The RICO penalties allow prosecutors to hang sentences of up to 30 years on gang members found to be key players in the conspiracy, even if they weren’t involved in violent acts needed to support the criminal enterprise. Mitchell was sentenced in June to 60 years in prison. Gang members kidnapped the business owner and held him for ransom, then killed him when Green’s brother couldn’t come up with the money they demanded.
Kevin Mitchell, a Black Souls member, has already pleaded guilty to the 1999 murder of Darryl Green, one of the deaths prosecutors count in the RICO case’s tally of killings carried out by the gang. Low-ranking Black Souls member Charles Watson is among the alleged victims killed by the gang prosecutors allege fellow Black Souls beat Watson to death and dumped him in a shallow grave in West Garfield Park. Gang members also are accused of buying off, threatening or killing witnesses to their crimes. Prosecutors allege the Black Souls had hundreds of members, controlled a drug market in East Garfield Park that netted the gang as much as $11 million, and routinely shot it out with rival gangs and with factions within the Souls.
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Another 18 faced conventional drug and weapons charges.Īlleged gang leader Cornel “Corn” Dawson, his brother and top lieutenant Teron “Ty” Odum, Spears and three other high-ranking Black Souls will stand trial after a series of plea deals thinned the list of defendants. Garry McCarthy said would be the first of many cases filed using the state racketeer-influenced corrupt organization statute - nicknamed “RICO” - that had passed into law a year earlier. Twenty-three Black Souls were charged in 2013, in what then-State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez and then-Chicago Police Supt. 40-Caliber,” for the size of the bullet Spears allegedly fired in the back of Snulligan’s head. Snulligan’s murder is one of numerous killings and shootings enumerated by prosecutors in a 68-page affidavit filed a year after Snulligan died, alleging crimes by Black Souls members that date back to the 1990s.
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