Geographic index for Crime Encyclopedia entries connected to South Jamaica and the Baisley Park area of Queens.
This page indexes crime-history material associated with South Jamaica, Queens. It is not a general history of the neighborhood and should not be read as characterizing South Jamaica primarily through crime.
The Baisley Park Houses are a New York City Housing Authority development in South Jamaica. Historical public-housing documentation dates the development to 1961. The federal Supreme Team case repeatedly identifies the vicinity of the Baisley Park Houses as the organization’s original geographic base.
The principal Crime Encyclopedia organization currently associated with this place is the Supreme Team, founded by Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff. Gerald “Prince” Miller served as second-in-command and later assumed operational leadership.
South Jamaica was also the base of the Lorenzo “Fat Cat” Nichols organization and the Bebos led by Howard “Pappy” Mason. Federal records document overlapping personnel and history between these organizations while treating them as distinct gangs.
The 1985 killing of parole officer Brian Rooney and the 1988 killing of NYPD Officer Edward Byrne became major law-enforcement turning points associated with these networks.
Later federal cases extend the South Jamaica/Queens network into the early 2000s. McGriff was convicted in connection with the 2001 murders of Eric “E. Money Bags” Smith and Troy Singleton. Smith’s killing was described as retaliation for the death of McGriff associate Colbert “Black Just” Johnson.
Singleton’s murder also creates a documented connection to Brooklyn: federal prosecutors identified Cash Money Brothers enforcer Aaron Granton as a participant recruited for the killing.
South Jamaica and Harlem were separate New York crime geographies. McGriff and Miller should not be inserted into the Rich Porter–Azie Faison–Alpo Martinez organization merely because all became well known in New York street history and hip-hop culture. Connections should be added only when a supplier, partnership, rivalry, family, or case relationship is documented.
Future Queens entries should continue outward from these documented organizational cores to additional figures, witnesses, investigators, and cases. Connections should be added only where a supplier, partnership, rivalry, family, enforcement, victim, or prosecution relationship can be sourced.