page_title: Kaboni Savage
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kaboni Savage / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The Federal Detention Center (FDC Philadelphia) at 700 Arch Street at the corner of N. 7th Street is a United States Federal prison in Pennsylvania which holds male and female inmates prior to or during court proceedings, as well as inmates serving brief sentences. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. Español: Centro Federal de Detención Filadelfia
context_page_description: Kaboni Savage is an American drug dealer, organized crime leader, and murderer who is currently on federal death row for ordering the firebombing of a house where a federal witness lived, killing six people. He is the first man from Philadelphia, in modern history, to receive a federal death sentence. He has twelve convictions for murder, one fewer than the Pennsylvania state record, and the most for anyone in Philadelphia. Savage was the first person sentenced to death by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since the federal death penalty resumed in 1988.
context_section_description: Savage, a former student of Frankford High School, began boxing at the Front Street Gym in North Philadelphia. He had one professional boxing fight, which he won.
  Savage began his operations as a drug dealer in Hunting Park and became a higher-level dealer. According to federal authorities, Savage, from 1998 to around 2004 had distributed hundreds of kilograms of cocaine in the Philadelphia area.
  Authorities accused Savage of personally killing a stranger, Kenneth Lassiter, after Lassiter's car bumped into Savage's while the two were trying to park their respective cars. Savage was acquitted of Lassiter's murder after the lead witness in the case, Tybius "Tib" Flowers, was also murdered.  Savage is suspected of ordering Flowers's murder.
  Savage ordered the deaths of others. On Savage's orders, a hit man, Lamont Lewis, shot drug dealer Carlton Brown, a competitor of Savage, in 2001. Savage had ordered five other deaths of adult men. Savage engaged in multiple attempts at intimidation while held at Federal Detention Center, Philadelphia (FDC Philadelphia). While there he threatened to kill children of those who testified against him.
  Less than one week after he was acquitted in the Lassiter case, Savage was arrested and accused of heading a drug trafficking network. Savage received a 30-year prison sentence for his drug trafficking activities. Savage was convicted of multiple charges, including money laundering, witness intimidation, and drug offenses. Savage was imprisoned in a federal facility near Florence, Colorado.
  Savage's daughter, Ciara "CeCe" Savage, died at age 9 during a gang shooting in York, Pennsylvania. She was a student at Ross Elementary School. Police and Jasmine Vadell, Ciara's mother, stated that the shooting was unrelated to Savage's gang activities in Philadelphia. Vadell had raised Ciara by herself and had not been romantically involved with Savage for years.
caption: While at Federal Detention Center, Philadelphia, Savage ordered acts of intimidation, including the murders in a row house
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