A red New York Yankees baseball cap, seized from a Blood gang member in Edgewood, sits perched atop a computer hard drive in the field office of the Harford County Sheriff?s Office in Meadowood.

Police said the cap is paraphernalia that gang members use to show their affiliation. But the manufacturer of the cap, New Era Cap Co., insists the hat is just another “innocuous” product that has been twisted to serve those who would commit crime.