Stokes Crime Family

The Stokes Crime Family was one of the biggest crime organizations in Harlem. It was founded by Buggy Stokes.
==History==
===Harlem's Players===
Buggy Stokes, with his wife Mabel and his brother Peter, founded one of the biggest criminal organization in Harlem and centered his activities in the Harlem's Paradise owned by Stokes and his friend Quincy McIver. Under his leadership, Stokes family grew stronger and established their business in weapons selling and prostitutes like Desiree Jones, Kalinda Potter and Sister Boy but never dealt with the drugs what became a family's credo.Luke Cage: 1.07: Manifest Also, Mabel put Benjamin Donovan through law school, allowing him to become a successful lawyer and became loyal to the Stokes family.Luke Cage: 2.08: If It Ain't Rough, It Ain't Right
===Situation with McIvers===
However, Italian criminals, Irish policemen and local politicians wanted to took control over Harlem's Paradise. They made a deal with Buggy Stokes to force him to murder Quincy McIver, who refused to sell the club. Buggy accepted the offer and shot his friend. However, McIver managed to shoot him in his belly before he died. Buggy died five months later. and on his deathbed, he asked Pistol Pete to protect Mama Mabel and the family.Luke Cage: 2.07: On and On 
Later, Mabel and Pete traveled to Kingston to discuss a business deal with McIver's wife, Gwen McIver, who asked for a fair share of Harlem's Paradise and profits of the Bushmaster Rum. However, Mabel, Pete and Benjamin Donovan openly refused her offer. By night, Stokes attacked McIver Residence and burned it with Gwen who was inside, killing her. While the house was burning to the ground, Mabel discovered that her son, John McIver had escaped just in time, as Mabel apologised to him for killing his mother, although she expressed no emotion.
Two years later, Pete had managed tracked down John, who had since moved to Trenchtown and worked at a market selling fruit. As part of their plan to ensure that nobody challenged their ownership of their business assets, Pete had then shot John twice in the stomach, noting that this was also in retaliation for what his father did to Buggy, although John managed to survive the shooting, having been rescued by Anansi before he could bleed out. The Stokes Crime Family then continued building their businesses, putting the conflict with the McIvers behind them.Luke Cage: 2.11: The Creator
===Pistol Pete's Betrayal===
|The Stokes listen to Cottonmouth's music
Years later, Mama Mabel's grandson, Cornell Stokes than encouraged to go out in the street with Pop and Fredo Diaz, beating people up to steal cash, becoming notorious enough that they were once photographed by Jamel Shabazz. One night, Pop and Donnie visited Mabel and brought her cash and a stolen watch.
However, Mabel confronted Donnie on the fact that he had been selling drugs on the streets of Harlem. Donnie insisted that he was only trying to help her organization, noting that Salvador Colon was making a lot of money selling crack which they could get involved with. Mabel furiously confronted Donnie before using flower cutters to cut off his finger, before ordering Cornell and Pete to take Donnie downstairs in the basement and deal with him.
|Mama Mabel has Pistol Pete shot and killed
Pete then decided to broke family's credo not to deal with the drugs and secretly contacted with the Colon Crime Family from Spanish Harlem. He discussed Stokes' involvement with their drug business with Salvador Colon. Mabel learned about that from Cornell and decided to punish Pete for his betrayal.
Mabel confronted Pete for betrayal, with Pete noting that he was trying to make a deal that would help them rule New York City. Then she revealed that Cornell was standing behind him, threatening Pete with a gun much to his horror. Mabel ordered him to force Pete outside to be executed for his betrayal against them. Pete desperately tried to reason with Cornell before he fired two shots into Pete's chest, killing him.
===Cottonmouth's Leadership===
In the wake of the eventual death of Mama Mabel, Cottonmouth inherit family's business. Stokes established cooperation with another criminal gangs in Harlem, such as the Yardies, the Korean Mob, the Cuban Mob, and the Macoute.Luke Cage: 1.09: DWYCK In order to provide weapons business, Stokes befriended Diamondback, mysterious and powerful weapons dealer. To conspire his activities, Stokes contacted with Joel Spurlock from the Spurlock's Mortuary and several corrupt NYPD officers, like Detective Rafael Scarfe and Lieutenant Perez. Also, Stokes financed election campaign of his cousin Mariah Dillard who became a Councilwoman.
In 2015, Stokes arranged the meeting in Harlem's Paradise with his childhood friend Domingo Colon who became a leader of his family gang. Stokes organized a selling of weapons manufactured by Hammer Industries and obtained by Diamondback. Colon accepted a deal and their men met at the junkyard to finish the deal. However, they were attacked by Shameek Smith, Dante Chapman, and Chico Diaz who killed all gangsters at the scene to steal Stokes' money. Smith then killed Chapman who called up Tone and informed them about the robbery.Luke Cage: 1.07: Moment of Truth
===Diamondback's Arrival===
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===Mariah Stokes' Leadership===
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==Members==
Name 	Position 	Status
Samuel Stokes 	Leader 	Deceased
Mabel Stokes 	Leader 	Deceased
Peter Stokes 	Leader 	Deceased
Cornell Stokes 	Leader 	Deceased
Mariah Stokes Dillard	Leader 	Deceased
Hernán Álvarez 	Second-in-Command	Defected/In Custody
Henry Hunter 	Enforcer 	Deceased
Fredo Diaz 	Enforcer 	Deceased
Donnie 	Enforcer 	Deceased
Tone 	Enforcer 	Deceased
Zip 	Enforcer 	Deceased
Amos 	Enforcer 	Alive
Sugar 	Enforcer 	Defected/Alive
Koko 	Enforcer 	Deceased
Rocky 	Enforcer 	Alive
C-Money 	Enforcer 	Alive
Diontey 	Enforcer 	Alive
Ramos 	Enforcer 	Alive
Darius Jones 	Enforcer 	Mole/Deceased
Andre Jackson 	Enforcer 	Deceased
Ricky 	Enforcer 	Alive
Tony 	Enforcer 	Alive
Alex Wesley 	Assistant 	Deceased
Benjamin Donovan 	Lawyer 	Formerly/Alive
Darrell Mitchell 	Accountant 	Alive
Sister Boy 	Prostitute 	Alive
Kalinda Potter 	Prostitute 	Deceased
Desiree Jones 	Prostitute 	Alive
==Appearances==
Appearances for the Stokes Crime Family
==Trivia==
*In the comics, Black Mariah leads a gang called the Rat Pack. Early in her career, both she and Cornell Stokes were members of another gang known as the Fang Gang. Later on, they both joined the New Pride, led by Alex Wilder.
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