Driftwood Crips

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The Up-Top Driftwood Crips are a large African-Canadian street gang from the Jane and Finch neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Considered to be well-organized and extremely violent by Authorities, members of this gang grew up in the sprawling Ontario Housing community of Driftwood Court, where this gang has claimed much of the surrounding area along Driftwood Avenue, north of Finch Ave. West as their turf. It is believed that the Driftwood Crips are the most prominent of all Up-Top Crips with members and associates ranging in the hundreds. Although this gang's origins are along Driftwood Avenue, its members are spread throughout the GTA and beyond. Police claim members of the Driftwood Crips are major players in the drug trade activity concentrated around Toronto's northwest corner along with being involved in the arms trade. Their enemies include the South Side Connection Bloods, The Lanes Crew, the Doomstown Rexdale Crips, Tandridge Rexdale Crips, Stovetop Rexdale Crips, Five Point Generalz and the Ardwick Blood Crew. Although once considered enemies, attempts had been made to join the Up-Top Driftwood Crips and the Mount Olive Crips because of their shared hatred for the Doomstown Rexdale Crips. The Driftwood Crips are cliqued up with the Up-Top Shoreshot Crips and are friendly towards the Up-Top G-Side Crips. However, on June 12, 2007, hundreds of police officers (including the RCMP and several other southern Ontario police departments) executed 130 search warrants in the Jane and Finch area and beyond targetting the Driftwood Crips. Code named Project Kryptic (named so for sounding a little like Crips), police seized more than 30 kilograms of cocaine in the raids as well as several kilograms of hashish oil, marijuana and a cache of weapons [1]. Among those arrested were six workers from Toronto's Pearson International Airport, who police claimed helped the Driftwood Crips import their own drugs and weapons from the USA.