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166 with the Columbia drug cartels. Black street gangs establish themselves in a community by initially living with or contacting blood relatives of individual street gang members. 1°? In some cases, they may offer $50 to $100 per day to single mothers or elderly persons who are on fixed incomes in exchange for using their 68 . . 1 . residences to deal cocaine. Law enforcement officers have discovered that some Bloods and Crips may forego trying to establish themselves in some neighborhoods and deal drugs from motels located along the major Interstate 5 and Highway 99 corridors in California. 1°? a Black street gang members often establish themselves in new locales by throwing lavish parties. These newcomers flash a lot of money and offer gifts to people in the new locale in order to persuade them to attend their parties. After the guests arrive, the gang members offer them alcohol and crack cocaine, realizing that once they get someone to try crack cocaine, they have a guaranteed addict and consequently a guaranteed client.+/? Marshall, see n. 5. 57 16613, p. 7. 167 : . Christopher Kuntz, Sacramento Police Department, Investigation of Black Street Gang Drug Distributors, 1988, p. 5. 16855. 169 cuntz, p. 6, see n. 167. 170