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Darryl Whiting
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Any boston people heard of this guy. Pretty powerful figure back during the crack epidemic. The article about five pages long so i left a link to the rest of it. When God Walked Through the Projects Twenty years after he became the first man in the state to get life in prison for dealing crack, Darryl Whiting's twisted legacy lives on By GEORGE P. HASSETT | October 7, 2011 Boston's crack era effectively began in late 1986, when Darryl Whiting stepped into Roxbury's Orchard Park projects. The jewels he wore, rumored to be made from a huge diamond he brought back from Africa, seemed to blind the whole city to what was coming. They already called him "God." The nickname came from his religion; he'd joined the Five Percent Nation, an offshoot of the Nation of Islam, as a 12-year-old juvenile delinquent. In this sect, the men all take the name Allah`. Originally a stick-up kid in New York City, he'd just been paroled from six years in state prison. He was 30 years old and looking for a career change and a new city. Whiting relocated to Boston on the eve of a boom in the cocaine trade. Drug counselors had warned police of an increase in cocaine smoking in Dorchester and Roxbury over the past year. The city's first crack house was already in operation, in the 100 block of Columbia Road. But it was not until Whiting began to build his $11 million empire that the full force of the crack epidemic hit Boston. By the time he was done, the dirt path around Orchard Park projects known as Bump Road was a 24-hour cocaine depot that grossed as much as $100,000 a day http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/127966-when-god-walked-through-the-projects/ Read more: http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/127966-when-god-walked-through-the-projects/#ixzz1mBsHNrDF
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