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While socialising with Mongrel Mob members in Wellington during the 1970s, Tam helped set up a work trust in 1975 and convinced Mayor of Wellington Michael Fowler to give them a contract cutting scrub around Karori. Shortly later, Tam was invited to join the local Porirua Mongrel Mob chapter and received his gang patch. [1]
The Nomads were originally members of the Black Power, known as the "Black Power Nomads", before a large portion of the gang split and formed their own gang in 1977. [1]In 1997, tensions heated up with the Highway 61 gang and resulted in the murder of Nomad Malcom Munns.
The Mongrel Mob (sometimes self-labelled as the Mighty Mongrel Mob or colloquially known as the Mob) is an organised crime street gang and prison gang based in New Zealand. With a network of more than thirty chapters throughout the country and additional operations in Australia and Canada , the Mob is the largest gang in New Zealand . [ 3 ]
Of these, 35% were Mongrel Mob and 33% Black Power, with no other individual gang having more than 5% of the imprisoned gang population. [22] As of April 2013, gang members and affiliates account for over 30% of inmates, with over 10% of New Zealand prisoners being Mongrel Mob members.
It was formed as the "Black Bulls" by Reitu Harris and Māori youth in Wellington about 1970, [4] [5] but was changed to Black Power in 1971. [6] The gang was founded in response to the rival Mongrel Mob gang and white power associated gangs.
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Mongrel Mob - mixed but predominantly Māori and Polynesian. [3] Alameddine crime network [4] - predominantly Lebanese. The gang operates out of Merrylands, New South Wales. 03 District - 3318, 5214 (Edenhope, Goolwa) 03s Main Rival Is Ararat (3377) and Nhill (3418)