same woman was sentenced to two and a half years in prison yesterday for her involvement in an attempted mob hit. Prosecutors even claim she belongs to “one of the largest organized crime groups” in Bosnia.</p>
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<p>How does a Playboy model end up in an organized crime murder plot you may ask? Well, 29-year-old Tosic allegedly helped lure one intended victim into a trap, the <a href="https://www.occrp.org" target="_blank">Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project</a> writes. That victim, Djordje Zdrale, is a notorious gangster himself convicted of multiple gangland slayings.</p>
<p>Zdrale had lived the life and knew how one set up a successful mob hit, so his adversaries had a difficult time murdering him. They did know of one weak spot, however. Zdrale was in love with Tosic.</p>
<p>In 2006, Tosic asked Zdrale to accompany her to a friend’s house because she wanted to pick up some of her study books. Once the pair arrived, Zdrale found no books, but bullets raging past him as gunmen sprang into action.</p>
<p>Zdrale managed to escape and is currently doing 20 years in prison on a murder conviction.</p>
<p>Tosic now gets to enjoy the same view, serving her time for attempted murder. Fortunately for her she knows how to survive, she was a contestant in the Serbian version of reality show Survivor.</p>
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Yakuza mob boss bludgeoned to death outside his home
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2015-11-17T12:45:37.000Z
2015-11-17T12:45:37.000Z
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<p>Japan’s <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/yakuza-overview">Yakuza</a> gang war is heating up. Tatsuyuki Hishida (photo above), leader of Aioh Kai, an affiliate of the Yamaguchi-gumi, was bludgeoned to death on Sunday afternoon, Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported yesterday. The 59-year-old Yakuza boss was found with his hands and feet bound by plastic cable ties.</p>
<p>He was found by his wife and staff at the entrance of his second home in Yokkaichi city of Mie prefecture, in western Japan.</p>
<p>Hishida’s murder is seen as the latest sign that a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/yakuza-overview">Yakuza</a> gang war is raging through the country. On August 27, Japan’s largest criminal organization, the Yamaguchi-gumi, split in two factions after thirteen affiliate Yakuza leaders in Kansai failed to attend a meeting to discuss moving Yamaguchi-gumi headquarters from Kobe to Nagoya.</p>
<p>Since then, the Yamaguchi-gumi is at war with its thirteen renegade clan leaders and their underlings who have named themselves Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, after the city they wanted the headquarters to remain in.</p>
<p>The Yamaguchi-gumi has been here before. In 1984 the group broke up in two factions as well. That time because it couldn’t agree who it would name boss. During the following three years, as bombs exploded in several cities and Yakuza hitmen roamed the streets, 25 people were killed and 70 were injured.</p>
<p>After the split in late August of this year, both groups began recruiting new members and stockpiling weapons, police reported. Media outlets claim the first shots of the new war were fired at the beginning of October when a 43-year-old man was shot and killed in Iida City in Nagano prefecture. It is rumored the man wanted to leave a Yamaguchi-gumi affiliate and join the newly formed rival organization. Two days later arrested a senior member of a gang affiliated with the Yamaguchi-gumi on suspicion of his murder.</p>
<p>Most recently, late last month, Toshiyuki Kawaji, a 52-year-old boss in the Kuramoto-gumi, affiliated with the Yamaguchi-gumi, was found dead with a single gunshot wound in an office in the Minami entertainment area of Osaka.</p>
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Major heroin trafficking boss sentenced to 30 years in prison
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2015-11-05T17:26:34.000Z
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<p>Virginia drug boss Alonzo Outten (35) was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison for his leadership and involvement in a heroin trafficking operation that was responsible for the distribution of between 30 and 90 kilograms of heroin with an estimated street value of up to $4.5 million dollars.</p>
<p>Outten, along with six of his co-conspirators, was indicted by a grand jury on July 8, 2015. Three weeks later, on July 30, 2015, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute in excess of one kilogram of heroin.</p>
<p>Prosecutors say, Outten managed six mid-level drug operatives who in turn managed approximately a dozen other individuals that either directly assisted or facilitated the trafficking and distribution of heroin. As the leader, Outten managed the manufacturing and distribution of between 30 and 90 kilograms of heroin with an estimated street value between $1.5 and $4.5 million dollars in the period between November 2013 and July 2015.</p>
<p>Outten supplied kilogram amounts of heroin to at least two Bloods <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/street-gangs">gang sets</a>: the Imperial Gangsta Bloods led by “Godfather” Chris Smith, aka Killa, who pleaded guilty on July 28, 2015; and the Gorilla Mafia Piru gang led by Theodore Vann, aka Flatline, who pleaded guilty on June 25, 2015.</p>
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Schuele Boys Gang associate pleads guilty to selling drugs out of variety store
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2015-10-06T13:35:24.000Z
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<p>Robert Brown, aka Pee Wee, 52, of Buffalo, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine yesterday. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine. Authorities claim Brown is an associate of the Schuele Boys Gang.</p>
<p>The Schuele Boys Gang, which operated in the Schuele Street area of the East Side of Buffalo, is believed to be responsible for multiple acts of violence and the distribution of illegal narcotics including cocaine, crack cocaine and marijuana.</p>
<p>Brown is one of 28 Schuele Boys Gang members and associates arrested in this case. To date, 13 of the defendants have been convicted (photo above.) He will be sentenced on January 21, 2016 at 12:00 p.m.</p>
<p>“From time to time, residents of certain neighborhoods have reported their concerns about corner stores being a front for crime,” said U.S. Attorney Hochul. As this case demonstrates, law enforcement welcomes such information, and is committed to closing those locations which are engaged in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/street-gangs">illegal activities</a>.”</p>
<p>Assistant U.S. Attorney George C. Burgasser, who is handling the case, stated that between June 2013 and July 23, 2014, the defendant bought quantities of cocaine from co-defendant Damario James. Brown then re-distributed the cocaine from his residence in Buffalo as well as from his store “Pee Wee’s Variety Store.”</p>
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Armed Imperial Gangsta Bloods drug dealer sentenced to 35 years
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2015-09-24T20:00:00.000Z
2015-09-24T20:00:00.000Z
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<div><p>Jermarrieo Javone Stigger, 30, of Portsmouth, was sentenced Tuesday to 420 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute narcotics and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237053301,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237053301?profile=original" width="100" /></a>Stigger (right) pleaded guilty on Feb. 25, 2015. According to court documents, Stigger was a high-ranking member of the Imperial Gangsta Bloods, a Portsmouth-based set affiliated with the United Blood Nation that engaged in drug trafficking and acts of violence, including multiple shooting incidents during the summer of 2014.</p>
<p>Operating out of Virginia Beach hotel rooms and other residences in Hampton Roads, Stigger bought and sold, and managed others who sold, substantial amounts of cocaine and crack cocaine. He was regularly armed during the course of the drug conspiracy, including with an assault rifle and numerous handguns.</p>
<p>The defendant and other members of the Imperial Gangsta Bloods who are awaiting sentencing were investigated in a joint operation by the FBI, the Portsmouth Police Department, the Virginia Beach Police Department, and the Virginia State Police.</p>
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