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How To Rob: Rollin’ 30’s Harlem Crip Robbery Team | $500k Beverly Hills Federal Indictment
10 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What robbery crews are highlighted in the episode?
rap news street politics the best hood channel on youtube back with the robbery crews and flock teams coming out of some of the most notable hoods out here in the city of la now this is the first part to a mini docu-series that we doing on these crews we got multi-million dollar teams
coming out the Englewood families, who were also dealing with the Hoovers, BPS, and the bounty hunters on they moves. We got another million dollar crew coming out of Long Beach with the Compton Connection, with the Baby Insanes and the Park Villages. We got some more young dudes coming out of Englewood, the ones that be turning robberies into murders,
And we jumping it off with the first part of the series with the Rich Roland Harlem 30s, a hood that has definitely made a name for themselves on the flock scene. And like all these other crews, they've got the feds attention with their performances out here in the streets.
Chapter 2: How did the COVID-19 pandemic influence robbery trends?
Now, we know this wave was definitely going on before COVID. It was popping. But when that EDD and PPP ran out post-COVID, everybody was out here assembling their teams to get cracking and strong arming the city. Now we're going to be going through how these hoods put together their teams, plan their moves out.
Chapter 3: What mistakes led to the federal indictment of the Harlem 30s crew?
and eventually the mistakes that they made that ended them up in a federal indictment. Now, a lot of people may not know, a lot of cases that happened after COVID are just now starting to wrap up and people are getting into their beds. So a lot of new details have came out on exactly what happened when everybody was trying to run their bag up.
Now, of course, we don't have the best of the best on this list. Reason being is because everybody that we speak about got caught for their business. But we have to put a disclaimer out here. This is for educational purposes only, as well as entertainment. We do not condone the act of robbery or any other criminal activities on Rap News Street Politics.
But we're going to see if we can tweak some of these dudes approach and show y'all how to get crack in the right way. This is how to rob hypothetically with the best hood channel on YouTube.
Chapter 4: What was the significance of the Hobbs Act in this case?
All you got to do is take a risk. Don't be scared to get some chips. You want to move some balls or you want to hit a fence.
Now we got to start with the Westside Rowlands, the Harlem Crips, who again have made a name for themselves on the flocking robbery scene and hit the feds radar in 2021. Now, last year, some of their members were implicated in a burglary crew called the Rich Rowlands.
Now, we know that's a name that's been synonymous with the old car, with the bank robberies and everything that earlier members were participating in decades ago. So the Rich Roland is not nothing new to the old car. But the crew last year went down on a state case for allegedly committing around 100 residential burglaries. which dated back to about 2022.
Now we know a lot of celebrities and athletes were getting their house hit.
Chapter 5: How did the Beverly Hills robbery unfold on March 4th, 2021?
One of those instances resulted in Pop Smoke losing his life. Now we know the Hoovers was behind that situation, but the Harlems were getting busy with them Westside neighborhood 50s and them dudes went down. Now, that state case is an example that we can use for everybody that's touched the feds.
The key thing is to a lot of these cases that we about to go through, all of them potentially could have ended up state cases. But the FBI got involved on the L.A. scene after COVID primarily targeting the 30s because they said that it's been a rash of these situations in the city. Now, this is when the FBI started to play funny little games and somewhat bending the rules, if you will.
Now, technically, everything is within the guidelines, but they hit robbery crews with what's called the Hobbs Act. And this is what turns a regular robbery state case into a federal indictment. Now, the Hobbs Act is a federal law which makes it a crime to obstruct, delay, or affect interstate or foreign commerce through robbery or extortion.
Chapter 6: What were the consequences of the robbery for the perpetrators?
So when we make it to March 4th, 2021, with Malik Powell, who also goes by the name Infant Old Boy, Kai McGee, and Marquise Garden, they committed a robbery on an individual wearing a $500,000 Richard Millie in broad daylight at a restaurant called Il Pastayo. Now the feds picked this up for the simple reason that after the robbery, El Pastayo had to shut down for the remainder of the day.
And the feds say that alone affected interstate commerce. So that's our first piece of game for everybody listening. How the feds can take a simple, minute detail out of the play and turn it into some charges that you can't shake. Now again, March 4th, 2021, the Harlems are in Beverly Hills.
there's the three previously named defendants along with two other individuals one of which is a female who is said to be the scout now they pull up in beverly hills with a black bmw that belongs to malik powell they send the female off on foot to scout different spots see who got what different stores mainly different people and they looking for jewelry now even though it's malik's bmw
Marquise Garden is driving, and Paola McGee are masked up, ready to jump out on somebody when the time comes. They hit Rodeo, don't see nothing, and are circling around Beverly Hills for about an hour until they spot their mark, which is an individual referred to as SB in the paperwork. His real name is Shea Bellhausen.
Chapter 7: How did law enforcement track the suspects after the robbery?
who was the owner of jewelry brands DBS Diamonds and the Luxury Exchange. And at this time, he had set up shop in this area by El Pastayo. Now, Powell and McGee jump out, hood it up, approach Shea, who they felt like was a fit target after pointing out the watch he had on.
pulled out the strap and said give it to me and this is where they first miscalculation came into play over here at this restaurant shea bellhassen starts fighting back clearly this is not a small little dude that they chose to get up on they felt like the strap was the muscle and that this dude was just gonna lay down clearly that was a miscalculation shea begins to struggle with the weapon and it becomes even more apparent to these dudes when shea stands up
And he's 6'3". And he's able to tussle these dudes to the point where they lose the weapon and it hits the floor. Now, they were able to overpower this dude and get the Richard Milley off his wrist. This is a Richard Milley RM-1103 Rose Gold flyback. Again, allegedly worth about a half a ticket sitting on this man's wrist. Broad daylight.
But after the struggle ensues, somebody from Harlem picks up the weapon. and four shots go off, missing the victim and hitting an innocent bystander named Amanda Shahan in the leg. A very sloppy move on the play. These dudes then go on to leave the gun on the scene, take the watch, and they get out of there.
So we know it's a lot to unpack with this situation, aside from the fact that they miscalculated they target. This is a common thing when it comes to strong arm and shit, extending the play. Now, what do we mean by extending the play? A lot of these dudes in this series have what I will call play extenders. A lot of niggas is not just going for money. When you get the money,
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Chapter 8: What lessons can be learned from the mistakes made during the robbery?
The play is pretty much over at that point other than your escape, of course. But when you go for things like a watch, there's multiple steps that have to come after the watch that puts the move in jeopardy. Number one, none of these dudes I'm sure were watch aficionados. None of them did an authentication check on this watch to see if it was even solid.
They seen something shiny on somebody's wrist and decided to jump. What if this dude was flexing like a lot of people be doing? What if he was flexing and this was a fake watch and y'all did all of this for a fake watch? But the extension comes after you leave the plate. Now you gotta go sell the watch.
You keeping the product in your hands for an extended period of time, which brings in many different factors to the move. Number one is hot as hell, especially a shot went off, somebody got hit, and you got the merchandise on you. That merchandise right there is a ticking time bomb, and you gotta get it off your hands as fast as possible.
The number one place to get it off your hands in LA is downtown LA. So that means them dudes have to go from Beverly Hills
to downtown la or had to be in communication with a buyer now you introduced another party into the shit where you can ask this dude to meet you but most of the time y'all know how these buyers be they want you in a specific spot you got to pull up on them the shit is not pristine when you got these play extenders when you're going for anything other than money the risk rises and the level of expertise rises with that
clearly these dudes were very amateur over here in beverly hills picking any target for desperation now we're getting into the core of how all this shit plays out the number one thing behind robbery flocking burglary whatever it is it's desperation usually there's a goal that needs to be met by an individual that takes them to a point where they gotta go get now the second step to that desperation becomes greed most of the time this ain't your first rodeo with the shit you
done it before you've met that initial goal that started you in the lifestyle and then you got greedy realize that you can keep doing this and that's what brings us to the furtherance of a play but like everything we've heard the pimpin talk about this type of shit many different aspects get affected differently
when you insert the gangbanging into the equation not only do you have desperation that enhances to greed but now that the gangbanging is involved you get people not wanting to look weak in front of their homies and you get the bogar politics you get the tough man macho man shit that goes along when you dealing with the gangbanging on these robberies and all these factors I would say
seven and a half times out of ten resulting the play going left at some point in time now back to the scene over here at 209 p.m again in the middle of the day broad daylight beverly hills it's a favorite spot for dudes looking to get cracking but homework has to be done beverly hills police department uses a system called milestone which is an integrated city-wide camera system now we know a lot of different cities or neighborhoods are going to have
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