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The K&A Gang, or the Northeast Philly Irish Mob, is a predominantly Irish American criminal network based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The K&A Gang was started following World War II and controlled the city's Irish-American criminal underworld for much of the late 20th century.
The inmate himself had been 16 years old and a minor participant in logistical street-level operations relating to drug dealing within Philadelphia at the time he claimed to have delivered a package of drugs to a Kensington garage where he testified to having witnessed Della Penna—with both "tears and blood" streaming down her face—tied to ...
The Philadelphia Badlands is a section of North Philadelphia and Lower Northeast Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is known for an abundance of open-air recreational drug markets and drug-related violence. [1] It has amorphous and somewhat disputed boundaries, but is generally agreed to include the 25th police district. [2]
Antonio Rodriguez (born October 28, 1988), known as The Kensington Strangler, is an American serial killer who was convicted of raping and killing three women from November to December 2010, all of which occurred within a 10-block radius of Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood.
With the drug linked to seizures, psychotic episodes, suicidal thoughts, and, in some cases, death, law enforcement is being urged by locals to step up patrols and take more action in the area.
Within Kensington, various sub-neighborhoods including Harrowgate, Lower Kensington, West Kensington.Central Kensington, or "the Heart of Kensington" as it is called in a recent Impact Services neighborhood plan, [8] stretches along Kensington Avenue from Tusculum and Somerset Streets to Tioga Street (see Impact Services plan [8] for a more accurate map).
Today, the area most often referred to as Philadelphia's modern-day skid row is in the Kensington neighborhood, along Kensington Avenue near the intersections of Somerset Street and Allegheny Avenue. The area is known for its high rates of open-air recreational drug use, poverty, and homelessness. [46]
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