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However, Wah Ching was able to push these gangs out of Los Angeles Chinatown and took over their illegal establishments. Wah Ching became the dominant gang in Chinatown, Los Angeles throughout most of the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1991, Danny "Ah Pai" Wong, the leader of Wah Ching, was shot and killed by Wo Hop To (WHT) hitmen from Seattle ...
Joe Fong is a Macanese-American former gang leader who founded and led the Chung Ching Yee (Joe Boys or Joe Fong Boys) gang in Chinatown, San Francisco from 1971 until his arrest and incarceration in 1973, when he was eighteen years old. After his release in 1979, Fong attended college and graduate school.
Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Kwok-Cheung Chow (Chinese: 周國祥; Jyutping: zau1 gwok3 coeng4; born December 31, 1959) is a Hong Kong-born felon with ties to a San Francisco Chinatown street gang and an organized crime syndicate, including the American branch of the Hong Kong-based triad Wo Hop To [2] and the Hop Sing Boys.
"Basically, the associations, they helped us grow up," said Allen Lee, 83, a retired oil engineer. "They not only brought people together for support — they kept traditional culture alive while ...
Wah Ching 華青 [9] Wah Kee 華記; Taiwan Gangs 台灣幫派. Four Seas Gang 四海幫 [10] Bamboo Union 竹聯幫 [10] Tien Tao Meng (Heavenly Way Alliance) 天道盟 [10] Sung Lien Gang (Pine Union) 松聯幫 [10] Niu Pu Gang 牛埔幫; Chi Hsien Gang (Seven Yin Gang) 七賢幫; Ta hu Gang (Big Lake Gang) 大湖幫; Hsi Pei Gang (Northwest ...
Wah Ching March 9, 1972: David Wong: Chung Ching Yee 851 Stockton aka Harry Kwan. shot in front of the Police Athletic League. [6] Harry Ng 60: Wah Ching March 13, 1972: David Wong: Chung Ching Yee 1230 Powell aka "The Professor". Called the "Fagin" of the Chinese underworld, served as Wah Ching mentor. [6] [11] Poole Leong 22: Wah Ching June ...
Chol Soo Lee (August 15, 1952 – December 2, 2014) was a Korean American immigrant who was wrongfully convicted for the 1973 murder of Yip Yee Tak, a San Francisco Chinatown gang leader, and sentenced to life in prison.
The Jackson Boys gang was the successor to the Wo Hop To Triad which ruled the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1980s and early 1990s. [1] The Jackson Street Boys was founded by three brothers, Bobby Tsan, Johnny Tsan and Tommy Tsan, who were former Wah Ching members who had defected to the Wo Hop To after the Wo Hop To forced the Wah Ching out of San Francisco. [2]