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Marlo

King of B-More!

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As an up and coming drug player controlling corners along Easton avenue in the West side. Marlo and his best friend Chris Partlow waged war with the Barksdale crew over this territory. His ambition was full control of the drug trade in West Baltimore.
The Barksdale organization approached Marlo through lieutenant Bodie Broadus to discuss exchanging the sharing of territory for a share of their high quality supply of drugs. Bodie had set up his own crew within Stanfield's established territory. Marlo refused to acknowledge Bodie and insisted that he move his crew away. Later Marlo had his dealer Fruit and his crew beat Bodie's team with baseball bats to prove that the he wasn't going to lay down and let the Barksdale organization move into his territory. Stringer Bell visited Marlo personally to try to convince him to join the co-op; a group of Baltimore drug players who buy packages of narcotics together to receive discount and try to reduce the violence of their trade to avoid police attention.
Marlo listened to Stringer without comment, and shortly after Stringer left, he warned Partlow to prepare for war. Lieutenant Daniel' major case unit caught on to Marlo when he met with Stringer. Initially they were unsure if he was working with the Barksdale organization like many other crews in the West side. The unit went to the homicide division to learn more about Stanfield and found that he had been investigated for a murder. The police had built a case against him using a key witness who they even put under protection with a tracking device. The case disintegrated when the witness was murdered and the body found using the tracking device, which was still attached to the corpse. The investigating detective, Vernon Holley, believed that Marlo killed the witness. Holley described Marlo as "the spawn of the devil". When a failed Barksdale assault on a Stanfield corner resulted in the deaths of two Barksdale soldiers the police realized the two gangs were at war.
The assault had been triggered by the parole of Avon Barksdale who took a more confrontational approach to the turf war than Stringer. Marlo believed that the failed assault showed a lack of strength in the Barksdale organization and discussed this with Partlow and his advisor Vinson. He organized retaliatory assaults agaisnt Barksdale territory. His soldier Snoop killed Barksdale soldier Rico in a drive by. Avon responded by hiring a woman named Devonne to seduce Marlo and lure him to a meeting. While Marlo had sex with Devonne he did not go to their arranged meeting. Instead, he had Snoop surveil the location while Partlow waited nearby. Snoop spotted Devonne reporting to Avon, who was waiting in a parked car. Partlow drove by the car and shot and wounded Avon and killed another Barksdale soldier. Marlo and Partlow later tracked Devonne to her home and Marlo murdered her personally as she was leaving one night. The violence continued to escalate and Marlo's lieutenant LaTroy was killed.
When Stringer Bell was murdered the police and drug gangs thought it was Marlo who had him killed. In reality Avon had facilitated his death by giving Brother Mouzone and Omar Little information about his whereabouts. At the end of season 3 Avon was arrested for parole violation, weapons charges and drug crimes. Marlo and Chris attended his sentencing hearing. in control of all of the best territory in Western Baltimore. He viciously protects his realm through his enforcers Partlow and Snoop. When murders are comitted on Marlo's behalf they hide the bodies in vacant buildings. When Marlo's crew chief Fruit is killed by a dealer from Bodie Broadus’ independent crew he is quick to order that the dealer responsible is killed. Marlo furthers his reputation around the neighbourhood by giving away money to children in the back to school period through his lieutenant "Monk" Metcalf. He keeps his own skills and his soldiers sharp by organizing shooting practice sessions in the woods.
The major case unit targets Stanfield and begins to infiltrate his organization using wiretaps but fail to link him to any murders because of the hidden bodies. They do manage to get Marlo on tape when he uses Monk's phone to talk to a subordinate known as "old face" Andre. Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

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