She grew up with the men in the former Melpomene public housing development. She said she knew them as children and later as crack cocaine dealers. By the end, the Young Melph Mafia had given her a ...

Shortly before a federal jury began deciding the fate of five alleged members of the Young Melph Mafia on Wednesday, a defense attorney presented the jurors with an unappetizing analogy. The ...

Wearing an orange jumpsuit and shackles, Irian “Ivory” Dorsey leaned over the witness stand Tuesday to identify Lionel “Lott” Allen as boss of the Young Melph Mafia gang, which prosecutors say shot 23 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A man who prosecutors say was a part a deadly street gang, was sentenced to a possible 40 years prison at federal court today. Jacobi Boyd, a member of the Young Melph Mafia gang ...