Public Enemy No. 1

Public Enemy No. 1
Public Enemy No. 1
In United States Long Beach, California, United States
Years active 1980's-present
Territory California, Arizona, Idaho and Nevada
Ethnicity White
Criminal activities Drug trafficking, arms trafficking, identity theft, murder and dog fighting
Allies Aryan Brotherhood, Nazi Lowriders, Mexican Mafia, Ku Klux Klan
Rivals Bloods, Crips, Norteños, Nuestra Familia, Black Guerilla Family, MS-13, Latin Kings, Jewish Defense League, Israeli mafia, Friends Stand United

Public Enemy No. 1 or PEN1 is a gang based in Southern California whose members have been convicted of crimes including illegal production of drugs, firearms trafficking, identity theft, murder, and dog fighting. Recently, they have tried to infiltrate the march occupy wall street movement in an effort to fight cops who attack protesters. Some have also speculated, that like Charles Manson in the 60s, they want to start a war among the social classes to come out on top when its over as saviors.

The gang started as "Peni Death Squad (PDS),a punk gang in the 1980s, the name being derived from the anarcho-punk/deathrock band, 'Rudimentary Peni'. Originally, PDS were mainly a loose-knit group of suburban kids, runaways and homeless kids. Other punk gangs, La Mirada punks, Vicious Circle, The HB's, FFF (Fight For Freedom), L.A. Death Squad (L.A.D.S.), Circle One, and Bakersfield's Zero-Core, were other examples of Southern California hardcore punk gangs. These groups were typically suburban counter-culture teenagers, skaters, surfers, etc.

The formation of the group was greatly influenced by members in the hardcore punk rock scene in Long Beach, California during the 1980s. However, by the 1990s, PEN1’s base of operations had partially been relocated to Orange County where they began recruiting suburban adolescents. By the 2000s, the gang’s influence has spread throughout California and Arizona, with some members in Idaho and Nevada. Their allies are the Aryan Brotherhood, Nazi Lowriders, and Armenian Power. Their main rivals are the Bloods, Crips, the Norteños, Nuestra Familia, Black Guerilla Family.

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Identity theft

PEN1 seems to specialize in identity theft, not a crime usually associated with gangs, although most of the income from this is allegedly used to finance various operations. Originally their methods for this were raiding mailboxes and trash cans for personal information, but the gang later used contacts inside of banks, mortgage companies and state motor vehicle departments in order to gain access to credit profiles. This has led to law enforcement officials requesting that their personal information be removed so that it can't be used by gang members to identify home addresses of police officers.

Well-known criminal cases

On February 3, 1996 Erik Anderson and Michael Steven Eckert were involved in the stabbing of Indian George Mondragon in Huntington Beach, CA. He was then stabbed approximately 7 times. Erik Anderson and Michael Eckert were both convicted of the attempted murder. Anderson received a life sentence and Eckert was sentenced to 9 years in state prison. Anderson was found guilty of the additional charge of conspiracy and Eckert was not. Both of these men had ties to PEN1, IWB and other punk rock groups. Michael Allen Lamb was sentenced to death in 2008 for the killing PENI founding member Scott "Scottish" Miller.

Hostility towards law enforcement

In 2007, police forces in Orange County arrested 67 alleged PEN1 members after learning of an extensive "hit list" that included five police officers and a gang prosecutor. Those arrested in the raid were charged with conspiracy to commit murder, possession of illegal weapons and identity theft.

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