African-American and Drug Gangs and East Coast and Featured and Mob Hits and New YorkDecember 4, 2019 Cashing In A Marker: Buffalo Drug Lord Back In Hot Water With The Feds December 4, 2019 — Infamous Buffalo drug kingpin Jariel (Doobie) Cobb was recently indicted again on charges of federal narcotics trafficking and is suspected in disposing of a body back in the fall. The 47-year old Cobb has headed Buffalo’s Cash Money Gang for the past two decades. He was busted in 2006 as theCONTINUE READING
African-American and Detroit and Drug Gangs and MidwestNovember 26, 2019 Feds Drop Arson Case Against Detroit Urban ‘Folk Hero’ G.G. Rider, Murder Appeal Pending Gangster Report correspondent Ricardo Ferrell contributed to this article: November 27, 2019 — After trumpeting the indictment back in the summer, the U.S. Attorneys office in Michigan has dropped federal arson and wire fraud charges against George (G.G.) Rider, a man some compare to the fictional character “Ghost,” in the hit television drama Power. TheCONTINUE READING
African-American and Detroit and Drug Gangs and Featured and MidwestNovember 24, 2019 The Gun Smokes No More: Infamous Motown Drug Chief, Pony Down Boss Dead AT 70 November 24, 2019 – Detroit street legend Leroy (Gun) Buttrom, founder and boss of the notorious Pony Down gang, died recently of natural causes. The 70-year old Buttrum kept a low profile in his final years. He passed away in September. Buttrom and his brothers started Pony Down in the early 1980s on the city’sCONTINUE READING
African-American and Detroit and Drug Gangs and Featured and MidwestNovember 23, 2019 Pair Of Seven Mile Blood Lieutenants In Detroit Sent Away To Prison For Drugs & Racketeering November 22, 2019 — Detroit gangland figures Robert (RO Da Great) Brown and Eugene (The Fist) Fisher were sentenced in federal court this week for their 2018 racketeering and drug convictions. Both are members of the Seven Mile Bloods street gang or simply “SMB.” Brown, 38, got hit with a 40-year sentence — he isCONTINUE READING
