Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff (Born September 19, 1960) is a convicted American

United States

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 drug trafficker

Illegal drug trade

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 and organized crime figure.

McGriff came to prominence in the early 1980s when he formed his own crack

Crack cocaine

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 distributing organization which he called the Supreme Team based in the South Jamaica

South Jamaica, Queens

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 section of Queens, New York. Under McGriff’s leadership, the gang’s numbers swelled to the hundreds and came to control the crack-cocaine trade in the Baisley Park Houses, the neighborhood where McGriff was raised.

In 1987, McGriff was arrested following a joint state and federal investigation and in 1989 pleaded guilty to engaging in a Continuing Criminal Enterprise

Continuing Criminal Enterprise

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