Crazy Dragons
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The Crazy Dragons gang are a street gang active in the Prairie provinces of Canada.
The Crazy Dragons gang was founded in Edmonton and has since spread all over all over Alberta.[1] The Crazy Dragons were the successor gang to the Vietnamese Trang gang, which folded after a series of convictions of its members in 2002.[2] The majority of the founding members of the Crazy Dragons were Vietnamese-Canadians.[3] Tom Engel, an Edmonton lawyer who defended 26 members of the Trang gang arrested in 1999 stated in 2011: "Out of that came a gang called the Crazy Dragons, and those guys didn’t mind violence at all".[4]
The gang was primarily Asian-Canadian when it was founded, but as is often the case with ethno-centric Canadian gangs has become more diverse over time, taking in many white members.[1] Likewise, the gang was all male at the time of its foundation, but by the beginning of the 21st century had taken in a number of females, mostly young women.[5] In 2004, the Crazy Dragons first attracted media attention when the gang kidnapped and beat up five members of the White Boy Posse, a white supremacist gang.[6] Later in 2004, David Thanh Lam of the Crazy Dragons was involved in a drive-by shooting in Blue River when a couple from Abbotsford had their car shot up and were then robbed.[3] In a plea bargain with the Crown in July 2006, Lam pleaded guilty to robbery in exchange for the Crown dropping the charges of attempted murder against him.[3]