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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's how Venus came. With Serena, what I'd do with my wife when I'd take her out is make sure that she had her birth-control pills. I'd tell my buddy, 'You know we're from the ghetto, right? You just act like the worst Crip, and take her purse.' And I'd calm her down, and that's how Serena came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Proudest Papa | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...gang ID. He runs with Wetback Power's 18th Street crew. "It's crazy out there now," he says. "You could be walking down the street, and some little 12-year-old will shoot you." Last year he was shot in both legs by a member of the Mafia Crip Gangsters, and he pulls up one pant leg to show through-and-through wounds where a bullet skewered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death On The Beat | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...fact, Q and his Los Angeles-headquarters second-in-command, Donald (``Doc'') Dennis, a suspected East Coast Crip, often displayed considerable long-distance ``savviness,'' according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Johnson. ``They called to question the amount of receipts coming in. They discussed how much crack was in the city. They discussed cooking agents. And they didn't keep books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTREPRENEURS OF CRACK | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

Denver was, in effect, a licensed franchise. Cleveland, Ohio, on the other hand, was a branch operation. In June 1992, Q allegedly entrusted the city to another suspected Crip from Los Angeles, Carl Lavar Lee, 27--called ``M.J.'' for his resemblance to Michael Jackson. For about the next 112 years, the FBI believes, Lee's Cleveland operation--and a direct subsidiary in Milwaukee, Wisconsin--handled as much as 10 kilos of Los Angeles cocaine a month. And then around February 1993, investigators believe Q sent representatives--Terry (``Kit'') Cooper and Derrick (``Book'') Slaughter--into the Pacific Northwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTREPRENEURS OF CRACK | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

...network all the way to Birmingham. That city was to afford investigators the clearest glimpse into one of Q's distant branches. Following a number of scouting trips to test the local market, an enterprising threesome flew into the city to stay. Two were among Q's suspected Crip affiliates, Horace (``Dink'') Slaughter, 29, brother of Book, and Larry (``Drak'') Neal, 29, both of whom weighed more than 260 lbs. The third was a petite, reddish-haired woman from Long Beach, California, named Renee Stephens. For the team's headquarters, Stephens rented a three-room, $250-a-month apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTREPRENEURS OF CRACK | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

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