PEN1 or Public Enemy No. 1 is a white supremacist gang based in Southern California. It is involved in several criminal activities, such as drug-dealing and identity theft.

Identity Theft

• Originally their methods in identity theft were nothing more than raiding mailboxes and trash receptacles for personal information. These eventually evolved into more elaborate tactics, such as planting moles inside of banks, mortgage companies and state motor vehicle departments in order to gain access to entire credit profiles. A movement of law enforcement officials to have their personal information removed from such institutions has commenced, due to the possibility that such information could be used to identify the home addresses of police personnel and their families. (1)

Hit list

• Police say the gang has compiled a "hit list" targeting five officers and a gang prosecutor — a sign of just how brazen Public Enemy has become. (2)

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Enemy_No.1#Identity_theft

(2) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/05/national/main2535231.shtml?source=mostpop_story

Categories: Criminal Organizations, Neo-Nazism, Racism, Level 2 Violence