Overview
Long-form narrative entries that connect multiple crimes, people, organizations, investigations, and places into a broader criminal history or case narrative.
Browse Stories
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Criminal Careers
Narratives tracing a person's criminal activity across multiple incidents, associates, and jurisdictions.
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Organization Histories
Narratives tracing the rise, activity, conflicts, investigations, and decline of criminal groups.
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Crime Waves and Conflicts
Connected sequences of violence, robberies, trafficking activity, gang conflicts, or other sustained patterns.
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Major Case Narratives
Integrated accounts of complex cases from underlying crimes through investigation, prosecution, and aftermath.
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.
New York–Washington Drug-War Stories
- Frank Lucas and the Country Boys: Harlem, 1960s–1970s — supply chain, family network, prosecutions, cooperation, and separation from The Council.
- Nicky Barnes and The Council: Harlem, 1970s–1980s — structure, hierarchy, supply, prosecution, and collapse of the Council network.
- Harlem, Queens, and Washington Drug Networks, 1980s–1990s — A network history separating the Harlem, Queens, Brooklyn, and Washington organizations and tracing the documented relationships among them.
- The Historical Background of Paid in Full — Planned comparison of the film’s compressed narrative with the underlying biographies, events, and later oral histories.
- Brooklyn–Queens Criminal-Network Crossover, 1999–2001 — CMB, Aaron Granton, the late McGriff network, E. Money Bags, Black Just, and Troy Singleton.
Detroit Network History
- Detroit Drug Organizations, 1970s–2000s — generational history of YBI, Chambers Brothers, Dog Pound, and BMF.