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[5] [6] The objective was to draw up a peace treaty in honor of "Black Benjie", who had been the designated peacemaker of the Ghetto Brothers. To help ensure it would be nonviolent, it was arranged to have a member of the Turbans gang to take position, with a rifle, on a rooftop across the street from the Boys' Club on the day of the meeting. [7]
Benjamin "Yellow Benjy" Melendez (August 3, 1952 – May 28, 2017) was best known for brokering the gang truce in the Bronx and Harlem (New York City) in 1971. [1] At that time, he was President of the Ghetto Brothers, a mainly ethnically Puerto Rican South Bronx gang, and lead vocalist of a musical group also known as the Ghetto Brothers.
The Organized Crime Control Bureau (OCCB) was one of the ten bureaus that formed the New York Police Department.The Bureau was charged with the investigation and prevention of organized crime within New York City.
Police arrested a suspect in the savage gang assault of an off-duty cop out for a jog near his Bronx home, law enforcement sources said Friday. Oshawn Logan, 18, faces four counts of robbery, two ...
Gina Mestre, 33, of Mohegan Lake, admitted in Manhattan federal court on Thursday that she provided information to the leader of the Shooting Boys gang, Andrew "Caballo" Done, following his Nov. 5 ...
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Forty Thieves (1825-1860s) - Considered the first known street gang in New York City; Gas House Gang (1880s-1910) Ghost Shadows (1970s-1990s) Gopher Gang (1890s-1910s) Grady Gang (1860s) Honeymoon Gang (1850s) Hook Gang (1866-1876) Hudson Dusters (1890s-1917) Jheri Curls (1990s) Kerryonians (1825-1830s) Lenox Avenue Gang (early 1900s-1910s ...
The East Harlem Purple Gang was a gang and organized crime group in New York City consisting of Italian-American hit-men and heroin dealers who were semi-independent from the Italian-American Mafia and, according to federal prosecutors, dominated heroin distribution in East Harlem, Italian Harlem, and the Bronx during the 1970s and early 1980s.