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 In 2011, a California Gang member was detained for driving with an expired license after police discovered his chest tattoos portraying an unsolved liquor store robbery and murder. He confessed after being questioned and was convicted of the crime. [([[https://abcnews.go.com/US/california-gang-member-anthony-garcias-tattoo-murder-scene/story?id=13437545#.Uea_P43VA_R|ABC News]])]
+===== Aryan Brotherhood's Reading List =====
+Prospective members of the Aryan Brotherhood must complete a reading list. It comprises Sun Tzu's "The Art of War," Machiavelli's "The Prince," and Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" and "The Will to Power." [([[https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jihjx/til_the_aryan_brotherhood_has_a_required_reading/|Reddit]])]
+===== Cleanslate LA =====
+In the United States, there is an organization that provides inexpensive tattoo removal to former gang members. [([[https://www.cleanslate-la.org/|Cleanslate LA]])]
+===== Pink Panthers =====
+The Pink Panthers are a band of Serbian criminals who have pulled off Mission Impossible-style heists netting over 300 million euros in jewels. Dragan Mikic, the Pink Panthers' leader, once escaped from prison by scaling a wall as other Pink Panthers members fired machine guns at guards.[([[https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1e7tef/til_there_is_a_gang_of_serbian_thieves_named_the/|Reddit]])]
+===== Gang Presence In The US Military =====
+The military is a haven for the most powerful gangs in the United States. Graffiti from the Gangster Disciples, Crips, Bloods, 18th Street, Nortenos, Black Disciples, Surenos, Latin Kings, Vice Lords, African Nations, Aryan Nations, Aryan Brotherhood, and the Ku Klux Klan has been reported in Iraq. [([[https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Gang_presence_in_the_United_States_military|Military]])]
+===== Mexican Mafia vs Nortenos =====
+Many think that the fierce animosity that exists today between the Mexican Mafia and the Nortenos in California began in 1968, when a Mexican Mafia member stole a Northerner's shoes in San Quentin jail. [([[https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1kbsc3/til_that_many_believe_the_intense_rivalry_that/|Reddit]])]
+===== Rubber Bands =====
+In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel spent $2,500 per month on rubber bands only to keep all their cash together. [([[https://www.businessinsider.com/pablo-escobar-and-rubber-bands-2015-9?IR=T|Business Insider]])]
+===== Los Zetas =====
+Los Zetas, probably Mexico's most ruthless gang, began as a group of Mexican Special Forces enticed away from their postings by the Gulf Cartel to serve as their "killing squad." They immediately became uncontrollable and broke into independence. [([[https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mgjft/til_that_los_zetas_arguably_mexicos_most_ruthless/|Reddit]])]
+===== Burning Cash =====
+Pablo Escobar burned almost a million dollars in cash to keep his daughter warm when they were fleeing. [([[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224904/Colombian-druglord-Pablo-Escobar-burned-1million-cash-daughter-warm-single-night-run.html|Daily Mail]])]
+===== Errol Flynns =====
+In the 1970s, the Errol Flynns were a deadly Detroit gang renowned for their colorful manner of dress and a particular dance for their gang sign. [([[https://thestreetsdontloveyouback.ning.com/m/blogpost?id=3378072%3ABlogPost%3A7577|The Streets Don't Love You Back]])]
+===== Training Day =====
+To give the film "Training Day" a real feel, it was shot on-location in some of Los Angeles' most hazardous neighborhoods. Almost all of the gang members in the film are real-life gang members.[([[https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6r2o7u/til_the_neonoir_crime_thriller_movie_training_day/|Reddit]])]
+===== Sinaloa =====
+Between 2000 and 2012, the United States established an agreement with Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel that permitted the group to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs into the United States in exchange for information about rival organizations. [([[https://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1?IR=T|Business Insider]])]
+===== Arnold Rothstein =====
+Arnold Rothstein, the Jewish mafia mastermind behind the Black Sox scandal, refused to identify his assailant to police, saying, "You stick to your trade." I'll stick to my guns.” [([[https://www.jewage.org/wiki/en/Article:Arnold_Rothstein_-_Biography|Jewage]])]
+===== Los Zetas Kidnapping =====
+The Los Zetas drug gang kidnapped hundreds of innocent bus passengers in Mexico in 2011 and forced them to fight to the death as gladiators. Following that, the winners were sent on suicide missions. [([[https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/06/gladiator-death-fights-mexico-drug-war/351738/|The Atlantic]])]
+===== Juan Guerra =====
+During the 1930s prohibition era, a little Mexican boy sneaked alcohol from Mexico to Texas. That child grew up to become Juan Guerra, the founder of The Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico's oldest and most powerful cartels. [([[https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/21ck1b/til_during_the_prohibition_era_in_the_1930s_a/|Reddit]])]
+===== Capturing Technicians =====
+Drug cartels in Mexico have been kidnapping technicians and forcing them to establish their own secret cell phone network. [([[https://www.npr.org/2011/12/09/143442365/mexico-busts-drug-cartels-private-phone-networks|NPR]])]
+===== Gregory Scarpa =====
+Gregory Scarpa, Sr., of the Colombo crime family, detested African-Americans so much that he refused to get blood from a blood bank after suffering from an ulcer. He contracted HIV from another Italian gangster who donated blood to Scarpa. [([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/20/nyregion/mobster-was-mole-for-fbi-tangled-life-mafia-figure-who-died-aids-exposed.html|NYTimes]])]
+{{tag>crime history people}}

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