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Back To Main Menu. Whereas the mid-1980s included a rivalry between the 'Clicks' and 'Crazy 8s' gangs, the period from 1989 to 1993 was marked by 141 homicides in the city of Saginaw alone.
The Six Four, Burt Street Crew, Mafia Kings and Folks gangs rose to prominence.The spike in slayings was not coincidental. The Saginaw News' timeline, the result of combing through 30-plus years of articles, shows that the difference between the 1980s gangs and the early 1990s gangs was the availability of guns and the influx of crack cocaine.This continuation of the timeline begins in 1991 and ends in mid-2001, when police reported that 'gang shootings have increased.'
. See The Saginaw News timeline of Saginaw gang violence in the 1980s. See The Saginaw News timeline of Saginaw gang violence in the early 2000s. See The Saginaw News timeline of Saginaw gang violence from 2005-2013June 27, 1991 - George Jamerson, 23, is struck and killed in a shootout with a rival gang member on Rust between Bagley and Walcott. Two others who are with Jamerson also are shot. The incident leads Saginaw police detectives to meet with Police Chief Alex Perez to discuss reconvening a gang task force, first formed in 1990 to quell violence in the summer months.July 9, 1991 - Johnny Pena, 13, is shot in the head as he walks near South Washington and Hess with members of the Folks when a confrontation with Mafia Kings members begins.
Pena, who is killed, was a member of the Peewees, a younger branch of the Folks. Joseph 'Jo Jo' Vasquez, a member of the Mafia Kings, pleads guilty to second-degree murder in the incident.July 15, 1991 - Saginaw police monitor Pena's funeral.July 28, 1991 - Richard Dorsey Jr., 19, dies after he is shot in the chest, moments after Dorsey asks party-goers to leave a house on Pemberton where members of both the Folks and Mafia Kings are present for a high school graduation party. Pena's cousin, Clemente Pena, who police say is a leader of the Folks gang, is found guilty of second-degree murder in the incident. 16, 1991 - Saginaw police arrest 18 suspected gang members in downtown Saginaw. In the incident, one group of suspected gang members arrives at the McDonald's restaurant at 300 N.
Washington as another group occupies the second level of a parking ramp at 200 N. Washington, police say.July 15, 1992 - Casimer Lugo, a member of the Mafia Kings, shoots Erik Donoho, a member of the Folks, near Hess and South Jefferson. Lugo, then 18, tells a jury during his trial that Saginaw gang members trade gunfire 'most every time we see each other.' 6, 1992 - Olandis L. Gordon, 20, is shot fatally when he and a 19-year-old fire 13 rounds into a house on Gallagher in gang fashion. As Gordon and the 19-year-old open fire, a resident of the house grabs a gun and returns two shots, striking each of the shooters.
Saginaw County Prosecutor Michael Thomas does not charge the resident in the incident, ruling that he fired in self-defense.Aug. 18, 1992 - Four teens, ages 15 to 18, are shot on Lamson between Thatcher and Julius when members of the Latin Crips go to the location seeking members of the Mafia Kings. Someone in a building on Lamson open fires with a shotgun at the group of 15 people, hitting four in the face and chest. Nobody is hospitalized. 1993 - Curtis Madison, 23, is shot fatally as he and others are leaving a party on South Park near Atwater when a gang shootout begins. His friend, Donnell Thomas, is sentenced to 12 to 17 years in prison for manslaughter.March 26, 1993 - A brawl between two gangs erupts inside the Foot Locker store at the Fashion Square Mall in Saginaw Township.
A witness says, 'A guy grabbed my baby's stroller and just started beating another one. The worst part is, when he grabbed the stroller he didn't even check to see if there was a baby still in it.'
2, 1993 - Police arrest Gerard Delacruz after confiscating several homemade bombs and the ingredients to make more during a search of his room at the Saginaw Inn, 1014 E. Delacruz tells a judge his intentions were to help his nephew, a member of the Folks, who feared for his life after a run-in with the Aces High gang.Aug. 21-26, 1993 - Four people, including two teens, are shot and killed. Police on Aug.
25 alone handle nearly 100 assault reports. 8, 1993 - Police arrest James DeLaRosa Jr., who they say is the leader of the Mafia Kings, on assault charges. DeLaRosa ultimately is sentenced to three years in prison.Oct. 31, 1993 - Troy Rankin, one of the founding members of the Folks, is shot hours after joining fellow gang members at a Halloween party with children at Rouse Elementary School.Dec.
11, 1993 - An argument between the Folks and Mafia Kings at Fashion Square Mall in Saginaw Township leads to at least six shots fired.March 30, 1994 - A 10-year-old girl is shot in the thigh on Wilkins between Cambrey and Morris when two teenage boys see a rival gang member and open fire. A Saginaw Gang Task Force member identifies gang graffiti.April 6, 1994 - The Saginaw Gang Crime Task Force begins operating with representatives from the FBI; Secret Service; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; Michigan State Police; Saginaw Police Department; Saginaw County Sheriff's Department; Saginaw Township Police Department; and Buena Vista Police Department. FBI Senior Agent Philip Kerby, who supervises the FBI's Saginaw office, heads the unit.May 6, 1994 - Gang Task Force members arrest Jamal Nabil Iben Ahmed White, who they say is a leader of the Folks gang. White is sentenced to two to five years in prison for carrying a concealed weapon.May 22, 1994 - Gregorio 'Chewy' Perez Jr. Is shot in the face, fatally, during a gang-related incident as he sits in a car outside a shopping area at East Genesee and Webber across from the Saginaw County Fairgrounds.Oct. 1, 1994 - The Gang Task Force begins a one-year extension of activity after making 65 arrests from April to September. 30, 1995 - Gang members fight inside the Saginaw County courthouse after a judge postpones a hearing for a man charged with murdering a rival gang member.March 1995 - The Saginaw Police Department and the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development combine resources to place Saginaw police officers in the Daniels Heights public housing complex. The effort is part of an 18-month program aimed at starting a neighborhood watch and similar groups in the area.April 6, 1995 - The Gang Task Force celebrates its one-year anniversary. Task Force members make 125 arrests in those 12 months, 70 percent of them for violent crimes. They also list 800 names of gang members or 'wannabes' whose membership is spread across 20 to 25 gangs.June 14, 1995 - A Mafia Clan gang member points a shotgun or rifle at a Saginaw County sheriff's detective assigned to the Gang Task Force after he and other Mafia Clan members are escorted out of the Saginaw County courthouse. The incident occurs when the gang members are attending a hearing for a Mafia Clan member accused of stabbing a 15-year-old member of the Folks gang.
23, 1995 - Charles Lewis, 16, is shot and killed at Harold and Ray in a gang-related drive-by shooting.Oct. 1, 1995 - Gang Task Force members make 145 arrests in the year since the unit was extended.July 4, 1996 - Six gang members confront three men inside the Foot Locker store at the Fashion Square Mall. After the men are escorted out of the mall, four of the gang members converge on Saginaw Township Sgt. Brian Berg, who waves his baton to prevent an attack.Oct.
1, 1996 - Gang Task Force members make 217 arrests in the previous 12 months. Faded '4KP' graffiti outside the former Augie's Superette at North Sixth and Kirk marks Saginaw's North Side as territory of the 4KP, or 'Fourth and Kirk Posse.' 4, 1996 - Saginaw Police Chief James Golden suspends Officer Denise DeGroat, accused of warning dope dealers about planned police raids and watching as gang members sold drugs.
DeGroat is charged federally with preventing a police search or seizure and is arraigned in U.S. District Court in Bay City along with her brother, Celester DeGroat. Police say Celester DeGroat and one of Denise DeGroat's sons are members of the 4KP gang - the Fourth Street and Kirk Posse - that controls most of the drug business on Saginaw's northeast side.Oct. 8, 1996 - The federal government approves spending $1.4 million to finish demolishing the 365-unit Daniels Heights complex. Department of Housing and Urban Development rejects the city's $11.1 million proposal to build 150 replacement units.Early 1997 - Crews begin demolishing the 365-unit Daniels Heights apartment complex.Oct. 1, 1997 - Gang Task Force members make 205 arrests in the previous 12 months. 15, 1998 - DeGroat, the former Saginaw police officer, is sentenced to 16 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute crack and tipping off drug dealers of a possible arrest or seizure.
Her brother, Celester DeGroat, is sentenced to 48 years in prison and a $25,000 fine.Aug. 2, 1998 - Eddie Brazil, 16, is shot and killed in a drive-by shooting outside a garage at 3245 Bundy between Nimons and Youmans. The death is the second killing on the city's South Side that weekend, following the July 31 fatal shooting of Jerry Lee Burnside. The two homicides, as well as about 20 gang-related shootings in July, lead Saginaw police to add up to 40 additional officers on some shifts.Aug.
21, 1998 - As Saginaw police investigate the two South Side homicides and other shootings, Saginaw Housing Commission Director Richard D. Massa says former residents of the Daniels Heights complex are not behind the violence.
Police say they suspect the demolition, as well as an influx of prison parolees, escalated feuds among youths from six neighborhoods. Thomas 'Peter Rabbit' WickerNov. 19, 1998 - Wicker is convicted of assault with intent to commit great bodily harm less than murder for shooting at two men April 29 on Bundy on the city's South Side. He's sentenced a month later to life in prison, where he remains.Jan.
6, 1999 - Steven Johnson, 16, is shot and killed on Nimons between Bundy and Grant. Prosecutors say Anthony Robinson and Quavis McDaniel are involved and were retaliating for an April 1998 shooting and a New Year's Eve beating of fellow gang members, but McDaniel says they mistook him for a gang member. Robinson is convicted of first-degree murder, while McDaniel pleads to second-degree murder.Aug. 16, 1999 - A gunman shoots at two men about 2 a.m. On Kirk between North Fourth and North Fifth, and a gang member retaliates by shooting two men about 10:30 p.m. The next day on Grant near Gilmore.
Two hours later, another shooter wounds a 16-year-old girl as she walks along South Washington near Wisner. 31, 1999 - Saginaw County records its lowest number of homicides - 12 - since the year 1965. The city of Saginaw ends the year with nine homicides, which also is its lowest number in nearly 40 years. Serious crimes in the city decline 15 percent from 1998 and 40 percent from 1994. Police credit the arrests of Wicker, as well as Garfield Lawson III and Kelvin Taylor.Oct.
31, 2000 -Jessie Tucker, 18, is killed when gang-related gunfire erupts about 7:30 p.m. At Hartsuff and South 15th. Drifters manga. Tucker dies when the vehicle in which he is riding crashes into a utility pole and catches fire.April 18, 2001 - Rosemary Hardin, a 43-year-old mother of 11, is shot fatally outside her home on Webber near Jeffers by Tommy Brown, a man whom she doesn't know. Witness testimony during Brown's trial differs regarding whether Hardin called Brown a derogatory name or whether she said she didn't want any gang activity near her house.April 30, 2001 - Saginaw police investigate five drive-by shootings within hours, likely gang-related, that leave two people injured and one jailed.
The Gang:
Flanagan and Allen:
Whilst touring in a Florrie Forde show in 1926, Bud Flanagan met and teamed up with Chesney Allen. Flanagan and Allen's first inclination was to follow their main interest and start up as bookmakers, but their act was improving all the time. Their performances were so well received that they were swiftly booked by Val Parnell for a debut at the Holborn Empire in 1929.
Following their 'discovery' by Val Parnell and their debut appearance at The Holborn Empire, Flanagan & Allen became part of the first Crazy Gang show at the London Palladium in 1931. Later they appeared in Crazy Gang shows like 'London Rhapsody' and 'The Little Dog Laughed', (1939) and also some non-Gang shows such as 'Life Begins at Oxford Circus' (1935), 'Many Happy Retrurns' (1937) and, in 1933, a musical comedy at the London Hippodrome, 'Give Me a Ring'.
During the war years they appeared in 'Black Vanities' (1941), at the Victoria Palace and Hi-De-Hi (1943), at the Palace Theatre. Between shows they toured the provinces , giving performances for the troops.
Although nominally a comedy double act, Flanagan & Allen were also known for their renditions of popular songs, the most famous of which was 'Underneath The Arches.'
Bud Flanagan:
(b. East london 14 October 1896, d. Sydenham, London 20 October 1968) In 1910 he sailed on the SS Majestic to New York where he jumped ship and spent years earing his living variously as a Westerm Union messenger, in a feather-duster factory, and selling newspapers, returning to England in 1915 and joining the Royal Field Artillery with whom he served in France. In 1919 he formed a double act called Flanagan and Roy having taken the stage name of Flanagan from his army Sergeant-Major. In 1925 he married his wife Anne, 'Curly', daughter of Johnny Quinn, who was well known in Ireland as the 'Singing Clown'. in 1926 their son, Buddy,was born. Having by now teamed up with Chesney Allen, they went on to appear in many stage shows and films as a duo and with The Crazy Gang. In 1945 ill health forced Chesney Allen to retire from the double act, and Flanagan, encouranged by Jack Hylton, decided to carry on alone. In 1947 The Crazy Gang reassembled and Bud found himself back with Nervo & Knox and Naughton & Gold when Jack Hylton brought the Gang 'Together Again' at the Victoria Palace. This was the beginning of a long run of Gang shows at The Victoria Palace until Bud retired from the Gang in 1959 at the age of 63 and was appointed an OBE. Bud and his wife Anne celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary in 1959.
Bud Flanagan's voice has been regularly heard in millions of British homes for many years after his death in 1968 because, immediately prior to it, he had recorded 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mister Hitler?', the theme song for the long-running TV sitcom 'Dad's Army'.
Chesney Allen:
(b. Brighton, Sussex 5 April 1893, d. Midhurst 13 November 1982).
Allen, whose father was a master builder, had been articled to a solicitor before opting for a stage career. As well as performing in Florrie Forde's shows, he was also her manager.
Generally known as the best straight man in the business.
Following his early retirement from the stage in 1945, Chesney Allen became the managing director of a theatrical and variety agency, and was the Crazy Gang's manager for a time. He joined Flanagan for two more films, Life Is A Circus and Dunkirk, in 1958, and made a nostalgic appearance at the 1980 Royal Variety Performance. He also took part in the cast recording of 'Underneath The Arches, a celebration of Flanagan And Allen', starring Roy Hudd (as Flanagan) and Christopher Timothy (as Allen), which played at London's Prince of Wales Theatre in 1982.
He married Aleta Turner in 1922.
Nervo and Knox:
Jimmy Nervo and Teddy Knox teamed-up in London in 1919 to form an acrobatic dancing act and their double act went on to survive throughout their long stage careers. Over the years, their slow-motion wrestling act, always an amazing peice of burlesque, had distinguished the pair as brilliant mime artists. During the 1920s a satirical element had been added to their dancing act which made them famous in the fisrt Crazy Gang shows. Jimmy Nervo: Teddy Knox: Naughton and Gold:
Charlie Naughton: Charles John Naughton was born in Glasgow and worked as a tile-fixer before going into show business. He teamed up with Jimmy Gold as a dancing act and they made their first London appearance at the Empress, Brixton, in 1912 and soon became an international top-of-the-bill act. Charlie was intrinsically funny in appearance and had the lovable qualities of the traditional clown. Wife's name: Alice.
Jimmy Gold:
(b. Glasgow 21 April 1886, d. 7 October 1967)
Real name: James McGonigal.Jimmy was also born in Glasgow and worked as a paper-hanger before going into show business. Generally considered as reliable and workmanlike a knockabout comedian as could be found on the British variety stage, he was never at a loss for the appropriate line to go with new material. Jimmy was the sharper, crosser, straight man, always boss of every situation. First Wife: Anna Mai Elliot; Second wife: June Nolan.
'Monsewer' Eddie Gray:
Real name: Edward Earl Gray. He was the son of a Pimlico greengrocer and together with his brother, Danny, had been apprenticed to a juggling troupe and became a professional juggler at the age of nine. By twenty he was one of the juggling wizards of this country and the Continent. The juggler-comedian idea first came to him in a Paris night club when he tried his own brand of French on the audience and found that they liked it. The looped moustache, horn-rims, red nose and Cockney-French accent became the trade marks of 'Monsewer' Eddie Gray. By 1919 he had abandoned straight juggling to join Nervo and Knox in the first of the Crazy Shows, forerunners of the eventual Crazy Gang. Came the Thirties and Eddie eventually left the Gang to try his comedy and juggling solo act. The venture was a great success - but, after years on lone lunacy, he was homesick for the special world of the Gang, and rejoined them in 1956 in These Foolish Kings. Comments are closed.
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