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with the Columbia drug cartels. 16° Black street gangs establish themselves in a community by initially living with or contacting blood relatives of 167 In some cases, they may individual street gang members. offer $50 to $100 per day to single mothers or elderly persons who are on fixed incomes in exchange for using their 1 + 68 Law enforcement officers have residences to deal cocaine. discovered that some Bloods and Crips may forego trying to establish themselves in some neighborhoods and deal drugs from motels located along the major Interstate 5 and Highway 99 corridors in California. ©? wa Black street gang members often establish themselves in new locales by throwing lavish parties. These newcomers flash a lot of money and offer gifts to people in the new locale in order to persuade them to attend their parties. After the guests arrive, the gang members offer them alcohol and crack cocaine, realizing that once they get someone to try crack cocaine, they have a guaranteed addict and consequently a guaranteed client.1?? 166 Id., p. 7- 167christopher Kuntz, Sacramento Police Department, Investigation of Black Street Gang Drug Distributors, 1988, p. 5. 16855. 169%. untz, p- 6, see n. 167. 170varshall, seen. 5. 57