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A recurring topic of debate is the deployment of turtle ships — stout armored vessels with cannons on all sides and a dragonhead battering ram.

Authorities have said Chow is the dragonhead of a Chinese fraternal organization that has a criminal component.

During the time that Shrimp Boy was dragonhead, the affidavit also indicates, tong members sold drugs, contraband and illegal firearms; distributed drugs; and laundered money.

Chow is the so-called dragonhead of a Chinatown fraternal organization and previously served time in federal prison on an organized crime conviction.

A bronze dragonhead, neatly decapitated, wobbled across the floor.