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The Manitoba Warriors were formed as a prison gang in 1992, originating as an exclusively Aboriginal criminal organization at the Stony Mountain Institution. [5] The gang was founded by William Pangman who served as the national president alongside Izzy Vermette who served as the national treasurer and Ervin Chartrand who served as the vice president. [6]
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 ...
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 ...
Under Richard's leadership, Thunderbird House became active in programs to assist aboriginal youth escape solvent abuse, gang life and the sex trade. Richard was also a president of the Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg, and a former executive director of the Indian and Métis Friendship Centre of Winnipeg.
Independent Soldiers Gang – Decades old organized crime gang active across Canada (a part of the Wolfpack Gang Alliance) [125] [126] Kang Crime Group – Also known as "BIBO gang" or "Blood In, Blood Out gang" (formerly a member of the Wolfpack Alliance) [127] Malli-Buttar Crime Groups Coalition [128] [129] Punjabi mafia [130] [131] The ...
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]
The archenemies of the Indian Posse was a Hells Angels-backed aboriginal gang, the Manitoba Warriors, whom the Indian Posse started to feud with in 1994. [41] The Hells Angels courted both the Manitoba Warriors and the Indian Posse to serve as a puppet gang, and came to prefer the former over the latter as the Warriors proved more docile. [42]
Redd Alert was established in 1999 by Robert Lee Wagner along with other First Nations inmates of Cree, Anishinaabe, and Métis origin as an alternative to joining two of the other Aboriginal gangs within the Alberta prison system: the Indian Posse and the Manitoba Warriors. Details on their origin are unclear but some reports say they ...