Yeah its mostly just pop music now.
Takedown Records
Philadelphia
1998-2005
Founders-Alton "Ace Capone" Coles, Tim "Gotti" Baukman
Notable artists- Bugsy, Philly Swain
Criminal associations-Takedown records was a front for a $25 million dollar network run by Coles and Baukman that flooded the streets of philadelphia with crack and powder cocaine.According to ATF agents, that enterprise was responsible for 21 shootings and seven murders, though only one shooting is listed in the indictment.The organisation operated in Southwest Philadelphia, Southern New Jersey and Delaware.Coles was eventually arrested and sentenced to 55 years to life.
PHILADELPHIA, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Mark W. Potter, Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Patrick L. Meehan, United States Attorney
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, announced today the indictment of 19
people, including Take Down Records owner Alton "Ace" Coles and 16 others
arrested on firearms, drug trafficking, financial and wire fraud charges as
well as conducting a continuing criminal enterprise. The 175-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury March 22 alleges that a drug distribution ring and continuing criminal enterprise run by Coles and Timothy Baukman was responsible for the distribution of approximately 1,200 kilograms of cocaine and 600 kilograms of crack cocaine in and around southwest Philadelphia from 1998 to August 2005.
The indictment also lists 25 firearms recovered by ATF, often from suspects in possession of, or dealing in, cocaine. ATF seized approximately $800,000 in currency as well as three vehicles, including a Bentley Rolls- Royce, three Philadelphia residences and one residence in Salem County, N.J "ATF has made combating violence in southwest Philadelphia a priority," said Potter. "We not only have targeted the shooters and dealers on the street, but also sought to seize their ill-gotten assets and charge those that have assisted in illegally obtaining or hiding them." The indictment alleges that with the proceeds from his narcotics
distribution, Coles purchased two luxury vehicles in Philadelphia in which he
had a woman falsify loan applications concerning employment and salary, title
the cars in her name to conceal Coles' ownership and make payments with money
provided by Coles. Coles also used drug proceeds to purchase a residence in
Gloucester County, N.J., using a different woman to falsify loan applications
in order to obtain a mortgage. Coles also purchased a third vehicle with drug
proceeds and titled the vehicle himself. Baukman is alleged to have used drug proceeds to lease two apartments, including one in Lansdowne, Pa., where ATF special agents recovered 44 "kilo wrappers" used to wrap kilogram quantities of cocaine and 10 firearms on Aug. 10, 2005.
The following were named in the March 22 superseding indictment and have
been arrested without incident:
- Gary Creek, 24, Baltimore
- Alton Coles, 32, Woodstown, NJ
- Kristina Latney, 30, Philadelphia
- Timothy Baukman, 30, Philadelphia
- Anwar Linder, 25, Philadelphia
- Keenan Brown, 24, Philadelphia
- James Morris, 31, Quinton, NJ
- Jamar Campbell, 30, Philadelphia
- Monique Pullins, 22, Philadelphia
- Robert Cooper, 25, Philadelphia
- Asya Richardson, 25, Philadelphia
- Linnette Simpson, 35, Philadelphia
- Charlton Custis, 24, Philadelphia
- Terry Walker, 31, Philadelphia
- Desmond Faison, 30, Philadelphia
- Al Zuagar, 35, Philadelphia
- Hakiem Johnson, 45, Philadelphia
Activity- Drug trafficking, Money Laundering, weapons violationsand murder.
