Larry Calderon, the leader of the Mac Baller Brims Eli “Blood Eli” Rios, the deputy leader of the Mac Baller Brims The leader is convicted killer Larry “O” Calderon, 37, a Bronx-born career criminal who spent 17 years in state prison in two stints and is now facing life for murdering a subordinate, according to a top investigator familiar with the gang.Ĭalderon is known as the “godfather” or “don” of the Mac Baller Brims. Eight thugs pistol-whipped Janssen and held him for five days before the FBI rescued him. The snatching was retaliation: Victim Frank Janssen’s daughter Colleen, an assistant district attorney in Wake Forest, had put Melton away for life in 2012. In one remarkably brazen assault in March, jailed Mac Baller member Kelvin Melton orchestrated the abduction of a North Carolina prosecutor’s father. Their reach extends along the Eastern Seaboard, where the gang’s operations - gunrunning, robbery and kidnapping - can be found in Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, Kentucky and Georgia. Bronx prom queen Samantha Guzman, 18, died in a spray of bullets on Mother’s Day 2006 when she and her friends wandered into a Mac Baller shootout in Morrisania. They include Vada Vasquez, 15, a Bronx student who miraculously survived being hit in the head with a stray bullet during a revenge attack on the gang by its well-armed rival, the Gorilla Stone Bloods, in 2009.Īnother victim was not so lucky. Its violence has claimed at least five innocent bystanders, three of them teenage girls, authorities say. The gang, which also calls itself the “Mac Balla Family,” is based in the Morrisania section of The Bronx but has tentacles across the city, especially in Brooklyn and Staten Island, as well as upstate and New Jersey. “There are more of them than any other Bloods, and they’re highly organized, extremely violent, very powerful. “Top dogs in the city,” said one law enforcement source. The Mac Baller Brims, a set of the national Bloods gang, form a terrifying band of crime-happy hoods who own much of New York’s street drug trade and dominate Rikers Island, where they control the contraband and decide who lives and dies, police and jail sources say. They are the new Mafia, a ruthless Bronx-based cabal of drug dealers and gunrunners that officials call the most dangerous gang in the city. Police-taunting rapper who bragged he'd never be caught cried in his cell: NYPDīrooklyn drill rapper offered gang members cash, jewelry for violence: prosecutorsĬhicago gangbangers charged in 'ambush-style' shooting deaths of 3 womenġ3-year-old 'hardened criminal' on probation shoots cop during gun battle: police
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