A man previously served with a gang injunction has been booked on three counts of attempted murder in connection with a shooting earlier this month that left two men injured and the dog they were walking dead.According to the Riverside Police Department, three men were walking the dog on Chicago Avenue near Seventh Street at 10 p.m. Jan. 13 when a vehicle approached them from behind and someone started shooting; two of the three were hit.Investigators...
Police early Saturday morning captured Ernest “Bama” Edwards, who was wanted for allegedly pulling a gun and threatening to shoot another man in Monticello this past Tuesday.Officers descended on the Cinco Estrella Club, formerly the Anson House, on East Broadway in Monticello in search of Edwards.Sheriff’s Deputies, Monticello Police, and State Troopers were acting on a tip that the reputed Bloods gang member was at that location. When police arrived...
Under a plea agreement, David W. Dennis Jr., 23, of Disputanta faces six to 10 years in prison for his role in robbing Petersburg residents with a sawed-off shotgun last March as a member of the G-Shyne gang.Prince George County man who robbed or attempted to rob four people in four days as part of his initiation into a Bloods-affiliated gang in Petersburg pleaded guilty yesterday to seven felonies, including criminal gang participation.Petersburg...
Raul Cortez, convicted this week of capital murder was a member of a violent street gang while growing up in Chicago, witnesses told a Collin County jury Friday. The testimony came during the punishment phase in the trial of Raul Cortez, who was found guilty Thursday of killing four people inside a home here during a botched robbery plot. The same jury must decide whether Cortez should die for the crime or be sentenced to life in prison with the...
leader of the Nine Trey Gangsters set of the Bloods street gang has been sentenced to 70 years in state prison. Under the sentence imposed Friday, 26-year-old Michael Smart of Irvington, a reputed "Universal 4-Star General" in Nine Trey, must serve more than 46 years before becoming eligible for parole. A Mercer County jury convicted Smart last week on charges of racketeering, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, conspiracy and weapons...
The arrests this week of 30-plus alleged gang members — all of whom authorities accuse of conspiring to deal crack cocaine"Because of the ties to the firearms, to the drugs," Ferrell said, "you're going to see a reduction in gang violence and violence as a whole."I think it's going to impact the neighborhoods where these individuals were living, but also impact the entire city."The FBI on Wednesday announced the arrests of 16 people accused of crack...
Sixteen members of the Cut Throats gang face federal drug and conspiracy charges in a case that began after several drive-by shootings in Columbia and Jefferson City.Federal prosecutors and Columbia police announced the charges in a 34-count grand jury indictment Thursday. Fourteen of the 16 defendants are from Columbia, and the other two are from Fayette and Kansas City.Each defendant faces drug conspiracy charges for allegedly distributing powder...
More than a dozen people with alleged ties to a notorious white supremacist street gang are facing numerous gun and drug-related charges after a year-long joint investigation by Mounties and Edmonton police.And more people with the White Boy Posse will face charges once the investigation...
Jessee Thomas, 22, and Ernst Exavier, 25, were convicted by a jury in December on criminal racketeering charges brought by Attorney General Bill McCollum's office as part of a regional law enforcement effort last year to crack down on gangs. Thomas also was convicted of conspiracy...
Investigators on Wednesday morning arrested three suspected members of an alleged violent motorcycle gang, "The Renegades."Sgt. Danny Buie with Suffolk Police said his department, working with investigators in Chesapeake and North Carolina, discovered the motorcyle gang while investigating the alleged mob beating of a tattoo artist in Suffolk."It was an educational experience for me today," said Sgt. Buie.Sgt. Danny Buie said investigators with local,...
Stein Bagger’s former bodyguard, prominent Hells Angels member Brian Sandberg, narrowly escaped with his life yesterday when he was shot at close range Danish television and radio personality Mads Vangsø put it best when he asked the government if residents of Copenhagen now need to buy bulletproof vests for their children, in a full page advertisement in national tabloid Ekstra Bladet.His call for the government to take action came after the midday...
Mexican prosecutors said Thursday that the Gulf drug cartel and its Zeta hit men are the most violent of Mexico's gangs and account for the highest number of weapons seized.The Attorney General's Office says the two related gangs have "the biggest presence and activity in crime and violence."Together, they accounted for a majority of the 31,512 weapons seized by law enforcement officials since December 2005. Those arms include anti-tank weapons,...
Long Beach gang member who killed three people during a shooting spree has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. Reuel Dishon Hulbert, who was spared the death penalty by a jury, was sentenced Thursday by Superior Court Judge James Pierce, who called the killings assassinations of rival gang members. The 28-year-old Hulbert is a black member of one of the oldest Asian gangs in Long Beach. Hulbert was convicted on Dec. 10...
Vivian Blake, the reputed leader of the notorious Shower Posse gang is now in Jamaica. Mr. Blake arrived in the country on a special US martial flight at 1.30 p.m. He has been processed at Kingston Central police station and released. Shower Posse is a criminal organisation, which started in Tivoli Gardens, Kingston before establishing bases in several US, Canadian and British citi...
Washington-area gang leader has been charged for his alleged role in the October shooting of two men in Reston, federal court documents said.Dennis L. Gil Bernardez, aka “Dopre” and “Pando,” was charged Friday with committing a violent crime in aid of racketeering after being identified by one of the Reston victims from a photo array, according to documents filed in Alexandria’s U.S. District Court.Bernardez runs the MS-13 group Normandie Locos Salvatrucha,...
"Suspects drove by him, confronted him and asked him if he was banging, 'Do you bang?' is what they stated," said Officer Travis Shephard, Grandview Police Department.The suspects showed their guns and as the victim ran for his life, they shot him with a shotgun and a pistol. He was taken to Sunnyside Hospital for a bullet wound to the buttocks and shotgun spray to the arm. Neighbors said drive-by shootings happen all to often on Avenue E. "No this...
Danny Hockenhull, aged 24 and Curtis Goring, 27, are accused of stabbing Brett Blake in the Uniq nightclub on Carver Street, in June, after going to the venue armed.Hockenhull, of Hawkshead Road, Grimesthorpe, Sheffield, is alleged to have stabbed Mr Blake in the neck before Goring, of Rolleston Road, Firth Park, Sheffield, stabbed him in his stomach.They both deny murder and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place. Goring also denies affray...
Last night, a passenger in a car driving in the area of 144th St. and 90th Ave. was shot at least once in the side when a masked man opened fire on the vehicle. RCMP in Surrey are investigating what they believe is a targeted shooting -- the second in less than 24 hours.Surrey RCMP...
Eddie Perez, a one-time gang leader who turned his life around to become Hartford's most powerful mayor, surrendered to police Tuesday to face a bribery charge for having a city contractor renovate his home and not paying for it until after being confronted by investigato...
Anthony Perry, 22, a reputed gang member was fatally shot at a busy shopping district in Jamaica Plain, passersbys watched in horror as an MBTA Transit police officer tried to save the Perry. Perry was shot in the head, and was taken to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he later di...
Monticello police are again searching for Earnest “Bama” Edwards, 26, a high-ranking operative of the Bloods street gang. notorious street gangster is wanted on a felony warrant after he brandished a gun at a longtime adversary, sparking a melee at a village gas station, police said.On Tuesday, about 6:30 p.m., Edwards encountered a longtime foe on Broadway, police said. The two men jawed at each other and went separate ways. Minutes later, Edwards...
Gangs apparently targeting people who exchange money at Mexico City's international airport shot a French citizen in the head on Tuesday, and authorities warned that gangs have put lookouts at exchange windows in the terminal.The 55 year-old French biotechnology researcher, who works at a Mexican university, was attacked and robbed of euro4,800 ($6,336) on a street near the airport, assistant city prosecutor Luis Vasquez and police said. He is in...
Gangster Jonathan Bacon delivered 114 sticks of stolen dynamite, a grenade, seven handguns, two shotguns, a rifle and an Uzi submachinegun to police as part of a plea bargain for an associate, according to court documents obtained by The Vancouver Sun.The eldest of the trio of brothers...
Sam Fasulo, 37, died Sunday after being shot several times while he was driving in a sports utility vehicle in Montreal North on Friday afternoon. No arrests have been made in the shooting and investigators are trying to track down a pale coloured sports utility vehicle that is believed to have been used in the homicide. Several shots were fired into Fasulo’s Jeep. Montreal police Constable Laurent Gingras said investigators have little in terms...
Martin Herrera, of Fountain Valley, was critically injured when shots rang out shortly after 4 p.m. Friday in the 600 block of N. Bristol Street. Herrera died the next day as a result of his injuries at UCI Medical Center in Orange, said Santa Ana police Cmdr. Tammy Franks.David Frias, 18, of Fountain Valley remains hospitalized in serious but stable condition, Franks said. Gang detectives arrested Hector Martinez, 23, on Sunday in Corona where he...
Esteban Manuel Saidi died Wednesday night at Intermountain Medical Center of a gunshot wound to the abdomen, Salt Lake County sheriff's deputies said. Two of the Saidi's classmates, also 16, were booked into juvenile detention. The suspected shooter, a sophomore, and his accomplice...
Salinas police arrested a 37-year-old suspected gang member and convicted felon of being in possession of a firearm Friday morning, according to authorities.Officers served a search warrant in the 200 block of Winham Street around 8 a.m. and located a Smith and Wesson .45 revolver, a 30/30 Winchester rifle and gang-related items, police said.Anthony Sandoval was arrested and booked into county jail for being a suspected gang member in possession...
Arrested Victor Rios on suspicion of being in the country illegally while possessing a firearm and box of ammunition during a search warrant. Rios is suspected of belonging to the Monos Criminal Street g...
officers arrested Alfredo Jose Rodriguez on suspicion of being in the country illegally while possessing a firearm. Rodriguez is suspected of belonging to the Westside La Habra Compo ga...
19-year-old Maurice Bowser, an alleged member of the Bloods gang, was charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Shots were fired into a passing car, and a man thought to be a member of the Crips gang was hit in the leg.Six people standing on the street nearby and alleged to be inciting the shootings were charged with solicitation to commit a felony, said Elizabeth City police Sgt. Gary Bray.The charges carry penalties...
Paris DiMarco Moffett, 30, was arrested in 2007 after a raid at the south Novato apartment he shared with his girlfriend, Delicia Mitchell. Authorities found a large stash of narcotics and a handgun in the apartment, arrested both Moffett and Mitchell, and seized four children in the home, including twin infants.Authorities said Moffett was a member of the Eddy Rock gang, one of several street gangs accused of terrorizing the Western Addition neighborhood...
Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is asking for the public's help in locatingVARGAS is alleged to be a member of the Spanish Cobras street gang and is believed responsible for overseeing the distribution of crack cocaine at various locations throughout the City of Chicago. VARGAS was among 30 suspected gang members and associates who were charged in October of 2008 as the result...
Eugenio Montoya Sanchez, 38, the brother of alleged North Valley mastermind Diego Montoya Sanchez, faces between 10 and 30 years in prison when he is sentenced April 3.The maximum life sentence is prohibited under Colombia's extradition agreement with the U.S.Prosecutors say the Montoyas oversaw a drug empire that smuggled cocaine worth some $10 billion to the U.S. beginning in the early 1990s.Eugenio Montoya admitted in court Friday that he handled...
Edwardo Nino Alfaro, 26, identified as a leader of the East Side Loco street gang, was prosecuted under Idaho’s Criminal Gang Enforcement Act, which enhanced penalties for gang-related crime.Alfaro is already serving a 26-year sentence in Idaho prison in connection with a 2007 drive-by shooting in Caldwell. He will be eligible for parole in 2014, but will need to begin serving his 150-month federal sentence as soon as he is released from state prison,...
One man has been jailed and two other suspects identified in the gang-related stabbing of an Antioch man whose injuries have left him in a coma, police said.Police arrested Nicholas Van Camp, 31, of Antioch, downtown about midnight today after public tips led investigators to identify...
Shotgun stolen in Dundalk over a year ago was found by Gardai in north Dublin after a suspected gangland hit was foiled.Uniformed gardai were on patrol in the Dunsoghly area of Finglas on Thursday night last when they noticed a car being driven in a suspicious manner.As Gardai pursued the vehicle, one of the two occupants threw an object over a wall and into the garden of a house.After a search of the garden, gardai recovered a loaded pump-action...
Edgar Diaz, 23, was a member of the Down Below Gang, which operated in the Sunnydale housing project in the Visitacion Valley district of San Francisco. Prosecutors said the gang sold crack cocaine and other drugs and protected its turf with violence and murder.Diaz pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco in November to participating in a racketeering conspiracy that included three murders and several attempted murders...
Tango Blast Houstone.The men not yet arrested but also indicted in the case are: Ronnie Elmer Jackson, 36, of Navasota; Raul Sergio Madrigal, 29, of League City; Mario Alberto Gonzalez, 34, of Houston; and Juan Mario Rangel, 28, of Houston.If found guilty of conspiracy to distribute...
Federal court jury found 29-year old Anthony Washington, a Rollin' 30s Harlem Crips gang member guilty of three charges. The relatively quick three day trial concluded on Friday.Washington was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of crack cocaine with the intent to distribute, and illegal possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.Los Angeles Police Department Officers arrested Washington in January...
Daniel Uruiza and Guillermo Garcia, both 16, and Raymond Sullivan, 17, are scheduled to be arraigned Jan. 27 on charges of murder and intent to promote a criminal street gang in San Bernardino Superior Court.The Three teenagers were ordered held over for trial Tuesday in last year's deadly stabbing of 16-year-old Robert Banuelos near Arroyo Valley High School. After listening to testimony from law-enforcement witnesses, Judge Kyle Brodie determined...
Abbotsford Police got reports of shots fired just previous to 4 p.m. at the Abbotsford Village Shopping Centre and a black Ford 150 truck fleeing the scene.James Bacon narrowly escaped with his life after gunfire erupted at a shopping mall in Abbotsford this afternoon. Moments later, a black Mercedes SL500 heading west on South Fraser Way a block or so from the mall careened down an embankment and slammed into the stone stairway of the Abbotsford...
Edgar Diaz, 23, originally faced a possible death sentence but reached agreement with federal prosecutors on a prison term in November, when he pleaded guilty to taking part in a racketeering conspiracy. The charge included distribution of crack cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana, a number of attempted murders, and the murders of Beverly Robinson in April 2004 and Kenya Taylor and Antoine Morgan in June 2004.member of the Down Below Gang in San Francisco...
Police in Manchester are investigating a shooting at a popular restaurant.Police said no one was injured when several shots were fired into a hallway at Rocco's Bar and Grille at about 9:30 p.m. Monday.The circumstances of the shooting are under investigati...
Three alleged members of a street gang involved in a bloody battle with a rival gang have been denied bail.Court of Queen's Bench Associate Chief Justice Neil Wittmann detained Chantha Kim and brothers Marcel and Daniel Landry following a lengthy bail hearing on Monday.Crown prosecutor Shane Parker argued for the trio's detention. Lawyer David Chow, who represents the Landrys, and Steve Virk, who represents Kim, sought their clients' release.Details...
Gov. Mike Beebe announced Friday his intention to grant pardons to nine Arkansans, including a man who claimed to have founded Little Rock’s “Original Gangster Crips” in the early 1990s and spent nearly 10 years in prison on drug convictions.Leifel Jackson, 47, known as “O.G.” during his criminal days, said that during his time in prison, he learned to read and began thinking about the damage his drug dealing had caused.After his release in 2001,...
Arrested is Trever J. Trammell, 18, on federal charges of using a firearm in a violent crime and violating the Hobbs Act, related to interstate commerce.Trammell, who Dayton police say is a member of the Dayton View Hustlers, is one of three men connected to the slaying. Two others are in custody and await formal charges.The slaying of Ouqessou, 33, shot during an attempted robbery Aug. 12, prompted an outpouring of community grief. A Moroccan immigrant...
Unnamed person was last night seriously ill in hospital after being shot in the head in Edinburgh.The 26-year-old was found unconscious yesterday morning on the south side of the city, close to an area used by one of two warring drugs gangs.Police said the man had undergone emergency treatment for a gunshot wound to the head and was in a stable but serious condition in hospital.The man was discovered by a passer-by at 6am yesterday in Hazelwood Grove,...
Three Canoga Park gang members have been charged in what police describe as the racially motivated murder of a black bowling alley worker in December in Canoga Park.James Shamp, a 48-year-old father of two, was throwing out the trash outside the Canoga Bowl when a car loaded with gang members pulled up next to him, authorities said. One of the men pulled out a gun and fatally shot Shamp in the chest, said homicide Det. David Peteque of the Los Angeles...
10 members and associates of the Florencia 13 street gang were convicted Monday of a host of federal charges, including racketeering, drug trafficking and attempted murder.The verdicts followed a 3 1/2 -month trial in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana in which prosecutors told jurors of a widespread criminal enterprise directed by Mexican Mafia members, both on the street and in prison.The gang controlled drug distribution in unincorporated areas...
Sentenced Danny Mitchell, 31, of 50th and Peoria streets in the Englewood neighborhood to 27 years in federal prison and 10 years of supervised release, according to a release from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.Mitchell pleaded guilty on July 3, 2008, to conspiracy to distribute 3,600 grams of heroin and 300 grams of crack cocaine, and possession of firearms as a convicted felon, the release said.Between January 2004 and...
Five Black Power gang members accused of murder will stay behind bars because of fears of witness intimidation.Peri Niwa, 31, a scaffolder, was stabbed to death on November 16 in the New Plymouth suburb of Moturoa.The five have been in custody since being arrested in December.In the New Plymouth District Court yesterday, Judge Allan Roberts declined Adrian Fenton and Rangi Rick Brown release on 24-hour electronic bail, saying the risks to witnesses...
Pablo Alejandro Guzman pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter in the Cruz case, and two counts of attempted assault in the later robbery.Pablo Alejandro Guzman was arrested Oct. 2, 2007, after the May 20 stabbing death of Constantino Cruz. Casimiro Blancas, whom Cruz had previously beaten in a fistfight, was tried and convicted of Cruz' murder in a May 2008 trial by a Washington County jury. Washington County Circuit Judge Marco A. Hernandez...
Anthony Dwain Bell was booked into jail at 3:14 a.m. today, accused of attempted aggravated murder, two counts of attempted murder and felon in possession of a firearm. Police say Bell is the stepbrother of Darius Perry, an 18-year-old fatally shot in Gresham New Year's Eve in a...
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