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'Sex, Money, Murder' arrest in Jersey City today (drugs, too)
by Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal
Friday January 09, 2009, 6:49 PM
More than 350 vials of suspected cocaine and nearly 100 bags of suspected heroin were seized when a reputed 5-star member of the Sex, Money, Murder set of the Bloods street gang was arrested at the Salem Lafayette Court housing complex in Jersey City today, officials said.
Abigi Shabazz, 22, aka "BG" of Martin Luther King Drive at Union Street was charged with multiple drug offenses including drug possession with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school and within 500 feet of public property, reports said.
Based on information that Shabazz controlled early-morning drug distribution around the housing complex, narcotics officers set up surveillance there today and saw him come out of his residence at 7:05 a.m., reports said.
Officers watched him walk around the complex meeting with numerous people and at 8:45 a.m. he met James Gathers, 51, of Summit Avenue, and appeared to sell him drugs which Gathers stuffed into his left pants pocket, reports said.
Perimeter units closed on Gathers at Clinton and Monticello avenues and found a bag of heroin in the pocket with the logo "Over the Top," reports said, adding that narco cops then converged on Shabazz and found $397 on him after his arrest.
The officers then went to Shabazz's home where his sister answered the door carrying Shabazz's 2-year-old daughter, police said. Shabazz's mother gave the officers permission to conduct a search, reports said.
Inside a shoebox under a bed police said they found 98 bags of suspected heroin with the logo "Over the Top," as well as 364 vials of suspected cocaine and $1,640, reports said, adding that drug paraphernalia found
by Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal
Friday January 09, 2009, 6:49 PM
More than 350 vials of suspected cocaine and nearly 100 bags of suspected heroin were seized when a reputed 5-star member of the Sex, Money, Murder set of the Bloods street gang was arrested at the Salem Lafayette Court housing complex in Jersey City today, officials said.
Abigi Shabazz, 22, aka "BG" of Martin Luther King Drive at Union Street was charged with multiple drug offenses including drug possession with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school and within 500 feet of public property, reports said.
Based on information that Shabazz controlled early-morning drug distribution around the housing complex, narcotics officers set up surveillance there today and saw him come out of his residence at 7:05 a.m., reports said.
Officers watched him walk around the complex meeting with numerous people and at 8:45 a.m. he met James Gathers, 51, of Summit Avenue, and appeared to sell him drugs which Gathers stuffed into his left pants pocket, reports said.
Perimeter units closed on Gathers at Clinton and Monticello avenues and found a bag of heroin in the pocket with the logo "Over the Top," reports said, adding that narco cops then converged on Shabazz and found $397 on him after his arrest.
The officers then went to Shabazz's home where his sister answered the door carrying Shabazz's 2-year-old daughter, police said. Shabazz's mother gave the officers permission to conduct a search, reports said.
Inside a shoebox under a bed police said they found 98 bags of suspected heroin with the logo "Over the Top," as well as 364 vials of suspected cocaine and $1,640, reports said, adding that drug paraphernalia found
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PISTOL PETE'S AWAY FOR LIFE Murderer who became local hero won't be getting out
BY GREG B. SMITH DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, November 9th 2000, 2:15AM
A vicious drug-dealing killer whose cold-blooded slayings made him a legend in the Bronx's mean streets and a cult hero in the rap world was sentenced yesterday to life behind bars.
The misdeeds of Pistol Pete Rollack, 26, were so celebrated in Soundview, the Bronx, that graffiti artists decorated numerous walls with his gang's name: Sex, Money & Murder (SM&M).
But hours after Rollack was sentenced to life plus 105 years, police in the Bronx took the anti-hero to task - pasting up posters of Rollack's scowling face and the none-too-subtle words: "Life Without Parole" and "Don't Be Next!"
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White joined with the NYPD's 43rd Precinct to launch a highly unusual public relations campaign aimed at dissuading others from idolizing Pistol Pete's homicidal ways.
"This is a very direct way to take back to the very streetcorners where this gang operated what has happened to this gang in a way that really hits home," said federal prosecutor Elizabeth Glazer, chief of crime control strategies for White.
In January, Rollack pleaded guilty to his involvement in six murders in the early 1990s. Thirteen other gang members targeted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have been convicted of various crimes and sentenced to years in prison.
As the gang's leader, prosecutors say, Rollack really stood out.
He "seemed to relish" murder, hanging on the walls of his bedroom lists of Mafia hit men with the names of their victims, prosecutor Nicole LaBarbera wrote last week to the judge sentencing Rollack.
He allegedly committed his first murder when he was 18, and referred to murders as "wet T-shirt contests" because the victims' clothes were drenched in blood, LaBarbera said.
Rollack admitted to ordering a notorious attack on two former underlings during a Thanksgiving 1997 tag football game in the Bronx. Two men were killed and three bystanders were wounded.
Particularly galling to law enforcement was the fact that the gangsters of SM&M evolved into twisted folk heroes.
Their reputation allowed them to affiliate themselves with the Bloods street gang, and they were brazen enough to incorporate themselves as SMMC Inc. (Sex, Money & Murder Corp. Inc.).
At one point, police even saw Soundview teens wearing T-shirts with Rollack's likeness under the statement, "Free Pistol Pete."
Though Rollack was arrested in 1995, his gang continued to control sections of Soundview's drug trade. SM&M graffiti cropped up throughout the neighborhood.
In 1998, a rapper, Lord Tariq, released a CD featuring a song, "Sex, Money, Life & Death," that offered a hagiography of Rollack. The CD thanked the Rollack family and boasted, "SM&M, it ain't over."
In a September interview on a local radio station, Lord Tariq discussed the gang and sent "shoutouts" to gang members, LaBarbera wrote.
"Rollack's influence and the reach of his gang is not limited to the Bronx," LaBarbera stated, alleging that new inmates at federal prisons in New York, "many of whom have never met Rollack," speak of Rollack "reverently."
But law enforcement officials are now trying to turn Rollack's notoriety on its head, slapping up the "Life Without Parole" posters on buildings and lampposts near schools and where gang members were known to hang out in Soundview.
On Oct. 7, federal probation workers painted over the gang graffiti throughout Soundview. As of yesterday, the walls remained free of gang tags, prosecutors said.
Yesterday, Manhattan Federal Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum sentenced Rollack and ordered him to pay $25,400 toward the funerals of his victims. The mothers of three of those victims asked her to show no mercy.
In 1994, Rollack murdered 23-year-old Karlton Hines, a one-time high school basketball star from the Bronx, simply because Hines was friends with a man who tried to shake down a member of SM&M.
During yesterday's emotional hearing, Hines' mother, Theresa, glared at Rollack, who sat staring at the table, and declared, "I hope that when you go to sleep, you see all these bodies that you murdered."
"They'll come to you," she said. "That's your penalty."
SIDEBAR
1998 DC 'Make It Reign,' by Lord Tariq
The cover of thte CD shows the site of the Sex, Money & Murder Thanksgiving Day murders. The liner notes also pay tribute to the gang - "SM&M It ain't over" - as well as a thank you to Pistol Pete Rollack's family.
Here is an excerpt from one song, "Sex, Money, Life & Death:"
"You know what makes
the world go 'round?
It's obvious: Sex,
Money, Life and
Death.
You've got one life to live
One gun to bust
One n--r to save
One n--r to brush
It's all about Sex,
Money, Life and
Death."
The fate of Pistol Pete Rollack, 26, has been posted on the streets of Soundview, the Bronx. Among his most notorious murders were the slayings of two men on Thanksgiving Day in 1997 on Rosedale and Randall Aves.
BY GREG B. SMITH DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, November 9th 2000, 2:15AM
A vicious drug-dealing killer whose cold-blooded slayings made him a legend in the Bronx's mean streets and a cult hero in the rap world was sentenced yesterday to life behind bars.
The misdeeds of Pistol Pete Rollack, 26, were so celebrated in Soundview, the Bronx, that graffiti artists decorated numerous walls with his gang's name: Sex, Money & Murder (SM&M).
But hours after Rollack was sentenced to life plus 105 years, police in the Bronx took the anti-hero to task - pasting up posters of Rollack's scowling face and the none-too-subtle words: "Life Without Parole" and "Don't Be Next!"
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White joined with the NYPD's 43rd Precinct to launch a highly unusual public relations campaign aimed at dissuading others from idolizing Pistol Pete's homicidal ways.
"This is a very direct way to take back to the very streetcorners where this gang operated what has happened to this gang in a way that really hits home," said federal prosecutor Elizabeth Glazer, chief of crime control strategies for White.
In January, Rollack pleaded guilty to his involvement in six murders in the early 1990s. Thirteen other gang members targeted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have been convicted of various crimes and sentenced to years in prison.
As the gang's leader, prosecutors say, Rollack really stood out.
He "seemed to relish" murder, hanging on the walls of his bedroom lists of Mafia hit men with the names of their victims, prosecutor Nicole LaBarbera wrote last week to the judge sentencing Rollack.
He allegedly committed his first murder when he was 18, and referred to murders as "wet T-shirt contests" because the victims' clothes were drenched in blood, LaBarbera said.
Rollack admitted to ordering a notorious attack on two former underlings during a Thanksgiving 1997 tag football game in the Bronx. Two men were killed and three bystanders were wounded.
Particularly galling to law enforcement was the fact that the gangsters of SM&M evolved into twisted folk heroes.
Their reputation allowed them to affiliate themselves with the Bloods street gang, and they were brazen enough to incorporate themselves as SMMC Inc. (Sex, Money & Murder Corp. Inc.).
At one point, police even saw Soundview teens wearing T-shirts with Rollack's likeness under the statement, "Free Pistol Pete."
Though Rollack was arrested in 1995, his gang continued to control sections of Soundview's drug trade. SM&M graffiti cropped up throughout the neighborhood.
In 1998, a rapper, Lord Tariq, released a CD featuring a song, "Sex, Money, Life & Death," that offered a hagiography of Rollack. The CD thanked the Rollack family and boasted, "SM&M, it ain't over."
In a September interview on a local radio station, Lord Tariq discussed the gang and sent "shoutouts" to gang members, LaBarbera wrote.
"Rollack's influence and the reach of his gang is not limited to the Bronx," LaBarbera stated, alleging that new inmates at federal prisons in New York, "many of whom have never met Rollack," speak of Rollack "reverently."
But law enforcement officials are now trying to turn Rollack's notoriety on its head, slapping up the "Life Without Parole" posters on buildings and lampposts near schools and where gang members were known to hang out in Soundview.
On Oct. 7, federal probation workers painted over the gang graffiti throughout Soundview. As of yesterday, the walls remained free of gang tags, prosecutors said.
Yesterday, Manhattan Federal Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum sentenced Rollack and ordered him to pay $25,400 toward the funerals of his victims. The mothers of three of those victims asked her to show no mercy.
In 1994, Rollack murdered 23-year-old Karlton Hines, a one-time high school basketball star from the Bronx, simply because Hines was friends with a man who tried to shake down a member of SM&M.
During yesterday's emotional hearing, Hines' mother, Theresa, glared at Rollack, who sat staring at the table, and declared, "I hope that when you go to sleep, you see all these bodies that you murdered."
"They'll come to you," she said. "That's your penalty."
SIDEBAR
1998 DC 'Make It Reign,' by Lord Tariq
The cover of thte CD shows the site of the Sex, Money & Murder Thanksgiving Day murders. The liner notes also pay tribute to the gang - "SM&M It ain't over" - as well as a thank you to Pistol Pete Rollack's family.
Here is an excerpt from one song, "Sex, Money, Life & Death:"
"You know what makes
the world go 'round?
It's obvious: Sex,
Money, Life and
Death.
You've got one life to live
One gun to bust
One n--r to save
One n--r to brush
It's all about Sex,
Money, Life and
Death."
The fate of Pistol Pete Rollack, 26, has been posted on the streets of Soundview, the Bronx. Among his most notorious murders were the slayings of two men on Thanksgiving Day in 1997 on Rosedale and Randall Aves.
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Sex Money Murda (S.M.M. or $.M.M.) is a street gang operating on the East Coast of the United States.
Sex, Money, Murda is a neighborhood-based street organization that originated in the Soundview section of the Bronx, New York.[citation needed] More specifically, the gang was fathered by Peter Rollack a.k.a. Pistol Pete from the Soundview Houses, a low income public housing development managed by the NYCHA. Pistol Pete is now serving a life sentence without parole on a plea bargain for killing and committing to kill 6 people. S.M.M. eventually affiliated itself with the United Blood Nation which emerged during the 1990s. Over a relatively short time the S.M.M. set spread to other locations. They are primarily located in the Soundview section of the Bronx, as well as the South Bronx and many east Brooklyn neighborhoods like Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and East New York. They have also branched to cities as far as Trenton, Newark, and Camden in New Jersey, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), and Baltimore, Maryland, and other cities along I-95.
During the summer of 2002 Tommy Terrell Thompson established the S.M.M. in Jersey City, New Jersey. On November 14, 2004 an 18-count RICO indictment charged Thompson with one count of racketeering conspiracy, one count of racketeering, encompassing specific and non-specific, ongoing acts of murder conspiracy, robbery and robbery conspiracy, heroin and cocaine conspiracy and distribution. The indictment also charged Thompson with nine counts of violent crimes in aid of racketeering, including specific attempted murders, murder conspiracy, robberies and shootings; four counts of possession, use and carrying of a firearm for violent crime; one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin, and one count of heroin distribution.[1] Thompson pled guilty on July 6, 2005, and admitted that he directed other members and associates of the Sex, Money, Murder set to commit acts of murder and assault and took part in one of the assaults himself. He also specifically admitted directing the murder of a Jersey City man whom Thompson believed was cooperating with cops against him and other gang members.[
Sex, Money, Murda is a neighborhood-based street organization that originated in the Soundview section of the Bronx, New York.[citation needed] More specifically, the gang was fathered by Peter Rollack a.k.a. Pistol Pete from the Soundview Houses, a low income public housing development managed by the NYCHA. Pistol Pete is now serving a life sentence without parole on a plea bargain for killing and committing to kill 6 people. S.M.M. eventually affiliated itself with the United Blood Nation which emerged during the 1990s. Over a relatively short time the S.M.M. set spread to other locations. They are primarily located in the Soundview section of the Bronx, as well as the South Bronx and many east Brooklyn neighborhoods like Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and East New York. They have also branched to cities as far as Trenton, Newark, and Camden in New Jersey, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), and Baltimore, Maryland, and other cities along I-95.
During the summer of 2002 Tommy Terrell Thompson established the S.M.M. in Jersey City, New Jersey. On November 14, 2004 an 18-count RICO indictment charged Thompson with one count of racketeering conspiracy, one count of racketeering, encompassing specific and non-specific, ongoing acts of murder conspiracy, robbery and robbery conspiracy, heroin and cocaine conspiracy and distribution. The indictment also charged Thompson with nine counts of violent crimes in aid of racketeering, including specific attempted murders, murder conspiracy, robberies and shootings; four counts of possession, use and carrying of a firearm for violent crime; one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin, and one count of heroin distribution.[1] Thompson pled guilty on July 6, 2005, and admitted that he directed other members and associates of the Sex, Money, Murder set to commit acts of murder and assault and took part in one of the assaults himself. He also specifically admitted directing the murder of a Jersey City man whom Thompson believed was cooperating with cops against him and other gang members.[
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