The Crips, the gang that condemned California inmate Stanley Tookie Williams helped to create, has survived -- and has even gone international.... Tookie Williams and the History of the Crips ...
A man who police said is a member of the Crips was sentenced to 42 years in prison for the 2023 murder of a man at a Silver ...
As a kid growing up in Southern California in the 1980s, it was no surprise that I became a Crip. I learned how to sell drugs and gangbang, and when I moved to Kingston, New York, at age 18, I carried ...
On this day, Feb. 28, in 1979, Stanley “Tookie’ Williams III, the founder of the notorious Crips gang in Los Angeles, killed the first of four people during a two-week armed robbery spree in Southern ...
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A Tyler man has been sentenced to federal prison for a firearms violation in the Eastern District of Texas, the U.S. Attorney’s Office has announced. Brandon Deshun Hawkins, 36, pleaded guilty on Sep.