1/4/2023 0 Comments Flip side 13 gangShe wasn’t able to go to his federal sentencing last month because she was in the hospital with pneumonia, she says, but says, “I am still here for him,” even though she says he won’t put her on his jail visitation list. Victoria Jimenez says she visited her son while he was first in prison and attended hearings in his other cases. The girlfriend told reporters his family didn’t care about him and was just concerned with getting his money. Victoria Jimenez says she was stung by comments his girlfriend made in March after his sentencing in his federal gun case. “Now, he wanted to be the Al Capone of Chicago,” she says. When he was released, he acted differently, his mother says. He went to prison at the end of 2012 for a drug-possession conviction. | Sun-Times filesĭespite all of that, Jimenezstarted getting into trouble. In happier times, Thaddeus “T.J.” Jimenez with and his mother Victoria after being awarded a certificate of innocence in June 2009. But Jimenez’s No Love Money Gang shattered the relative calm there, authorities say. The expansion touched off an outbreak of violence in West Humboldt Park that lasted from mid-2014 through much of 2015 and illustrated what one cop calls “the delicate ecosystem of gangs in the area.” Gang factions in the neighborhood generally coexisted,selling drugs on the blocks they controlled. Some even tattooed Royals logos on their faces and necks to prove their allegiance to Jimenez, who handed them thousands of dollars in cash, let them drive his stable of luxury cars and threw lavish parties for them. Most of them hailed from the 700 block of North Trumbull and surrounding blocks on the West Side. According to a police report, they flashed a gun, called the couple monkeys and said, “Get the f- out of our hood, we will f- kill you!” One of them, Luis Candelaria, wasconvicted of a hate crime and sent to prison.ĭespite such racist activity, Jimenez, whose mother is Polish-American and dead father was Hispanic, decided to extend the Royals’ reach by recruiting young black men. In early 2014, a black couple walking from their car to their home with their 2-year-old child and their groceries were accosted by members of Jimenez’s crew on the Northwest Side. But the Royals haven’t changed their racist ways, court records show.
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