The Tillicum Park Gangsters are affiliated with the Black Gangster Disciples, and the Lakewood Police Department Gang Unit is familiar with their organization in the low-income neighborhood.

Alleged gang members attempted to increase their drug dealing activity by cornering Tillicum Park apartment complexes in Lakewood, Pierce County prosecutors said Thursday as they charged 11 people with multiple counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.The drug dealing charges, however, represent a piece of the organization's alleged criminal operations.The Tillicum Park Gangsters are affiliated with the Black Gangster Disciples, and the Lakewood Police Department Gang Unit is familiar with their organization in the low-income neighborhood. Their cases include narcotics trafficking, weapons violations, witness intimidation, drive-by shootings and murder, according to a Pierce County affidavit.Seven of the 11 were formally arraigned Thursday, charging documents state, and three...

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Black Gangster Disciples street gang,Deputy Sheriff’s arrested Rodney King this morning on East Fourth St. in Montgomery.

Deputy U.S. Marshals and investigators with the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force(GCRFTF) and Montgomery County Deputy Sheriff’s arrested Rodney King this morning on East Fourth St. in Montgomery. During the investigation this morning to locate King, investigators seized a short barreled shotgun and a 9mm pistol.The U.S. Marshals Task Force in Montgomery received information from the U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force (GLRFTF) in Chicago that Rodney King was believed to have fled to Montgomery after his involvement in a shooting in Chicago. Chicago investigators informed the Marshals that on March 16, 2011, King, while armed with a 9mm pistol, shot an individual in Chicago and fortunately the victim survived.King is charged with Attempted First Degree...

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since 1995, Bulger, now 81, has been on the run. He fled the city, and probably the U.S., after receiving a tip from the FBI agent

James Bulger's story reads like the plot of a thousand mobster films. An Irish-American boy grows up in the poor neighborhood of South Boston — Southie — turns to a life of crime and ends up leader of the Irish Mob. Smart, charismatic and generous to those he liked, Bulger — whose blond hair earned him the nickname Whitey — was both feared and revered. At the height of his power in the 1980s, he was allegedly taking a share of almost every drug deal and racketeering operation in Boston.But since 1995, Bulger, now 81, has been on the run. He fled the city, and probably the U.S., after receiving a tip from the FBI agent he had worked with as an informant that an indictment for federal racketeering was on its way. In the years that Bulger — who is also accused of 19 counts of murder, extortion...

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16-year-old gang member gets 27 years for 15-year-old's death

Both boys were 15. One jumped from the car and shouted a gang challenge at the other, who had been riding his bike and listening to music on a hot afternoon in Sunnyside.The shooter fired quickly, sending two bullets into David Baldonado, including one that nicked his carotid artery.Baldonado, who police say did not appear to be involved in gang life, stopped at two houses before finally finding help at a third, where he collapsed on a couch. He later died, joining several teen victims of gang-related killings that were among the 27 Yakima County homicides in 2010."I don't know why they shot me. I don't bang," he said, according to a statement recounted in court by Sunnyside police Detective Erica Rollinger.She described the murder as a "botched execution" and noted that defendant Alex Bueno...

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