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Mayor Coleman Young announced last November that the city would step up its fight against drug dealers. "We're going to hit them and hit them hard," Young declared. He beefed up narcotics squads and ordered police to shut down at least a dozen crack houses a day. Police began soliciting tips from citizens on a "dope hotline." In December and January, Detroit cops increased warrants and arrests on drug charges by 375% over the same period a year earlier. Last week a grand jury returned indictments against 22 people allegedly involved in the Chambers brothers' drug ring, an organization...
Police are not the only ones striking against the dealers. Last month two overzealous Northeast residents were charged with arson after burning down a crack house in their area. Both men confessed, saying that several neighbors had chipped in to buy the gasoline used to start the blaze...
...Shower gang is the largest of some 30 so-called posses across the U.S. that have been set up by illegal Jamaican aliens. With branches in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Kansas City, Dallas, Washington and other large cities, the Jamaican network has come to dominate the U.S. crack trade in the past two years. Sporting such fanciful nicknames as "Tivoli Gardens," "Bushmouth" and "Superstar," the posses currently have more than 3,000 members and are growing fast...
...Jamaicans have found a niche, along with the Colombians and Cubans, in Miami's drug trade. Unlike the South American gangsters who sell narcotics wholesale, the Jamaicans are primarily street dealers and crack-house operators. Their enterprise has proved outrageously lucrative: posses will process a $6,000 kilo of cocaine into crack and sell...
WASHINGTON. After Vivienne McPherson's common-law husband was murdered in a shootout with rival drug dealers, she decided to take over his business. For four months she dealt crack out of her apartment at 2840 Robinson Place, in the rough southeast district. Then, in the words of a vice cop, she "messed up the money." A local Jamaican posse made her pay for the transgression. It was bad enough that McPherson, nine months pregnant, had been pumped with eight bullets while her neighbors watched, says a federal agent. But what really sickened the lawman is that "three...