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- In the early 1980s, McGRIFF founded a gang that he named after himself, “The Supreme Team,” based in the Jamaica section of Queens, New York. Under McGRIFF’s leadership, the gang’s numbers swelled to the hundreds and came to control the crack-cocaine trade in the Baisley Park Houses, the neighborhood where McGriff was raised.
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The Supreme Team was a street gang organized in the early 1980s in the vicinity of the Baisley Park Houses in Jamaica, Queens, New York, by a group of teenagers who were members of the Five-Percent Nation.
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McGriff rose to prominence in early 1981 when he formed his own crack cocaine distribution and manufacturing organization which he called The Supreme Team based in the Baisley Park Houses in the South Jamaica section of the Queens borough of New York City, New York.
Apr 2, 2014 · Kenneth McGriff was the leader of the Supreme Team gang, a main player in the Baisley Park crack-cocaine scene. In 2007, he was sentenced to life in prison.
Jul 8, 2022 · In the new Showtime docuseries “Supreme Team” — which traces the rise and fall of the titular gang — Mayor Eric Adams reflects on the “street entrepreneurship” that led the notorious crew to...
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Mar 9, 2007 · At its 1987 peak, the Supreme Team’s drug receipts from its street-level operation exceeded $200,000 a day, and the gang regularly committed acts of violence to maintain its stronghold on the area’s drug trade.
The Supreme Team was a street gang organized in the early 1980s in the vicinity of the Baisley Park Houses in Jamaica, Queens, New York, by a group of teenagers who were members of the Five-Percent Nation.
Feb 10, 2007 · A remorseless drug lord with ties to hip hop and Hollywood was spared the death penalty Friday by a jury that instead sentenced him to life in prison without parole for having two rivals killed.
