Spokane police officers responded around 3 a.m. to 616 S. Helena St. and found two victims with life-threatening stab wounds. The two men, one in his 20s and another in his 40s, may be related, police said. The victims, who were not identified, were taken to a local hospital where they were in stable condition Saturday afternoon.An initial investigation revealed that the incident may be gang-related. The investigation is ongoi...
Robert Zavala Carrillo and Mark Gil were arrested in a parking lot on Wednesday evening. Carrillo and Gil are two of 20 people charged in three federal complaints that were unsealed earlier Wednesday. Investigators say Carrillo is the leader of East Side Riva, one of two violent criminal street gangs that were engaged in what authorities called a deadly race war. The East Side Riva is allegedly controlled by the Mexican Mafia and targeted another...
people with alleged ties to two rival street gangs engaged in a bloody years-long war in Riverside were arrested today in an operation aimed at taking down the gangs' leadership."Operation Promise," a coordinated federal, state and local law enforcement sweep, targeted the Eastside Riva and the 1200 Blocc Crips, leading to the arrests of 50 people, the seizure of 28 guns and two pet rattlesnakes, authorities said."This unprecedented operation is...
Gang member and an innocent bystander shot in El Monte were hospitalized today and expected to survive, a police lieutenant said today.The shooting occurred around 6:45 p.m. Sunday at Cogswell Road and Elliot Avenue, said El Monte police Lt. Ken Alva.One of the victims, a known gang member, was shot in the back and was believed to be the intended target, Alva said.The other victim was shot in the leg and was believed to be an innocent bystander.Both...
leader of a Westside gang has an elaborate tattoo of a uniformed police officer being murdered inked across his back. It depicts the officer falling backward while one man stomps on him from above and another fires at him with a gun. A masked face pointing a shotgun is below the officer, and "187 SBPD" is scrawled across Charles Owens Jr.'s shoulderblades. The tattoo became a point of interest Monday in the criminal trial of Terrell Markham, an 18-year-old...
Smith, an alleged gang member with a record of drug arrests, glanced down the street at a marked police car handling the earlier shooting, according to police. Then he is alleged to have sworn at the officers, pulled a gun from underneath his jersey and placed it against Collier's head. Chatman said he immediately reached across his partner's chest and fired two shots at Smith.Smith disputes this account, saying that when he approached the van he...
For the last three years, no homicides have occurred in a remarkable patch of South Los Angeles. Measuring a mile wide from Hoover Street to Halldale Avenue and stretching from 73rd to 85th Street, it is an island encircled by the harsh realities of life in the urban core: One cannot walk a block outside its borders without coming across the site of a killing from the last three years.The odd calm of the area is more striking when compared with a...
Two suspected gang members were in custody and a third was being sought by Santa Rosa police early Monday following a fight between feuding gangs in Rincon Valley late Sunday night.Numerous callers reported a fight on Charmian Drive at about 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Witnesses said they saw a traffic collision followed by several males outside of the two cars and a fight.Officers determined the fight on Charmian between the two gangs had started with an...
The shooting occurred shortly after midnight on Jan. 24, in the 1600 block of West 60th Place. Detectives say a man later identified as Dontae Cotton, had just returned home and was walking from his parked vehicle toward his home. A suspicious vehicle stopped in the street; a gunman emerged, confronted Cotton and shot him several times. Mr. Cotton was hit and collapsed on the side of his residence. Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics rushed...
20-year-old is a member of the Benkard Barrio Kings street gang, according to a source familiar with the incident. The attackers are believed to belong to the rival La Eme. Police Lt. Charles Broe would confirm only that police suspect the attack may be gang-related.Police have also described the stabbing death of Levi King Flores as possibly gang-related. The 17-year-old died Jan. 13 after an afternoon street fight. A 13-year-old faces a manslaughter...
"He was a very violent, unpredictable individual with animal cunning.Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll was one of Scotland's top 15 police targets, The Daniel clan enforcer, who was assassinated in an Asda car park, featured prominently in a mapping exercise designed to establish the true scale...
22-year-old Danish man, suspected of mowing down a prominent member of the AK81 motorcycle gang with his vehicle last year, has been arrested in Egypt.Egyptian police received tips about the man from Copenhagen Police and following the arrest, Danish officers have gone to Egypt to retrieve the suspect. The police say the young man is a member of one of the city’s immigrant gangs, who have been battling the motorcycle gangs for control of the city’s...
Reputed capo Dino (Big Dino) Calabro is alleged to be one of the shooters who gunned down the off-duty housing cop outside his Sheepshead Bay home in 1997.Feds have cut a deal with a Colombo hit man accused of murdering NYPD cop Ralph Dols because he married another gangster's ex-wife.FBI...
Jaime Ayala, 18, pleaded guilty to gang participation as a member of the 18th Street Gang and assault and battery by a mob for the Feb. 28 fight. That night several people jumped out of a white van and assaulted another group at a party at the community center. That white van was...
Former gang member Lim Eng Soon, known as Black Panther in gangster circles, subsequently died of his injuries on Monday afternoon, almost 12 hours after the vicious attack.His wife, who wanted to be known only as Madam Lim, sustained cuts to her arm and chest. The 46-year-old declined to give their occupations, but it is believed Mr Lim was a cleaner.She said that on Sunday night, her husband, who is in his late thirties, headed out to meet a 'brother'...
16-year-old gang member has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his part in beating and stabbing another teen to death in Sultan.Jaime Santana pleaded guilty in November to second-degree murder and was sentenced Monday in Everett.Three other people have pleaded guilty and received sentences of 10 to 15 years. One more defendant awaits trial for the June attack on 17-year-old Antonio Marks of Marysville near the Sultan City Hall.The Daily Herald...
Hector Portillo, a member of the international MS-13 street gang, was sentenced to 38 years’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Sterling Johnson at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn. Portillo previously pleaded guilty to racketeering, including predicate acts of murder and attempted murder. After serving the term of incarceration, Portillo is subject to deportation to El Salvador.The sentencing was announced by Benton J. Campbell, United...
looking for “Black Pat” police raided his house in the Hill neighborhood in late August and found a stash of drugs, cash and gang recruitment pamphlets.Most troubling to police was the trove of materials glorifying the culture of the organization known as the “Grape Street Crips.” The Grape Street Crips — a copycat of a violent Los Angeles gang of the same name — had been confined to the Hill neighborhood about six blocks south of Yale’s Medical...
Harjinder Singh Sandhu, 28, and Puneet Singh Chhina, 26, were killed here last May and their bodies were found in the trunk of their car in Pickering city near Toronto. man has been arrested on charges of killing two Sikh men of the Toronto area last year.Police said Friday that they have arrested John Le, 38, of Durham on the outskirts of Toronto for allegedly killing the two men. He faces charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping, forcible confinement...
RCMP have accused a Vernon, B.C., lawyer of being involved with organized crime. Authorities arrested the lawyer Friday morning and charged him with participation in activities of a criminal organization. They say the lawyer was involved with "The Greeks," an Okanagan-based group that has five members in custody on three homicide charges. The Greeks are known to have dealings with the Calgary chapter of the Hells Angels and a Kelowna chapter of the...
RCMP have accused a Vernon, B.C., lawyer of being involved with organized crime. Authorities arrested the lawyer Friday morning and charged him with participation in activities of a criminal organization. They say the lawyer was involved with "The Greeks," an Okanagan-based group that has five members in custody on three homicide charges. The Greeks are known to have dealings with the Calgary chapter of the Hells Angels and a Kelowna chapter of the...
23 inmates have been killed after a fight at a jail in Durango, northern Mexico, officials say.Police believe the inmates were members of rival drugs gangs, Reuters news agency reported.But prison spokeswoman Carla Puente was quoted by the Associated Press as saying she did not know the cause of the fighting.Thousands of people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico over the past few years.“There are 23 dead, all inmates,” Durango army...
convicted a gang member of holding the victim of a robbery upside and slitting his throat during a home invasion robbery.The victim survived to testify against Shawn Richard Monro, who turns 28 Friday. He will be sentenced Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 9 a.m.The trial took more than two weeks. The jury convicted the defendant of 18 felony counts including:The charges stem from a series of robberies and the attempted aggravated murder of a Eugene man during...
Brothers Austin Cochran, 18, and Dylan Cochran, 17, both of Spartanburg, are members of the Gangster Disciple gang. Investigators said the brothers and a third boy, not named because he is a juvenile, began threatening the boy who wanted to get out of the gang on New Year's EvJennifer...
In exchange for the plea, several charges were dropped, including attempted homicide, recklessly endangering another person, carrying a firearm without a permit and tampering with evidence. According to court documents:Martin shot at Shekir Thomas and Sharnell Thomas multiple times near the intersection of N. Sixth and Liberty streets in Allentown around 11:20 p.m. Nov. 6, 2006.Witnesses said Martin fled the scene and gave police a license plate...
charged with three felonies in connection with the shooting death of a teen on Myrtle Avenue. John Saway, 25, and Santa Ana resident Sarith Yin, 22, on Tuesday joined four others facing similar charges.Juan Carlos Rodriguez, 16, was shot in the upper back early Jan. 10 during a party at an apartment on Myrtle Avenue in Tustin. Friends pulled him into the apartment, where police found him dead two hours later.Saway and Yin are charged with murder,...
Police in Italy say they have arrested a man linked to a car packed with explosives found near the site of an anti-mafia summit meeting.The discovery of the vehicle near a Calabrian airport follows a bomb attack earlier this month on the town of Reggio Calabria's main courthouse, Italy's ANSA news agency reported Friday.A government spokesman said the car contained primed bombs, a liter of diesel fuel, two handguns, two rifles, three ski masks and...
16-year-old Visalia boy was arrested Thursday in connection with the attempted murder of a Tulare boy shot Saturday while playing football in Visalia’s Mill Creek Park.Investigators learned the identity of the suspect several days ago and had been searching for the youth since then, according to a police spokesman.He is a suspected gang member and the shooting appears to have been gang-related, the spokesman said.The suspect was taken into custody...
Michael Sammon, 49, was the head of a gang which converted hundreds of cheap flare guns into deadly weapons at an engineering factory in Ancoats, Manchester, before selling them on at a vast profit. He had "grandiose" plans to set up another factory in Spain.Many of the altered firearms...
40 to 50 members of the African Mafia street gang.It's being submitted as evidence at a sentencing for Thon Guot and Mayen Madit.The two are high-ranking gang members who were convicted of trafficking cocaine.The Free Press reported this August both were accused of legally delaying their sentencing hearings to draw out their time on Canadian soil.Both will be deported back to Africa once their sentences expire.Though the African Mafia is not as organized...
list of Jamaicas 12 most wanted men, who are said to be armed and dangerous,bounty of $1 million on each for members of the public, who can provide information leading to their arrests. ■24-year old Eldon Calvert of no fixed address, who is wanted on several counts of murder and shootings committed in 2005 and 2006. He frequents a number of communities in St. James among them Salt Spring, Glendevon, Norwood, Flankers, Lilliput.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------■Cedric...
Charged with murder in the June 2009 stabbing death of 19-year-old Joshua Moore is a “confirmed” Bloods gang member, according to court records based on information supplied from Cumberland County Jail.Marvin German Jr., 19, of Coral Avenue in Bridgeton, was indicted for first-degree murder.He was also indicted for third-degree aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, third-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and third-degree unlawful...
Shots rang out in North Portland Sunday afternoon.Portland Police Bureau responded to the scene of a reported shooting at McCuller Apartments, 236 N. Killingsworth St., around 3:40 p.m.The bureau has now released a press release on the incident. It reports that officers arrived and "determined that no one had been injured," according to the Portland Police Bureau press release.However, Gang Enforcement Officers also were called and have begun their...
Atlanta police said Sunday that a violent street gang took a major blow after nine of their members were arrested. The arrests happened after smash-and-grab burglaries targeting two Atlanta businesses Sunday morning.Police said they arrested nine of the gang's members. Investigators said the suspects can be seen on surveillance video breaking into one of the store's around 3:00 a.m. Sunday."The gang, 30 Deep, we believe is a fairly significant blow...
“I’ve had gang members from rich families, grew up in a $400,000 home and both parents were at home,” he says, noting that many parents are shocked to learn that their children are heavily involved with criminal gangs. “It comes down to parents being parents … and that’s not just...
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Three members of a violent street gang have been sentenced to prison for drug and gun offenses as part of a federal crackdown on gang violence. Federal prosecutors identified the men as members of the East Union Street Hustlers, which is affiliated with a larger gang called the ,Black Gangster Disciples according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.Sentenced Friday were:Thomas Callandret, 23, of Seattle, to three years in prison for possession of crack...
Raymond Anderson yesterday denied he was behind the death of Kevin "The Gerbil" Carroll and, in a jail interview, Anderson, 47, pointed the finger at the Lyons underworld clan.He said Carroll - an enforcer for the rival Daniel family - was gunned down in revenge for a bungled hit...
Julio Amezcua Cabrera, 26, is accused of gang-motivated attempted murder for the 7:30 p.m. shooting just outside Watsonville city limits near Holohan Road. His bail is $750,000.No one was shot that evening, but a stray bullet whizzed through the window of a passing car, deputies said. The intended target was a 28-year-old Watsonville man with a history of gang affiliation, prosecutor Charlie Baum said.Cabrera's brother, 34-year-old Evaristo Amezcua...
New Jersey member of the Nine Trey Gangsters set of the Bloods street gang has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in a drug distribution ring.Oscar Randall of Lower Township was sentenced Thursday in state Superior Court in Trenton. He pleaded guilty in September to first-degree racketeering.Also sentenced Thursday was Stanley Foote of Newark. He pleaded guilty in September to conspiracy to distribute narcotics, admitting he sold drugs...
Convicted Rene Salazar, 20, on all three counts of an indictment charging various offenses related to a drive by shooting in June 2009, in which he shot at four law enforcement officers, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. This afternoon, the jury found Salazar guilty of two counts of assault on a federal officer and one count of possession of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. Salazar...
Sean Rayfield, Robert Hood, Daniel Rocha and Joseph Lavoie, all 18, as well as Christopher Lavoie, 20, were taken into custody Jan.6 after being identified by one of the victims and witnesses of the assualt. San Gorgonio Special Operations Gang Task Force members identified the subjects as known Eastside Banning Sapos gang members. A sixth person, Sonia Cuevas, was also detained by police.On Wednesday, Jan. 6 at about 11:30 p.m. Banning police officers...
Police are continuing to investigate the murder of Kevin Carroll, who was gunned down in the car park of the Asda store in the Robroyston area of Glasgow. The 29-year-old died at the scene after being shot five times while sitting in his black AudiThree masked men fled the scene in a black or dark coloured car at around 1:25pm on Wednesday. Nicknamed "Gerbil", Mr Carroll was associated with the city's Daniels crime family, and had survived two previous...
Prosecutors said Wednesday that two San Bernardino gang officers were just doing their job when they stopped to talk to two men standing outside a liquor store in a gang injunction area two years ago. One of the men in front of Westside Food and Liquor put his hands in the air. But Terrell Markham, just 16 years old and wearing a big puffy jacket, started to back-peddle and took off running. Officer Adam Affrunti chased and eventually shot Markham...
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