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...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 in a white-frame triplex on Fulton Avenue in Birmingham...
...They figured the least amount of attention they'd attract, the longer they'd be able to stay in business,'' says Jeff Burgess, one of the FBI agents who was to conduct regular undercover surveillance of Fulton Avenue. In fact, behind the low-key demeanor, Dink and Drak were suspected of being in the early stages of setting up a ``primary distributorship.'' It would involve cocaine ``muled''--or smuggled--into Birmingham in regular shipments from Los Angeles. There it would be ``cooked'' into crack and finally distributed to local dealers in 1-oz. packets, or possibly even ``eight- balls...
Birmingham's Renee Stephens remains at large. But Dink Slaughter and Drak Neal were followed home and arrested in Los Angeles. The Seattle team was jailed. Second-in-command Doc Dennis surrendered to a swat team in Burbank, California, without incident. And when Q himself was summoned to visit his parole officer--he once served time on a previous drug offense--he found FBI agents waiting for him. Finally, after 15 months on the run, Cleveland's M.J. Lee was also captured early this month in Chino Hills, California...
...worth repeated listenings. "Prodigal Daughter (Cotton Eyed Joe)" is a quiet country number about the double standard accorded to men and women and about pregnancy and abortion: "Look, here comes a prodigal son/ Fetch him a tall drink of water/ But there's none in the cup/ because he drak it all up/ Left for a prodigal daughter/ Singing, Oh Cotton Eyed Joe/Had not've been for the Cotton Eyed Joe/I'd have been married a long time ago," The sad harmonies match the pain and irony of the song without being overdone...
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