Overview
Case-file entries centered on a defined criminal matter, prosecution, conspiracy, series of related offenses, or formally investigated criminal case.
Browse Cases
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Major Cases
Significant criminal cases involving multiple participants, offenses, jurisdictions, or investigative stages.
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Federal Cases
Cases investigated or prosecuted primarily under federal jurisdiction.
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State and Local Cases
Cases handled primarily by state, county, municipal, or local authorities.
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Unsolved and Cold Cases
Cases that remain unresolved or were reopened after substantial periods of inactivity.
Entries
Entries will be added here as the Crime Encyclopedia expands. Individual pages should cross-link related cases, events, investigations, methods, organizations, people, places, and stories whenever those relationships are documented.
Initial Cases
- Frank Lucas Narcotics Prosecutions (1975–1977)
- People v. Lucas — George Ford Homicide Litigation (1980)
- State v. Overton — Southeast Asian Heroin-Smuggling Network (1982)
- United States v. Barnes — 1977 Federal Narcotics Trial
- Federal Prosecution of The Council, 1983–1985
- Federal Racketeering Case Against the Preacher Crew — Southern District of New York prosecution of Clarence Heatley and associates.
- Federal Case Against Wayne “Silk” Perry
- Federal Drug Case Against Rayful Edmond III
- Federal RICO Case Against the Supreme Team
- Federal Prosecution of the Nichols and Mason Organizations
- Federal RICO Case Against the Cash Money Brothers
- Federal Racketeering and Murder Case Against Kenneth McGriff (2005–2007)