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The gang was founded by Puerto Ricans in Chicago, Illinois, in 1954. [24][25] The Latin Kings are one of the largest Hispanic and Latino street and prison gangs worldwide. [26][27][28] In the United States, the Latin Kings operate under two umbrella factions—the King Motherland Chicago (KMC) faction headquartered in Chicago, and the Bloodline ...
History. Gangs in Humboldt Park originated in the 1950s, and quickly cascaded across nearly all racial groups in the area over the proceeding years as gang related violence also increased, with a surge in the late 1970s. [3] By the late 1980s/early 1990s, approximately 49 of the 139 gangs active in Chicago operated out of the 14th district ...
Life imprisonment plus 45 years without parole. Luis Felipe, also known as " King Blood ", is a Cuban-American former gang leader and is the founder of the New York chapter of the Latin Kings (ALKN) street gang. Born in Havana, Cuba, Felipe emigrated to the United States in the Mariel Boatlift in 1980. Six years later, in 1986, after fleeing ...
A Miami man who authorities say belonged to the notorious Latin Kings gang was found guilty Wednesday of forcing women to have commercial sex and beating them if they didn’t obey his orders.
The Latin Kings in Connecticut started in the state's prison system in the late 1980s. The gang has over two-hundred members in the state. Sixteen Latin Kings members, included the four highest-ranking members in the state, were arrested in Bridgeport and New Haven on June 30, 1994, and charged with conspiring to sell cocaine and heroin.
My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King is an autobiography by Reymundo Sanchez (a pseudonym) about his life as a teenage street gang member in Chicago. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The author of the book, Reymundo Sanchez, was a lost boy - disowned by physically abusive step-fathers who could not care less about him or his mother.
The Maniac Latin Disciples Nation is a Hispanic street gang in Chicago and the largest in the Latino Folks Nation alliance. Originally known as only the Latin Disciples, the gang was founded by Albert "Hitler" Hernandez and other Puerto Rican teenagers in the Humboldt Park community in approximately 1966. They were influential in the culture ...
King Tone. Antonio Fernandez, also known as King Tone, is the former head of the Latin Kings. In 1999, Fernandez was sentenced to 12 to 15 years for conspiring to sell narcotics. [1] He is the main figure in the HBO documentary, Latin Kings: A Street Gang story, which was released in 2007. He is also featured in the book, The Misfit Economy, by ...