
("Terminate On Sight") to all Latin Kings for the murder of Cartagena. Although Felipe was in prison, the government later alleged he had ordered a T.O.S.

Felipe was charged with ordering the killing of William (Lil Man) Cartagena, who had been taken to an abandoned Bronx apartment and strangled, decapitated, mutilated and set on fire. Following the outbreak of internal gang violence, Felipe and 19 others were charged with murder and racketeering the indictment process ended in 1995 with 39 Latin Kings and 1 Latin Queen indicted under the RICO Act. Between June 1993 and February 1994, seven Latin Kings were murdered. In 1994, with the rapid growth of the Latin Kings, an internal power struggle erupted, and violence within the Kings ensued. However, he continued to guide the ALKQN members, who now numbered about 2,000, both incarcerated and free. In 1991, Felipe was returned to prison after a short release for parole violations stemming from the receipt of stolen goods. From 1986 to 1994, the ALKQN solidified its status as a gang through crimes such as murder, racketeering, and other offenses covered under the RICO Act. He designated himself as Inca and Supreme Crown of the state of New York. In 1986, while in prison, Felipe started his own chapter of the Latin Kings known as the Bloodline. Soon after arriving in New York, he was arrested and convicted of murdering his girlfriend. In the early 1980s, to avoid imprisonment for his criminal activities in Chicago, Luis Felipe (a.k.a. New York State Bloodline Latin Kings share a common culture and structure with KMC and respect them as the Motherland, but not all chapters report to the Chicago leadership hierarchy. Membership is estimated to be as large as 7,500, divided among several dozen tribes operating in 15 cities across five states. Latin Kings associating with New York State Bloodline chapter also identify themselves as the "Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation" (ALKQN). The Bloodline Manifesto was founded by Luis "King Blood" Felipe in 1986 in the New York State Collins Correctional Facility. The Latin Kings have also organized chapters in numerous states and several Latin American and European countries. Their greatest membership is within the United States in the city of Chicago alone, the gang has more than 25,000 members. The Chicago faction of the Latin Kings is recognized as one of the largest Hispanic street gangs in the United States after the Sureños and Norteños, as well as MS-13 and the 18th Street gang, and one of the largest street gangs based in Chicago. The membership in Chicago is estimated to be 20,000 to 35,000. Latin Kings associating with the Motherland faction also identify themselves as "Almighty Latin King Nation" (ALKN) they make up more than 160 structured chapters operating in 158 cities in 31 states. All members of the gang identify themselves as Latin Kings. There are two umbrella factions: the King Motherland Chicago (KMC) – also known as King Manifesto and Constitution – and Bloodline, formed in New York City in 1986. They would later, however, devolve into a criminal enterprise operating throughout the United States. With the Latino community facing constant violence from Greek and Italian greaser gangs, the Imperials merged with various other Puerto Rican and Mexican street gangs to form the Latin Kings. The Latin Kings were founded in the Humboldt Park area of Chicago in 1954 by Ramon Santos as the Imperials, a Puerto Rican progress movement with the goal of overcoming racial discrimination.

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