Terrance Clark, Racketeering, Pennsylvania 2010

Pittsburgh Crips Gang Member Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Charges

WASHINGTON – Terrance Clark, a 22-year-old man from Pittsburgh, has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiring to conduct a racketeering enterprise related to his membership in a Pittsburgh Crips gang, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton of the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Terrance Clark, aka "Doo Wop," pleaded guilty yesterday before Senior U.S. District Judge Gustave Diamond to one count of conspiracy to engage in a racketeering enterprise.

According to the guilty plea, Clark and others participated in a pattern of racketeering activity that included multiple acts involving robberies at gun point; attempted murders; distribution of controlled substances, including cocaine, heroin, and crack cocaine; and obstruction of justice and witness intimidation.

Clark was a member of the Northview Heights/ Fineview Crips, a criminal street gang operating out of the Northview Heights public housing facility in the Northside neighborhood, and in the nearby Fineview neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The gang had been operating in the Northside since 2002; in 2003, it formed an alliance with the Brighton Place Crips to expand the gang's drug trafficking territory and increase the gang's capability for violence.

The Brighton Place/Northview Heights Crips gang maintains exclusive control over drug trafficking in these neighborhoods through continuous violence and intimidation of rivals and witnesses. Members of the gang support each other through payment of attorneys' fees and bonds, as well as payments to jail commissary accounts and support payments to incarcerated members' families.

Defendant/Respondent: Terrance Clark | Racketeering Enterprise Conspiracy (18 U.S.C. § 1962(d)) | City: Pittsburgh | State: Pennsylvania | Date: February 2010 (plea) | Sentence: To be determined | Dollar amounts: Not applicable

Source: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/pittsburgh-crips-gang-member-pleads-guilty-racketeering-charges-0