Three alleged members of a violent Hill District street gang that police say was led by slain rapper Jimmy Wopo have been indicted in federal court on racketeering charges that include murder, robbery and drug trafficking.

The indictment names Dionte Griffin, 22; Sydney Pack, 20; and Richard Kelly, 23, all of whom are alleged to be members of the 11 Hunnit gang.

All are in U.S. custody.

The case, brought under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, was indicted Aug. 2 and unsealed Tuesday. Jimmy Wopo, the stage name for Travon Smart, was murdered in June. He was not among those charged but is identified extensively in the indictment under his initials, ”T.S.,” as a leader who directed others to carry out shootings and robberies, including killing members of a rival gang called the ”Wavy Boyz.”

According to the RICO charges, the defendants conspired to commit homicides, drug robberies, shootings, and trafficking of heroin and prescription pills from 2015 to this month.

The gang did not have a strict hierarchy, but police said Kelly and Pack were leaders along with Wopo, who had particular power because of his rap videos.

”T.S. held the greater influence within the group largely due to his notoriety as a regionally popular rap artist,” the grand jury said.

”Members attempted to curry favor with T.S. by carrying out criminal acts at his direction. In return, T.S. often rewarded those that committed criminal acts at his behest by including them in his music videos and providing them with items of monetary value.”

The indictment says T.S. gave orders to shoot rival gang members and inflict violence on 11 Hunnit members who ”fell short of his expectations.”

The gang‘s name, 11 Hunnit, is a combination of two blocks in the Hill where the members live - the 800 block of Memory Lane and the 300 block of Burrows Street. The numbers 800 and 300 were combined to come up with 11 Hunnit, according to the grand jury.

The gang has been operating since 2012.

Police said the members were required to commit acts of violence to maintain membership and discipline within the gang, used money from robberies and drug dealing to fund their lifestyle, and boasted about their prowess in rap videos on YouTube.

The indictment recounts a long litany of shootings, killings, home invasions and other violence attributed to the gang in its battle with the Wavy Boyz.

U.S. Attorney Scott Brady said the gang had terrorized city residents.

”Today it ends,” he said in a statement. ”We will use every tool, including federal RICO conspiracy, to put an end to these violent street gangs and offer justice to those harmed by 11 Hunnit and their associates.”

The federal case began with the investigation by Allegheny County police into two 2016 murders in Green Tree and McKees Rocks that detectives said involved 11 Hunnit members. County police then teamed with Pittsburgh police, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. attorney‘s office to put together a historical case that could bring life terms in federal prison for those charged.

According to the indictment, 11 Hunnit‘s origins stem from a dispute over stolen heroin in 2012 between two groups in the Hill. The rivals became 11 Hunnit and the Wavy Boyz. The gangs traded insults on social media and their hatred for each other intensified when the Wavy Boyz allegedly killed an 11 Hunnit member known as ”Lumber.”

Since then, the 11 Hunnit gang has engaged in a series of shootings, according to police and ATF.

In April 2015, Pack and another gang member identified as ”T.D.” killed a Wavy Boyz member identified as ”C.R.” and wounded two others.

In December of that year, police said, Wopo ordered the gang to kill a Wavy Boyz associate identified as ”M.B.B.” The following month, Pack and Griffin were among a group of 11 Hunnit members who attacked M.B.B. and Pack fatally shot him, according to the grand jury.

In October 2016, Pack and Griffin shot and killed Wavy Boyz member ”J.H.” and injured a 7-year-old in a vehicle passing by.

The following month, according to the charges, 11 Hunnit member ”J.P.” was shot twice in the head by Pack in the presence of Wopo.

The indictment lists numerous other crimes allegedly carried out by 11 Hunnit, including robberies, shootings, traffic stops involving heroin and straw purchases of guns.

The gang did not make a secret of its activities.

References to shootings and killings are mentioned in several videos made by Wopo or featuring him and other members of the gang.

One posted in March 2017 called ”What U Know,” for example, features Wopo, Pack, Griffin and others holding guns and talking about their life of crime.

”The lyrics of the song also make reference to the shootings of [gang members] C.R. and J.H., and alerted 11 Hunnit members to the consequences of disloyalty to the gang, to intimidate rivals, and to enhance the reputation of the gang as a violent enterprise,” the indictment says.

Pack and Griffin will appear Wednesday in U.S. District Court to answer the charges before a federal magistrate judge. Kelly is due to appear Sept. 11.

Carlos Rico Walker (March 22, 1976 – September 21, 2016), better known as Shawty Lo, was an American rapper from Moultrie , Georgia.

He initially came to prominence as a founding member of the Southern hip hop group D4L, and in 2000 founded D4L Records. The group reached national status in 2005 when their single ”Laffy Taffy” topped the Billboard Hot 100 and went on to be certified platinum thrice by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

In 2007, Walker began pursuing a solo career with his debut single ”Dey Know”, which was included on his solo debut album Units in the City, released in February 2008.

On September 21, 2016, Walker died in a car accident. His second studio album, R.I.C.O., was released posthumously in March 2017.

St. Pete Police have arrested a man connected to 230 pounds of pot, $187,000 in cash and several guns.

Officers also confiscated extravagant jewelry from 24-year-old Vaughn Matthews‘ apartment.

”He doesn‘t have a job and the watch you see there... has been appraised at $55,000,” Chief Anthony Holloway said during a news conference Friday.

Police say they received a tip last year saying Matthews was planning to hurt police officers.

Undercover cops started watching his apartment on Ibis Walk Place North in 2015. Officer say they quickly realized something else was going on.

The North Side rapper who was the target of at least two fatal shootings in Rogers Park in recent years was gunned down Friday morning in Uptown, authorities said.

Two bullets to the back killed 20-year-old Shaquon Thomas, aka Young Pappy, while he was standing in the 4800 block of North Kenmore Avenue at about 1:30 a.m. Friday.

Witnesses told police a shiny, black four-door car was driving west on Lawrence Avenue with its rear driver‘s side door open. After passing Kenmore Avenue, the driver hit the brakes, reversed east down Lawrence and turned onto Kenmore before stopping.

That‘s when a thin man in a gray hoody was seen sprinting to the car and getting in, police said.

Thomas was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 2:04 a.m., police said.

No one else was injured in the shooting that appeared to be gang-related, police said.

The high-profile rapper had been shot at before, according to police officials.

Ben Woodard discusses the rapper‘s past troubles on the North Side:

Police have said the rapper was the target of two shootings since 2014 that left innocent bystanders William Lewis, 28, and friend Markeyo Carr, 17, dead.

Lewis had been waiting for a bus last July on Devon Avenue when a gunman opened fire at Thomas, who was unscathed.

A few months before that, Carr was killed by a masked gunman outside a Rogers Park McDonald‘s. Thomas was struck by a bullet in the arm.

His father at the time said he ”got the least of it” in that shooting.

Thomas survived the shooting attempt last year that left Carr dead outside the McDonald‘s, and later was unscathed when a bullet intended for him instead killed Lewis, who was waiting for a bus, police have said.

Thomas had recently ran into trouble when he threw a wild mixtape release party that was broken up by a SWAT team on a quiet residential street. He and 30 other people were charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct.

Police said someone at the party fired shots from the rear of the two-flat while officers were conducting a traffic stop outside.

Less than a week later he was hauled into jail on an outstanding warrant for an unrelated reckless conduct charge.

Ald. Harry Osterman (48th) said in an email to constituents Friday afternoon that police are working to increase patrols ”to curb the possibility of retaliatory actions.”

Thomas appeared to have made references to his run-ins with gunfire.

Shortly after the rapper was shot at in the slaying of Carr, he posted on Twitter, ”Im Still Here.”

Fans of the rapper took to social media Friday morning to lament his death.

Baton Rouge rapper Lil Boosie (real name Torrance Hatch) is no stranger to trouble with the law. Already incarcerated for probation violation on drug and gun charges, the Trill Entertainment rapper and two associates (one of them only 17 years old) were indicted on first-degree murder charges by a grand jury on Thursday, June 17.

The men are accused of being involved in the shooting of 35-year-old Terry Boyd in his own house in October. District attorney Hiler Moore stated that the killing seemed to be ”over turf” and that if Lil Boosie is convicted the death penalty is not out of the question. The same day, Hatch was also indicted on multiple drug and conspiracy charges for smuggling large amounts of codeine, ecstasy and marijuana into prison with intent to distribute. His girlfriend, a prison guard and a fellow inmate were also charged as co-conspirators. In addition to these charges, prosecutors believe the 27-year-old rapper may have been involved in at least five other slayings.

”I‘m innocent,” said the rapper when asked if he has anything to say to his fans. However, his lyrics indicate otherwise. The track ”I Know” carries violent and aggressive messages, such as, ”So put yo fist up in yo pockets and them bullets in the chamber” and ”I‘m itchin to kill, gimme a reason I will. I‘ll end up grippin a steal.” Boosie was in the midst of releasing his last album, ”Superbad: The Return of Boosie Bad Azz,” during his last set of legal troubles, but a follow-up may be a long time in coming.

William James Bosket Jr. (born December 9, 1962) is an American convicted murderer, whose numerous crimes committed while he was still a minor led to a change in New York state law, so that juveniles as young as 13 could be tried as an adult for murder and would face the same penalties. He has been in either prison or reformatories for all but 18 months since 1971, and has spent all but 100 days of his adult life in custody. He is currently serving a sentence of 82 years to life at Five Points Correctional Facility

Bosket was born in Harlem. His father, Willie Sr. (Butch), killed two people in a Milwaukee pawn shop shortly after his son was conceived and was sentenced to life in prison, where he earned a degree in computer science and psychology. Butch was released from prison and went on to get a job as a computer programmer for an aerospace company but was charged with a crime. He shot his girlfriend and committed suicide to avoid being caught.

Bosket had a traumatic childhood. When his grandfather was released from prison, he raped Willie many times. When he was 9 years old, his grandfather had him perform anal sex to ”teach him about girls”. His mother, Laura, had different live-in boyfriends who beat her and, as a boy, Bosket often jumped in to defend her, in one incident hitting a man with a pipe and slashing him with a knife and in another threatening ”I‘m going to burn that motherfucker up”. He also suffered a head injury when he ran out into the street, and was hit by a car. This was all before he was ten years old.

When he was nine years old, his mother, heeding advice, petitioned he be placed in a center, stating he was ”a person in need of supervision”. He was placed at The Children‘s Center in Manhattan, but escaped and quickly ended up at Spofford which was a ”secure detention center” and a child‘s equivalent to an adult doing time in Attica State Prison. He would be in and out of detention centers and reformatories except for a short time when he turned 21 and had served out his time for murder.

His mother had told him ”Don‘t be bullied... Hit back. To get respect, you‘ve got to be the toughest.” In the different centers, he developed a reputation for violence, upon which he prided himself. He told juvenile authorities that one day he would be a killer, just like his father.

On March 19, 1978, Bosket, then fifteen years old, shot and killed Noel Perez on a train operating on the New York City Subway‘s 3 train during an attempted robbery near the Harlem–148th Street terminal station. Eight days later, Bosket and another accomplice shot dead another man, Moises Perez (unrelated to his first victim) in another attempted robbery at the back of another 3 train at the 145th Street station, one station south of 148th Street. In between, Bosket and his accomplice shot a New York City Transit employee working in the Lenox Yard adjacent to the Harlem–148th Street station and committed two other armed robberies, one of them on the A service.

Bosket was tried for the murders in New York City‘s family court. As the trial was underway, Bosket surprised his own lawyer by pleading guilty to both murders. He was sentenced to a maximum of five years in the Goshen Youth Facility. Although prosecutors tried to get a longer sentence, five years was the most they could get under the law, at the time.

The short length of Bosket‘s sentence caused a public outcry. Governor Hugh Carey had opposed efforts by his opponent in that year‘s gubernatorial election, State Assembly Minority Leader Perry Duryea, to have juveniles tried as adults for certain crimes. However, after reading a report on Bosket‘s sentence, Carey called the state legislature into special session to pass the Juvenile Offender Act of 1978. Under this act, children as young as thirteen years old could be tried in an adult court for crimes such as murder, and receive the same penalties as adults. New York was the first state to enact a law of this nature; all of the other states have since followed suit. Because it was Willie Bosket‘s case that was used to push laws allowing juveniles to be tried as adults, it is sometimes referred to as the Willie Bosket Law.

A year after he began serving his sentence for the two murders, Bosket escaped from the youth facility. He was caught after two hours, tried as an adult for the escape and sentenced to four years in state prison. He was returned to the Division of Youth in 1979, and was released in 1983. After 100 days he was arrested when a man living in his apartment complex claimed Bosket had robbed and assaulted him. Then while awaiting trial on that crime, Bosket assaulted several court officers. He was found guilty of attempted assault for the dispute in the apartment and sentenced to seven years in prison.

At this point, his escape from the youth facility nearly came back to haunt him. He was 16 years old at the time, meaning he was now considered an adult for criminal purposes. In New York, escaping from a correctional facility is a felony, even if the facility is a youth facility. If he had been convicted of assaulting the court officers, it would have been his third felony conviction. Under New York‘s habitual offender law, he was facing an automatic sentence of 25 years to life. However, he was acquitted.

Convinced that he would die in prison, Bosket took out his rage on correction officers, getting into numerous altercations. Arrested for one of those incidents, he was convicted of assault and arson, and sentenced to 25 years to life. In 1989, he was sentenced to an additional 25-years-to-life sentence for stabbing corrections officer Earl Porter at the maximum-security Shawangunk Correctional Facility.[10][6] After the 1988 assault, Bosket was transferred to Woodbourne Correctional Facility, where in April 1989 he drew a third 25-years-to-life sentence for assaulting a correction officer with a chain. All three sentences are consecutive. His earliest possible release date is September 16, 2062, when he will be 100 years old–all but assuring that he will die in prison.

Since his conviction for the 1989 assault, Bosket (NYSDOCS inmate number 84A6391) has been housed in solitary confinement. While at Woodbourne, nominally a medium-security prison, Bosket was housed in a specially-built plexiglass-lined cell stripped of everything but a cot and a sink/toilet combination, with four video cameras watching him at all times. He was only allowed out of his cell for one hour a day, apart from medical visits and haircuts. Although he was allowed visitors, they could only speak to him through a window in his cell.

Bosket once declared ”war” on a prison system that he claimed made him a ”monster,” and was cited for almost 250 disciplinary violations from 1985 to 1994. However, he has not had a disciplinary violation since 1994. According to a 2008 report in The New York Times, due to his numerous incidents of violence during the 1980s and 1990s, he was initially not slated to move into the general population until 2046, when he will be 84 years old. Department spokesman Erik Kriss told the Times, ”This guy was violent or threatening violence every day. Granted, it has been a while, but there are consequences for being violent in prison. We have zero tolerance for that.”

He has since been transferred to Five Points, a maximum-security prison. Although he is still in solitary confinement, he is evaluated periodically, and due to his clean disciplinary record in recent years may join the general population sooner than 2046

In 1994 Supreme Team lieutenant James ”Bimmy” Antney was freed when his $2 million bail was paid by R&B stars Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. Due in no small part to his relationship with childhood friend and Hollis, Queens neighbor, rapper James ”LL Cool J” Todd Smith, Antney would go on to have a successful career in the music industry, most notably as an A&R at Def Jam Records. He served as executive producer on rapper Richard ”Slick Rick” Walter‘s gold album The Art of Storytelling and LL Cool J‘s chart-topping G.O.A.T. and G.O.A.T. 2. Antney‘s nephew is rapper Juaquin ”Waka Flocka Flame” Malphurs and his sister is successful music manager Debra Antney, whose clients include her son, Malphurs, Radric ”Gucci Mane” Davis, Karim ”French Montana” Kharbouch and Onika ”Nicki Minaj” Maraj.

Warrensville Heights Police

, along with various departments, arrested a suspect in connection with the triple killing that took place at a barber shop Feb. 5.

At a news conference earlier this week, police named Douglas Shine, 20, also known as ”Duke” or ”Little Duke,” as the suspect. Police say he has a lengthy criminal record, including robbery and assaults.

”Everybody is relieved that this individual is off the street. He was dangerous. He was violent, unpredictable. So I think the level of relief is high,” said Warrensville Heights Police Chief Wesley Haynes.

Shine is accused of shooting up Chalk Linez, injuring three and killing three.

Walter Lee Barfield, 23, William Gonzalez, 32, and Brandon White, 31, died from their injuries. Gonzalez was the owner of the barber shop.

During a Friday afternoon news conference, Haynes said numerous tips led agencies to a Cleveland residence near E. 71st and Harvard. Around 2:30 a.m., FBI Violent Crimes Task Force, Cleveland Police Gang Unit and SWAT surrounded the residence, and described it as a calm scene, as Shine walked out the back door with his hands up.

Warrensville Heights Mayor Bradley Sellers said the partnership among departments and communities led to the successful capture of Shine.

”We‘d, again, like to thank the residents of the Warrensville Heights community and the public for their assistance for bringing this suspect into capture,” said Sellers.

A member of the FBI said other crimes associated with this deadly shooting will be included in the investigation and justified.

A motive has yet to be determined.

Telly Hankton, a man described by Police Superintendent Warren Riley as one of the city‘s most dangerous wanted suspects, turned himself in to police on Monday. Hankton was booked into the Orleans Parish jail at around 4:30 p.m., according to criminal sheriff records. Already facing charges for a 2008 murder, Hankton was wanted for a murder committed on Saturday night.

Hankton, 33, was freed April 9 after posting a $1 million bond, cobbled together with mostly property bonds and some cash, and awaiting trial for a 2008 murder when he committed another streetside murder over the weekend, police say.

Both victims - Darnell Stewart in 2008 and Jesse Reed on Saturday night - were arrested in the killing Hankton‘s cousin George ”Cup” Hankton III, 40, in 2007. But neither was brought to trial.

Police collected 59 casings at the crime scene that unfolded just before midnight Saturday in the 2300 block of Terpsichore Street. Reed, 26, died on the pavement. On May 13, 2008, Darnell Stewart was run over by the Hanktons and then shot several times in the face a year ago, police said.

Crimestoppers on Monday raised the reward for the arrest and indictment of Telly Hankton to $5,000.

”We know him to be a murderer, he is dangerous and we need to get him off the streets,” said Riley at an afternoon press conference at police headquarters. ”He just blew a million-dollar bond. It meant nothing to him. He doesn‘t value anything.”

Reed was killed as brazenly and as cold as Stewart. But Riley said that Hankton met with Reed three days earlier to tell him that they no longer had a ”problem” and that they were no longer enemies.

Three days later, Riley said, Hankton ambushed Reed.

According to police, Reed was sitting on the porch of an abandoned house with a group of men when Hankton drove up to the group in a maroon Taurus. Hankton got out of the car and opened fire on the group, police said.