Kim Vernell Walker

Kim Vernell Walker, known as “Plex,” was identified by federal prosecutors as a leader and longtime member of the Santana Block Crips. He became one of the principal defendants in the federal PCP-manufacturing and distribution case that also targeted Grape Street Crips leader Alphonso Eugene Foster.

Federal prosecutors said Foster and Walker operated a large PCP conspiracy that used clandestine manufacturing locations and a graffiti-removal business as a front for obtaining precursor chemicals. A federal jury convicted both men in March 2010 of felony offenses arising from the conspiracy.

On November 8, 2010, Walker was sentenced to life in federal prison. The Justice Department later cited that sentence when Foster received life without parole in February 2011. Walker’s status bar should therefore display the documented life sentence and conviction status.

Walker is especially useful to the knowledge graph because he introduces the Santana Block Crips as a neighboring Los Angeles Crips organization while simultaneously linking that organization to Grape Street through a concrete adjudicated federal case. This is a much stronger cross-link than treating all Crips sets as automatically connected simply because they share the Crips identity.