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Alexander Baker, a.k.a Miller Gunz, who this page mentions was a member of the Miller Gangster Bloods in New York City predominantly around the Bronx and Queens. The main sets of Millers are the RMB (Red Miller Bangers), MTG (Miller Time Gangsters), EMG (East Miller Gangsters) and MGB (Miller Gangster Bloods). The Miller Gangsters in NYC supposedly have their roots in Los Angeles although this is unsubstantiated.
Hackney Gazette, London, 13th April 2005
Gunz Shoots Straight
THE story of Alexander Baker's troubled life reads like the plot of an American urban gangster film.
He was born in Hackney and moved to New York with his mother in the early 1980s - growing up surrounded by the violence and drugs that plagued the impoverished black Bronx ghetto.
Speaking in a heavy New York accent, the 27-year-old describes how he fell in with a set of the infamous Bloods "super gang", which has been engaged in a bloody war with the rival Crips for decades.
He took up drug dealing as a way to make quick cash and assumed the gang name "Miller Gunz". His transformation into a street gangster was now complete.
He claims to have shot people and was badly wounded himself - bearing healed bullet wounds to prove it.
He was arrested in Manhattan for drug dealing and burglary - crimes which landed him in the infamous Riker's Island prison.
The US authorities soon discovered his British citizenship and wasted no time in deporting him, to a country he hardly knows, on his release.
His plane touched down at Gatwick airport last Thursday and he is now trying to come to terms with his new life in Homerton.
He wants to talk to Hackney youngsters in their schools and on the streets - to reach them with his music and story and steer them away from guns and knives.
"Crime doesn't pay and you'll end up in jail or dead," he says. "My plan is not to come here and sell drugs, but come here and make stuff happen."
"This black-on-black crime, young men stabbing and shooting each other. needs to stop," he added.
Hackney Gazette, London, 15th February 2006
Cardinal sin
A CONVICTED US gang member was allowed into a school to lecture pupils weeks before he was jailed again.
Alexander Baker, also known by his street name, "Miller Gunz", spoke to teenagers at Cardinal Pole secondary school in Homerton about steering clear of crime.
But soon after the talk last summer, he was sent to Brixton prison amid allegations that he had become a "Fagin" character.
Police believed he was using teenagers to commit street robberies for him. He later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of handling stolen goods.
Baker, 33, had been deported from America last April after serving a sentence for drug dealing and burglary at the infamous Rikers Island prison.
A Hackney police source said: "It's ridiculous that this person was allowed to work with children given the reason he was ejected from the United States.
Baker was born in Hackney and moved to the notorious Bronx ghetto in New York as a boy in the early 1980s. He joined the infamous thousands-strong Bloods "super-gang" and took up drug dealing as a way to make quick cash.
The US authorities discovered his British citizenship and deported him to the UK, a country he hardly knew, on his release from jail.
He claimed to have turned over a new leaf and offered himself to schools as a mentor who could tell pupils that the gangster lifestyle did not pay.
However, he pleaded guilty to handling stolen goods at Southwark Crown Court last November. He was released for time served on remand.
