January 29, 2021 – The murder of the Gangster Disciples Northside Chicago territory boss Earnest (Smokey) Wilson on May 18, 2018 proved the end of a power struggle at the top of the Gangster Disciples organization. Wilson, 65, was an “OG” and dated back decades as a player in the Windy City underworld. The men the government alleges killed him are said to be blessed by GD Godfather Larry Hoover.
Reputed Gangster Disciples street bosses and “Board Members” Anthony (Crazy Tony) Dobbins and Warren (Big Head G) Griffin were the lead defendants in a federal drug, racketeering and murder case filed in the Southern District of Illinois earlier this week. Smokey Wilson’s slaying was one of the homicides included in the indictment.
The Gangster Disciples are centered in Chicago, with GD sets peppered throughout the U.S. acting as offshoot satellite crews. Authorities place GD membership at more than 25,000 across 21 states.
Hoover, who has been in prison since the 1973 and is considered one of the most influential crime lords in the world, runs GD Nation from behind bars. According to Monday’s indictment, the 70-year old Hoover being held in the BOP Supermax facility in Florence, Colorado, chose Dobbins and Griffin as GD street bosses and Board Members in the fall of 2014 and passed word to them through a messenger at a Labor Day picnic.
Dobbins, 53, is from East St. Louis, near the Missouri border. Griffin, 51, comes from Lancaster, Kentucky, just outside of Lexington. Per FBI documents, Dobbins and Griffin backed Chicago Southside Territory boss Frank (Little Red Beard) Smith in a feud against Northside OG, Smokey Wilson. Smith and Wilson were battling for final say in Windy City affairs Because they feared they couldn’t control him, Dobbins and Griffin called Wilson to a meeting and shot him dead, per their indictment.
Smokey Wilson was the GD’s longtime shot caller in the Cabrini-Green Projects on the city’s Northside. Wilson was convicted of ordering a 1981 gang-related murder in Stateville prison in Cress Hill, Illinois while he was an inmate in the facility. Returning to town in 1998, Smokey Wilson reassumed the throne in his Cabrini-Green kingdom until he was arrested again for gun possession in 2001 and taken off the streets. His absence sent the city’s Northside into chaos and four murders occurred in the weeks after he was locked up.
Upon the Cabrini-Green Projects being torn down in 2011, Wilson’s power in the area waned and was supplanted by gentrification, opening the door for his downfall.
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