La Raia Gang members in a firefight.
The La Raia Gang is a gang that is based in Weehawken, New Jersey. It is led by Philip La Raia, who along with John Shapiro and Gentile Scarelli, is involved in various drive-by shootings across New Jersey and turf warfare with other gangs.
History[]
Philip La Raia (born 1969) is a gangster who is in charge of a gang of various New Jersey gangsters who are responsible for the various shootings in Weehawken, where their main base of operations is. La Raia was arrested in 2008 for mass murder, but escaped from prison and continued criminal activities. The gang gets involved in turf warfare along the New Jersey Waterfront with Marcus Cole's Gang.