Recent Activities
In 1998, a 12-year old boy shot two teens of the street gang the Gangster Disciples in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, within days of joining the Saints street gang. He was later convicted of murder, but because he was under 13 years of age he was tried as a minor and sentenced to prison until his 21st birthday in 2007.
In early 2005, there was a police raid in the Saints neighborhood dubbed "Operation Broken Halo"; 25 members were arrested and detained in prison on drug dealing and weapons charges. The Saints are still very active in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.
On February 12, 2006, 23-year old Francisco Romero, a member of the Saints, escaped from Cook County Jail along with five other inmates. He had been convicted of murder and sentenced to 45 years in prison. He was later captured.
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“Both gossip and joking are intrinsically valuable activities. Both are essentially social activities that strengthen interpersonal bonds—we do not tell jokes and gossip to ourselves. As popular activities that evade social restrictions, they often refer to topics that are inaccessible to serious public discussion. Gossip and joking often appear together: when we gossip we usually tell jokes and when we are joking we often gossip as well.”
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