Founded 1988 Years active 1980's–present | Founding location Boston, Massachusetts Membership (est.) 80+ | |
Territory United States of America, Boston Ethnicity Primarily African American | ||
Columbia Point Dawgs also called CPD is an criminal organization and street gang located in Boston. They are involved in murder, drug trafficking and violence.
History
The gang was named after the Columbia Point Public Housing Project apartment complex built in 1954 and razed in the 1980s to make way for the mixed income Harbor Point on the Bay apartment community located on the Columbia Point peninsula of the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. The Columbia Point Housing Project had been reported as one of the most dangerous public housing projects in the United States.
In the early 1990s, the CPD was largely run by four families, all of which have descendants among the Targets in this case: the Williams family, the Woods family, the Berry family, and the Funches family. Members of the CPD, then and now, often identified themselves by wearing Major League Baseball clothing and caps depicting the colors and logos of the Pittsburgh Pirates (Black and Gold) and the Philadelphia Phillies (Red and White), with both logos used to identify the "Point" Columbia Point.
The CPD expanded its drug trafficking business through southern Massachusetts, establishing strongholds in Brockton and Fall River, Southern New Hampshire, and Southern Maine.
In June 2015, 48 members of Columbia Point Dawgs were arrested and charged on gun and drug charges after a two year investigation in which Vincent Lisi, special agent in charge of Bostons FBI office said “It is one of, if not the largest, gang takedowns that we’ve seen in Boston — to arrest the most dangerous subjects out there,”.
In September 28, 1995, Bobby Brown was in Boston to visit friends and family. While in Boston Bobby Brown and his friend Sealey went to visit a local night club near Orchard Park in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. A man jumped out and shot Steven Sealey three times while he was seated in Whitney Houston's Bentley with her husband, Bobby Brown and than ran into the Orchard Park Projects.