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[biku324]

Here's a California street gang with a name I can't use here as it would violate Forum rules. These guys seem nice, though...

"Sixty-eight Defendants Charged in Indictment of Dozens of Members and Associates of California White Supremacist Gang

Oct 2

Federal and local law enforcement today arrested 42 members and associates of the SFV (the rest of the name would violate Forum rules), a San Fernando Valley, California-bssed white supremacist street gang."

They'd been trafficking fentanyl, fraudulent COVID benefits, and loan fraud for years. The Feds seized "dozens of pounds" of fentanyl,
methamphetamine, heroin, and large quantities of illegal firearms (it is illegal to possess firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime).

justice.gov/opa/sixty-eight-defendants-charged-indictment-dozens-members-associates-california-white

Try this: Office of Public Affairs | Sixty-Eight Defendants Charged in Indictment of Dozens of Members and Associates of California White Supremacist Gang | United States Department of Justice

 

[fordson]

Dead link…….Hit your link and it took me directly to "Page Not Found" without going thru the forum warning page.

 

[mike4sigs]

Dead link…….Hit your link and it took me directly to "Page Not Found" without going thru the forum warning page.

same thing happened here

 

[Onomea]

Try this: Office of Public Affairs | Sixty-Eight Defendants Charged in Indictment of Dozens of Members and Associates of California White Supremacist Gang | United States Department of Justice

 

[UncleEd]

Ditto on dead link

I have found stories and the noun dates back to at least 1835 and came into more general use in 1859.

 

[fordson]

Thanks, read the report. Had to smile when I read of their gang name. Hadn't heard that term since I last read Lonesome Dove……..

 

[biku324]

Yes, indeed. Guess everybody wants in on the fentanyl action.

 

[Onomea]

Here's a California street gang with a name I can't use here as it would violate Forum rules. ...

Some years ago I was driving from Portland, OR, to San Francisco and paused for the night in Grants Pass, OR. Driving through one pleasant little neighborhood, I saw street names — just looked it up on Google Maps now — Mountain View Lane, Rivaway Lane, "Gang Name Lane," Blue Jay Lane, Nancy Lane...

When I saw "Gang Name Lane" I burst out laughing. I bet when whoever was developing the neighborhood was selling homes, the offer was that residents could name their own streets. And some ornery old cuss decided to have some fun.

 

[UncleEd]

The movie director Sam Peckinpah used the word in several of his Westerns.

 

[biku324]

My late FIL used it to describe knotheads.