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The gang was founded in 2006 and is mostly active in the St. Lawrence river valley with a strong focus in Quebec City area, the Côte-Nord area and the Chaudière-Appalaches. [5] A gang with the same name was founded in the northern end of Montreal by a Haitian immigrant Valdano Toussaint who was ordered deported back to Haiti in 2008. [ 6 ]
In the 1993 song "Piru Love" by Bloods & Crips from their album Bangin' on Wax, the Crenshaw Mafia is mentioned. [8] In the 2015 film Straight Outta Compton, a Crenshaw Mafia member named OG 2 Tone confronts some students on Ice Cube's school bus, after they display Crip gang signs. He warns "Remember me. OG 2 Tone. Crenshaw Mafia, Blood." [9]
As the Mafia was imported into the United States in the late 19th century, the English translation of the word cosca was more at clan or family. The term can be a point of confusion, especially in popular culture and Hollywood , because in the truest sense, crime families are not necessarily blood families who happen to be involved in criminal ...
Cleamon "Big Evil" Johnson, known for leading the 89 Family Swans, a violent Blood-affiliated gang, is eligible for parole after serving more than 25 years. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
The overlap of blood and mafia family seems to have helped the 'Ndrangheta expand beyond its traditional territory: "The familial bond has not only worked as a shield to protect secrets and enhance security, but also helped to maintain identity in the territory of origin and reproduce it in territories where the family has migrated."
Billy Arnold, 37, a leader of the Seven Mile Bloods street gang, which terrorized Detroit's east side, was convicted of 22 counts, including two counts of murder in aid of racketeering, 11 counts ...
In the 2018 book, The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia, Alex Perry reports that the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta has, for the past decade, been replacing the Sicilian Cosa Nostra as the primary drug traffickers in North America. [17] Musitano crime family – a Calabrian mafia family, based in ...
Nov. 25—The victim of a deadly shooting on Brockway Avenue in Morgantown early Nov. 20 had previously been federally convicted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act ...