Sex Money Murder
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Sex Money Murder (SMM) is a criminal street gang operating in the eastern United States and is a "set" of the United Blood Nation. In the 1990's SMM was established in the area of the Soundview Housing Projects in the Bronx, New York by Peter Rollack and others. The set is modeled after the Los Angeles based Bloods gang which emerged during the 1970s. Overtime the SMM set spread to other locations.
During the summer of 2002 Tommy Terrell Thompson established the SMM in Jersey City, New Jersey. On November 14, 2004 an 18-count RICO Indictment charged Thompson with one count of racketeering conspiracy, one count of racketeering, encompassing specific and non-specific, ongoing acts of murder conspiracy, robbery and robbery conspiracy, heroin and cocaine conspiracy and distribution. The Indictment also charged Thompson with nine counts of violent crimes in aid of racketeering, including specific attempted murders, murder conspiracy, robberies and shootings; four counts of possession, use and carrying of a firearm for violent crime; one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin, and one count of heroin distribution.[1] Thompson pled guilty on July 6, 2005, and admitted that he directed other members and associates of the Sex, Money, Murder set to commit acts of murder and assault and took part in one of the assaults himself. He also specifically admitted directing the murder of a Jersey City man whom Thompson believed was cooperating with cops against him and other gang members.[2] Thompson was sentenced in federal court in Newark on April 18, 2006, to 18 years in prison for running a racketeering enterprise that controlled parts of Jersey City through murder conspiracy, attempted murder, assault and witness intimidation. 12 other SMM gang members were also convicted of various racketeering, violent crimes and narcotics offenses.
On August 29, 2005 Omar Aikens of Trenton, New Jersey reputed to be Trenton’s largest cocaine distributer and area leader of the "Sex, Money, Murder" faction of the "Bloods" street gang, was arrested on federal drug charges. Aikens was held without bail and remanded to federal custody after a bail hearing before U. S. Magistrate John Hughes on Thurs., Sept.
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