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Sunday, August 9, 2020

Killing of Black Disciples ‘king’ linked to Mexico’s Gulf Cartel drugs, FBI says

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat TY Gus  Chicago Sun Times


Lawrence ‘Big Law’ Loggins was shot to death last year in a parked car in Englewood. New revelations of possible Gulf Cartel ties are in an affidavit in a sweeping drug case.

The leader of one of Chicago’s oldest and largest gangs could have been killed in connection with a load of drugs supplied by the Gulf Cartel, a Mexican drug cartel, according to an FBI court filing.

Lawrence “Big Law” Loggins was shot to death on Feb. 6, 2019, in a parked car in front of his home near 72nd and Union in Englewood. His righthand man Kenneth Brown suffered a graze wound. Whoever shot them sped off.

Months later, high-ranking members of the gang picked Brown to run it behind the scenes and supply it with drugs and guns, while two other, unnamed members would be the “face” of the gang, the FBI says it learned from an informant.

Brown, whose lawyer didn’t respond to efforts to reach him for comment, was charged last month in Chicago in a sweeping federal drug case against the gang.

The affidavit doesn’t spell out how the drugs might have been linked to Loggins’ killing.


Brown told the informant he kept only a “small circle” informed of the gang’s cartel drug connection, according to the FBI.

Last September, federal agents seized 10 kilograms of cocaine from a South Side storage unit Brown was renting, according to the affidavit.

The informant was a Black Disciples member hoping for a break after he was arrested in 2018 on gun and drug charges, according to the FBI, which paid him more than $40,000 for his help. The informant got probation on the drug charge; the gun case was dismissed, court records show.

Another man charged in the investigation, Darnell “Murder” McMiller, is described by prosecutors as the “current leader of the Chicago Black Disciples.” He was released from prison in April 2019 after serving an eight-year federal drug sentence.

In documents in the case against McMiller, prosecutors say they’ve talked with his co-defendants, who identified him as the leader. In a secretly recorded gang board meeting in May 2019, a month after McMiller got out of prison, he talked about having the backing to become the next leader, prosecutors say.

They say McMiller was caught on a wiretap boasting in September 2019 he held sway over factions of the Black Disciples in the southern United States.

Last year, law enforcement sources told the Chicago Sun-Times they were worried about retaliatory shootings in response to Loggins’ killing. Police officers even were assigned as security for Loggins’ funeral procession. Many of the gang’s elders were conspicuously absent from his funeral, according to community sources in Englewood.

But sources say fears of retaliation for Loggins’ killing apparently never were realized.

At the time, one theory about the motive for the killing was that younger gang members were unhappy Loggins was centralizing his power.

The Black Disciples once boasted of at least 4,000 members in Chicago, according to the police. In recent years, the gang has splintered into autonomous, drug-dealing factions, according to the police department, which says the gang has been responsible for scores of killings over the years.

Loggins, 46, was freed from prison in 2009 after doing time for the murder of Gregory Freeman in Lowe Park on the South Side. Loggins hadn’t been arrested since then and had even worked for the anti-violence group CeaseFire.

Freeman was related to Jerome “Shorty” Freeman, former “king” of the gang, who died of natural causes at 60 in 2012.

The Black Disciples were founded in the 1960s under David Barksdale. Jerome Freeman was crowned the king in 1974 after Barksdale’s death. Freeman went to prison in 1990 on a drug conviction, and Marvel Thompson became de facto leader of the Black Disciples on the streets until the FBI arrested him in a drug conspiracy case in 2004.

Loggins’ son Lawrence “Lil’ Law” Lee is a leader of the gang’s Lamron faction, according to police. He’s doing 15 years for attempted murder but is eligible for parole in two years. The faction’s territory runs along Normal Avenue from 59th to 67th streets in Englewood. Lamron is “normal” backwards.

Rapper Chief Keef, who’s associated with the Black Disciples, has popularized the Lamron faction in his music.

47 comments:

  1. "Could have been killed." Chicago's South & West sides are as bad as any state in Mexico when it comes to murder. Every Cartel has their product being pushed in the Chicagoland area but for those who dont know, black american gangs in Chicago will kill their own members over something a stupid as a facebook post. BD's & GD's have been shooting & killing each other for years! It wouldn't surprise me if one of his own gang members murdered him on the Golfos behest just out of intimidation or so that other person can take charge of the drug dealings.

    CHICAGOJUATO

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    1. Course it was his own people.They need some bullshit BLM in Chicago

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    2. 2:54 you can't be a gang leader, specially in Chicago, without corrupt police officers on your side, and influence moves a lot of crap there, think democrats alderman Edward Burke, and mayor Retchie Daley, who gave the Donal' his chicago tower deal...
      The FBI went into burke's Office in City Hall and took his archives not Long ago, bit today's FBI MAY NOT BE INTO BUSTING BIG TIME INFLUENCED POLITICIANS, EVEN IF THEY ARE "DEMOCRAT PARTY" MEMBERS.

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  2. One dead drug dealer is a win for society. Another arrested for his murder is icing on the cake.

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    1. 10:24 that kind of guys das the only job they can do here (usa)PUSHING DRUGS. here where i live , im the only mexican maybe in a 3 blocks radius i see them all the time doing hand buys .my vecino 4 brothers are doing da crap 1 sob is a cop.

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    2. The lamest excuse of the only job around is to sell drugs. There are plenty of jobs, move out the hood, etc. When the lifestyle of diamonds, exotic cars, and items that are just ridiculous to own anyway are gorlyified in today's sad social media bragging society people dont have the guts to work hard in life.

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    3. 834
      You are talkig shit and haven't got a clue "get a job,move out the area" go listen to politicians

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    4. 8:34 move where? Mexico is not a land of opportunities, it's a god damn forsaken lawless shithole ffs.

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    5. 7:55
      There's massive opportunities in Mexico which is why American manufacturers have been setting up shop there and ditching China.

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    6. 10:24 was talking about the USA not Mexico. And @2:57 I do have a clue. I have multiple felonies and dont use them as an excuse that I can't get a job. I've worked my whole life and make over $100,000 a year the honest way

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    7. 4:41 a convicted felon making over $100 000.00 a year???
      --What, did you Marry El Chapo?

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    8. 12:40
      hey ahole
      I know guys that make over 60 a yr and have felonies in USA
      You find it impossiable becuase you cant and wont do it
      or arnt smart enough to do it

      I have a black friend that has a bro in the city
      she has offered him a place in a rural area a small house
      help with a job etc to get out of that life luke she did
      Nope he stays in the freaking hood she says his Nikes mean to much to him
      Any one can leave the city
      I did at fourteen worked on small ranchs no money when i left
      Yes they can leave they have to have the want and the will

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    9. @5:06 Thousand of people risk rape,murder,kidnapping, robbery etc while trying to make it to the usa. They walk through deserts,ride on top of trains,put in shipping containers etc. And why ? To come to america and Work at the jobs you say dont exist.

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    10. 7:09 who tha fack makes
      $60 000.00 smoking grifa on a rancho?
      Well, maybe in 10 years, ranch workers, hired hands or braziers working as braceros usually do not even make minimum wage or tips.

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  3. doesnt matter what part of the world you are at if a Cartel wants you dead you are dead its only a question of when.

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    1. That is 100% true.

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    2. Except the lifespan of a cartel is normally anything between 3 and <30 years and tens of thousands have been granted political asylum for escaping cartels that want them dead around the world without repercussions.

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    3. It wasnt cartel,mexicans killing the BD leader in his yard,like saying whites did it

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    4. @1:39 Nice stats. You sound like a rata already.

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    5. 11:12 you don't know what a rat is.

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  4. Where I'm from? This Chiraq, you get that fast in traffic.
    Kicked your bitch to the curb, she was too dramatic
    And where I'm from that's 300, normal spelled backwards

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  5. "He got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him."

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    1. Lo mataron unos morros

      https://mtonews.com/leader-of-chicagos-black-disciples-killed-by-young-members

      - Sol Prendido

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  6. LA nota estuviera mas interazante enel trabajo ke desenpeño con el CDG. lo ejecuto CDG x el bajon ? o BROWN lo anikilo para ascender de rango en la GANGA .

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  7. One thing he was is he was a Disciple.

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  8. Chifagg ,slow down a bit

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  9. CDS did this and they want to blame it on the Golfos

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    1. Cds hold no power now cause all of the snitching the only ones working with them are well known snitches! Thats why they are called cdsnitches

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    2. CDS that weak snitch cartel is as harmless as my 90 year old grandmother

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    3. Don't even think you can come back and take over your old turf perras!
      And that is the bottom line...

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    4. Cute haters gathering. All the historical big bosses have been Sinaloenses, Michoacanos and Tamaulipecos.

      Viva todo México.

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  10. All i know is chicago guys make alot of cash 💵 on snap map you see guys flashing stacks of cash but this is why so many get killed for ripping off the plug and trying to keep the profits, live fast die fast.

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    1. Most of that cash you see them flashing isn’t theirs. It has to be sent back to pay for the drugs they were sold. At best 20% of what they flash might be theirs. Why do you think the cartels are making hundreds of millions? It comes from those wads of cash they flash around.

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    2. 11:16 Only pendejos deal on credit or deliver or collect in person, dealing with the poor broke ass client is not what makes the world go round.
      Make sure and get your Bitcoins, dollars or rubbles and yens un some foreign bank account, Cyprus' Deutsche Bank and HSBC have expert advisers, and there is Bain Capital too, or Bain and Co.?
      Please don't send them kisses, those they can't deposit

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  11. Everybody is gangsta until they meet the mexican cartels

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    1. Italians mafias have been humiliated by local biker gangs, movies aren't real life.

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    2. Of course not bt c'mon Mexican criminal syndicates are on another level

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  12. i thought the structure among all chicago gangs fell apart some years ago. the younger gang bangers have for the most part rejected any leadership. that's why many factions are called renegades

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    1. Not all Chicago gangs. Latin Kings are still organized as are a few others. GDz and BDz though, you are absolutely right.

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  13. Thats why black gangs constantly rob the Mexican plug and usually get away with it...Cartels are only crazy in Mexico for the most part

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    1. That doesn’t happen hahaha,they’re scared of Mexican American gangs imagine the ones in MX chopping heads off,the mayas don’t even run any prisons and they have a high incarceration rate.

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    2. 4:45
      They are just as crazy in the USA as in Mexico. Los palillos left dead bodies in the streets of San Diego, low key kidnappings happen all the time by cartels in yankeelandia; unannounced visitors to your house on News Years eve by "pinches caras de lacras" politely telling you and your invited loved ones that they will not leave until you pay a hefty fee for the loss that your cartel family member caused. There was a punk I once knew who thought cartels couldn't touch him in the USA. He cheated them. He was later found beaten to a pulp hanging inside a motel room in Las Vegas.

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  14. They rob everyone.

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  15. Mayats son traicioneros

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  16. Am I missing something or did they ever actually get into why it's cartel related.specifically gulf?all they said was brown was renting a storage unit that hot busted.but lee got killed?

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