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This FBI subject file concerns the Crips and Bloods gangs and their alleged expansion into drug trafficking outside Los Angeles. The released material includes newspaper clippings from 1988, including reporting on the Baltimore arrest of alleged Santana Block Crips member Armando Eugene Mines on federal firearms charges. The clippings describe ATF and federal prosecutors' allegations that Mines possessed firearms under a false identity and that a search recovered suspected cocaine, cash, a rifle, and packaging equipment. Additional articles discuss crack-era gang violence, drug markets, and the availability of military-style weapons.

Documents span: 1988 | Released in 1 part
Names in this file: Armando Eugene Mines, Robert Edwards Mines Jr., Harvey E. Eisenberg, Paul W. Valentine, James Watterson, Thomas Reppetto
Subjects: Crips, Bloods, gang violence, drug trafficking, firearms, Baltimore