Navajo town still uneasy after arrest of gang members

[Disir]

Down the road from Hank Blair’s trading post in the tiny community of Lukachukai about 35 miles south of I-40 in Arizona near the New Mexico line on the Navajo Nation, a sign would occasionally pop up in a corn field saying the crop was ready.

But the announcement wasn’t for corn. It was a sign that a local gang was dealing a fresh supply of cocaine and methamphetamine.

For 15 years, the Red Skin Kingz terrorized this remote section of the vast reservation near the Arizona-New Mexico border. Dealing in drugs, murder, kidnapping, arson and aggravated and sexual assaults, the gang intimidated the community where law enforcement is more than 45 minutes away on a good day.

“They were the most organized, worst people that we’ve had around here forever,” said Blair, who has owned the Totsoh Trading Post for 34 years. “It was scary.”

Now, after the recent sentencing of three high-profile gang members, including a mother and son, authorities believe they have shut down the gang that meted out a level of violence not seen by gangs on the reservation since the 1990s.

Authorities conducted more than 300 interviews in the investigation of the Red Skin Kingz, using a task force made up of tribal, state and federal officials, said Michael Caputo, an FBI assistant special agent in charge for the Arizona district. It was formed in the mid-1990s when the Navajo Nation saw an explosion of gang activity in and around its capital of Window Rock, with turf wars, drive-by shootings and retaliatory killings. The model has since expanded to other parts of Indian Country.
Navajo town still uneasy after arrest of gang members

I don't think it's been totally decimated unfortunately.

 

[Dan Stubbs]

Down the road from Hank Blair’s trading post in the tiny community of Lukachukai about 35 miles south of I-40 in Arizona near the New Mexico line on the Navajo Nation, a sign would occasionally pop up in a corn field saying the crop was ready.

But the announcement wasn’t for corn. It was a sign that a local gang was dealing a fresh supply of cocaine and methamphetamine.

For 15 years, the Red Skin Kingz terrorized this remote section of the vast reservation near the Arizona-New Mexico border. Dealing in drugs, murder, kidnapping, arson and aggravated and sexual assaults, the gang intimidated the community where law enforcement is more than 45 minutes away on a good day.

“They were the most organized, worst people that we’ve had around here forever,” said Blair, who has owned the Totsoh Trading Post for 34 years. “It was scary.”

Now, after the recent sentencing of three high-profile gang members, including a mother and son, authorities believe they have shut down the gang that meted out a level of violence not seen by gangs on the reservation since the 1990s.

Authorities conducted more than 300 interviews in the investigation of the Red Skin Kingz, using a task force made up of tribal, state and federal officials, said Michael Caputo, an FBI assistant special agent in charge for the Arizona district. It was formed in the mid-1990s when the Navajo Nation saw an explosion of gang activity in and around its capital of Window Rock, with turf wars, drive-by shootings and retaliatory killings. The model has since expanded to other parts of Indian Country.
Navajo town still uneasy after arrest of gang members

I don't think it's been totally decimated unfortunately.

There was a piece on this Indian area that they refused the INS and Border patrol to patrol the area of Wetbacks and was refused by the Tribe leaders. So what is the problem? I should add working as a Deputy we had to have Indian Agent cards from the Gov to patrol the Seminole Land. This was requested by the Tribe.

 

[AZGAL]

Native Americans are sick of open borders too. In fact they have really disliked open borders for a very long time.

 

[Dan Stubbs]

Native Americans are sick of open borders too. In fact they have really disliked open borders for a very long time.

Well the Tribe that is on the Border seems to have a different opinion and if check many of the Tribal town have their own Police department with equipment given by the Federal Gov.

 

[Gracie]

Down the road from Hank Blair’s trading post in the tiny community of Lukachukai about 35 miles south of I-40 in Arizona near the New Mexico line on the Navajo Nation, a sign would occasionally pop up in a corn field saying the crop was ready.

But the announcement wasn’t for corn. It was a sign that a local gang was dealing a fresh supply of cocaine and methamphetamine.

For 15 years, the Red Skin Kingz terrorized this remote section of the vast reservation near the Arizona-New Mexico border. Dealing in drugs, murder, kidnapping, arson and aggravated and sexual assaults, the gang intimidated the community where law enforcement is more than 45 minutes away on a good day.

“They were the most organized, worst people that we’ve had around here forever,” said Blair, who has owned the Totsoh Trading Post for 34 years. “It was scary.”

Now, after the recent sentencing of three high-profile gang members, including a mother and son, authorities believe they have shut down the gang that meted out a level of violence not seen by gangs on the reservation since the 1990s.

Authorities conducted more than 300 interviews in the investigation of the Red Skin Kingz, using a task force made up of tribal, state and federal officials, said Michael Caputo, an FBI assistant special agent in charge for the Arizona district. It was formed in the mid-1990s when the Navajo Nation saw an explosion of gang activity in and around its capital of Window Rock, with turf wars, drive-by shootings and retaliatory killings. The model has since expanded to other parts of Indian Country.
Navajo town still uneasy after arrest of gang members

I don't think it's been totally decimated unfortunately.

Can't read it. Damn website wants 10 bucks. No fucking way.

 

[Disir]

It was free when I posted it.

 

[Dan Stubbs]

Down the road from Hank Blair’s trading post in the tiny community of Lukachukai about 35 miles south of I-40 in Arizona near the New Mexico line on the Navajo Nation, a sign would occasionally pop up in a corn field saying the crop was ready.

But the announcement wasn’t for corn. It was a sign that a local gang was dealing a fresh supply of cocaine and methamphetamine.

For 15 years, the Red Skin Kingz terrorized this remote section of the vast reservation near the Arizona-New Mexico border. Dealing in drugs, murder, kidnapping, arson and aggravated and sexual assaults, the gang intimidated the community where law enforcement is more than 45 minutes away on a good day.

“They were the most organized, worst people that we’ve had around here forever,” said Blair, who has owned the Totsoh Trading Post for 34 years. “It was scary.”

Now, after the recent sentencing of three high-profile gang members, including a mother and son, authorities believe they have shut down the gang that meted out a level of violence not seen by gangs on the reservation since the 1990s.

Authorities conducted more than 300 interviews in the investigation of the Red Skin Kingz, using a task force made up of tribal, state and federal officials, said Michael Caputo, an FBI assistant special agent in charge for the Arizona district. It was formed in the mid-1990s when the Navajo Nation saw an explosion of gang activity in and around its capital of Window Rock, with turf wars, drive-by shootings and retaliatory killings. The model has since expanded to other parts of Indian Country.
Navajo town still uneasy after arrest of gang members

I don't think it's been totally decimated unfortunately.

Can't read it. Damn website wants 10 bucks. No fucking way.

Ten bucks for that paper is a joke. Must be lonely out there.