Saturday, April 6, 2013

New York gangs rounded up thanks to Twitter code words

 

New York gangs rounded up thanks to Twitter code words

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9974486/New-York-gangs-rounded-up-thanks-to-Twitter-code-words.html

 

More than 60 alleged Harlem gangsters have been arrested by New York

investigators after incriminating themselves in a slew of code-filled

exchanges on social media such as Twitter and Facebook, prosecutors said.

New York gangs rounded up thanks to Twitter code words

 

The words were among a long list of slang terms for a gun, officials said.

Bullets were referred to as "food", "gas", "electricity" and "sea shellz"

Photo: Alamy

Philip Sherwell

 

By Philip Sherwell, New York

 

3:35PM BST 05 Apr 2013

 

Tweeting messages about a "Mariah", "flamingo", "sandwich" and "biscuit" may

have seemed like a smart idea for the alleged members of the Air It Out,

Whoadey and True Money gangs.

 

But the investigators broke the code and have now rounded up 63 members of

the rival street gangs and indicted them with three murders, more than 30

shootings and a litany of other violent crimes.

 

The words were among a long list of slang terms for a gun, officials said.

Bullets were referred to as "food", "gas", "electricity" and "sea shellz";

to "clap" was to kill a rival; to "rock to sleep early" was to murder.

 

"The internet is our 21st century crime scene," Cy Vance, Manhattan's

district attorney. "There's isn't a crime here in Manhattan that doesn't

leave an electronic fingerprint on the Internet.

 

"The indictments chronicle a bloody gang war that claimed the lives of at

least three teenagers, led to the shooting of dozens of individuals and put

bounties on people's heads".

 

His office provided a two-page glossary of code words said to have been

deployed by gang members who had operated a reign of terror since 2009 in

three public housing complexes in East Harlem, near the north of Central

Park.

 

A three-year investigation uncovered hundreds of social media posts and

mobile phone texts. In some pictures posted online, young men posed with

guns. And not all the messages were hard to decode.

 

"God forgives I dont... somebodie gotta die," an alleged Air It Out member

wrote on Facebook, according to the conspiracy indictments. Another boasted

that he was "2 Glocks strapped" in "the New Iraq".

 

==========================================

(F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this

message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to

these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed

within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with

"Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976.

The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The

Copyright Act of 1976. "Fair Use" legally eliminates the need to obtain

permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials

if the purposes of display include "criticism, comment, news reporting,

teaching, scholarship, and research." Section 107 establishes four criteria

for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies

as a "fair use". A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four

criteria to qualify as an instance of "fair use". Rather, "fair use" is

determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not

substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use

copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you

must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml

 

THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS

PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS.

 

 

 

 

 

No comments:

Post a Comment