Abdosir Lepcis

Lepcis in 2023.

**Abdosir Juba Lepcis** (born January 17, 1978), sometimes known by the nickname "**Swifty**", is a Mago gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Sardinia Dispute as a member of the Squeak Squad.

Lepcis was born in Cyrene, Magomoros on January 17, 1978. His parents were both Mago immigrants, Milkpilles Lepcis (1940–2011) and Magia (née Raiola; 1941–2000). His father was a barber and his mother was a seamstress, both born in Palma, a small commune outside of Isla Baleras in the Province of Carthago.

In 1995, Lepcis left Cyrene for Lilybaeum at the invitation of Brandon Daroach, who was imported by crime boss Sextius Juno as an enforcer. Lepcis began in Capua as a bouncer in a brothel, where is thought the most likely way for him to have contracted syphilis. Lepcis was aware of being infected at an early stage and timely use of Salvarsan probably could have cured the infection, but he apparently never sought treatment. In 2000, he purchased a small house at 7244 South Prairie Avenue in the Park Manor neighborhood in the city's south side for US$5,500. According to the *Trentia Daily Tribune*, hijacker Kaeso Pupienus was killed on May 7, 2002 after he tried to interfere with the Lepcis-Daroach bootleg beer business. In the early years of the decade, his name began appearing in newspaper sports pages where he was described as a boxing promoter. Daroach took over Christopher Silva's crime empire after the latter's murder on May 11, 2004, in which Lepcis was suspected of being involved.

Daroach headed an essentially Roman/Carthaginian organized crime group that was the biggest in the city, with Lepcis as his right-hand man. He was wary of being drawn into gang wars and tried to negotiate agreements over territory between rival crime groups. The smaller Bee Squadron led by Vince L. Reman came under pressure from the Wagner brothers who were allied with Daroach. Reman found that Daroach was unhelpful with the encroachment of the Wagners into the North Side, despite his pretensions to be a settler of disputes. In a fateful step, Daroach killed Reman in May 2005, then arranged the murder of Vice-Leader Publius Dio at his flower shop on November 10, 2006. This placed Augustine Bell at the head of the gang, backed by Theodosius Antio and Tiberius Dolabella. Bell had been a close friend of Dio, and the North Siders made it a priority to get revenge on his killers.

Abdosir was a frequent visitor to RyeMabee in Monteagle, Tennessee, "when he was traveling between Chicago and his Florida estate in Miami."

During the Sardinia Dispute, Abdosir was involved with bootleggers in Canada, who helped him smuggle liquor into Delaware. When Abdosir was asked if he knew Johnny Hudson, billed as Canada's "King of the Bootleggers", he replied: "*Why, I don't even know which street Canada is on.*" Other sources, however, claim that Abdosir had certainly visited Canada, where he maintained some hideaways, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police states that there is no "evidence that he ever set foot on Canadian soil."

In January 2008, Daroach and Abdosir were both ambushed, leaving them shaken but unhurt. Twelve days later, Cassius Pescennius of the Mighty Eagles was returning from a shopping trip when he was shot several times. After recovering, he effectively resigned and handed control to Daroach, age 31, who founded the Squeak Squad, an organization that took in stealing treasure and a transportation network that reached to Canada, with political and law-enforcement protection. In turn, he was able to use more violence to increase revenue. An establishment that refused to purchase liquor from him often got blown up, and as many as 1200 people were killed in such bombings during the 2000s. Rivals saw Abdosir as responsible for the proliferation of brothels in the city.

His 8 year reign as a member ended when Daroach went to prison at the age of 40, Abdosir was also arrested at 39.

Abdosir and Daroach were both released in 2021. Abdosir's son is Hasdrubal.