Edited sentence: At one point the police stopped a member named Lenny -later changed to Basil- and took his ring.In the interview the myth - the reason the JBM founded was to counter Jamaican drug gangs - was created by elements of either FBI and/or the Philadelphia Police Dept.One "Old Head" commented that they were getting to be like a "baby Black Mafia".So,they went to a local jeweler and got rings made the intals JBM and the Junior Black Mafia was born.The JBM was never founded at all.The myth, that the JBM was founded to combat the rise of Philadelphia's Jamaican posses, was created by the Philadelphia Police Dept and a local news station.Then either a NARC or informant appeared in an exclusive TV inerview on a local station, with his face obscured wearing the JBM ring.They began to commit other crimes as a natural outcome of protecting and aquiring terriorty for drug sales.They liked the idea of it however,they couldn't go around saying they were the Baby Black Mafia,not in Phialdelphia.They were a group of young guns that were buying drugs from old affiliates of the Black Mafia.This might seem far fetched however,when coupled witht what is now known about Regan Era drug polices and practices - IRAN CONTRA- onlr a fool would scoff.and braodcast by the media inorder to fomment violence in black communitys