heres another blood story from jersey. they must be pretty prevalent there aswell. This guys an example of westcoast members spreading the gang on the eastcoast.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/08/alleged_bloods_leader_pleads_g.html
NEWARK — He walked into the courtroom at 12:15 p.m., thickly muscled, stern-faced, tattoos blanketing his arms. Surrounded by six U.S. marshals and with a heavy chain wrapped around his back, the reputed gang leader hobbled slightly as he prepared to plead guilty to a racketeering-conspiracy charge.
For about a decade, authorities say, 41-year-old Vincent Young had been running a violent set of a Bloods gang that has been called the most powerful street gang in New Jersey. And he said he did it all from a state prison, where he’s been locked up since 1994, after killing a man.
Among the earmarks of the gang that Young admitted to today was the use of strict, vigilante-like "West Coast principles," such as tagging members who’ve cooperated with authorities as "food," before ordering their slayings.
The highest-ranking member of the Fruit Town and Brick City Brims — a set that operates in Essex, Hudson and Passaic counties — Young was revered by some members, feared by others, and known as the Triple Original Gangster.
Today he wanted U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler to know — when asked whether he’d been running the gang since 1999 — that he’d actually been commanding it for years longer.
"In ’94, I was already Triple OG," he said, seeming slightly agitated as he gazed at the judge across the hushed federal courtroom in Newark.
Young pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. He faces up to 20 years in prison, though under his plea agreement with the government he’s expected to get between 12 1/2 years and 15 1/2 years.
Young was the first-named defendant — followed by 14 other alleged Fruit Town and Brick City Brims members — listed in a 52-page, January indictment that details 20 counts, including 63 overt acts that the defendants allegedly committed in furtherance of a racketeering conspiracy.
Several of the defendants have pleaded guilty over the past few months.
Young admitted today to using unauthorized cell phones — gained while incarcerated at Northern State Prison in Newark — as a means of conspiring with fellow gang members to sell heroin and crack cocaine, including at least 100 grams of heroin in Newark and at least 100 grams of crack in Paterson.
According to a statement U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman released today, Young directed other members and associates of the Fruit Town and Brick City Brims, both in and out of prison, in carrying out crimes to further the gang’s affairs — including murder, kidnapping, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, robbery, bribery, extortion, threats of violence, trafficking in controlled substances and intimidation of witnesses.
Throughout today's 25-minute hearing, Young seemed sharp-minded as he listened to detailed questions from the judge and answered them quickly. Wearing a beige prison jumpsuit, he stood behind a defense table and often replied with a simple, "Yes, your honor." At the start of the hearing, he told a judge’s clerk that "I can’t do all that ... I can’t maneuver," referring to his handcuffed wrists, as he was asked to hold a Bible, raise a hand and say an oath.
According to the indictment and information Fishman put out about Young in January, the gang leader came to New Jersey from Los Angeles in 1993 to kill a man he believed had threatened members of his Los Angeles-based Fruit Town Brims gang. He got a maximum of 20 years in prison for aggravated manslaughter after the killing — a sentence he is still serving today — but while in New Jersey state prison, he founded and became the leader of the New Jersey-based Fruit Town Brims.
Young met Altariq Gumbs, aka "Killer Reek," authorities say, while they were both locked up and recruited Gumbs to join the gang. They say he promoted Gumbs to lead a Newark-based subset of the gang, known as the Brick City Brims. Gumbs, 33, who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate RICO in July, was made the "Double Original Gangster," or "OOG," the gang’s second-highest ranking position in New Jersey.
Authorities said the rules governing the Fruit Town and Brick City Brims required members to be quizzed about the history of the West Coast Bloods (known as the "69"), and about Young’s life history — including details of his childhood, the crimes he committed and his struggles against the rival Crips gang. Failure to recite this history to the satisfaction of a ranking member could mean a member would be physically disciplined, authorities said.
After today’s hearing, Young’s court-appointed attorney, Gregory E. Tomczak, said his client "took full responsibility for what he did."