The prison door seemed to permanently slam shut behind Larry Hoover 26 years ago, and many Chicagoans began to forget about him. Those who remember still compare him to Al Capone, the leader of a ...

President Donald Trump has commuted the federal life sentence of Larry Hoover, but the 74-year-old notorious gang leader isn’t leaving prison anytime soon. The commutation applies to Hoover’s federal ...

State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke says Hoover, 75, took advantage of “misguided public policies and disinvestment” and ...

A former DeKalb County, Georgia, police officer and member of the Gangster Disciples was sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for racketeering conspiracy ...

The notorious co-founder of the Gangster Disciples street gang sat with his hands shackled in his lap Thursday, listening from a thousand miles away, as a judge in Chicago asked the question that ...

MACON, Ga. - Two metro Atlanta residents have been sentenced to prison this week after pleading guilty to federal conspiracy charges connected to the gang-related shooting deaths of three Athens ...

ATLANTA - Federal agents have arrested multiple members and associates of the national gang The Gangster Disciples on RICO charges stemming from an indictment returned by a federal grand jury on April ...

Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, a letter arrived at the offices of Gov. JB Pritzker that purported to be Hoover’s ...

An Atlanta street gang member described by federal agents as a man linked to “monstrous crimes” on Tuesday was ordered to spend the rest of his life in a prison at a sentencing in U.S. District Court ...

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