Crips organization
also: the Crips, Hoover Crip, Crip's, L.A. Crip
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Claims (4)
Floyd "Freeway" Rick Ross member_of
Crips documented
“joined forces creating a Freeway Rick Task Force. It was one of the few times in the history of L.A. law enforcement that a single man was the subject of an entire task force. Ricky Ross is a 7-4 Hoover Crip, this is a quote, whose success …”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 35:39
Daniel Blanton trafficked
Crips documented
“So what I'm asking, is that true? Gary Webb knew immediately he had been double-crossed. A private eye hired by Ross's lawyer had come to his house looking for information on Blanton. But I told him very little. He then pulled out a copy of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 23 @ 35:22
Crips member_of
Floyd "Freeway" Rick Ross host_asserted
“Well, Ross said that while he did not sell exclusively to Crip's gang members, they initially formed a large part of his customer base simply because he and Ollie had lived in a Crip neighborhood growing up. But that only mattered at the be…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 54:32
Crips member_of
Los Angeles documented
“The higher profits, coupled with the increased pressure from local police, have prompted the Los Angeles gangs to extend their territory far beyond the neighborhood. Within the past three to four years, members of the Crips and Bloods have …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 52:29
Mentions (16)
▶ 4:35
kind of discuss a little bit further because I want to put it all in one show because it's really not the aiding. So, but I do think it's important for us to know who teaches people how to do this stuff. So when these, what we're, what we'r…
▶ 35:39
joined forces creating a Freeway Rick Task Force. It was one of the few times in the history of L.A. law enforcement that a single man was the subject of an entire task force. Ricky Ross is a 7-4 Hoover Crip, this is a quote, whose success …
▶ 51:44
had gotten addicted to cocaine. It was now personally affecting him. By early 1987, the LA crack market had become so saturated and so much gang activity was accompanying it that they were going outside of Los Angeles, all over the country,…
▶ 52:12
By 86 and 87, Ross said a good chunk of his business consisted of exporting drugs to higher priced areas like Fresno, St. Louis, Texas, Alabama. Police in St. Louis said cocaine prices there went into a free fall once the Bloods and Crips c…
▶ 52:29
The higher profits, coupled with the increased pressure from local police, have prompted the Los Angeles gangs to extend their territory far beyond the neighborhood. Within the past three to four years, members of the Crips and Bloods have …
▶ 54:32
Well, Ross said that while he did not sell exclusively to Crip's gang members, they initially formed a large part of his customer base simply because he and Ollie had lived in a Crip neighborhood growing up. But that only mattered at the be…
▶ 20:50
giving recruits apartments, beepers, cocaine with instructions on how to conduct street sales. The drugs were stored in the trunks of parked cars placed around the neighborhoods, which again is why they love the car dealership business. Sud…
▶ 23:30
said the bag was bound for Cincinnati. A call was placed to the Cincinnati DEA's office. They asked for advice. The DEA office said that they'd stake out the bus and see who shows up for the suitcase. A few days later, one of Ross's employe…
▶ 24:26
and he'd have the best lawyers. All he had to do was keep his mouth shut. The mere fact that a Crip had been caught in Cincinnati with cocaine, quote, led the FBI and DEA field office in Cincinnati to investigate allegations that the Crips …
▶ 30:49
say members of two prominent rival gangs in Los Angeles, Crips and Bloods, had infiltrated the cities from Alaska to Washington, D.C. During the 88 presidential campaign in Washington, they had started stressing an anti-drug crusade, which …
▶ 1:14:18
Well, as you were talking about, you know, like the drugs that they brought in in the 80s, you know, you had all those riots also going on, whether it was, well, maybe Watts was earlier. But I know that like within a few years, you know, li…
▶ 1:14:44
you know, all around that area too. And it was, you know, bloods, crips, like you were mentioning. So it just, you know, and then it turned out to be a big land grab too, you know, in the future because of those riots and stuff. But it's ju…
▶ 1:15:09
both with gang violence of the Bloods and Crips and then later on from the Dominican Republic, from Jamaica. They had them in from everywhere. And the inner cities became a hellscape, all focused around the cocaine. And then later, I guess,…
▶ 35:22
So what I'm asking, is that true? Gary Webb knew immediately he had been double-crossed. A private eye hired by Ross's lawyer had come to his house looking for information on Blanton. But I told him very little. He then pulled out a copy of…
▶ 52:38
of time between Blanton selling dope and the CIA's army selling dope to Los Angeles gang members. They were trying to break the chain linking the Contra cocaine to the Crips and Bloods. There was one big problem with the tactic. It didn't j…
▶ 11:27
what he produced. Quote, for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Blood street gangs in Los Angeles and funneled millions of dollars in drug profits to Latin America guerrilla army ran by t…