My good friend Detective Tony Avendorf dealt with Tavon White back in 2008 in Prince George County, Md., during a similar investigation. It involved about five female officers with one being pregnant. This one involved mostly Blood gang members with only a few BGF members. Tony said that unlike the BGF prison gang in California, which prefers to remain covert, the BGF in Maryland operates with a street-gang mentality and controls West Baltimore. This street-gang attitude developed when old-school BGF leadership eventually was paroled and younger members "went off the deep end.". http://m.policemag.com/blogpost/1490/prison-gangs-run-the-prison-system

good stuff, what exactly do they mean by younger members "going off the deep end"?
good to hear about the california branch of the bgf for once.

this new generation coming up is fucking pathetic

that's what he was referring to

idiots shooting each other and posting about it on facebook

Most Wanted: Black Guerilla Family gang member wanted in murder

May 29, 2013 | 7:00 pm
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U.S. Marshals are looking for a Maryland man who ambushed and killed a fellow gang member, and they are asking the public for information to help capture him.

According to law enforcement authorities, Keenan Victor and other members of the Black Guerilla Family laid in wait for Arnold G. Fagans Jr. outside the victim's apartment on the night of Jan. 12, 2012. When Fagans appeared, Victor gunned him down in cold blood, authorities said.

Fagans, 20, was shot multiple times in the torso and left for dead.

At least five people have been arrested in the killing, but Victor remains on the run, said Matt Burke, supervisory inspector of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force. Victor is charged with first-degree murder while armed.

"This doesn't seem like much of a family, but we would like to arrange a family reunion for Victor with his other co-defendants in this case," Burke said.

Gang members are likely helping the 21-year-old Victor hide from authorities. He has associates in Kensington, Glen Burnie, Baltimore and Salisbury.

Victor is listed as being 5-foot-10 and 170 pounds.

Anyone with information should contact the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force at 301-489-1717.

Since 2008, The Washington Examiner's "Most Wanted" weekly feature has led directly to the capture or surrender of 53 fugitives, including one earlier this month who had his newspaper clipping in his pocket when he was captured.

At least nine of the captured fugitives were wanted for murder or had previously been convicted of a homicide.

The Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, run by the U.S. Marshals Service, is comprised of 30 federal, state and local agencies from Baltimore to Norfolk. The task force has captured more than 33,000 wanted fugitives since its creation in 2004.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/crime-hist...article/2530745

Yet the Baltimore prison feds or investigators haven't given any information on the size of this BGF. If you also notice that makes this group an offshoot is their nicknames aren't Swahili related.

they have probably swallowed up the neighbourhood drug crews. theres probably some of these guys are just getting taxed and others are hardcore members.

They are trying to do what the mexican mafia essentially does in L.A , which is "tax" all the other gangs

Anyway i dont really see any parallel's between west coast bgf and east coast bgf.Bgf is suppose to be a prison thing , not a street thing.

I wish people would stop calling the Baltimore BGF an offshoot! They are not an off shoot. If one would take some time and look into the history of BGF in Baltimore one would find that the founders of BGF in Baltimore had a direct link to the BGF in California. Over time the some of the BGF in Baltimore began to drift away from the original BGF ideology,(as did some BGF members in California) and replaced the Black militancy with gangsterism.

There are members in Baltimore BGF who use Swahili names. Again if one would just do a little research one would come discover that the BGF in Baltimore is also know by the name La Eusi Jamaa which is Swahili for The Black Family

When one speaks of the "California BGF" it must be noted that within the California Prison System BGF isn't one solid faction they have also broken off into factions. Some factions still hold on the Black Militancy where others are just gangsters more or less.

How many of them do you think communicate in Swahili? I wouldnt imagine many

Also , ive heard about some damu bloods communicating via swahili in california prisons

I mostly research into them but it's difficult to find extensive information. The reason I said offshoot was mainly due to the younger leadership swaying from the older leadership conduct. Your right about that they do used Jama name but as I read the first Rico indictments I notice that some of the nicknamed wasn't Swahili names. No one ever spoke in Swahili either. I read about the factions in California from the site I posted on this topic. But again the lack of in-depth investigations of the California BGF makes it difficult to post unless you have some info I haven't read before. I will admit that despite those factions they are still the most low profile prison gang.

Majority of California BGF speaks Swahili and even added Arabic now. Yes some bloods members also speak Swahili too.

@ManGauge It's hard to say how many communicate in Swahili. I think many of the BGF who have done time in prison are more likely to use Swahili more so than guys who haven't.

Yes the Damu Bloods use Swahili as well. Damu means Blood in Swahili. There are also some factions of Crips within the California prison system that also use it.

the BGF in baltimore is just a bunch of drug dealers. they never had a chance at life and probably never will. Somebody needs to start a crew in baltimore. theres money to be made with gambling and loan sharking and i know the BGF isnt making it!

BGF gang's reach extends well beyond Baltimore detention center
Sway of Black Guerrilla Family, 'public enemy No. 1' in city, is widespread
May 30, 2013|By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun
As Tyrone Brown sat in his jail cell at the Baltimore County Detention Center late last year, awaiting trial for the murder of a man in a Towson Town Center parking garage, he kept busy in part by smoking marijuana and memorizing contraband writings of the Black Guerrilla Family — the same gang prosecutors say he killed to become a part of.
Meanwhile, Frank Williams, who helped Brown plot the 2011 mall attack and was arrested with a group of alleged gang members in the case, had quickly gotten to work conducting BGF business at the county facility. Within months of his arrival, he was shaking down weaker inmates for their commissary money, telling one man not to "snitch" because BGF members could "get to him in any section" of the jail.

Both accounts, which mirror recent allegations of BGF corruption at the Baltimore City Detention Center, were outlined in county corrections records obtained by The Baltimore Sun through a public information request in the Towson murder case. In that case, Brown, Williams and a third man were convicted of killing 19-year-old Rodney Pridget in what prosecutors described as an act of gang retaliation.
The scope of the gang's reach is one reason — along with assassination-style murders and ruthless drug-dealing methods — that it has become one of Maryland's most feared gangs
Deborah Richardson, director of the Baltimore County corrections department, said confronting and punishing gang activity is an ongoing battle at any corrections facility, and her department has taken strides to ensure that the BGF and other gangs don't acquire power at the county jail. In the past five years, eight corrections officers have been fired or resigned for bringing in contraband or fraternizing with inmates, some of them BGF-affiliated, she said.
"We can't keep the gangs out of here, but we can be proactive when they are here," Richardson said at the county facility. "We're letting the inmates know, 'You have no territory here. This is our territory.'"
Richardson pointed to continuing initiatives to separate gang leaders from other inmates, to immediately erase gang insignia on jail walls, and to ensure that corrections officers don't have gang ties.
Still, the violations of county jail rules are a clear indication that the hallmarks of the BGF's operations — access to drugs, the ability to intimidate others, promulgating a gang culture — are not limited to the city detention center.
At the Baltimore jail, a federal indictment outlined a startling degree of corruption, despite similar efforts to combat gang activities. The indictment against 25 people, including 13 corrections officers, on drug, money-laundering and racketeering charges was shocking not only for the alleged audacity of gang members but for the complicity of those paid to keep them in check.
But the BGF already had a high profile in Maryland.
In 2007 and 2008, the first years on the job for Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Secretary Gary Maynard, the state agency compiled a "Gang Intelligence Guide" reviewing the BGF's 1966 founding in California, its ties to black empowerment groups and its increasing presence in state facilities.
The guide, marked "Law Enforcement Only," was also obtained by The Sun in the Towson case. It notes that BGF documents were first discovered in the state at the now-closed Maryland House of Correction in 1997, but that those documents indicated that the gang had been active in the state corrections system for much longer.
Inmates unaffiliated with the gang were already telling officials they were afraid of BGF members, and the guide gave a stark warning: "The lack of a well organized structure may have decreased the group's overall ability to disrupt security at a division wide level, but the danger they present at an institutional level should not be underestimated."

The gang's power has since only grown. From courtrooms to street corners to jail cells, members have sought to gain influence in both subtle and violent ways for years, court records show.
In April 2009, a federal indictment and related court papers detailed the surprisingly comfortable life BGF members led in state prisons. With the help of corrupt officers, they feasted on shrimp, drank vodka and smoked cigars while using contraband cellphones to run gang operations.
In 2010, a Baltimore man pleaded guilty to a witness intimidation charge related to the killing of former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris, in whose death the man's cousin was charged. According to court documents, Christopher Kemp approached an officer at the Northwood Shopping Center in 2009 and said he would "deal" with the officer and his family if he found out the officer had provided information in the gang-involved case.
"Our guns are bigger than your guns," Kemp allegedly warned.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts has called the BGF "public enemy No. 1" and blames the gang in part for a spate of murders at the end of 2012. He said his department has been "relentless" in combating the BGF and has plans "to screw the cap down so tight that we're going to cause them to pop."
Local police and prosecutors acknowledge that the gang has a presence across the region, not just in Baltimore.
"In the early years, they were mostly prison-based," Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger said. "Now that they're in the communities, obviously that creates more problems for us."

Officials in counties where the gang doesn't have a strong presence — including Anne Arundel, Carroll, Harford and Howard — say dozens of BGF members are nonetheless tracked. In the past five years, for example, Howard County police have identified 18 BGF members living in the county, but a police spokeswoman said they don't represent "an organized crime element" there.
Such numbers pale in comparison to reports in Baltimore, where 100 alleged members were found meeting in Druid Hill Park in 2009.
The recent federal indictment outlined a scheme involving smuggling drugs, cellphones and other contraband into the state-run city jail. Tavon White was the jailhouse leader of the BGF, according to the indictment unsealed in late April. He has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges; he is also awaiting trial on state charges related to a 2009 shooting.
Bradley Barthlow, 66, who retired from the city jail as a captain in 2007 after more than 30 years in the corrections system, said part of the problem is that corrections officers "don't want to snitch."
"Every person I ever talked to told me it was the supervisors' job to find the person who is doing wrong," he said.
Rick Binetti, a spokesman for the state corrections department, said efforts to identify gang-related corruption are elaborate and extensive at the city detention center. Richardson, the Baltimore County corrections director, said the same about efforts at the county jail.
Still, some question the immense amount of attention paid to BGF since the city jail indictment.
City Councilman Brandon Scott, vice chair of the council's public safety committee, said Batts is right to target gang activity, but the approach can't simply be a series of crackdowns with no follow-up initiatives.
"It creates a vacuum," he said of investigations that take down gang hierarchies. "If we're not prepared, as a neighborhood first but then as a city and state, to replace that vacuum with positive stuff, then the next group is going to come along."

There more than just drug dealers. Remember the DEA stated their the most powerful prison gang in Maryland and also involved in shakedowns, robbery, bribery, corruption, murder-for-hire, money laundering and infiltration. Obviously money is being earned, after all that leader did make 16k a month behind bars.

theres enough money in drug dealing itself.especially in baltimore.


Heres anpther story i missed

ALLEGED BGF DRUG SUPPLIER PLEADS GUILTY IN SEPARATE EASTERN SHORE CASE
MAY 13, 2013
BY VAN SMITH

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Back when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was building its blockbuster 2009/2010 racketeering case against the Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) prison gang – the one that had many of the same elements, including correctional corruption, as the current FBI-investigated racketeering case against the BGF – agents identified Austin Roberts (pictured), who goes by the nickname “Yellow,” as one of the gang’s main drug suppliers. Today, the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that Roberts, 37, has pleaded guilty in a separate, Eastern Shore drug conspiracy, and confirmed that the defendant is the same as the man targeted in the BGF case investigated by the DEA.

According to court documents in the 2009/2010 BGF case, Roberts was one of three “key lieutenants on the streets for drug-trafficking activities” on behalf of lead BGF defendant Eric Brown, who, while an inmate at the Metropolitan Transition Center in Baltimore, was “in command of day-to-day operations in the State of Maryland” for the BGF. The other two were Rainbow Williams, who was indicted with Brown, and Gregory Fitzgerald, who was arrested on cocaine-conspiracy charges in January 2009, before the DEA’s first BGF indictments were handed down in April 2009. Fitzgerald beat those charges, but was busted again, along with co-defendants Curtis Byrd, Jr. and Tommy Heard, in yet another federal cocaine conspiracy to which he pleaded guilty last summer and received a 126-month prison sentence.

Until December, when Roberts was arrested in San Diego, he had been a fugitive since the indictment in the Eastern Shore conspiracy was handed down in June 2011. His co-defendants – Andrew Jackson, 39, of Baltimore; Maurice Kenneth Hardy, 37, of Nanticoke; and Tereek Nutter, 29, of Salisbury – have already entered guilty pleas. Their federal charges came in connection with a multi-year Eastern Shore drug probe that has led to charges against 71 suspected dealers, including Eric Maurice Holbrook, who was already a defendant in a heroin case arising from a 2010 FBI sting operation in the parking lot of the Bay Café in Canton.

The 2009/2010 BGF case involved extensive use of wiretaps, and though Roberts’ name came up numerous times in the course of the intercepted conversations, it appears that he never was a party to them. In Nov. 2008, for example, Fitzgerald talks with Thomas “Corey” Bailey, who’s described as the BGF’s man in charge of the gang’s “day-to-day operations inside of North Branch Correctional Institution (NBCI) in Cumberland,” and Anthony Bruce, a high-ranking BGF member at NBCI, about Fitzgerald and Roberts enjoying themselves during a recent trip to Las Vegas. After Fitzgerald’s arrest in Baltimore, he again speaks with Bailey, discussing his intention to meet with Roberts to obtain drugs for Bailey to distribute.

From Dec. 2008 to Feb. 2009, according to court records, the DEA agents also shadowed Roberts’ movements, and saw him deal drugs to two people who, shortly thereafter, were arrested with 191 grams of cocaine. The agents described a home on the 2400 block of E. Fayette St. as a stash house used by Roberts that had also been a residence for incarcerated BGF member Alfred Johnson, whose sister was receiving money orders there from imprisoned BGF members.

If U.S. District judge Ellen Hollander accepts the guilty plea entered by Roberts in the Eastern Shore case, according to a press release sent out today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, then “Roberts will be sentenced to 19 years in prison.” His sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 9.

this guy was also connected to these two drug cases aswell.
african heroin smuggling family business
71 suspected drug dealers indicted

look up the San Francisco Bayview
http://sfbayview.com/
having a copy of this newspaper in your cell is grounds for validation as a BGF member by the CDC. they've published many articles written by current/former BGF and their sympathizers.

I know they are involved in more then just selling drugs. but these guys come from west baltimore so theyre gonna do whatever they have to to get paid. Have you ever seen west baltimore? id murder for hire to get out of that hell hole.

Already looked through their archives a couple years ago, and found an article that I think I posted on here earlier this year. It dates back to the mid 80s and mention their activities but BGF wasn't mentioned again in that newspaper until a couple years ago. The reason was due to an inmate having a copy of George Jackson's book but he wasn't member nor associate of BGF which prison authorities accused him. Still no indictments of Cali BGF members mentioned in that newspaper.

No never been to Baltimore. But these guys aren't mainly to the West but the entire city area. It was back in the indictment when Todd Duncan was commander of the city activities that BGF operated in North and East Baltimore as well.

If the mafia operated in baltimore they would either have to work with bgf or they will have major problems, bgf have baltimore soldup!

There is a book that is recently out entitled "The History of the Black Guerrilla Family" by Gabe Morales anyone read it?