The Westies: The Spillane's Murder Case

At the age of 21 Mr Gittany was convicted of two offences of receiving stolen property and assaulting a police office in the execution of his duty and malicious wounding. He was sentenced to a total of 2.5 years to be served by periodic detention. The circumstances of the assault and malicious wounding was on 23 March 1993 two police officers attended Mr Gittany’s home after he failed to appear at Parramatta Local Court in relation to the two charges of receiving stolen property and on being told the purpose of the visit Mr Gittany became agitated and during a struggle he bit Detective Constable Bristow on the ear severing a portion of it. (AustLII 2015)

The gang had worked closely with the Camorra for years, but because of territory issues they soon separated. When Morello and Lupo went to jail for extortion in 1909 the Camorra decided to kill off any Morello members. Camorra had lost the war, but the Morello gang had lost the new boss Nicholas Morello and couldn’t regain its power again. Joseph Masseria took advantage and grabbed control over surviving members His power wouldn’t last long

To the untrained eye 129 Spring Street, New York City, looks like your average building, one that's held dozens of businesses over the years and somehow seems to still remain busy; however, locals know a much darker story dating back over 200 years. The murder of Guelielma Sands, now known as the infamous Manhattan Well Murder, would be the first ever recorded trial in American history. The location of her murder: A well that has been buried beneath a completely average looking building for two centuries.

The Crips started when the Baby Avenues were formed by Ray Washington in 1969. Tookie joined him in 1971 and formed the West side portion of what is now known as the Crips. The Crips were initially started to eliminate all street gangs and create a strong neighborhood watch. Tookie said "we started out to, in a sense—address all of the so-called neighboring gangs in the area and I thought I could cleanse the

Deanie, as he was known as, with friends Earl Weiss, known as “Hymie”, and George Moran, known as “Bugs”, all joined the Market street gang. The market street gang was known for theft and robbery, but they were “sluggers” for newsstands to beat up the rival newsstands for not selling their paper. So, they are starting pretty low but they do get much higher in the gang.

On a website i read that for of Al capone's men went into a liquor store used by George “Bugs Moran. Those man held up six gang members and a hanger-on against the wall and peone fire. When the police got there it was a bloodbath the 6 men and the hanger-on were died on the ground.

While most of these so-called small “groups” can usually be found hanging out around the blocks of southern Philadelphia. Even though they are not as well known as other gangs such as the ”Bloods” and the “Crips”, but they are just as dangerous. They are carrying guns and committing the same criminal acts as the other well-known gangs do.

After being hotly pursued and placed under pressure with many of the gangs day and night camps attacked around Lambing Flat by the police and themselves almost captured so much so that with the split from the two killers of Barnes, Gilbert, Ben Hall and Burke commenced returning to the Carcoar district where Gilbert had some earlier success and a district the new chum Mickey Burke knew intimately, newspaper reports had many article's covering reports of robberies conducted by the trio as they passed back through Memmegong and the Flat. Arriving at Burrowra in the first week of September 1863, (see article left) conducted a robbery which was reported on the 2nd September as

The history of the Bloods starts in Rikers Island Prison. Omar "Original Gangster (OG) Mack" Portee and Leonard "Dead Eye" McKenzie formed the gang to protect African American inmates from other gangs. Multiple sets formed from this also known as groups that branched off from the gang. There is no top leader

The west side of Buffalo, NY has had a bad reputation for a long time now, but it hasn’t always been that way. Many years ago the area known as the west side was a popular and extravagant place to live. Through years of economic hardships however, the west side took a wrong turn somewhere. It is now viewed by many people as “a lost cause.” The crime rates have skyrocketed and the standard of living has plummeted. Gangs are a huge issue in the west side of Buffalo because the gang members scare and intimidate the residents of nearby homes. People are not reporting major crimes because they are scared that they will get hurt because of it. The tenth street gang has been known of by

His criminal history began at age 18 when he was charged with causing bodily harm. He served time and was released on good behaviour (R v. Gittany, 2014). At 21, Gittany was again convicted for two counts of obtaining stolen property and assaulting a police officer by biting his ear (R v. Gittany, 2014). In 2001 Gittany was charged with supplying stolen 55 Ecstasy pills (R v. Gittany, 2014).

The criminal in the interview described the nature of one operation with Moran’s mob he was involved in. According to the operation they had to reload a load of whisky hi jacked on a track, while several surrounded the place with machine guns. Huge money was made by criminals gangs and murders were common as gangs fought each other in order to protect or expand their territories. Territorial disputes

The 1960’s or 1970’s is when gangs were originated. Gangs became a formation of protection against racial crimes being committed by whites. There were quite a few popular gangs such as the Slausons,

Street gangs in the northeast of the United States came about in three phases. The first phase took place after the American Revolution and consisted of youth fighting over turf. The second phase of street gangs started to emerge in 1820, which coincided with a rise of immigration. This is when serious ganging began taking place. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Latino and Black populations grew, and eventually, over two-thirds of the gangs in New York were Puerto Rican or Black. This third phase of gang activity is the subject for Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story, which features the Puerto Rican Sharks and the Polish-American Jets and the romantic relationship between two people, one from each gang, which suffers to exist amidst the violence between the two gangs.

Often, we hear tales of gangs and gangsters that rule cities owing to great influence over authoritative figures. Most of these tales come to us from news about third world countries wrapped in turmoil and chaos amidst lawlessness. Hence, to imagine a pair of twin brothers leading a gang to rule over Eastern London during the 50s-60s era is difficult, to say the least. To say that the Kray Brothers were the foremost perpetrators of organized crime in East London would be an understatement. The twins were individually known as Ronald “Ronnie” Kray and Reginald “Reggie” Kray. The twins were born into violence and under the influence of their grandfather, took up boxing. This was a common hobby for young boys in East London. Sibling Rivalry spurred them on and the brothers experienced great success, reportedly not losing a match until the age of 19. But alas, the call of a life of crime was simply too attractive to repel hence off they went, robbing stores, hijacking vehicles and murdering their enemies.