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The Almighty Vice Lord Nation (Vice Lords for short, abbreviated AVLN) is the second-largest and one of the oldest street and prison gangs in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its total membership is estimated to be between 30,000 and 35,000. It is also one of the founding members of the People Nation multi-gang alliance. [3] [7]
Jeff Fort of El Rukns, Bobby Gore of the Vice Lords, and Gustavo Colon of the Latin Kings were instrumental in the forming of this alliance. [citation needed] Among initial members to the People were the Mickey Cobras (then named the Cobra Stones), Bishops, Spanish Lords, soon after the Gaylords and the Insane Popes of the South Side.
A young inexperienced drug dealer and Vice Lords gang member, Greg Yance (), is arrested for drug possession in his hometown, Chicago.Because of Yance having five grams of drugs under his belt at the time of arrest, he is facing a five-year prison sentence with no parole for drug trafficking.
Prosecutors said he was the highest-ranked Mafia Insane Vice Lord in the country and a member of the national leadership. He was also known as "P" and "Marty," per court records. Kevin Fordham, 53 ...
The Simon City Royals, also known as the Almighty Simon City Royal Nation, are a street and prison gang which began in Chicago during 1952 as Simon City, a greaser gang. They named themselves for Simons Park, which is located on the corner of Drake and Wabansia in the Humboldt Park neighborhood where they originally formed.
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The 14th Street Clovers were the gang that later became the Vice Lords in the late 1950s. After several members of the 14th Street Clovers were incarcerated by 1957, the Egyptian Cobras had less competition. While incarcerated in the St. Charles Reformatory for Boys, the Clovers organized and became the Vice Lords. When the Vice Lords returned ...
A gang member showing his Latin King tattoo – a lion with a crown – and signifying the five point star with his hands. L. A. Kaufman wrote in the February 2015 issue of New York magazine that the Kings had a "unique mixture of intense discipline, revolutionary politics and a homemade religion called 'Kingism '". He suggests that this makes ...