The Native Mob is a Native American street gang. The Native Mob is one of the largest and most violent Native American gangs in the U.S. and is notoriously active in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and South Dakota.[4] The gang was created in the 1990s in Minneapolis, Minnesota to control drug turf, and has since established itself in prisons, and was estimated (2015) to have around 1,500 members.
The Native Mob has been present in tribal communities in the region since the gang began in the 1990s. Gang experts say the small town of Cass Lake, Minnesota on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation and Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Tribal has been the center of the gang's operations, also runs operations out of the Twin Cities, Naytahwaush, and Prior Lake. Members routinely engage in drug trafficking, assault, robbery, and murder. According to reports they are also located in Mandan, North Dakota. These specific reports site that trafficking of primarily drugs from Mandan to other areas in Minnesota .[5]
References
- ^ "3 from Native Mob, a violent American Indian gang, face trial in massive racketeering case". Star Tribune.
- ^ "Police arrest Native Mob gang leader". Duluthnewstribune.com. 3 February 2012.
- ^ "3 Suspected Native Mob gang members at large". Duluthnewstribune.com.
- ^ Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D. (28 October 2013). American Indians at Risk. ABC-CLIO. pp. 22–. ISBN 978-0-313-39765-3.
- ^ Larry Siegel (1 January 2015). Criminology: Theories, Patterns, and Typologies. Cengage Learning. pp. 237–. ISBN 978-1-305-44609-0.