(Sun Times Wire) Federal prosecutors who are fighting Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover’s bid for a break on his prison sentence say a “board member” of the street gang tried to communicate with him through a coded message in a Supermax prison in which he referred to Hoover as “chief.” In a new court filing,…
(Sun Times Wire) Imprisoned Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, who says he’s no longer involved with the gang and is asking for an early release from his life sentence, promoted two men to top posts in the gang while locked up in a federal “super-max” prison in Colorado, according to an indictment unsealed Monday in…
(ABC) A federal intelligence alert obtained by the ABC7 I-Team has gone out to Chicago-area law enforcement with an ominous warning: nearly three dozen cold-blooded street gangs “have formed a pact to ‘shoot on-sight any cop that has a weapon drawn on any subject in public’.” The “situational information report” from FBI officials in Chicago…
(Sun Times Wire) A federal judge in Chicago cut the former king of the Black Disciples’ 45-year drug-conspiracy sentence by a third Tuesday but wouldn’t free Marvel Thompson. U.S. District Judge Elaine Bucklo reduced the sentence of the ex-leader of one of Chicago’s biggest street gangs to 30 years after he filed an appeal under…
(Sun Times Wire) Lawrence ‘Big Law’ Loggins was shot to death last year in a parked car in Englewood. New revelations of possible Gulf Cartel ties are in an affidavit in a sweeping drug case. The leader of one of Chicago’s oldest and largest gangs could have been killed in connection with a load of…
(FOX) The alleged leader of the Black Disciples in Chicago was arrested Tuesday in a sweeping federal gang and drug investigation on the South Side. The leader, 34-year-old Darnell “Murderer” McMiller, is among 23 charged with federal drug and gun charges, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago. The years-long investigation recovered 24 gun,…
(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…
