(Sun Times Wire) Marvel Thompson says he was the “Robin Hood of Englewood.” He says he fed the poor and encouraged kids on the South Side to stay in school/ Federal authorizes say he was the king of a violent gang involved in selling drugs and mortgage fraud. The FBI arrested Thompson in 2004. When…
(Sun Times Wire) Two dozen gang members, some of them high-ranking, are facing federal charges, as part of an operation targeting wholesale drug trafficking on the West Side, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced Friday. The investigation, dubbed “Operation Full Circle,” targeted members of the Black P-Stones Nation and the Wicked Town faction of the Traveling…
(Fox) The FBI is searching for an alleged drug trafficker in this week’s Chicago’s Most Wanted. Randall Langston, 25, is wanted for selling heroin laced with fentanyl. “Langston is accused of selling hundreds of grams of fentanyl-laced heroin worth tens of thousands of dollars to a confidential source,” said FBI Special Agent Siobhan Johnson. “These…
(Sun Times Wire) Another member of the Four Corner Hustlers has pleaded guilty as a sweeping street gang trial nears at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, records show. Deandre Spann pleaded guilty Friday to a racketeering conspiracy, joining Rontrell Turnipseed, who pleaded guilty to the same crime two days earlier. Several members of the street gang…
( Sun Times Wire) One of the 11 members of the Four Corner Hustlers who was indicted on federal racketeering charges has pleaded guilty. Rontrell Turnipseed — who’s also a Chief Keef-affiliated rapper — pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of taking part in a racketeering conspiracy, just a month before he was scheduled to…
(Sun Times Wire) A 19-year-old member of the Satan Disciples street gang has been accused of fatally shooting a man walking his dogs in Back of the Yards after mistaking his target for a member of the Latin Saints. Hector Aguirre faces a charge of first-degree murder in the death of 25-year-old Jamil Al Shaubi,…
(Sun Times Wire) A south suburban member of the Four Corner Hustlers gang and two of his associates were charged with selling “wholesale quantities” of heroin on Chicago’s West Side. Raymond “Shaky Shawn” Betts, 52, is charged with conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday…
(Sun Times Wire) Good riddance — but not yet. That seemed to be the message Tuesday from dozens of community activists, who applaud the decision to destroy the Cook County Sheriff’s Office’s controversial gang database but not before some key questions are answered. “This rush to get rid of it is a way to protect…
(Sun Times Wire) Four men allegedly committed murder on Northwest Side in hopes of gaining status in a street gang, according to federal prosecutors. A federal indictment unsealed last week charges four alleged members of the Milwaukee Kings street gang who allegedly committed murder in aid of racketeering, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of…
(Sun Times Wire) He doesn’t have a household name like Larry Hoover, Jeff Fort or other infamous leaders of Chicago gangs. Lawrence “Big Law” Loggins kept a low profile — no mentions in the newspaper and no arrests since he was released from prison in 2009. But he was the head of the Black Disciples,…
(Sun Times Wire) Federal racketeering charges were announced Friday against four members of “a particularly violent” gang faction tied to nearly a dozen murders in Englewood. At least 18 members of the Goonie Boss faction of the Gangster Disciples terrorized the South Side neighborhood, according to a federal indictment. And about half of them, including…
(Tribune) Newly filed federal racketeering charges allege a South Side street gang faction was responsible for a three-year reign of terror in the Englewood community, including nearly a dozen killings that claimed the lives of rivals and innocent victims alike, sources told the Chicago Tribune. The indictment, which was returned by a federal grand jury…
(Tribune) Wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the city of Chicago flag, Donta Lucas described some considerable troubles he has faced in his 34 years — growing up in the tough Cabrini-Green public housing development and later being homeless. But what he was not, Lucas told reporters Tuesday in a halting voice, was a gang member.…
(WGN) The Chicago Crime Commission is unveiling a new street-gang book that’ll serve as a guide for regional police and others keeping tabs on gangs. The official release of the 2018 Gang Book on Tuesday is the first time since 2012 the crime-prevention group has released a new Gang Book. The Associated Press obtained advanced…
(ABC) Lamanta Reese lived much of his gang life in virtual reality, posting videos on YouTube of him and others taunting rivals. He died at age 19 in the real world, bleeding from his head onto a porch on Chicago’s South Side after one of those gang rivals, prosecutors say, shot him 11 times. Another…
(Sun Times Wire) Federal prosecutors in Chicago escalated their assault on the Almighty Latin King Nation on Thursday, revealing a new 20-count indictment that lays six murders dating back to 1999 at the feet of the violent street gang. The new 53-page document also adds 14 new defendants to a prosecution that began in summer…
(Sun Times Wire) Prosecutors on Monday compared the six square blocks of the West Side controlled by the Black Souls to technology behemoth Apple Inc., while defense lawyers said the street gang was simply a “random collection of dudes.” The stark difference in the interpretation of nine weeks of trial testimony was to be expected,…
