Posted on 08/06/2006 1:54:36 PM PDT by World_Events
TOBYHANNA, Pa. - When New Yorkers and Philadelphians want to get away from the noise and crowds, they often come to the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania.
It's a bucolic, tourist-friendly place of forests and streams and lakes, a place where you can play a round of golf, take in a show, angle for trout or simply lose yourself on a country road.
A place where a Crip or a Blood would seem ... out of place.
Yet, jarringly, they are here: gang members from New York City and its suburbs who authorities say have quietly taken up residence in some of the private, gated communities of the Poconos, where they can stake out new drug turf with little interference from municipal or state police.
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My great grandfather had a place in the pocanos.
Grandfather said it was at a "narrow spot in the road".
Ah, the memories of walking through the woods with grandfather, and trying to get my shotgun up and leveled before the pheasant got away.
If the article is factual (not saying it isn't), the causes are easily understood and to be expected.
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