The Bloods: in Prison
Reported US prison locations
Started in Los Angeles as a street gang in the 1960s, spread to Texas prisons in the 1980s. Besides serving the broader purpose of neighborhood protection, the Bloods street gang originally arose as an opposing force to their rivals the Crips, who had been allying with various other gangs in the 1970s and becoming more powerful. As a result, the Piru gang allied with the Denver Lanes, the LA Brims and the Lueeders Park Hustlers to become the Bloods in 1972. "Bloods" was a term that African-American fighting men called each other in the Vietnam War. The Pirus later changed their name to Bloods.
The East Coast Bloods began in 1993 in New York City. Leonard "Deadeye" MacKenzie, then 26-year-old inmate from Brooklyn living inside a Rikers Island cell, and fellow prisoner O.G. "Original Gangsta" Mack, founded the New York chapter of the United Blood Nation in 1993. Deadeye is now in his late 30s and is incarcerated in upstate New York.
By the late 1990s, New York Latin Kings leader Antonio Fernandez (AKA King Tone) aknowledged that the Bloods have begun to dominate New York's prison system, and that his own gang has abandoned criminal operations in favour of political-activism. Because of this abatement in Latin King crime, the Bloods have a stronger and larger population in jail.
Latest News...
1/12/2007
Brooklyn Gang Leader On Trial for His Life
A federal jury will begin death penalty deliberations on Friday in the case of a Brooklyn gang leader, Martin Aguilar.
1/2/2007
Bloods gang member arrested in shootings
A Bloods gang member was arrested Saturday in connection with the November shooting of two city men, one of whom died.
12/27/2006
Our view: Going after gangs
Watch out for the Bloods in Palm Bay and the south end of Brevard County.
12/23/2006
4th gang member appears in court
Quincell Adams smiled and nodded to his supporters in the courtroom Friday
12/22/2006
Jury has a lot to consider in cellmate-death case
Did Rayshon Gaddis beat his East Jersey State Prison cellmate to death because he was a member of a rival gang
12/16/2006
A Blood gets life for killing a drug dealer
12/14/2006
19 arrested on drugs, weapons charges in roundup of reputed Bloods members
9/22/2006
Bloods gang members admit to murders, drug trafficking
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Rivalries have been reported with:
59 bounty hunter (Dallas, TX)
Alberta Warriors, some current hostility reported in Alberta. In 2006 a Warrior member was murdered by a Blood member in the city's Abbottsfield neighbourhood.
Crazy Dragons, some current hostility reported in Alberta
Crips.
Gangster Disciples - reported rivalry in Indianapolis between the GD and the Circle City Neighborhood Bloods (now the Dub Trey Gangsters)
Latin Kings - reported brawls have broken out between the Bloods and Latin Kings in New York state prisons. New York street rivalry is also especially prevalent. However, as mentioned above, recent events have suggested the Latin Kings have abated criminal operations in New York in favour of political aspirations.
MS-13 - the Bloods In Long Island have reportedly been in conflicts with MS-13
Neta Association - there have been reported fights between the Netas and the Bloods in Rikers Island penitentiary.
Redd Alert, current hostility reported in Alberta
Sur-13
Trinitarios
According to user sources, many Bloods are also rivals with many Asian gangs
Hundreds of factions or sets of the Bloods exist, some of which include:
007 Bonton Bloods (Dallas,Texas)
031 Bloods (Antigua & Barbuda)
21st Treetop Pirus, Northside Fort Worth, Texas
223 East Grand Bloods (Dallas,Texas)
3rd Gate Bloods (Eastside, Fort Worth)
4 Duece Killers (Blood set out of Edmonton)
414 Bloods
415 East Dallas Bloods (Dallas,Texas)
44 Oakland Guerilla Jungle Bloods (South Dallas, Texas)
51-50 Westside Skyline Pirus
54st Mafia (also known as Blood Bangin' Piru, started in San Diego,CA and now covers three major cities, including:Houston,Boston,and Phoenix.
5700 Arlington Park Bloods (northwest Dallas, Texas)
5-9 Brims, in New York City and New Jersey, and Bristol Township
59 Bloods (Shreveport, Louisiana)
7 duece 4 (TRU), Hmong Bloods gang in Fresno, CA
901 Bloods, (Southside Fort Worth)
Alley Bishops
Almighty Blooded Vice Lords (Vice Lord and Blood Gang connection in Indianapolis)
Ardwick Blood Crew, Toronto, Ontario
Athens Park Boys (from Avalon Boulevard to Figueroa in L.A.)
Baldwin Village Bloods, based in a community in southwest Los Angeles, as of late 1990s.
Black Star Nation
Block Bishops
Black Demon Soldiers, a subset of the Neighborhood Rollin 20s Bloods
Bloodstone Villains, reported in Los Angeles.
Bo-Gars, Montreal chapter that began in the 1980s.
Bounty Hunters (from the Nickerson Garden projects in L.A.)
Boyz Sheboygan, Eastern Wisonsin and Sheboygan
Brim Bloods (Six Duece Brims/62 Brims)
Brownsville Bloods, reported in Brookyln, NY. In 2000 two of the gang's members, Tysheen Bourne and Andre Fields, were shot and killed by police after allegedly trying to mug them.
Campanela Park Pirus, Compton
Cedar Block Piru - Compton, CA (known for the Rapper "The Game")
Chalktown Bloods (Toronto, Ontario)
Charlotte, North Carolina, where police say the Bloods make up the largest gang in the city, which holds over 70 gangs, including MS-13, Latin Kings, and Crips.
Circle City Neighborhood Bloods (CCNHB) (now called the Dub Trey Gangsters) - with the two c's struck out like a cent sign. CCNHB in Indianapolis are reportedly known to wear red NY Yankee hats, meaning Neighborhood Youngstaz, and Cincinnati Reds hats because of the red "C.". Stop Snitchin t-shirts identify all Bloods in Indianapolis (Dip-Set's brand shirt).
Code Red, a Blood-Vicelord faction
Concepts of War, a New York City set known among police and the public for its infatuation with violence.
Crazy Pyro Bloods? (this may not be correct)
Dark Cloud Bloods, in Vancouver, BC
Denver Lanes Bloods (from Imperial Highway and Century Boulevard to 109th Street in L.A.)
Deuce 8 4 G-Squad Bloods, 284 Goon Squad (Arlington, Texas)
Dip-Set - Harlem, New York City (A sub-set of the Nine Trey Gangsters in Harlem), and another Dipset located in Indianapolis.
Dog Posse, an early 1990s Denver-based faction reportedly known to retaliate against residents who call police
Doubletree Villains
Dub-Trey Gangsters - Formerly known as the CCNHB, Rollin 20s, and the 317 Bloods. The name represents the year 2003 when the gangs were started in Indianapolis. They are reportedly rivals with certain Gangster Disciples, but not all, and many Sureno gangs. Dub Trey Gangster Bloods are known to wear Atlanta Braves hats also for the A.
East Coast Damus
East coast Rollin 30 Limestone Piru
East Homicide Brim, NY, Queens
Eastwood Pirus (Fort Worth, Texas)
Flatlands, an Omaha-based gang reported in the late 1990s.
Forest Hill Bounty Hunter Bloods, Forest Hill, Fort Worth,Texas
Fox City Bloods, a Hmong gang from Appleton and Green Bay, WI
Fox Valley Bloods, a Hmong gang from Appleton and Green Bay, WI
Frontstreet Southern Blood (aka the 20 Gang (20th st Southern)) - South Phoenix, Az.
Fruit Town Pirus, Compton-area gangs rival to the local Nutty Block Crips
Gangsta Miller Bloods, a gang that allegedly operated in and around the Robert Wagner Houses, along First Avenue between 120th and 124th Streets, New York.
Go Hard Bloods (GHB) - Jefferson Park, Elizabeth, New Jersey
Gun Squad, in the New York City area
H.S.B. Hele st. Boyz (Kailua, HI)
Harvard Park Brims
Highland Courts Bloods - Little Rock, Arkansas
Hightowers, reported in the Bronx in 2000, and reported by user sources in Oneco, CT.
Homicide Bloods (Roywoods) (Toronto)
Immortal Bloods (IB) - 113 set in Wausau, Wisconsin
Inglewood Family Bloods
Jungles - South Central, LA (Known for the dead end street full of Black P Stone Bloods in the film Training Day)
Jungle Posse/City Bloods (Lawrence Hieghts, Toronto, Ontario)
Killer Gangster Bloods, a New York City gang that began in Rikers Island, and blamed for local prison violence, for instance in the Schenectady and Albany County jails.
King Pin Bloods (Based out of Edmonton, Alberta)
Kingsway Bloods - Edmonton, Alberta
Laos Bloods, a Laotian gang reported in Milwaukee, WI and Cleveland, OH, (especially, as the mid-1990s, West Technical High School and the West Side of Cleveland between Lorain and Detroit avenues). They are inimical to the Crips and wear the colour red.
Laos Boys
Lime Hood Bloods
Lueders Park
L95
Midland Heights Blood 304 (Ft.Smith, Arkansas)
Mob Town Pirus, in Los Angeles
MOD 301 (Menace of Destruction aka Method of Destruction), Hmong Blood gang
Nawf Side Gangstaz (aka 5x9 Blood Gang), Terrell, Tx
Neighborhood Piru - original Bloodset in Wichita, Kansas
Nine Trey Bloods
A recent police raid on the New Jersey Nine Treys, considered by local media to be the most violent set of the Bloods, netted law enforcement at least 60 gang members and 100 arrests. Officials have claimed the chapter operates in Trenton, Newark; Paterson; Asbury Park; Atlantic City; and the Bridgeton-Millville-Vineland area.
The Nine Treys were named after the term "1993", the year the gang was formed at New York's Rikers Island jail in an effort to protect its members from other rivals. Its hierarchy is a supposed mix between mafia and military organization, with "original gangsters," five-star generals, captains, lieutenants, and sergeants making up the leadership's "inner cabinet."
According to user sources, the Nine Trey Bloods set is the biggest on the east coast. They are also found in Virginia.
Notty Head Troops (NHT)
Ortan Park Bloods (Scarborough, Ontario)
Overbrook Bloods, allegedly created in 2002 in Overbrook, a neighbourhood in the eastend of Ottawa, Ontario
Red Clover Gangsters
Red Dog Piru, reported in New Jersey
Retta Mob Gangsta Bloods (St.Louis)
Rollin 20s (now called the Dub Trey Gangsters) - a Blood Faction in Indianapolis (not to be confused with LA's R20's set), and is clicked with the CCNHB. However, neither Bloods nor Crips are reported to be very prominent in Indianapolis in comparison with the Folk and People Nation.
Pelham Park Bloods (Toronto, Ontario)
Pirus, which reportedly stands for "Powerful, Intellectual, Radical, Universal Soldiers"
Pueblo Bishops
Scott Park Killers, reported in Carson, Los Angeles
Sex, Money, Murder, whose alleged leader, Tommy Terrell Thompson, confessed to conspiring to assault and murder his rivals, including ordering the shooting of a wheelchair-bound man he thought cooperated with federal agents in 2003.
Sex Money Murder-252
South Side Piru - Hope, Arkansas
Suicidal Gangster Bloods, Hmong makeup, reported in Twin Cities, MN
Tay 57 Bloods, Oriental gang reported in Twin Cities, MN
Texas Head Busta Bloods,THB Fort Worth,Texas
Toyen Bloods, in Oslo, Norway
Trife Kids (Finch area, Toronto, Ontario)
True Asian Bloods
True Portuguese Bloods (a set based in Toronto's Little Portugal.)
Truman Street Bloods - Fort Worth, Texas
Tiny Oriental Bloods, reported in Twin Cities, MN
Tree Top Piru Bloods
Treyside Bloods, in the Bronx, NY, who based the name after the 300 block of Beekman Avenue, where they allegedly operated their drug network. 28 members were indicted in 2005.
Trey 17 Blood Gangsters (T17BG). Trey-17 Bloods wear red Texas Ranger hats like the Rollin 20s Bloods of LA.and Indianapolis.
True Portuguese Bloods (Toronto, Ontario)
United Blood Nation (UBN) - the UBN originated in California in the mid 1980s as a means to consolidate Bloods into one Nation of Bloods. The United Blood Nation spread to New York City prisons in the 1990s (Rikers Island), and have since been reported prominently across the eastern seaboard. These latter Bloods are also referred to as the East Coast Bloods. According to the Gaithersburg Police Department, quoted in the Baltimore Sun (18 March 2005) , East Coast-based UBN members focus on extortion and prostitution, while the L.A.-based Bloods focus on the illegal drug trade. However, the association between the UBN and the Westcoast-Bloods is often confused. Some say the United Blood Nation and the Bloods are not formally connected, and that UBN started without the permission of the westcoast Bloods, operating on its own with its own leaders and identifiers.
Uptown Bloods- New Orleans, LA
Valentine Bloods
Vampire Bloodstone (aka Vampire Bloods, aka Vampires) - operations in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, the East Coast, and several South and Southwestern states. The gangs emerged together basically as the Stones & Vampire Bloods.
Van Ness Gangster Bloods
Warriors
Westside Mob Piru
West Side Piru, LA, California, and Oregon
Westside Passadena Denver Lanes
Willowridge (Rotten Ridge Bloods) (Etobicoke, Ontario
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