Maryland's Latin Kings rise... and fall.

So I haven't blogged in awhile... a long while. A lot of my time has been consumed by work/school, but now my time in the National Press Building is over. It went crazy fast. For over a month I've been working on a story about a branch of the Latin Kings gang that sprang up in Maryland in 2007 and was taken down by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives last year. Went to several weeks of a murder trial, read through a pile of other court documents and scored an extended interview with the ATF agent who leads the anti-gang unit that spearheaded the investigation into the Kings. It ended up turning into a two-part magazine-style narrative:

Part 1: The Crown Topples: The Swift Rise and Brutal Fall of Maryland's Latin Kings

Part 2: The Crown Topples: The Swift Rise and Brutal Fall of Maryland's Latin Kings