The Strike Force concluded the overdose was arranged to "ensure his silence in a Black Mafia related assault case". Although the majority of these businesses in African American neighborhoods were operated by African Americans, it is often unclear the extent to which these operations were run independently of the larger criminal organizations of the time. Nearly three decades later, the Inquirer placed the murders on a list of “violent crimes of the 20th century.

They rolled up and then a money green Benz rolls up behind them and Aaron Jones gets out in a money green Fila sweatsuit and money green Adidas. The Black American gangster Bumpy Johnson established close ties with the New York Italian-American Mafia and Jewish Mob in the post-war years, establishing some degree of independence for Black American organized crime groups in Harlem from the dominant New York organized crime groups. Sean Patrick Griffin has delivered a richly detailed narrative of the murderous history of the city’s first African-American crime syndicate. On the West Coast in Oakland, California, Felix Mitchell and his 69 Mob ran a large scale drugs trafficking operation, generating income of nearly a million dollars in monthly business.The guy on the tape turned out to be a drug dealer named Michael “Blood” Youngblood who was a known DEA informant with ties to the original Black Mafia, that later became an aide to a Philadelphia city councilwoman.

He was arrested for possession of crack cocaine in 1990, while supposedly advising the ill-fated successor group to his own, the Junior Black Mafia. The name Junior Black Mafia came about when a fellow, unknown to anyone, went on national television and stated his group was formed to rid the City of Philadelphia of a group of Jamaican drug dealers known as the Shower Posse. It is stated in the game that Iraq's vast collection of blackmail is the only reason the local authorities have not made much of an effort to stamp out the Viceroys.

His organization was one of the most feared in the history of black organized crime in Philadelphia. The meetings were organized at different locations between 1969 and 1975 based on this hierarchy, while later iterations of leadership did not wish to record activities on paper. He successfully avoided capture by fleeing to Chicago and Detroit, only to reappear in one of New Jersey’s most infamous crimes. By 1973, the Mafia were beginning to lose anonymity due to the increasing scale of their crimes and the increased law enforcement and media attention. January 6, 1989 – JBM lieutenant Marvin (Big D) Robinson is indicted following a series of raids on stash houses he ran.

Ferranti served 21 years in federal prison for a nonviolent LSD/cannabis offense, but that didn't stop him from pursuing his passions. Many of the major drug traffickers in the United States emerged during the early-to-mid-1960s, such as Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, Guy Fisher, and Frank Lucas, taking advantage of the increasing political strength during the civil rights movement. He said they didn’t know who was who and some innocent people got shot because they were under the impression that everybody black in the drug trade was JBM members. The JBM was involved in a drug war with the Shower Posse in Southwest Philadelphia during the 1980s and early 1990s.I was in FCI Otisville in New York when a member of the Shower Posse who caught a case in Southwest Philly approached me. The names, logos, and other source identifying features of newspapers depicted in our database are the trademarks of their respective owners, and our use of newspaper content in the public domain or by private agreement does not imply any affiliation with, or endorsement from, the publishers of the newspaper titles that appear on our site. As their legend has grown, Aaron Jones, their leader has taken on a mythical aura as one of the top black American gangsters ever. June 29, 1989 –JBM lieutenants Anthony (Tony Two Guns) Fletcher and Eric (E-Money) Hurst are ambushed by Haynes-dispatched gunmen. Major Coxson was a career con artist with ties to thieves, drug dealers and mobsters of all stripes.

Tyrone “Fat Ty” Palmer was one of the most consequential heroin dealers on the Eastern seaboard in the early 1970s.On Tuesday, however, about 600 mourners at the Philadelphia Masjid mosque in West Philly paid homage to another side of Christian, known as Beyah. Books have been written, fiction and nonfiction, movies made and magazine articles profiling the crew have appeared detailing their exploits as the baddest urban outlaws to walk Philly’s streets. JBM founders Aaron Jones, then 26; Mark Casey, then 23; and Leonard Patterson, then 27, grew up together on the streets of West Philadelphia. It is believed that this song led to the murder of Jam Master Jay and the shooting of 50 Cent himself. Allegedly formed in September 1968 by Samuel Christian, who later adopted the name Suleiman Bey under the Nation of Islam, the Black Mafia was heavily involved in a large part of drug trafficking in Philadelphia during the 1970s, with heroin being the most trafficked drug.