Chicago Gangs
Daniel Alvarado, an avowed Two-Six gang member, allegedly shot and killed Moises Suarez on July 5 in Little Village while on electronic monitoring anklet, prosecutors said Friday. Prosecutors opposed his being released in a March gun case.
Accused Four Corner Hustlers chief Labar Spann and reputed Wicked Town leader Donald Lee are set to go on trial all over again, years after their original convictions in federal court.
The Sin City Deciples began as a Black club before integrating with whites and Hispanics. It had thousands of members — including a Gary, Ind., police chaplain, prosecutors say. Indictments have aimed to cripple its leadership, which prosecutors say includes Chicago-area members.
Three state lawmakers stood with Hoover’s family as they seek a state commutation that would release the long-imprisoned Gangster Disciples co-founder.
It’s not unusual for Illinois to send high-profile prisoners away to serve their time elsewhere. Colorado prison officials say they have Hoover, but it’s not clear where Crimo is serving his sentence.
The path went through California, Mississippi and Florida before ending Wednesday with Trump commuting Hoover’s life sentence. On Friday, federal prison officials confirmed he left their custody and a 74-year-old Larry Hoover is now listed as a state inmate in Colorado.
Hoover and David Barksdale created the Gangster Disciples in the late 1960s, ruling as “King Larry” and “King David” until Barksdale was killed in 1974.
Rachaun “Munna Duke” Vance, slain early Saturday, was an associate of superstar rapper Dayvon “King Von” Bennett, killed in 2020. Also killed was Derrell Givens, 31. A 36-year-old man is hospitalized in fair condition.
Lil Durk is accused of targeting rival rapper Quando Rondo in an attack that killed Rondo’s cousin. Durk’s attorneys argue that prosecutors made a ‘fundamental factual error’ in alleging that Durk bragged about the attack in a song that was recorded months earlier.
Some officers were directed to inform the Department of Homeland Security about arrests involving suspected associates of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in October 2023. Mayor Johnson’s office disavowed the directive.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin is considering whether two convicted gang members deserve a new trial. Prosecutors told the judge in February that could put the death penalty back on the table, given Trump’s position.
The 32-year-old Chicago rapper released the 17-track album Friday. He remains jailed in Los Angeles on murder-for-hire charges in the killing of a rival rapper.
Despite the president designating the group as a terrorist organization, almost all of the 37 men flagged by Chicago police as possible members have faced only drug charges and citations for driving infractions.
Adalberto Santiago was shot in the back Friday in a South Side house. One of the killings he was suspected of orchestrating “was particularly gruesome and heinous. It was depravity,” a former federal prosecutor recalled.
Charges filed this month allege Antonio Reyes, now 21, committed the five killings during a seven-month span in 2020.
The rap superstar already faces charges in connection with an alleged plan to kill rival rapper Quando Rondo. The plot culminated in a shooting in Los Angeles in August 2022 that claimed the life of Quando Rondo’s cousin, whose mother has now sued Lil Durk in Cook County court.
A federal jury found Donald “Lil’ Don” Lee and Torance “Blackie” Benson guilty of a racketeering conspiracy in November 2022 and held them responsible for multiple murders and attempted murders. The men could get a new trial, which could prompt a death penalty review.
Brandon Z. Miller, 25, presided over a crew that bought more than 100 guns, some used in a murderous South Side street war, federal prosecutors say. He also was sentenced in military court to 30 months in prison for a sexual assault and was accused of plotting to steal COVID-19 pandemic relief money.