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The Forty Thieves — likely named after Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves — were formed in 1825 and alleged to be the first known and oldest New York City criminal street gang. The Thieves consisted primarily of Irish immigrants and Irish Americans who terrorized the Five Points neighborhood of 19th century Manhattan. Another criminal gang ...
The Forty Elephants or Forty Thieves were a 19th to 20th century all-female London crime syndicate who specialised in shoplifting. [1] This gang was notable for its longevity and skill in avoiding police detection.
Although journalist and author Herbert Asbury, in his popular 1928 book The Gangs of New York, describes Edward Coleman as an early chieftain of the Forty Thieves Gang, which is implied to be a predominantly Irish gang, contemporary papers describe Coleman as a "black man." [2] His wife, Ann, is herself described as either "colored" [3] or ...
the Forty Thieves (New York gang), an 18th-century New York street gang; The Forty Thieves (New York City Common Council 1852–1853) the Forty Elephants, an all-female London criminal gang; The nickname for the participants in the 1921 Cairo Conference
Alice was the eldest of seven children; a younger sister, Louisa, also joined the Forty Thieves gang of which Alice Diamond had become leader and given the title Queen of the Forty Thieves and, later, Queen of the Forty Elephants, because of her connection to the streets around the Elephant and Castle district of southeast London.
Two costly crime rings in metro Detroit were slowed, but not stopped, by key arrests of six people, state Attorney General Dana Nessel said.
It’s been one year since three of Jordan Willis’ friends, Clayton McGeeney, David Harrington and Ricky Johnson, were found dead outside Willis’ rental home in Kansas City, Mo.
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