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Following a series of police raids by the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB) in 2020, a handful of Black Axe members were arrested, paving the way for the exposure of a far wider network.
Nickname. Axemen. Headquarters. Nigeria. The Black Axe is an international confraternity. It formed from the Neo Black Movement of Africa (NBM) established at the University of Benin in Nigeria as part of the Pan African movement in 1977. The BBC has called the Black Axe a "mafia-style gang". [1] NBM has publically dissassociated from Black Axe.
Megan Williams case. The Megan Williams case involves a 20-year-old African American woman from West Virginia, who was kidnapped, raped and tortured by six people, including several members of one family [1] in a racist attack. Among other things, the suspects were charged with stabbing Williams, dousing her with hot water, and forcing her to ...
Part of George Floyd protests. Date. May 30 – June 6, 2020. (1 week) Location. West Virginia, United States. Caused by. Police brutality. Institutional racism against African Americans [1][2]
Black Axe (organized crime group) The Obafemi Awolowo University massacre was a mass murder of students of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria on 10 July 1999. [1] Five students of OAU were killed and eleven injured. [2]
Famiglia Vagabonda. The Famiglia Vagabonda ("Wandering Family") was an American Prohibition -era criminal organization of Italian origin operating in Clarksburg and Fairmont, West Virginia. The gang was composed of Black Handers, Camorristi and Mafiosi. John C. McKinney, a detective who investigated the group, identified them as the "Famalia ...
Greg Jordan, Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va. October 5, 2023 at 7:49 AM. Oct. 5—PRINCETON — A Mercer County man has been charged with felony strangulation and other domestic charges ...
Oregon, Nevada, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, New York, Texas, and California [1][2] Neal Martin Falls (September 24, 1969 – July 18, 2015) [4] was an American suspected serial killer who was shot and killed in self-defense by Heather Saul, a woman in Charleston, West Virginia. Falls had been stopped by police in over twenty states during his ...