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The Manitoba Warriors (MW) are an indigenous street gang based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.Predominantly based in the Central and North End neighbourhoods of the city, the gang is an exclusively indigenous Canadian organization that was established on the Lake Manitoba First Nation in 1993 to rival the Indian Posse gang.
The gang was founded in the summer of 1988 in Winnipeg as a street gang by the Wolfe brothers, Danny and Richard. [8] Richard Daniel Wolfe was born in 1975 and Daniel Richard Wolfe was born in 1976. [9] The Wolfe brothers were Cree, but spoke English as their first language though Danny Wolfe as an adult expressed the wish to learn the Cree ...
The 1%ers Syndicate/Cartel, in Winnipeg (multicultural, Indo-Caribbean, Caucasian, Asian, black, native) [1] Wolfpack Alliance; EOA (East of Adelaide) – A conglomerate of street gangs and individuals involved in the narcotics trade based in the east end of London, Ontario.
In 2020, gangs were a significant driving force of violence in Winnipeg—with 50% of all 110 shootings and 30% of all 43 homicides that year being gang related. By December that year, 86% of the homicide cases had been solved. Among the victims were more than 93 young Indigenous people (male and female) between the ages of 17 and 25 years old.
Since the 1960s, the two biker gangs in Manitoba were the los Brovos and the Spartans. [1] In the early 1990s, the Hells Angels national president Walter Stadnick frequently visited Winnipeg to meet with both los Brovos and the Spartans as he sought to play off the two gangs. [1]
Winnipeg's gang activity consists heavily of Aboriginal and black criminals. [citation needed] There is a smaller number of other ethnic groups in the city - namely Europeans and East Asians (Filipino/Vietnamese). Winnipeg has been described as the Aboriginal gang capital of Canada. [75]
Indigenous gangs, as the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada classifies them, have surpassed outlaw motorcycle gangs and Italian organized crime syndicates as the largest single group held in federal prisons, with 1,936 members serving federal sentences. [6] Examples include: Alberta Warriors [7] Indian Mafia [8] Indian Posse [9] Kelowna ...
On July 13, 2011, the Rock Machine Manitoba ordered the Vendettas Motorcycle Club to retaliate for the attacks over the past week. The Vendettas Crew firebombed the Hells Angels owned, 187 Ink tattoo parlour on Osborne Street with Molotov cocktails. Members of the Winnipeg gang unit had witnessed the entire arson occur while monitoring the area.