Toronto gangs

THE WATCH: Toronto street gangs currently on the police radar and involved, to varying degrees, in drug and firearm trafficking and crimes of violence, including homicide.

MOUNT OLIVE CRIPS

This gang is feuding with the Jamestown Crips.

JAMESTOWN CRIPS

Gang is also known as the Doomstown Crips. In 2006, the gang was subject to a large-scale police investigation known as Project XXX. Longstanding rivals of the Driftwood Crips. Seventeen homicides were committed between 2000 and 2005 which had some connection to the Jamestown area. Inspired 2006 made-for-TV movie about guns and violence called Doomstown.

DRIFTWOOD CRIPS

Driftwood Court near Jane and Finch. Members rounded up by Toronto police 2007’s Project Kryptic. The takedown followed a lengthy police investigation alleges that the motive underlying the shooting was animosity between Driftwood and the Jamestown Crips (also known as the Doomstown Crips), a street gang named for the Jamestown area.

YOUNG BUCK KILLERS (YBK) & G-SIDERS

Last December, police rounded up members of the YBK and G-Siders, another Jane and Finch crew. Investigators said they were surprised at the mobility of gang members across Canada and identified a pipeline of guns and drugs between Toronto and Fort McMurray, Alta.

FALSTAFF CRIPS

Targeted by 2010 Toronto police Project Corral. Two 2009 homicide victims were associated with the gang.

THE GATORZ

In 2009 involved in a deadly turf war with Five Point Generalz that was blamed for eight homicides.

FIVE POINT GENERALZ (FPG)

Targeted by police in 2010’s Project Corral. In 2009, the gang’s violent conflict with Gatorz was blamed for eight homicides. 5PG came to public attention when a gang member who had 5PG razored into his haircut was charged — later acquitted — in the 2007 death of 11-year-old Ephraim Brown, killed in the crossfire of a shootout.

EGLINTON WEST CRIPS

Stephen Barton, a.k.a. “Frost,” was shot and killed in 2008 in front of York Square. He had a tattoo of the letters EWC on his arm and a tribute music video was created on YouTube featuring people who appear to be members.

VAUGHAN ROAD BLOODS

Police say this gang was using the Boss Jamaican Bar, located at 423 Vaughan Rd., as base of operations. A police raid in August there netted a loaded gun, ammunition and crack cocaine. Six people were charged.

PROJECT ORIGINALS

The gang’s rivalry with Regent Park’s Sic Thugs came to light after the Eaton Centre food court shooting in the summer of 2012, allegedly involving members of Sic Thugs. As a result, Toronto Police launched Project Post – an amalgam of their names – and increased officer presence in both neighbourhoods.

SIC THUGS

Police allege an internal dispute spilled over to the Eaton Centre, leaving two alleged gang members dead in June 2012 and several bystanders wounded, including a 13-year-old boy.

DAWES ROAD CRIPS

Members arrested in a drug crackdown last year, four years after they allegedly set up shop to deal crack in Hamilton.

GALLOWAY BOYS

Members rounded up in 2004 gang crackdown called Project Pathfinder after years of violence between Galloway and gang members living in Malvern, an area in the city’s northeast corner. Former leaders now serving life sentences for murder, leaving door open for a new generation that police have connected to a string of shootings, including the July 2012 barbeque shootout at a Danzig St. townhouse complex that left two innocents dead and 23 others injured.