Lorenzo "L.B." Benton from Compton Piru

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Lorenzo "L.B." Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by alexalonso » December 29th, 2009, 4:08 pm

Back in 1976 Salty from Grandee Crips was killed in an ambush by several Pirus, but it was Lorenzo Benton who was convicted of the murder. He was a Piru member that was affiliated with Puddin, Tam, Bartender and other early Piru members. He was sentenced to Life with parole and is scheduled for parole early next year. He has been in prison for 33 years and was sent there when he was either 21 or 22. He was born in 1955 so he will be turning 55 next year.

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

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alexalonso wrote:Back in 1976 Salty from Grandee Crips was killed in an ambush by several Pirus, but it was Lorenzo Benton who was convicted of the murder. He was a Piru member that was affiliated with Puddin, Tam, Bartender and other early Piru members. He was sentenced to Life with parole and is scheduled for parole early next year. He has been in prison for 33 years and was sent there when he was either 21 or 22. He was born in 1955 so he will be turning 55 next year.
you gonna talk to him?

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by alexalonso » April 28th, 2010, 2:23 am

H572DSTA wrote:
alexalonso wrote:Back in 1976 Salty from Grandee Crips was killed in an ambush by several Pirus, but it was Lorenzo Benton who was convicted of the murder. He was a Piru member that was affiliated with Puddin, Tam, Bartender and other early Piru members. He was sentenced to Life with parole and is scheduled for parole early next year. He has been in prison for 33 years and was sent there when he was either 16 or 17. He was born in 1960 so he will be turning 50 next year.
you gonna talk to him?
has he been released yet, i dont know if he got parole. He was up for parole in February.

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

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alexalonso wrote:
H572DSTA wrote:
alexalonso wrote:Back in 1976 Salty from Grandee Crips was killed in an ambush by several Pirus, but it was Lorenzo Benton who was convicted of the murder. He was a Piru member that was affiliated with Puddin, Tam, Bartender and other early Piru members. He was sentenced to Life with parole and is scheduled for parole early next year. He has been in prison for 33 years and was sent there when he was either 16 or 17. He was born in 1960 so he will be turning 50 next year.
you gonna talk to him?
has he been released yet, i dont know if he got parole. He was up for parole in February.
MY RELI FRUM THERE LONSO I WILL LET U KNOW

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by bgcasper » May 4th, 2010, 6:30 am

og PUDDING piru street bloods
salty was the leader along with macc from farm
salty was from grandees along with vamp pee wee and macc was from farm
and a gang of homies from front hood mad dogg i think east coast crips 118
than the park village was grandee the only hood that was existing was swamps and south atlantic drive and og ducc was a grandee
when salty was killed piru was still a block club ????how did that killing afected the pirus ??who know exactly what went down ??
i heard about a beef in centenial that started it all

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by saltyone » August 14th, 2010, 6:25 pm

There was a beef at a party in the Village

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by saltyone » August 14th, 2010, 6:26 pm

Parole was not granted - 2 more years

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by H572DSTA » August 18th, 2010, 12:29 pm

saltyone wrote:There was a beef at a party in the Village
who iz you loc ?

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by bgcasper » August 27th, 2010, 6:16 am

he is a real compton og

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by saltyone » October 28th, 2010, 9:20 am

H572DSTA wrote:
saltyone wrote:There was a beef at a party in the Village
who iz you loc ?
Grew up in the Grandee's with all of the OG's... That's my family! Still and will always be Grandee - they call it Nutty Bloc now but, like I said, it's Grandee for life.

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

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saltyone wrote:
H572DSTA wrote:
saltyone wrote:There was a beef at a party in the Village
who iz you loc ?
Grew up in the Grandee's with all of the OG's... That's my family! Still and will always be Grandee - they call it Nutty Bloc now but, like I said, it's Grandee for life.

you sure that the nuttys were a offspring of the grandeez? cause there were known ass neighborhood watts crips when they started

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by saltyone » April 15th, 2011, 2:26 pm

The Grandee's was never Neighborhood Watt's, always the Grandee's. Alondra and Central, Wilmington Arms, Boot Hills, Park Village - all Grandee's

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by bgcasper » May 15th, 2011, 2:17 am

word

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

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saltyone wrote:The Grandee's was never Neighborhood Watt's, always the Grandee's. Alondra and Central, Wilmington Arms, Boot Hills, Park Village - all Grandee's
I want to interview an OG Grandee if possible.

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by AllhoodPublications » December 4th, 2011, 11:16 pm

alexalonso wrote:Back in 1976 Salty from Grandee Crips was killed in an ambush by several Pirus, but it was Lorenzo Benton who was convicted of the murder. He was a Piru member that was affiliated with Puddin, Tam, Bartender and other early Piru members. He was sentenced to Life with parole and is scheduled for parole early next year. He has been in prison for 33 years and was sent there when he was either 21 or 22. He was born in 1955 so he will be turning 55 next year.
That was the Double OOG generation. Salty was like 19 and LB was more like 20 at the time of this incident.

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by alexalonso » July 6th, 2012, 2:24 am

AllhoodPublications wrote:
alexalonso wrote:Back in 1976 Salty from Grandee Crips was killed in an ambush by several Pirus, but it was Lorenzo Benton who was convicted of the murder. He was a Piru member that was affiliated with Puddin, Tam, Bartender and other early Piru members. He was sentenced to Life with parole and is scheduled for parole early next year. He has been in prison for 33 years and was sent there when he was either 16 or 17. He was born in 1960 so he will be turning 50 next year.
That was the Double OOG generation. Salty was like 19 and LB was more like 20 at the time of this incident.

Lorenzo Benton is 56 years old right now.

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by cliffard » October 3rd, 2012, 2:55 am

odid he ever get paroled?so much for rehabilitation in the prison system.man goes away at 16 and dont get out till his 50s.hes never gonna work or pay taxes,he either needs to be a giant of a man or need a lot of help from god to come out as a functional human being.no doubt hes a completely different person to the TEENAGER that went in.

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by alexalonso » October 3rd, 2012, 12:01 pm

Lorenzo Benton is still locked up. He was arrested in 1976, and sent to the pen on July 22, 1977. He is currently 57 years old and is in Pelican Bay prison right now.

He has been locked up for 36 years but does have parole but the board can deny him everytime if they want. Usually if you have major disciplinary issues in the pen, you will not get parole, but I have no idea of what he has been doing in prison. But at his age, I doubt he is doing much now.

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by alexalonso » October 3rd, 2012, 12:06 pm

He is also in the SHU and was part of the hunger strike that was going on in 2011 and 2012.
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Posters of a few of the men who live in the tiny SHU cells at Pelican Bay that this mock cell is modeled after are displayed for the play-goers attending the Mime Troupe’s performance in Oakland’s Mosswood Park on July 21. Dolores Canales and 16 other members of California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement drove up from LA for the event, bringing the posters, to support Bay Area volunteers with the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition and Occupy 4 Prisoners who built and have been displaying the mock cell. Shown on the posters are, from left, Lorenzo Benton, Todd Ashker, Danny Troxell, Gabriel Huerta and J. Heshima Denham, who’s housed in the Corcoran SHU. Above, on an orange background, is a photo of Sitawa Jamaa (Ron Dewberry). The efforts of activists around the state to enlighten the public about the torture of solitary confinement were spurred and inspired by last year’s hunger strikes. – Photo: Dolores Canales
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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by MARTINEZ » February 6th, 2013, 8:31 am

thats him on the left ^^ at his current and then as youngster with a Fro



all those fucken years in the SHU

damn... that shit is cruel and unusual punishment

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by MARTINEZ » February 6th, 2013, 11:54 am

also - This is a firme lil thread with some history

Why did the GRANDEES switch up their name to NUTTY BLOCK? Being they had the OG Crip hood status in Compton


I’ve seen some pics of NBCC hood where it has some hit ups “welcome to The Grandees!”

so they claiming direct lineage to The Grandees

And what happened to this vato Salty One on this thread confirmed?

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by bgcasper » February 6th, 2013, 9:39 pm

to my knowledge the grandees was all over from watts to compton the members was not living in the same hood like its nowaday a standart so they was scattered from 118 to front to boothill richmond farms than front hood was front of that compton crippin facin watts bloods and pirus hills was pvc were king rat was the farms was sam ect ect grandees was their bloc every place they lived they started a crip clicc many say nutty was their bloc village was their hill richmond was their farm front was their front not far from the scatin ring on rosecranz grandee gang had big territory

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Unread post by NathanD » May 27th, 2013, 7:04 am

Wow, good information.

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Unread post by bgcasper » May 28th, 2013, 4:02 am

the best thread so far

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by karim » May 28th, 2013, 4:44 am

Wow!!! 36 years in such a box... It's incredible to me... How can he still be alive ? Mental power is unbelievable sometimes... :shock:

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[quote="karim"]Wow!!! 36 years in such a box... It's incredible to me... How can he still be alive ? Mental power is unbelievable sometimes... :shock:[/quote]
thats the one you need to interview i would gladly inspire some questions

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

Unread post by saltyone » December 10th, 2013, 6:37 pm

[quote="MARTINEZ"]also - This is a firme lil thread with some history

Why did the GRANDEES switch up their name to NUTTY BLOCK? Being they had the OG Crip hood status in Compton


I’ve seen some pics of NBCC hood where it has some hit ups “welcome to The Grandees!”

so they claiming direct lineage to The Grandees

And what happened to this vato Salty One on this thread confirmed?

By then all or most of the OG's were gone, dead or in lock up, what was left were the youngsters and they were Nutty. Direct lineage to the Grandees.

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Unread post by saltyone » December 10th, 2013, 6:41 pm

cliffard wrote:odid he ever get paroled?so much for rehabilitation in the prison system.man goes away at 16 and dont get out till his 50s.hes never gonna work or pay taxes,he either needs to be a giant of a man or need a lot of help from god to come out as a functional human being.no doubt hes a completely different person to the TEENAGER that went in.
I don't know one OG that has ever changed

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Unread post by saltyone » December 10th, 2013, 6:46 pm

bgcasper wrote:
karim wrote:Wow!!! 36 years in such a box... It's incredible to me... How can he still be alive ? Mental power is unbelievable sometimes... :shock:
thats the one you need to interview i would gladly inspire some questions
you don't live, so you're never really alive. you survive because it's in your nature to survive, it's all you got

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

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saltyone wrote:
MARTINEZ wrote:
By then all or most of the OG's were gone, dead or in lock up, what was left were the youngsters and they were Nutty. Direct lineage to the Grandees.
you just confirmed what I always I thought 8) ^

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

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saltyone wrote:
cliffard wrote:odid he ever get paroled?so much for rehabilitation in the prison system.man goes away at 16 and dont get out till his 50s.hes never gonna work or pay taxes,he either needs to be a giant of a man or need a lot of help from god to come out as a functional human being.no doubt hes a completely different person to the TEENAGER that went in.
I don't know one OG that has ever changed
You can't be the same man, it's almost impossible to be the same (from 16 to 50 years old)

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Re: Lorenzo Benton from Compton Piru

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saltyone wrote:
cliffard wrote:odid he ever get paroled?so much for rehabilitation in the prison system.man goes away at 16 and dont get out till his 50s.hes never gonna work or pay taxes,he either needs to be a giant of a man or need a lot of help from god to come out as a functional human being.no doubt hes a completely different person to the TEENAGER that went in.
I don't know one OG that has ever changed
If you are in Los Angeles, you should come to the California Cease Fire weekly meetings. You will see OGs that have changed. Its quite common now.

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