I recommend everyone who was down during this time to read this if you want true facts and no speculated bulls***. Its members drive expensive cars and still often wear gold jewelry and rings with the JBM initials encrusted in diamonds. These indictments and arrests targeted an organization that did not just limit their crimes to drug trafficking,” said U. Other criminal groups started smuggling marijuana and cocaine in cities including New York City, Baltimore, Washington, D.

Immature teens without leadership soon became involved in criminal activity and by 1972 one of the first gang murders of the time took place. In March 1988, a man appeared on a television documentary, his face obscured, and claimed to be one of the city’s top four drug dealers. Longtime Daily News reporter Kitty Caparella, who covered the Black Mafia extensively for years, had long since retired, yet felt obligated to attend the ceremony celebrating Christian’s life on Tuesday. Throughout his career, Ferranti has remained a passionate advocate for criminal justice reform and has spoken out against the war on drugs. Tortured and hanged in prison for turning state's evidence against the Black Mafia in the Hanafi murder case.Aaron knew the Philadelphia police took Lenny ‘Bazil’ Patterson’s ring when he was stopped in his car with Simon in Mount Airy. It was believed that this common knowledge was intended to reduce friction based on inadvertently soliciting clients or workers claimed by other members. On the West Coast in Oakland, California, Felix Mitchell and his 69 Mob ran a large scale drugs trafficking operation, generating income of nearly a million dollars in monthly business. The name Junior Black Mafia came about when a fellow, unknown to anyone, went on national television and stated his group was formed to rid the City of Philadelphia of a group of Jamaican drug dealers known as the Shower Posse. Founded by a small group of teen-aged friends on Detroit's west side in the mid-1970s, in less than two years, YBI took over the majority of southeast Michigan's heroin trade with absolutely no interference from any other crime groups.

One rumored source of information that led to a bust was community activist Charles Robinson, a member of a community group that became heavily dominated by Black Mafia members while taking government grants. This book definitely is a page turner and I finally received understanding and closure on what really happened. The Black Mafia used formalized meetings, and legal incorporated nonprofits as cover, and imposed a hierarchy on its members in an attempt to create discipline among members. Authorities place the body count at over two dozen in a 14-month from the spring of 1988 through the summer of 1989. C. Despite the arrests that followed, they continued their rampage, exploiting their ties to prominent lawyers and civil rights leaders.The scale of this Midwest criminal operation is uncommon, so it’s no wonder that it took the combined resources of federal, state and local law enforcement to bring the operation to an end. They specialize in gun-running and marijuana trafficking, and initially oppose Lincoln until he absorbs them into his criminal empire.

McKendrick appears in a remarkable December 1973 photo taken at the “Black Mafia Ball” that captures dozens of the syndicate’s members posing in tuxedos rented with pilfered government funds. Wilkinson’s partner-in-crime and fellow JBM lieutenant Darryl (Hickey Mo) Woods is paralyzed from the waist down in the attack. As the JBM began to take shape, the fledgling organization formed a board of commissioners composed of all the original members. The book is incredible…The documentation is so thorough, it’s unbelievable…We know about corruption, but this is beyond corruption. In fact, a rough outline of Italian organized crime (IOC) east of Broad Street, with Black OC west of Broad Street, became a shorthand to describe South Philadelphia's hidden forces for decades, damning efforts at urban renewal.Robert “Honest” Sims, 40, was indicted on one count of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture containing methamphetamine. is the most detailed account ever of an African-American organized crime mob, and a landmark investigation into the modern urban underworld.