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March 09, 2008
'25 – Life is no joke' for Guilty John Shop Crew
Described in New York's Daily News as, "violent," five members of an eight man marijuana selling Bronx gang face maximum life sentences in prison after being convicted by a Manhattan federal jury on drug and gun charges recently. The other three face 25 years each, having pleaded guilt.
The court heard how Anthony Patterson, described as the gang leader, was in charge of huge weekly shipments of marijuana, valued at as much as US$1 million.
Between 1997 and 2004, the group of eight transported around 2,000 pounds of "herb" each week from California to New York, unloading it on dealers who would flood the streets. Patterson was in charge of getting the cash back to the West Coast to purchase more, once the weed had been sold.
According to The Daily News, The John Shop Crew opened a recording studio and launched John Shop Records from the illicit profits of selling marijuana. Superstars like Sizzla and Wyclef Jean have reportedly been featured by this record company.
Posted by yardFlex at March 9, 2008 10:53 AM
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Posted by: mad man
on March 9, 2008 11:45 AM
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why Dem a fight the weed so hard but not fighting tobacco,alcohol,prescription pills,opium and all those things that kills u so easily but weed that has been proven not a dangerous drug
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Posted by: keisha
on March 9, 2008 01:45 PM
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This is ridicuolus.All this time just 4 weed.dem ned 2 go deal wid other crimes.
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Posted by: frank white
on March 9, 2008 01:49 PM
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there is no harm in blazing up the ganja,Babylon should legalize it for they can never stop we from blazing the marijuana
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Posted by: JP
on March 9, 2008 02:08 PM
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if you didn't realize it...it's because the united states government can't collect a tax off of it...the us C.I.A imports a majority of cocaine and opium, so it doesn't really confiscate it's own product of sale unless they have sold it...then they can sometimes say...huge cocaine bust....weed is just kept down because it's easy to grow...if legalized the government wouldn't be able to get anything off it.
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Posted by: bronmon
on March 9, 2008 02:09 PM
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wow . well nascar was founded on bootleg liquor the equivalence of nowadays weed. but ms titi is worried about artist compesation damn she made mad i just lost 100 DOLLARS.
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Posted by: top9
on March 10, 2008 03:42 AM
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dem killin off each other for money just like the system i can only say dem deserve it if dem 2 greedy
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Posted by: CHALICE KING
on March 10, 2008 08:41 AM
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WAT A WASTE AH TIME LEAVE DI HERB ALONE,LOOK HOW MUCH COKE HEAD DEH BOUT FREE AS A BIRD.FREE UP DI HERB SO MI CAN KEEP MI CHALICE BURNING.
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Posted by: Dallio Star
on March 10, 2008 10:16 AM
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Bun America Dem Want BA**Y MAN Fi Survive But Dem Cant Give Youths A Chance Fi Shine
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Posted by: PinkCattier
on March 10, 2008 11:03 AM
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Bwoy dem treat BLACK people bad sah. U cant tell me say in a HOLLYWOOD nuff coke & stuff deh & dem not hunting di white people dem. A so it go still
I hope some a dat money go a yawd & set up a nice place fi dem family dat living.
ALL UNNO MAN DAT A DEAL. SEE IT DEH u muss get ketch or DEAD so no LIVE BIG A FARIN send unoo money likkle likkle go a YAWD & set up someting fi unno family or fi when dem DEPORT U. BUJU SAY DONT THROW STONE BEHIND U
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Posted by: musiclives
on March 10, 2008 01:27 PM
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every body talkin abuot the weed nobody seems to know about the murders and the conspriracy thats what they are charged for
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Posted by: real
on March 10, 2008 10:55 PM
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big up musiclives u a di only one wey make sense so far these people are murders u si that is the problem wid black people we glorify murders all di wile and act like police a the enemy i neva hear nobody protest when gangsters murder inocent people but them quick fi protest when a police kill a bad man i dey a jamaica and si police kill bad man and every body a block road and a bun tire fi di same man wey terroize kill and rape in a di area fi years
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Posted by: mad thing
on March 12, 2008 11:02 AM
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yard man fool no bl**dcloth, fool fool, a long time from what iam reading these idiots have been in the business, they must have made a killing doing what they did so y not pull up and invest, and get out of the duty life style, u cant feel sorry for these people them fool to the business, and guess what is a lot of them out there fool to whats is really going on, how long do u expect it to last, more time i feel is pull them cannot pull out, r them get gun shat, cause man and man cant be so fool fool, these people where also into the music and promoting thing so y keep washing drugs money, get independent legally, i just dont get it, but it all come back to greed, yard man to greedy, and this is y a lot of them get f**k fe nike and name brand clothing, go way with the dutty life
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Posted by: babyjohn
on March 16, 2008 10:29 AM
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all that i'm readin is poor speculation, if a certain individual wants to sell drugs thats on him, but as everybody know u can't mix sellin drugs with killin ppl, u suffer the consiquences when u carry out certain unpleasant acts, this man from the crew have been a hard workin man in everyway possible, i won't knock another mans way of living. anybody who try making illegal money legal if they get caught their in deep trouble if not ur considered lucky, i won't say it's greed that would be ignorant to say, i think it's all about chances, if u make the first mill an got away, ur honestly goin to tell me u won't try making another mill the same way if not i different way? it's not about yard man, in every race there are greedy ppl, so y bring down ur own race, from what i KNOW the johnshop crew was not being greedy, they looked out for many different kinds of ppl, not just themselves, and that's y the never stopped at a mill, cause there was many mouth to feed.
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Posted by: ee
on April 28, 2008 03:18 PM
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yea, a nuh yard mon ting , yard mon might go harda but evry nationality have dem set a hustla dem and the i is right. If any boi mek a mil one way its gonna be hard fi stop. especially when u a come from nuttin. But its time fi stop ball bout jamaica people too badmind and too this and dat bcuz it dont mek you sound betta dan mista badmind.nah i mean ,fi dem bizness as well as artist bizness nuh suh important fi wi a cuss dem and talk beer fart all di while.jamaica mi seh , mi nuh seh politrics are a bag a war but di system fucc up fi wi right now and if we nuh learn fi come together and fighth . then mi nuh really gonna be the fittes of the fit to survive. And this is 2008 and fi real a anarchy and bloodshed . it wont get betta so kool wit di soft ting . babylon fi stop lock wi up and build more schools and teach us hopw we can improve our economy teach us about africa, teach us how we can go aboutlegalizing herbs, we have it inourselves to build great hospitals and reach beyond teh stars we need to know that they know that cocaine is being used freely and shipped in bulks ..r we gonna ask them why and they wont tell or revolute .any way itslove
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