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Members of nationally infamous gang arrested in St. Bernard Parish
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Posted on 03/08/2006 12:06:30 PM PST by Ellesu
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To: Gordongekko909
Pre-Katrina gangs were all neighborhood and housing project outfits, not necessarily connected to anything bigger.
Help me out on this. I have been gone a long time. By gangs do you mean just the run of the mill hoodlums that roamed the city terrorizing every neighborhood? What about the drug dealers? Is that another story? I have long heard that they were big-time and very organized ... not just boyz from the hood at all ... Just wondering.
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posted on
03/08/2006 2:55:16 PM PST
by
caryatid
(Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
To: Gordongekko909
... these guys are more likely to get into knife fights than gun fights, compared to the thugs we used to have here.
From what I have read ... it's not just knives ... they seem to favor machetes ... deadly, but easy to buy in any hardware store without raising eyebrows or the awareness of the authorities, etc.
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posted on
03/08/2006 3:01:01 PM PST
by
caryatid
(Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
To: caryatid
The dealers operated independantly. Their distributors were connected to bigger operations, but those weren't necessarily New Orleans-based. From what I understand, most of the dope that come into New Orleans originally entered the country through either Texas or Florida. Distributors would pick up a shipment there, then run it across the Southeast, selling pieces of it to local distributors as they went, who would then pass it down the chain to street-corner dope peddlers.
The actual street dealers were, well, independant contractors. Any gangs they were protected by were neighborhood operations.
The closest thing to an umbrella "organized crime syndicate" that New Orleans had in the 20th century was the Marcello family, and they went legit a while ago. They're involved in video poker now.
Other cities have had massive, well-organized gangs; Chicago, New York, and LA come to mind pretty quickly. But the New Orleans hoods never quite managed to get their acts together to a sufficient degree to put something like that together.
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posted on
03/08/2006 3:04:33 PM PST
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: JustaDumbBlonde; Gordongekko909
Perhaps they are looking for a fairly well destroyed place, thinking it will not be very organized and patrolled by LEOs yet ... to establish a base of operations. In the main, they probably do not require the level of goods and services that we ordinarily think of as "normal" ... a quiet place [virtually destroyed] where they won't attract much notice might appeal to them. On the other hand, if I had to guess I would say that St. Bernard, before Katrina, was probably 80-90% white ... not a racial gumbo like N.O., at all, and it seems that they would stick out like a sore thumb.
Welcome to the Louisiana Ping List, JDB.
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posted on
03/08/2006 3:09:01 PM PST
by
caryatid
(Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
To: caryatid
*shrug* the cops that come into my dad's drycleaning shop say "knives." Kind of hard to sneak a machete into a bar, I imagine.
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posted on
03/08/2006 3:09:32 PM PST
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: caryatid
Definitely possible. But I don't even think that the MS 13 vatos have made this decision themselves yet.
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posted on
03/08/2006 3:12:23 PM PST
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Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: Gordongekko909
Yeah, I see what you mean ... I had just read generic descriptions of their activities in other areas in newspapers.
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posted on
03/08/2006 3:12:31 PM PST
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caryatid
(Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
To: caryatid
There is probably plenty of machete action going on, too. It's just that the cops I talk to probably aren't getting the calls for that stuff.
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posted on
03/08/2006 3:16:09 PM PST
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: Gordongekko909
Last week, I saw a segment on Court TV Cops, about these gangs. The arresting officers found dozens of local high school rings in the car of one of this gang members.
He said the gang members stole and wore them to blend in.
To: Ellesu
We all know what to do when we see those tats.
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:39:45 AM PST
by
MonroeDNA
(Look for the union label--on the bat crashing through your windshield!)
To: Gritty
Sounds like law abiding citizens, the Minutemen, and a certain group founded by General N.B. Forrest might have common cause to rid that fair state of a new threat...
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posted on
03/09/2006 2:12:59 AM PST
by
Schwaeky
("Truth is not determined by a majority vote." Pope Benedict XVI)
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