#criminal gang

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"“THE FUTILITY OF CRIME"," Toronto Star Weekly. May 28, 1938. Page 50. ---- W HEN THOMAS "SHORTY" BRYANS is hanged June 30 for the murder of Norman Ford, Canadian police will write "finis" they hope to the most amazing saga of crime in the history of the Dominion's desperadoes… the story of the "Red Ryan gang."

Only one member of that reckless band of bank-robbers which Norman Ryan led "over the wall" of Kingston penitentiary in one of the most daring jail-breaks on record is still at large, and he, police, say, is going straight.

Edward "Wyoming" McMullen was shot at Blaine when he was "wanted" by Ontario police for the murder of Edward Stonehouse of Markham. Andrew Sullivan was shot and killed in Minneapolis. Red Ryan was shot and killed with Harry Checkley in Sarnia. Bryans was released from Kingston penitentiary May, 1937. Nine months later he was convicted of the murder for which he is under sentence of death.

When Ryan died in a liquor store he had tried to hold up in Sarnia, he had just unwittingly written the epitaphs of all of his gang in a book he titled: "The Futility of Crime."

NORMAN RYAN Killed at Sarnia

ANDREW SULLIVAN Killed at Minneapolis

HARRY CHECKLEY Killed at Sarnia

EDWARD MCMULLEN Killed in Blaine

THOMAS BRYANS Sentenced to hang

[lifewithaview]

Stuart Martin in Miss Scarlet and the Duke (2020) The Case of Henry Scarlet

S1E6

Wellington and Scarlet find the forgers were part of a huge, well-planned plot to cash enormous gold quantities from various London banks, which already succeeded. Scarlet keeps dodging police protection, abusing closet-gay landlord Rupert Parker whom she advises a double marriage of convenience. She even receives a nightly visit from Jamaican scum Moses, and maintains they must believe him, so she ends up locked in the police station, where she helps going through a pile of police c-suspect files. Superintendent Stirling is their prime suspect, but his corpse is found, the other conspirators got away. William keeps forgiving her impertinence and failure to keep promises, even a simple dinner date when she pledges undying gratitude, both remaining devoted to solve her father Henry's covered-up murder. Sadly, Wellington finds a viper in his team...

[rhae-ali]

[nakeddeparture]

Bridgetown, Barbados. Brent Thomas MUST know that the Barbados Police Service is a criminal outfit used to terrorize citizens.

https://youtu.be/4356nEBnrZU

Ignorance of certain facts is not an excuse. Naked!!

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

P.S. Looks like a Russian war criminal gang war against each other. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has failed and various imperialist gangs and fractions are forced to fight each other for limited resources...

[rabbitindemun]

Quality time w/ the gang

[Image description: digital art of Mabel and the Henchmaniacs from Gravity Falls. She's putting makeup on 8-Ball's face, and Teeth wears a frilly blue dress. Bill floats in the background, saying: "Teeth, that color does not flatter you." Teeth replies: "Shut up, yes it does... you jealous." End ID.]

[souredfigs]

I swear to fucking God every Ao3 author lives in fucking Gotham or something

[2racoonsinajumpsuit]

objectively the correct way to enjoy them (my way)

~ happy

[dead-girl-tells-stories]

DC x DP Prompt

To the delight of Gotham's citizens, and the dismay of her criminal underbelly, the GCPD has a new specialized unit that ACTUALLY apprehends criminals and brings them to justice!

It's a relatively small squad of mostly young adults, who looked fresh out of their teens. But age didn't matter once they got the work done. And they did, as they've already got criminals like Penguin, Riddler, and Bane behind bars for what looks to be 'for good'.

No one besides Commissioner Gordan knows anything about the squad as they operate as a mostly separate entity from GCPD. It was rare to see any of them, and any photos taken were unusually blurry. They are also extremely secretive; if you exclude their social media which are usually just shit posts, memes, and thirst edits of the Wayne family.

They were a total mystery. Almost as mysterious as Batman.

But those who have seen/worked with the squad before all had the same thing to say about them. They were cool. They had an unusually effective method. And their leader is a menace. With his sharp teeth and pointed smile. And bright blue eyes that spoke to your soul. It was a pleasure to see/ work with him, it really was. But they weren't planning on doing so again for a long time.

That being said, Gotham had been quiet for a while. A bit too quiet if you ask anyone, especially the Bats. Strangely, it didn't feel like the usual calm before the shit storm. The instinctual pit in their guts that usually formed just wasn't there. This was different. This wasn't the calm before the storm. This was the ocean receding. But no one seemed to realize it yet.

Not until the tsunami came crashing down on them.

The GCPD special unit accounts that had been inactive for the last three months suddenly pinged to life. Everyone who followed them clicked the notification almost immediately. With this unnerving calm surrounding them, who the hell didn't want to see what batshit crazy statement they would make after three months of radio silence.

What they didn't expect, was to see a crystal-clear picture of justice finally being served.

The picture was a selfie, taken in an abandoned warehouse. In the middle of the dirty floor was the Joker. He was tied up and his head hung low. You could see how beaten he was, his clothes torn and bloody. His face paint was also coming off, revealing pale blotchy skin. Reminding everyone that, he was still human, just like the rest of them.

Behind him, all lined up with smiles on their faces, was Team Phantom. They were a bit bloody and bruised as well but overall in much better condition. They weren't wearing the normal GCPD navy blue uniform, but black and white ones. All stylized to fit the wearers taste. They all looked so young, but their eyes looked like old tired eyes, finally getting some relief.

From in the corner was their leader. Only part of his face was in the picture. One glowing blue eye, and part of his Cheshire smile. His hand making a peace sign next to the Joker. Even with only part of his being shown, everyone could tell he was relived as well.

And while the picture itself was shocking, the caption was what really got them. The top was what you would usually expect from the team. A big bold 'GOT EM' ' at the top. But at the bottom in small, almost unnoticeable text was:

"He will face his punishment. We will get our retribution. May we finally rest in peace."

[mishacollins]

I don’t normally think of Germany as super sketchy, but these guys tried to fleece me when I was out for a jog.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Alleged Safe Crackers Held," Border Cities Star. May 30, 1933. Page 19. ---- BAIL IS $10,000 ---- Suspects in London Get Remand to June 6 ---- LONDON, Ont., May 30. - The four alleged safe-crackers who provincial police claim, have been operating in Western Ontario in recent weeks were ordered held on $10,000 cash bail each when they appeared before Magistrate C. W. Hawkshaw in county police court yesterday.

They were remanded until June 6, as police have not completed their investigation into the robberies charged to the gang. The accused are Roy and Charles Woods, Albert Fink and Casey Blake.

On their appearance yesterday, Crown Attorney Judd advised that heavy bail be set by the court. According to Inspector H. Gardner,

of the London division of the O. P. P.. there is evidence linking the "mob" with safe and store "jobs" at Lucan, Denfield, Mount Brydges, Forest, Clandeboye and Exeter.

Police are still checking on Fink and Roy Woods in connection with the Ilderton bank robbery late in March, in which two young gunmen were put to flight by a gun in the hands of Lloyd Denning, bank teller.

Efforts to identify them have failed so far, but police haven't closed their case against the pair, who were released from Kingston penitentiary a short while before the Ilderton raid.

[starry-bi-sky]

i have been unmedicated for the entirety of spring break and thus have had little interest in writing this down, but i have been thinking about this for the entire week (as well as a dpdc clone danny au that resulted in it becoming its entirely separate batman au that includes a teenage vigilante bruce wayne, an ocarina, and me entirely incapable of making a batman au without making bruce dirt poor but we're not talking about that) and so i've finally went 'fuck it' and forcibly grabbed my laptop. I will get this done in one sitting even if it kills me.

BUT. This is about neither clone^2 danny nor about who i am calling Ocarina Batman. This is about my Danyal Al Ghul Au and more SPECIFICALLY it's me thinking about his relationship with Sam and Tucker specifically.

Tucker and Sam? Adore this asshole (affectionate) with every fiber of their being. And it is very much a reciprocated feeling, but Danny's thoughts will not be delved into much other than he would kill for them.

Tucker? The only person currently capable of getting a deep, loud, belly laugh out of Danny. Sam can get him to smile and to laugh, but it's the kind that's a chuckle-under-the-breath. The quiet, looks-down-while-huffing laughter. Snorts once with laughter and then grins stupidly.

But Tucker? Tucker can crack a slew of stupid jokes and Danny will be incapacitated for the next five minutes because he's laughing so hard that he can't breath. He lands one well-timed pun or quip and Danny will be close to tears. His laughter is their favorite sound in the whole world.

Sam is lowkey jealous of this ability, and she's gotten a belly laugh out of Danny a few times. But alas, it is Tucker who wields this power and has gotten it the most times out of the two of them.

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They're also both physically affectionate with Danny as much as possible. It started roughly around when they were 12-ish, a year since they befriended Danny, and they noticed that he sought after touch but never seemed to initiate (and was in some ways repulsed by it). They started slowly being more touchy with him. Hooking a finger around his to lead him somewhere, tapping his wrist, looping arms. Little touches, grabs, etc, to get him used to it, and once he started doing it back they started increasing it.

It's gotten to a point where he will now just. Lay on them. Like a lizard sunbathing on a rock. Leaning on their backs when they're sitting in class before the bell rings, his chin on their heads. He'll talk about anything with his arms looped around their shoulders.

If they're sitting on a couch at either of their houses, he'll lay his legs on theirs. Him and Tucker will press their feet against the other's and try and push against them (newsflash: Danny always wins, Tucker claims its the ghost strength but Danny's been winning since before his accident)

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Naturally, both Sam and Tucker know where Danny keeps his weapons on his person, and are allowed to grab them off of him if they need it. His only requirement is that they don't lose his weapons if they take it and forget to return it immediately.

They both understand how big of a thing this is from Danny, and so they do their best to treat his weapons with a lot of respect and care because they know its his way of saying he trusts them.

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Sam and Tucker are so fond of Danny it's insane. Like fr. That's their goddamn best friend, and they are so protective of him. Emotionally, physically, you name it. They will tear the head off a grown man if they need to, Danny's had scars since he arrived in Amity Park and Sam and Tucker both are going to find the person who put them there and make them pay for it.

One time, Tucker overheard a bunch of upperclass girls speaking nastily about Danny and about the rumors surrounding him, calling him names like 'freak', 'monster', etc. Danny was with him and heard it, and seemingly appeared unbothered by it, even telling Tucker that he was used to such rumors.

Tucker was so furious that hacked into the school system later that night and tanked those girls grades. They were kicked out of their clubs and had to go to mandatory tutoring for the rest of the year. He made sure to leave some way of letting them know it was him who did it.

And Sam doesn't like using her money for things, doesn't like abusing that wealth. So instead, whenever her parents talk bad about Danny, she causes a media incident that has her parents scrambling to deal with. She does something wild, outrageous by her parents' standards.

She heard some boys on the basketball team making fun of Danny once, similar to those girls had. She kicks up a fuss about something eco-unfriendly at school and forcibly holds a protest on the same day of the big home basketball game, forcing them to cancel the event and reschedule to a visiting school.

She anonymously donates money so that there's new uniforms for the team but oops! Looks like she "forgot" to donate enough money for them to get uniforms for all the team members, and strangely enough those boys in particular didn't get them! Looks like they'll have to wait until more money gets donated for the basketball team to get their new, nice uniforms. The old ones look so ratty in comparison, right?

And since the football team gets most of the sport money, that might just take awhile. And if (and when) they kick up a fuss? oops! Off the basketball team you go, :) such unsportsman-like behavior is unfit for the team.

(The only good thing about how corrupt the school system is is that she can use it to her advantage too.)

The both of them know that Danny suspects them for the sudden misfortune falling on these people, but he doesn't call them out on it. He's kinder than he used to be, but not kind enough to vouch for people who speak badly of him. Sometimes, he might just congratulate them on not getting caught.

Because Danny is their wonderful, hurt friend with a "slightly" Blue and Orange Moral code, and enough scars that people have been calling him a criminal (and worse) since he arrived in Amity Park when he was ten. And they'll be damned if he gets hurt anymore.

[jennyandvastraflint]

sing unspoken prayers with my lips on yours

Hrm, so I commissioned art from @rosenkranz-does-things again, this time about this very uh, gay fic. AND I AM GOING INSANE OVER HOW GODDAMN BRILLIANT THIS ART IS!!

Aaaaah! After writing a fic quite recently in which Jenny kills someone to save Vastra, I felt inclined to commission Roz because just LOOK AT THEIR ART! Gosh the sheer SKILL in this! I love how vibrantly, agreesively red the blood is! It contrasts so well against the background, Jenny's clothes, and Vastra's face. Gosh, the way Vastra is so still and calm in her worship of Jenny and the intimate kiss!?? AHHHH this is just perfectly captured, and then Jenny's despair, her clinging to Vastra for dear life with her hand and gosh her facial expression!! Can we talk about her face! Because she looks SO hot with blood on it! Roz you mad genius! (Hey also, two of those splatters look a little bit like kiss marks on first glance, and it's driving me insane! (positive. VERY positive.) I don't know if it was on purpose or not, but omgggg) They're just everything to meee, and Roz you deliver every single time, you never miss! Just. AHHH! People, go commission Roz for beautiful art!

I'll be over here staring at this for one billion years now, byeeee <3

[alwaysbewoke]