If your interest is in DC crime in the late 80s and parts of the 90s, I have some anecdotal information based on personal experience. Getting a fake ID and using it to commit any number of crimes with the correct amount of cash has never been a problem in this country. About half of the guns recovered in DC during that time frame came from VA and MD. Most people living in one of the three jurisdictions had family living in the other two jurisdictions. Baltimore is just 40 minutes up the road from DC and Richmond is 90 miles south. Moving anything smaller than a tank into or out of DC is not much of a problem.

Some interesting reading on the subject.

http://wamu.org/crack_the_drug_that_...ations_capital

http://www.washingtonpost.com/invest...057_story.html