Harlem Gang War - Lincoln Projects (LOE) - After The Times Of Mase, Baby Maine & Pop Lotti..

2000s, to recently ------- This is What Happened After The Times Of Mase & Baby Maine. this is a story from Harlem’s Lincoln Houses project, also called, "Stinkin' Lincoln". the crew there, went by the name "has L.O.E, for lincoln over everything. back in the 2000's, it had been “emancipated” from drug gangsters, the Manhattan DA said, in announcing the indictment of 17 alleged crew members and their motorcycle-riding leader. The Lincoln Crew grossed more than $100,000 a week selling crack cocaine along with Freeway and Red Dragon brand heroin to customers from the neighborhood and upstate. The gang was allegedly as deadly as it was successful – linked to at least six unsolved murders. Prosecutors said yesterday they hope the arrests will help solve those cases. So violent was the Lincoln Crew, that one of its alleged managers, Baron “Byron” Gathers, threatened to kill an undercover cop over a $600 drug debt, said DA Robert Morgenthau. Gathers, 50, of West 131st Street, was caught with two bullet-proof vests, a loaded .38-caliber handgun, and “lots and lots and lots of drugs,” said a law-enforcement source – including more than a pound each of heroin and cocaine. “We’ve emancipated the people of Lincoln Houses,” Morgenthau said of the Housing Authority property bordered by Fifth and Madison avenues, between 132nd and 135th streets. “This has been a persistent problem at this housing project – I hope this will put it to rest. Accused leader Antonio “Tone” Rivera, 24, who lived in the project, was busted carrying more than $1,300 in cash Monday night. Cops seized his high-performance Suzuki racing motorcycle, and they’ve filed a forfeiture claim on his bank account. But they’re still looking for his new Cadillac Escalade, authorities said.

He faces up to life in prison if convicted of drug dealing.

Six of the alleged gang members remain at large, including two known only by the nicknames Storeman and Babygirl.

Residents of the houses hailed the bust yesterday.

“That is such great news!” said Marta Treminio, 62. “I have two sons who live with me here and it’s hard to keep them safe. Drugs are such a problem in the neighborhood.”

A neighbor added, “Anything they do to get these drugs off the street is good.”

Manhattan prosecutors and Manhattan North Narcotics Zone cops have made repeated forays into the drug-drenched project over the past five years.

In May 2001, they won indictments – and eventually, convictions – of 12 members on murder, conspiracy, drug and weapons charges.

Two years ago, Lincoln’s killer druglord-turned-snitch Kevin Saxon was sentenced to 109 years in prison when he was recaptured two weeks after fleeing DA custody.

In the past 18 months, three more people have been indicted for three gang-related murders. One of these defendants has pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence. The other two are scheduled to go to trial in the fall.