Gang member ran kid-staffed drug houses, feds say
Arrest comes in two-year probe of G-Mob street gang

Feb. 7, 2006 -- A man who allegedly ran juvenile-staffed drug houses on Galena street has been arrested as part of a two-year federal investigation into the G-Mob street gang, records show.

Tacoby Davis, 27, who allegedly is a leader of the G-Mob, formerly the Vliet Street Gangsters, faces a charge of conspiring to distribute crack cocaine, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court.

Also charged was another alleged G-Mob member, Gordon Dillard, 30.

Davis ran as many as three Galena St. drug houses at a time, according to the affidavit.

A confidential informant told agents with the Bureau of Alcoholt, Tobacco and Firearams that Davis became a leader of the G-Mob (short for 'Galena Mob') in 1999 or 2000, when the previous leader went to prison. He sometimes sold drugs with relatives, including a brother, John Davis, and a cousin.

The G-Mob ran drug houses in the 3700 and 3800 block of Galena Street, according to the complaint. The informant saw Tacoby Davis “using juveniles to sell drugs out of the G-Mob drug houses,” Milwaukee Police Officer Shawn Lauda said in an affidavit.

The gang also had plenty of weapons, according to the affidavit. Davis was seen with a 9 mm handgun, and kept and a large rifle and several pistols under a porch in the 3700 block of W. Galena St.

Dillard had two different .357s and an assault rifle that he hid nearby in bushes when he sold drugs, a witness said. (Police in 2004 stopped a car Dillard was driving. They found 10 grams of crack in the car, and 47 Ecstasy pills in the underwear of Dillard's passenger).

Another gang member kept a 9 mm rifle handy after being robbed in his home of cocaine.

That gang member, Troy Tucker, was arrested in August 2004 after police found a gun in his car. He pleaded guilty in June 2005 to being a felon in possession of a firearm, and is awaiting sentencing.

John Davis was arrested in February, 2004, after police searched a flat in the 3900 block of W. Cherry after they observed apparent drug-dealing there. Davis had a gun, which he dropped as he ran from police. Davis pleaded guilty last month to being a felon in possession of a firearm.