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"$207,000,000 in $100 Bills Mexico a la mode"

 

The preferred breakfast in bed

 

12th Street Boys

 

50-Strong

 

6 Mile Boys/ABC Boys:

 

• 07/26/90 Dance Led to Gunfight by Gangs

 

• 07/28/90 Eleven Charged in Shooting Death at Party

 

• 08/03/90 Aimless Youths, Not Gangs Blamed in Racine Shoot-Out

 

• 08/11/90 Nine Charged in Gang Shoot-Out

 

• 04/07/95 Student says She was shot by Suspect's Brother

 

 

7 Mile Dogs:  

 

• 09/27/97 Youth Gangs Leave Petty Crime Behind

 

• 09/27/97 Sisters' Deaths Spur Police to Seek an End to Gang Warfare

 

 

 

 

I lived in Detroit from 1963 to 1997.  When I resided on

Ashton off 7 Mile Road in the 80s, some friends and I

decided to walk to a record shop located between

the Southfield Freeway Service Drive and Greenfield

 

As we exited the shop to walk home, we happened into

a gang of men who pointed guns in our faces and said

get out of the area, or a cap was gonna get busted in

our asses

 

These guys were in a dispute with other individuals,

running around guns in hand, shouting 7 Mile, 7 Mile

Dogs as they stormed the night

 

When I hear about initiation today? I think of this moment

and how close the Dogs were to another jump-in, if in fact

they were into that

 

I'd like to believe we were spared because we were girls 

 

But

 

I had this in my face for the first,

                                 and hopefully the last time 

 

7 Mile Nutty Boys 

 

8 Ball Jackets 

 

         

     

 

I received an original leather 8 Ball jacket as a gift from an acquaintance who was not too familiar with the City's reaction to this wear, but I knew

 

Today, I still have the jacket but when received, I never had the 'balls' to wear it being that whomever wore the jacket was a target.  People were robbed and deaded for this jacket 

 

8 Mile Boys

 

8 Mile Sconey’s

 

 

8 Mile Smurfs:

 

• 12/09/86 The Verdict is Frustration

 

Adolph "Doc Holliday" Powell:

 

• 01/23/83 Beheading-Case Figure is Slain

 

• 01/24/83 'Doc' Slain While Buying Drinks

 

• 01/25/83 Bystander’s Dreams Die with Her

 

• 03/26/83 Suspect Charged in Double Killing

 

• 04/06/83 Trial Ordered in Slaying “Snitch” Killer Bragged, Witness says

 

• 04/07/83 Shot Down in West Side Bar in January for being a “Snitch”

 

• 04/07/83 Escapee Held in Slaying of 2 at West Side Bar

 

• 04/08/83 Charge in Doc Holliday Slaying

 

• 12/01/83 Beheading Defendant on Trial in Another Case and Adolph’s Killers

 

• 12/17/83 Jury Clears One of Two in Slayings of Two at Bar 

 

• 12/20/83 Mistrial Ordered in January Slaying of City Drug Figure

 

• 03/02/84 Acquittal of Gregory Barnett

 

Gregory (Fly) Barnett  

 

 

 

All About Money:

 

• 11/20/07 Violence Sounds Alarm at Oak Park High

 

 

Alphabet

 

Andre Patrick:

 

• 09/21/90 Drug Gangsters Shoot it out 5 Killings are tied to Factional Clash

 

Be Like Boys

 

 

Best Friends:

 

• Best Friends 1985 - 1990

 

• 10/03/95 Conspiracy Trial Begins for Best Friends Gang

 

     Demetrius Holloway:

 

"Founding Member"

• Drug Lord 1970s - 1990

 

• 11/27/88 A Shooting Victim - or on the Run?

      

• 10/09/90 Reputed Drug Figure Shot Dead Downtown

 

• 10/10/90 Slain Drug Figure Foretold a Fast End

 

• 10/10/90 Type of Slaying Makes Solution Difficult

 

• 03/18/99 Brothers Charged in 1990 Slaying of Gambler, Drug Lord

 

Demetrius Holloway

 

     Ezra Brown:

 

• 07/07/89 Officials Say Brothers were at Center of Gang

 

    Gregory Brown:

 

• 12/28/86 Ambushed Men's Brother Dies in East Side Shooting 

 

    Michael Smith, Tyreese Washington, Jessie Anderson, and William

Wilkes:

 

• 05/03/94 Four Drug Gang Members Guilty of Conspiracy

 

    Nate Craft:

 

• 08/18/08 Former Hitman Fears for his Life

 

    Reginald “Rockin’ Reggie” Brown:

 

• Enforcement Chief 1986 - 1989

 

• 10/23/87 Police Tie Arrest to Contract Killings

 

• 10/27/87 Trial Slated for Reputed Leader of Killing Ring

 

• 04/30/88 Reputed Drug Assassin Guilty

 

• 05/15/92 Alleged Leader of Kill-For-Hire Gang is Accused

          

• 06/19/93 Gang Member Wanted in 4 Slayings Arrested

 

• 06/23/93 U.S. to Seek Death for 6 Detroiters Indicted

 

• 09/14/94 Death Penalty Request may be Withdrawn

 

• 12/30/94 Informant's Death Traced to Lawyer

 

Reginald “Rockin' Reggie” Brown

 

     Richard “Maserati Rick” Carter: 

 

• Founder 1977 - 1988

 

• 09/13/88 Recovering Man Slain in Hospital

 

• 09/14/88 Dealer Wasn’t Tough Enough

 

• 09/27/88 Last Request a First to Customizer

 

• 12/22/88 Drug War Murder Suspect Acquitted

 

• 08/07/90 The Tabloid Tour Sites

 

• 08/14/90 Maserati Rick Estate Sues City Over Killing

 

• 09/18/90 Maserati Rick's Brother Slain by Lone Gunman

 

• 05/18/99 Carter Slaying Victims Linked to Drug Meeting

 

 

 

 

 

Richard “Maserati Rick” Carter

 

     Richard “White Boy Rick” Wershe, Jr.: 

 

 

 

 

Richard "White Boy Rick" Wershe, Jr.

 

     Stacey Culbert: 

 

• 06/23/93 U.S. to Seek Death for 6 Detroiters Indicted in Killings for Hire

 

• 04/01/94 U.S. Breaks New Ground in Zeal to Punish

 

• 06/07/94 Brief Chase Nabs Drug Gang Suspect

 

• 09/05/95 Death Penalty Debate Possible in Detroit Drug Trial

 

• 09/27/95 Best Friends Defendant Pleads Guilty

 

     Terrance “Boogaloo" Brown: 

 

• Terrance “Boogaloo” Brown

 

• Leader 1985 - 1993

 

• 03/22/89 Fugitive is Charged in Slaying near GM Building

 

• 05/07/89 ‘The New Boys’ Gang Tied to Drug Killings

 

• 05/13/92 Slaying Target Feared Drug Gang Attorney says

 

• 08/14/93 Gang Figure From Detroit Found Dead in Georgia

                                                                                                                 

Terrance “Boogaloo” Brown                           

                                                                                         

 

Black Jingle Boots

  

Black Killers: 

 

• Black Killers 1970s

                                                                      

 

Black Mafia Family (BMF):

 

• Black Mafia Family (BMF)

 

• 10/29/05 Drug Ring Busted - 2 Brothers ran Huge Gang; 25 are Indicted

 

 

 

"$270,000,000 Cocaine Enterprise"

• Arrests and Seizure

                                                                                                        

                                                                                 

 

      Black Mafia Family (BMF) Code of Silence Broken by:

      Rafael “Smurf” Allison, Decardo Hoskins, Jeffery Leahr

      and Omari McCree

 

      DOMINO EFFECT: Crack dealer Rafael "Smurf" Allison

      (top left) led investigators to Decarlo Hoskins (top right), 

      who in turn led them to BMF members Jeffery Leahr

      (bottom left) and Omari McCree (bottom right)

 

     Omari McCree (26):

 

• Big-Time Crack Dealer Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Drug Trafficking

 

     Bleu DaVinci:

 

• Barima P. “Bleu DaVinci” McKnight

 

• 10/30/08 BMF Rapper Bleu DaVinci Sentenced

 

• 10/30/08 Bleu DaVinci Gets Five Years for Drug Conspiracy

 

    

                                                                                                

  

                                                                                             

 

Rapper Barima P. “Bleu DaVinci” McKnight

 

• Commander Chad “J-Bo” Brown

 

     Chad “J-Bo” Brown

 

     SMOKE AND MIRRORS: Chad ”J-Bo” Brown is an allegedly

     high-ranking – and elusive – BMF member who was

     was discussed during wiretaps on other members' phones

 

     Diamond Dealer:

 

• Diamond Dealer Nabbed with Detroit Drug Ring

 

• 03/27/07 'King of Bling' to Stand Trial in Detroit

 

• 10/24/06 'King of Bling' Seeks to move Case

 

• 10/27/07 Celebrity Jeweler Admits to Falsifying Records, Lying to Feds

 

• 11/01/07 'King of Bling' to Forfeit $2 Million as part of Plea Deal

 

• 06/24/08 Bling King Sentenced to 30 Months

 

• 06/25/08 Celebrity Jeweler Gets Prison, Fine for Lying 

                                                                                          

 

                                                                                           

                                                                                         

   

                                                                             

  

                                                                                   

Jacob “Jacob The Jeweler” Arabov

 

  

     Donta Cordell Edwards: 

 

• America's Most Wanted

 

• 07/20/08 Donta 'DBoy' Edwards linked to groups in U.S. Drug Case

 

• 07/20/08 Rap Music Producer's 2007 Death Shrouded in Mystery

 

• 07/21/08 Donta Cordell Edwards, 31-Year-Old Owner and CEO      

 

 

 

 

 

     Donta Cordell Edwards formerly Handless John Doe. 

     Body found on the side of the Lodge Freeway Service

     Drive near Collingwood.  Killed by a gunshot to his

     head, his hands cut off and set on fire

 

     Franklin Nash:

 

• 10/30/08 Judge Gives Member of Black Mafia Family a Break

                                                                                      

 

     Hummer:

 

• Black Mafia's Hummer Limo Hid $875,000 in Cash 

                                                                                 

        

                                                                                         

      

                                                                                                     

    

 

                                              BMF Hummer Limo

 

• Leaders Sentenced to 30 Years 

 

    

 

• Lieutenant Fleming “iII” Daniels

 

Fleming “iII” Daniels

                                                                                           

  

Paul Sheldon Buford, Jr.: 

 

America's Most Wanted  

 

01/26/09 Gang Leader on 'America's Most Wanted'

       

Paul Sheldon Buford, Jr.

              

 

     Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory

 

• Seventeen Additional People Indicted In Large Scale Drug      

  

Soldiers     

 

     Shakir Stewart:

 

• Death Raises Speculation of Mob Ties   

                                                                                           

     Shakir Stewart (right) pictured

                                                         with Bryan Cox

 

• Ten Defendants Sentenced in Black Mafia Family Cocaine Distribution Case  

                                                                                                   

                  

 

The World is Ours: The Rise and Fall of the “Black Mafia Family”

 

    

 

• Trial

 

    

     Fabolous

 

Were They Up-And-Coming Music Moguls or Major Dope Dealers? 

 

     Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory:

 

 

• 11/20/07 'Black Mafia' Leader Pleads Guilty in Drug Case

 

• 11/21/07 Ex-Detroit Man Pleads Guilty

 

 

     

 

         Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory 

 

     Terry "Southwest T" Flenory:

 

• 11/21/07 Second Brother Pleads Guilty in Cocaine Ring 

   

    

                                Terry "Southwest T" Flenory

 

     Young Jeezy

 

      

Young Jeezy 

                                                                     

     Feds may indict rapper Young Jeezy before August due to

     drug trafficking allegations brought to their attention by

     a former Black Mafia Family (BMF) soldier. Feds are even

     more determined to bring Jeezy down since a urban blog

     reported this week that Jeezy allegedly paid $750,000 in

     cash to buy his former (famous) girlfriend an Atlanta

     mansion and then gave her the deed to the property.

     According to reports, he also bought this woman a six

     figure condo and its rumored, he also bought her a

     Ferrari. Jeezy also drives a $250,000 Lamborghini

     despite sluggish record sales. Law enforcement and the

     IRS are wondering, where did the money come from for

     this extravagant lifestyle?  Source: Panache Report

 

Black Panthers:

 

• 06/23/07 Their Legacy:  Race Riots Doomed Detroit Forever     

                                                                           

     Black Panthers

 

Bolo Organization: 

 

• 10/09/92 Ambush Shooting Called Attempt to Silence Witness

 

• 10/15/92 Arrests Called Crippling to Dealers

 

Boystown

 

Brewster Boys:

 

           Brewster Boys Produced $10,000 per

           day in Heroin Sales for the Y.B.I. by

           1981

                                                                                     

     Brewster Projects

 

• Brewster Projects’ Edward Robinson, Jr.

 

• 03/12/82 Drugs and Fear at Housing Project 

                                                                                     

 

Brightmoor Boys, The:

 

• 03/09/00 Band Together, Call Police to Stop Gangs

                                                                                      

     Brightmoor Neighborhood

 

Cash Flow Posse:

 

• Cash Flow Posse

                                                                            

       

 

• 07/23/97 Gang Prosecutors use RICO - 6 Charged Under Racketeering Statute

 

• 04/29/98 Street Gang Leader Admits to Violence Posse

     

• 09/24/99 Judge Lifts the Specter of Death Penalty for Suspect

 

Catalonotte Gang:

 

• Catalonotte Gang

 

Chains

                                                                                        

 

Chambers Brothers:

 

"Net $500,000,000 a Year in the City"

 

Chambers Brothers 1980s 

 

Billie Joe Chambers

 

Book - Land of Opportunity: One Family’s Quest for the American Dream

 

 

Drug Empire Showed all the Traits of Big Business

 

Otis Chambers

 

• “I’m Going to Detroit”

 

      Willie Chambers  

 

• Movie - New Jack City

 

 

     The movie New Jack City is based on the Chambers Brothers who

     overtook the Broadmoor Apartments on West Grand Boulevard

     and Ferry Street and turned it into a Crack Den

 

• 03/02/88 Authorities:  Crack Ring Employed 275

 

• 09/14/88 Drug Trial May Probe Major Ring

 

• 09/15/88 Pair Bargain for Lesser Terms in Chambers Brothers Trial

 

• 09/23/88 Witness Testifies:  Drug Ring Beat its Troops

 

• 10/06/88 Teens Brought into Drug Ring with Free Rides, Woman Testifies

 

• 10/21/88 Two Chambers Brothers Plead Guilty to Tax Evasion Charges

 

• 10/26/88 Husband of Chambers Brothers Witness Charged in Threats

 

• 10/27/88 Testimony in Chambers Drug Trial Branded Lies

 

• 10/29/88 Four Chambers Brothers Guilty in Drug Trial

 

• 10/31/88 Convictions not Expected to Stem Detroit Cocaine Flow

 

• 03/25/89 Comparing Cocaine to Slavery, Judge Locks Up Chambers Gang

 

• 03/29/89 Reputed Chambers Member Arrested in '88 Slaying

 

• 03/28/91 Key Drug Witness Convicted of Perjury

 

• 10/17/93 Youth from Arkansas saw the World in Dim Light of Crack Houses

 

Chene Boys

 

Coney Oneys, The:

 

• 06/06/82 Gang Squad 10 Days with the Cops Waging the Fight

 

• 08/03/04 On this Day in Detroit

 

Coral Eugene Watts:

 

(Please Also See Michigan Serial Killers)

 

• Coral Eugene Watts 1974 - 1982

Coral Eugene Watts

 

Crooks Lose Name Game 

 

 

 

Crusaders

 

Dark Army, The

 

Detroit Jit:

 

• Jit

 

• Jit' on...Detroit's Legacy Dance Represents

 

• The Scene

 

Detroit La Cosa Nostra:

 

• 11/10/82 Twenty-one Locations Hit by Cops in Numbers Raid

 

• 02/11/97 Mob Trial Split into 3 Segments by Judge

 

• La Cosa Nostra

 

Detroit Mafia:

 

• Detroit Mafia

 

Detroit's Outfit:

 

• Detroit’s Outfit

 

Detroit Underworld Royalty:

 

• Detroit’s Underworld Royalty

 

 

Detroit Thug Lordz:

 

• 05/05/07 Feds Bust Key Members of Detroit Drug Gang

 

• 05/05/07 Dial-For-Drugs Ring Busted; 10 are Charged

 

• 05/31/07 Two Suspected Detroit Drug Dealers Captured in Mexico

 

• 07/12/07 Ten Gang Members Charged in Drug Case

 

• 01/08/08 Two to Stand Trial in Drug Delivery Case

 

     Isaias Quesada:

 

• 03/26/08 Leader of "Detroit Thug Lordz" and Confederate Plead Guilty

 

• 09/06/08 Top Thug in Drug Ring Gets 20 Years

 

     Rodolfo Moreno:

 

• 02/04/08 "Detroit Thug Lordz" Member Sentenced to 12 Years

 

 

Dexter Avenue Boys:

 

• 10/06/91 Boy of the 'Hood - The Story of Jacuya Jackson 

 

• Dexter Boys (an offshoot of Y.B.I.)

 

Dexter 

 

Dexter - Linwood:

 

• 11/21/02 Rivalry Explodes into Killing

 

• 11/22/02 Shot Follows Long Dispute Dexter-Linwood Rivalry

 

Donald Goines:

 

• Donald Goines

 

• 03/30/92 Grandson Dies Like Author

 

• 03/26/04 Detroiter's Novel Inspired Film

 

• 12/05/04 Writer from the Streets gets a New Look

 

• 04/09/07 New Life for an Urban Storyteller

 

 

 

 

 

Dude Freeman and Rodney Phelps - “Getting Ghost” 

 

 

East Side Killers

 

Eastside Mob:

 

• Eastside Mob

 

East Warren Boys

 

 

 

Edward “Big Ed” Hanserd:

 

• Drug Lord 1986 - 1991

 

• 12/19/88 Trouble is One Thing Suspect Can’t Shake

 

• 07/23/89 Alleged Boss in Drug Deals Faces Assault, Gun Charges

 

• 08/03/90 Drug Ring Suspects Named in Indictment

 

• 12/26/90 From Mansions to Prison, Drug Suspect Had a Wild Ride

 

• 01/09/91 Ex-City Cocaine Kingpin Guilty

 

• 05/10/91 Ex-Drug Kingpin Gets 40 Years

 

• PrisonerLife.Com

 

Edward “Big Ed” Hanserd

 

Errol Flynns Criminal Organization:

 

• Errol Flynns Criminal Organization 1970s

 

• Errol Flynns Criminal Organization

 

• Former Member Greg Mathis

 

                                                                                         

Judge Greg Mathis 

 

     

Family Above All

 

Fenkell Boys:

 

• 02/03/87 Parents Blame Gang Called Fenkell Boys for Attacks

 

• 01/12/88 Fight Over a Chair Ends in Shooting

 

Fenkell Business Block

 

Folk Nation Sets:

 

     Camel Boys Inc.:

 

• 02/23/93 Gang Members Rounded up

 

     Cash Money Brothers

 

     Crips:

 

• 09/27/96 Gang Member Sentenced for Rape Case

   

• 10/15/97 Gang Members to be Indicted on Racketeering Charges

   

• 09/13/02 Street Gang Founder Cleared for Execution

   

• 03/28/06 Attorney's Work Faces New Rebuke

   

• 12/05/06 'American Gangster'

   

    

  

                                                        

 

                                      

 

                                                 

 

                                                 

                                             Stanley "Tookie" Williams

 

     Detroit Kings:

 

• 03/28/93 The Gang Trap Together, Teens Seek Another Way

 

• 03/28/93 Gang Trap at Age 19 'Im a Marked Man'

   

     Easy Does It Posse

 

     Ex-Men

 

     Gangster Disciples:

 

• Gangster Disciples

 

• 10/28/97 Federal, Local Agencies Arrest 34 Suspected Gang Members

 

     Larry Elwood Woods: 

 

• America's Most Wanted

 

 Larry Elwood Woods

 

 

 

     Patrick Sykes:

 

• 02/07/97 Chicago Reaches out to Rape Victim, 9

 

• 04/04/97 Man Charged in Rape, Beating of Girl X

 

     Willie Sanders:

 

• 09/15/03 Convict had no Chance

 

Willie D. Sanders

 

Underground Syndicate:

 

• 03/13/91 Youth 15, Charged with Shooting of Boy 

 

Young Guns

 

Forbidden Wheels Motorcycle Club: 

 

• 08/31/82 Two Cyclists Slain at Club, Police say

 

• 09/02/82 Center Line Man Jailed in Slaying of Two Women Bikers

 

• 09/03/82 Inquiry into Cycle Probe of Motorcycle Club Urged

 

• 03/03/83 Biker President on Trial

 

• 03/08/83 Cyclist says Leader made him a Target

 

• 03/09/83 Defendant Lays Murder to a Fellow Club Member

 

• 09/03/83 Cycle Club President Guilty in Two Murders

 

• 09/17/83 Motorcycle Club Chief Sentenced

 

• 09/17/83 Biker Club Leader Gets Life Sentence

 

• 09/12/05 Feds Target Stash Seized From Gang 

 

• 09/11/07 A Brawl Leaves 3 Bikers Stabbed

 

 Paul Allen Dye

 

Heroin

 

Frank Lucas:

 

• Frank Lucas Drug Lord

 

15-Nov-08

 

 

 

 

 

 

 "Frank Lucas $250,000,000 Seized in Assets" 

 

    

Frank Lucas Denzel Style  

                                                                      

    

    Jay-Z wanted the part of Frank Lucas in American Gangster    

 

        

 

Frog

 

Gucci Boys

 

Hamilton

 

Hayward Leslie Brown:

 

• 06/14/84 Man the Courts Couldn't Convict was 70s Cause Celebre

 

• 06/14/84 Ex-Suspect in Shootings of Cops Dies in Shooting

 

• 06/14/84 FBI to Conduct Tests on Fatal Bullet

 

• 06/15/84 Police Hunt Slayers of 70s Nemesis

 

• 06/17/84 'Talkng About a Man' Police Nemesis Mourned

 

• 06/12/85 Accused Killer's Death Leaves Many Loose Ends

 

 

 

Highwaymen:

 

• 10/16/87 Motorcycle Club Members Indicted 

 

• 03/15/89 Woman's Houses Seized Under Drug Law 

 

• 04/22/89 Police:  Man Kills Biker, Hurts Another

 

• 10/04/06 Police, FBI Raid Biker Haunts

 

• 10/04/06 Bikers Arrested on Drug Charges

 

• 05/06/07 FBI Raids Detroit Motorcycle Club

 

• 06/16/07 FBI Targets Biker Club

 

• 06/16/07 Biker Gangs Deny They are Criminal Groups

 

• 06/16/07 Bikers May Sue FBI over 'Family Day' Raid

 

• 06/28/07 FBI says Cop Lied in Biker Case

 

• 11/05/08 FBI Investigates Drug Trafficking

 

• 12/24/08 FBI Case Against Biker Club Slowed

 

• 03/13/08 Four Cops Indicted in Highwaymen Probe

 

• 03/14/08 Hamtramck Cop Suspended after Highwaymen Indictment

 

• 01/15/09 Biker Club Ex-Leader Kept Jailed

 

• 01/15/09 Judge Urges Swift Prosecution of Alleged Motorcycle 

 

• 02/05/09 Feds Raid Three Highwaymen Club Houses

 

Aref "Scarface" Nagi

 

 

 

Inner City Posse:

 

• Inner City Posse

 

Insane Deuces

 

 

Jeffries Boys:

 

• Jeffries Boys

 

• 03/17/82 Kids Jump Rope to Songs of Heroin Growing up in Jeffries Homes

 

• 09/23/92 Fourteen-Year-Old gave Gun to 13-Year-Old

 

• 04/30/01 Jeffries Towers Tumble - Implosion Makes way for New Housing

 

    Jeffries Public Housing

        

 

Jimmy Hoffa:

 

• The Day Jimmy Hoffa Didn't Come Home

                                                                                           

Jimmy Hoffa           

 

John (Bread) Bass:

 

• John Bass “Dog Pound”

 

• 08/01/03 Death Penalty Trial Opens Today in Detroit Court

 

• 08/02/03 Witness in Death Penalty Trial Describes Beatings, Torture

               

• 08/12/03 Death Penalty Case Before Jury - Detroiter Found Guilty

 

• 08/12/03 Man Guilty of Murder, Could Be Sentenced to Death

 

• 08/14/03 Jury Weighing Death Penalty

               

• 06/24/04 Punishment may be Death

 

Dog Pound

 

Johnny Curry:

 

• 01/14/88 Cocaine King of the East Side Gets 20 Years without Parole

 

• 12/27/90 Lawyer For Young's Niece Criticizes Jury Subpoena

 

• 05/22/91 Sergeant's Chore:  Help Mayor's Kin Avoid Trouble

 

• 05/22/91 Cops Charged in FBI Sting

 

• 05/22/91 Mayor Young's Niece is Well-Known to U.S. Agents

 

• 07/22/91 Hill's Video Venture, FBI Probe Aren't Linked

 

• 02/22/92 Mayor's Relatives Protected for Years

 

• 04/17/92 Secret Cop Claims U.S. Tried to Entrap Him in Drug Deal, Prison

 

• 07/06/92 Detroit Police Face New Trial

 

• 07/16/92 Cops' Drug Trial Begins

 

• 07/16/92 Prosecutor says Cops knew they Guarded Drug Money

 

• 07/21/92 FBI says Cops Took Drug Roles Willingly

 

• 08/12/92 Hill Tipped Off Tap, Court Told Testimony Disputed in Sting Operation

 

• 10/10/92 Young's Niece Cathy Curry in Hospital for Overdose

 

• 10/26/92 Hill Says Allegations Aren't New or True

 

• 10/28/92 Retrial Moving to Flint for Cops Charged in Sting

 

 

John Z. DeLorean:

 

• John Z. DeLorean

 

• 04/14/82 DeLorean to Unload Inventory

 

• 10/20/82 $20 Million DeLorean Bond Sought Arrest Surprise

 

• 10/20/82 Industry Maverick - He Never Fit Picture of Auto Executive

 

• 10/20/82 John DeLorean Arrested in $24 Million Drug Case

 

• 10/21/82 $5 Million Bond Set for DeLorean

 

• 10/21/82 U.S.:  DeLorean Dealers now Flooded with Orders

 

• 10/21/82 DeLorean Meetings were Taped, Feds say

 

• 10/21/82 "Very Sorry" DeLorean Drug Bust Stuns GM

 

• 10/22/82 Act of Desperation Ex-DeLorean Aides Tells Bizarre Stories

 

• 10/24/82 Just Who is This John DeLorean?

 

• 10/26/82 DeLorean Firm Files Chapter 11 Petition

 

• 11/09/82 Unsold DeLoreans in Legal Knot

 

• 11/28/82 Fair Play or Trap?

 

• 01/09/83 DeLorean was Reportedly Investigated While at GM

 

• 05/20/83 US Reveals DeLorean Evidence

 

• 06/21/83 Bankruptcy Hearing DeLorean Wants his Company back

 

• 04/18/84 DeLorean Loses $975,000 Claim

 

• 08/08/85 DeLorean Pushing new Car Plan

 

• 12/21/86 Ex-Automaker has Tough Road if he tries to sue Government

 

• 05/31/00 DeLorean Finally Pays off Debt

 

• 08/07/01 Villains or Heroes, Car Execs Enrapture Detroit

 

• 03/21/05 Flashy Carmaker DeLorean Dies at 80

 

• 08/17/08 The Rise and Fall of John DeLorean, Dashing, Maverick Automaker

 

 

 

 

John Z. DeLorean

  

Jokers

 

Jones Drug Organization:

 

     Clifford Jones:

 

• Jones Drug Organization 1984 - 1993

 

• 02/26/93 Bust Reels in Leadership of Alleged Killing Ring Operation

• 02/26/93 Contract Killers in Custody

               

• 12/01/94 Leaders of a Notorious Ring Plead Guilty

 

     Emanuel Adams:

 

• 05/03/00 Law and Disorder Drug Thugs Over-ran Firm            

 

Clifford Jones

 

Joy Boys:

 

• Joy Boys

 

• 12/09/03 Nineteen Charged in Drive-up Cocaine Ring

 

• 12/17/03 Wayne Deputies Break Drug Ring, Impound Cars

 

• 04/28/06 One Less Drug Pusher on County Streets

 

• 07/12/07 Agents Arrest 5 in Drug Ring Bust

 

• 01/14/08 Joy Road Crack Cocaine Conspiracy 2008 Sentencing

 

• 01/15/08 Five 'Joy Road' Drug Gang Members Sentenced

 

 

Kalasho/Akrawi Syndicate: 

 

• Chaldean Crime Syndicate

 

• Chaldean Mafia, The 

 

• 05/16/89 U.S. Charges 2 as New Leaders of Cocaine Ring

 

• 05/22/89 Drugs, Death may Force Blind Justice to Pick a Side

               

• 09/20/89 Father of Suspect in Drug Slaying Gunned Down on North Side

 

• 09/21/89 Slaying Sets off New Round of Charges

 

• 10/17/89 Two Arrested in String of Bombings

   

• 10/24/89 Two Critically Shot Near Coffeehouse

          

• 11/20/89 Chaldeans Suffer Through the Gang Wars

 

• 02/06/90 Prisoners Defied Police in Crash

 

• 04/13/90 Two Convictions Don't End Jihad Case

 

• 04/19/90 Grand Jury Indicts 3 Kalasho Associates

         

• 04/27/90 Three Charged in Oakland County Cocaine Case

 

• 05/19/90 Two Alleged Kalasho Dealers Charged

 

• 07/12/90 Indictments Name 9 in Kalasho Drug Ring

 

• 06/19/91 Two More Convicted in Kalasho Cocaine Ring

 

• 08/06/92 Negotiations to Start a Cocaine Business

 

     Andy and Dimitrios Bachoura:

 

• 11/23/89 U.S. Indicts two Brothers on Gun, Cocaine Charges

            

     Basim Kalasho:

 

• 07/25/90 Reputed Drug Lord's Mom Must Forfeit $500,000

 

     Cmdr. Ronald Fleming:

 

• 02/09/90 Mayor's Bodyguard Took Evidence

        

      Kevin Minley:

 

• 07/14/89 Ecorse Man Guilty in Woodward Drug Killing

 

     Khairi (Harry) Kalasho:

 

     'Lived the American Dream by Selling the American Nightmare' 

 

• Khairi Kalasho - Drug Lord 1986 - 1989

 

• 02/08/89 Police Fear Shooting may be String of Retaliation

 

• 11/19/89 *Eight Page Series* - Detroit's Cocaine Pipeline to Death

              

• 11/20/89 A Young Caesar of Cocaine

 

• 02/08/90 Alleged Drug Kingpin had Mayoral Decal, Cops said

 

Khairi Kalasho

 

     Louis Akrawi:

 

• 01/11/91 Man is Acquitted on Drug Charge

 

• 05/20/96 Accused says He'll Beat Rap Again

 

     Mazin (Mike) Zeitouna:

 

• 02/04/92 Ex-Con is Killed Where his Boss Died

  

     Michael Minley, Edward Stevenson, and Lavaron Morris:

 

• 07/27/89 Judge says Hit Man got off easy in Verdict for Drug Gang Killing

 

     Raed Jihad:

 

• 02/21/89 Man Sought in Death of Suspected Cocaine Kingpin

 

• 02/24/89 Suspect Sought in Death of Alleged Drug Dealer

               

• 03/01/89 Man Charged in Killing Kalasho Avoids Jail

 

• 03/14/89 Note Adds Twist to Slaying Trial of Suspected Drug Kingpin

 

• 06/30/89 Witnesses can be Asked of Drug Roles

 

• 02/15/90 Murder Trial's Focus is often on the Victim

 

• 02/16/90 Witnesses Conspired to Kill

               

• 02/17/90 Man Acquitted in Slaying of Reputed Cocaine Kingpin

           

     Ragheed (Ray) Akrawi:

 

• Ragheed Akrawi - Kalasho Lieutenant 1986 - 1989

 

• 10/03/89 Reputed Drug Boss Among 3 Charged in Revenge

 

• 10/04/89 Alleged Drug Lieutenant Charged in Hired Killing

 

• 10/14/89 Murder Charge is Dismissed

 

• 10/28/89 Warrant is Re-Issued in Contract Slaying

 

• 11/08/89 Witness Balks

 

Ragheed Akrawi

 

     Saad Bohoda:

 

• 10/21/93 Calling Term 'Arab' Prejudicial, Court Reverses Sentence

 

     Tahrir (Tommy) Kalasho:

 

• 03/03/89 Slain Man's Brother Jailed as Dangerous

 

     Tel Kaif, Iraq:

 

• 09/08/90 Ties to Detroit Kin, T-Shirts Link Village with Motown 

   

  

 

Linwood Boys:

 

• Linwood Boys  

 

    Linwood Street at Gladstone

 

Lodrick “Hitman” "M1" Parker:

 

"Alleged Killer of Richard "Maserati Rick" Carter above"

 

• 12/17/88 Witness Testifies in Hospital Killing

 

• 12/22/88 Drug War Murder Suspect Acquitted

 

• 01/10/89 Man Cleared in Drug Death Jailed in Shooting

 

• 02/23/89 Man, Cleared in Reputed Drug Killing, Shot

 

• 01/19/90 Cleared in Hospital Slaying, Man now held in Store Blast

 

• 07/22/90 The Trials of Lodrick Parker

 

• 08/11/90 Family Suffers Another Slaying

 

• 08/17/90 Reputed Hitman not Guility

 

• 11/16/90 Often-Accused Man Convicted of Assault

 

• 11/29/90 Guilty in 1989 Assault on Pair at Store

 

• 07/07/91 Pair's Slaying Likely is Linked to Drugs

 

  

Lodrick “Hitman” "M1" Parker

 

LVC Crew

 

 

Marcus Mitchell:

 

• 03/13/04 Drug Money Bought Hotel and Bar, Indictment says

 

• 03/19/04 Drug Suspect Lived a Life of Flash and Cash

 

• 04/03/08 Money Laundering Charge Ends with Tax Conviction

 

Michael A. Clark:

 

• Michael Anthony Clark a.k.a. “Mike Nitty”

 

• 10/13/05 Powerful Drug Ringleader Collared

 

 

Michigan's Black Legion:

 

• Michigan’s Black Legion

 

 

M$M-Money Mark

 

Motor City Mink (Robert C. Daniels):

 

• 03/20/08 Five Charged with Interstate Sex Trafficking of Minors

 

03/21/08 Fed Probe Breaks Up 2 Prostitution Rings

 

• 10/27/08 '21st Century Pimp' Convicted in Port Huron

 

 

• 10/28/08 Detroiter Guilty in Kid Prostitution Ring

 

                                                               

                                                                                Motor City Mink        

  

Murder Row:

 

     Chester Campbell Wheeler: 

 

• 12/26/83 Threats to Witnesses Put Justice in Danger

 

• 05/04/85 Reputed Hitman is Hit by Shots

 

• 07/23/87 Killer's Arrest Recalls '75 

 

• 07/24/87 Confiscated Narcotics Turn out to be Explosive

 

• 08/02/87 Ex-Con Carried Tools of a Lethal Trade

 

• 06/27/89 Crack Team Gunman 

 

     Frank Lee (Nitti) Usher: 

 

"Hitman, Drug Kingpin"

 

• 09/20/85 New Trial is Ordered in 1979 Triple Murder

 

• 12/02/86 Slain Woman Had Been Murder Trial Witness

 

• 03/21/89 Nickname Tossed out in Retrial of Man called Nitti

 

• 03/25/89 Murder Probe Scrutinizes Man Acquitted in ‘79 Case

 

• 03/31/89 Retrial Clears Man of Murders 1979 Triple Slaying

 

• 04/01/89 Man Cleared in 3 Slayings Pleads Guilty to Lesser Charge

 

     Murder Row Frank Lee Usher - Frank "Nitti"

                                                                     

     Harold Morton: 

 

• Harold Morton

 

• Statement of Facts 

 

     Robert Ernest Partee: 

 

• a.k.a. Baby T

 

"Frank Lee Usher's Co-Defendant"

 

Robert Ernest Partee

 

 

 

Nasty Flynns:

 

• Nasty Flynns later the NF Bangers 1970s

 

 

 

Niggas From Linwood (NFL)

 

No Mercy

 

North End  

 

Nove Tocco vs. Jack Tocco:

 

• Nove Tocco vs. Jack Tocco

 

• 03/15/96 Alleged Mafia Boss, 16 Leaders Indicted by Grand Jury

 

• 03/15/96 The Indicted

 

• 02/07/98 Key U.S. Witness is Ex-Mob Boss

 

• 02/10/98 Jury Hears 2 Views of Tocco - U.S. Portrays him as Mob Boss

 

Nove Tocco 

 

     Jack Tocco  

 

 

Old School Detroit History Quiz:

 

• Old School Detroit History Quiz

 

 

Outlaws Motorcycle Club:

 

      

 

• Outlaws Motorcycle Club

 

• 08/16/07 Outlaws Facing Federal Charges

 

• 08/16/07 Feds Raid Biker Club, Indict 16

 

• 08/16/07 Biker Club Indictments part of Crackdown on Gangs

                                    

Parker/Black Ring:

 

• Parker/Black Ring

 

• 10/24/98 Clarkston man Jailed on Drug-Ring Charges

 

• 07/06/00 Sports Agent Charged in Fraud

 

• 06/15/01 Black Gets 82 Months for Money Laundering

 

• 09/26/01 Detroit Drug Dealer Takes his own Life

 

• 10/04/02 Lawyer is Sentenced to 21 Months in Jail

 

• 05/24/03 Mayoral Cop, Drug Kingpin Linked

 

• 07/02/04 Scandal over Mayor's Security Team Spurs Changes

 

Kimberly and Dean Parker

 

Dean Parker

 

     Dean Parker

                                                                                

  

 

     Tank Black

 

                                                                                            

Parners, The:

 

• Partners, The

 

Partnership:

 

• Formation of Detroit’s Partnership

 

• Founding Fathers

 

• Giuseppe “Joey Z” Zerilli

 

Giuseppe "Joey Z" Zerilli

 

• Partnership, The - Present Day Partners

 

Pascuzzi Combine, The:

 

• Pascuzzi Combine, The

 

People Nation Sets:

 

 

     Almighty Vice Lords:

 

• Almighty Vice Lord Nation

   

  

   

  

               Almighty Vice Lord Nation

 

     Bishops

 

     Black P Stones (El Rukns):

 

• Black P. Stone originally Blackstone Rangers

 

 

 

     Bloods:

 

• Bloods

 

     

 

    

   Bloods

 

     Cobras:

 

     Latin Counts:  

 

• Anthony Viramontez et. al. Leader of the Latin Counts

 

• 02/26/91 Convict says He's Not Leader of Notorious Gang 

 

• 03/16/91 Citizen Complaints Trigger 200 Arrests Among Youth Gangs

 

• 03/23/91 Member Thinks of Gang as a Family

 

• 04/07/91 Prominent Gang May Have Spread From Chicago

 

• 04/11/91 Police Suspect Rival Shot Gang Member

 

• 04/13/91 Five Charged in Killing of Gang Adversary

 

• 04/27/91 Four Ordered to be tried in Killing of Rival

 

• 06/30/92 U.S. Charges 56 Suspected Gang Members

 

• 07/21/92 Gang Attack on Youth Led by Cop's Son

 

• 01/18/93 Shootings by Gangs Worry Neighbors

 

• 12/08/93 Patches of Sorrow Quilt Memorializes Violent Deaths

 

• 05/27/95 Violence Began with Sneakers Police say

 

• 09/26/02 Jury Indicts 29 in Drug Dealings

 

• 09/26/02 Federal Authorities Continue War on Latin Counts Gang

              

• 08/08/03 Hard Dose of Reality

 

• 08/23/06 Two Guilty of Murder at '05 Festival

 

 

  Latin Counts

 

     Latin Kings:

 

• Latin Kings

 

 

Picciotteria/N'Drangheta:

 

• Picciotteria/N’Drangheta 1900 - 1920

 

PJs, The:

 

• PJs, The

 

 

     The PJs

 

 

Pony Down Crew:

 

"Leroy Buttrom Willis “Gunn” - Pony Down Crew Ring Leader 1980 - 1986"

 

• Drug Ring 1980 -1986

 

• 07/16/83 Slaying Suspect Takes Stand in 2nd Murder Case

 

• 09/22/83 Witness Recants, Judge Drops Murder Charge

 

• 10/02/83 Heroin Ring Grows to Fill Young Boys' Shoes, Officials says

 

• 11/20/85 Thirty-Five Face Drug Charges

 

• 11/21/85 Charges Called End to Drug Gang's Grab 

 

• 11/22/85 Pony Down Gang Suspect Started as Petty Thief

 

• 01/28/86 Reputed Pony Down Leader Nabbed on I-94

 

• 03/19/86 Drug Ring Members Expected to Plead Guilty

 

• 03/24/86 Guilty Pleas for Pony Down Dent Drug Traffic

 

• 04/01/86 Reputed Drug Gang Chief Pleads Guilty

  

• 08/09/86 Pony Down Leader Gets Jail

 

• 11/14/06 Former Leader Leroy Buttrom along with Justin Simpson

 

• 11/20/07 Former Detroit Drug Dealer         

   

Leroy Buttrom

 

 

Popeye

 

Puritan Avenue Boys

 

Puritan Avenue Gang

 

P. A. Gang: 

 

• 09/14/89 Gang Initiation Blamed in Beating Death

 

• 08/31/93 Fifteen-Year-Old Shot to Death

 

• 12/04/03 Two Sought for Allegedly Operating Drug Gangs 

 

• 06/29/04 Shots, Chase, Then a Crash

 

• 05/26/05 Guilty Pleas

 

• 10/19/05 FBI Probes Sheriff Deputies' Ties to Drug Ring