Overview
Criminal enterprises, gangs, crews, syndicates, cartels, trafficking networks, and other organized groups connected to documented criminal activity.
Browse Organizations
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Gangs and Crews
Street gangs, neighborhood crews, robbery crews, drug crews, and similar criminal groups.
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Organized Crime Groups
Structured criminal enterprises, syndicates, mafias, and long-running conspiratorial organizations.
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Trafficking Networks
Organizations centered on the movement and distribution of drugs, weapons, stolen property, or other contraband.
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Temporary Criminal Conspiracies
Shorter-lived groups formed around a particular scheme, robbery series, fraud, or criminal objective.
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 Organizations and Networks
- Country Boys — Frank Lucas Organization — Harlem heroin distribution network led by Frank Lucas.
- Atkinson–Jackson Heroin Import Network — Southeast Asian wholesale/import pipeline linked by court records to the Lucas organization.
- The Council — seven-member Harlem-centered governing body led by Nicky Barnes, active 1972–1983.
- Preacher Crew — Harlem-and-Bronx racketeering enterprise led by Clarence “Preacher” Heatley.
- Supreme Team — South Jamaica, Queens organization founded by Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff.
- Lorenzo “Fat Cat” Nichols Organization — major South Jamaica narcotics enterprise; documented supplier ally of the Supreme Team.
- Bebos — Howard “Pappy” Mason-led South Jamaica crack organization.
- Martinez Trafficking Organization — Working encyclopedia label for the New York–Washington organization described in federal records; title should follow the terminology used by the controlling case documents.
- Rayful Edmond Organization — Washington, D.C. trafficking organization of the late 1980s.
- Cash Money Brothers — Brooklyn racketeering and narcotics organization centered in Lafayette Gardens.
- McGriff Enterprise — Later Period — post-incarceration wholesale narcotics and racketeering enterprise distinct from the original Supreme Team phase.
Detroit Organizations
- Young Boys Incorporated — structured Detroit heroin/cocaine organization of the late 1970s and 1980s.
- Chambers Brothers Organization — 1980s Detroit crack-cocaine network.
- Dog Pound — 1995–2001 Detroit enterprise led by Milton “Butch” Jones.
- Black Mafia Family — Detroit-founded multistate cocaine and money-laundering organization.