cocaine-trafficking Seven Deuce Mob had been operating in Pierce County for several years. Tacoma police first noticed the gang in 1999 after a 23-year-old member of the gang was killed in an East Side Tacoma apartment.After a nine-month investigation by the task force, 10 people associated with the gang were prosecuted in federal court in 2004 for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, distribution of cocaine and possession of cocaine with the...
judge ruled Friday there was enough evidence to try three people for the Aug. 10, 2007 fatal shooting of a grandmother who tried to stop one of them from tagging a wall.The preliminary hearing for Jennifer Tafolla, 22, Richard Rolon, 23, and Cesar Lopez, 22, ended Friday at Norwalk...
Timothy M. Schmitt, 27, links to the Chicago-based Almighty Latin Kings Nation street gang who is on parole for selling cocaine in Ottawa was picked up on a warrant Thursday in Ottawa.Ottawa police arrested Timothy M. Schmitt, 27, 819 Canal St., at his home on an Aurora police warrant...
Newport News street gang member has been sentenced to life in prison for murder.Federal prosecutors say 22-year-old Martin Manley also was sentenced to 40 years on racketeering and firearms charges Friday.Manley pleaded guilty in October racketeering conspiracy, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and using a firearm resulting in murder. The charges stem from a deadly shooting outside a Hampton club on Christmas Eve 2007.As part of his...
Newport News street gang member has been sentenced to life in prison for murder.Federal prosecutors say 22-year-old Martin Manley also was sentenced to 40 years on racketeering and firearms charges Friday.Manley pleaded guilty in October racketeering conspiracy, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and using a firearm resulting in murder. The charges stem from a deadly shooting outside a Hampton club on Christmas Eve 2007.As part of his...
Jer Kue, also known as "Bonez," was arrested about 5:45 a.m. by the Yuba-Sutter Gang Task Force on suspicion of criminal street gang participation and child endangerment, said Mike Hudson, commander of the Yuba-Sutter Narcotic Enforcement Team, or NET-5. Hmong Nation Society gang member known for the black Hummer he drives was arrested early Thursday at his home in the 1400 block of Sicard Street in Marysville, a law enforcement official said.Officers...
Luis Aguilar and Cesar De la Cruz were named in a 2007 indictment against members of Florencia 13, a gang that terrorized residents and rivals in the Florence-Firestone neighborhood in unincorporated Los Angeles County, federal prosecutors said.Aguilar and De la Cruz were drug dealers for the gang and not involved in attacks against African Americans, said Kevin Rosenberg, an assistant U.S. attorney who helped prosecute the case in Orange County.De...
leader of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN) in Texas and one of his enforcers were found guilty this afternoon on multiple charges related to their participation in a large scale narcotics and firearms trafficking conspiracy, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas. Specifically, the two men were found...
An international arrest warrant has been issued for a Colombian beauty queen and lingerie model who police believe may have run a drug trafficking operation using models and beautiful women, according to British media.According to The Telegraph, 30-year-old Angie Sanselmente Valencia...
Two men are still being sought: Phillip Turner, 21, and Teron Jenkins, no age available. Authorities believe they are still in the city. says the Brighton Place Crips and the Northview Heights/Fineview Crips joined to protect their drug selling territory, especially against a rival gang from Manchester. They engaged in robbery, attempted murder, assault and carjacking, and they kept people quiet with intimidation and threats of retaliation.The groups...
Admitted gang member was arrested Saturday afternoon after Salinas police allegedly found a loaded 9 mm semi automatic handgun hidden in the passenger compartment of the vehicle he was in during a traffic stop. Police pulled Terral Golden over for the traffic stop at about 4:50 p.m. at the intersection of North Main Street and East Bernal Drive. The 18-year-old man was driving without a license in his possession and officers allegedly saw marijuana...
Lewis D. J. Johns-Davis, 20, is charged with one count of criminal conspiracy.Pierce County Superior Court Commissioner Patrick Oishi ordered Johns-Davis jailed with bail set at $1 million. He is serving a prison sentence in another case, so he would not be released even if he could raise bail.He is one of 32 men charged last week as part of a case investigated by the South Sound Gang Task Force.Authorities say the gang is responsible for dozens...
jailing Tobias Grant for 14 years and Tacumba Wheeler for eight, Judge Trevor Faber described it as a “wicked” weapon capable of causing mayhem and death.He told the defendants: “The public in the city of Birmingham and in particular those who live in Aston, Handsworth and Lozells,...
Jesus Lechuga, 26, was indicted this week by a Kane County grand jury on two counts of first-degree murder stemming from the March 1, 2004, slaying of Jose Covarrubias in the 900 block of Chippewa Circle in Carpentersville.The 23-year-old construction worker was shot in the head...
Cory T. Campbell, 22, is charged with criminal conspiracy, drive-by shooting, two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm and three counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance. He was ordered jailed in lieu of $1 million bail.Pierce County prosecutors allege in court documents that Campbell took part in a drive-by shooting that targeted members of a rival gang in September 2009 and also sold drugs to a police informant three times in...
Arrested Monday in the Baja California port city of La Paz, according to U.S. authorities.Raydel Lopez Uriarte and Manuel Garcia Simental are believed to be top lieutenants of a gang blamed for a string of massacres, police killings, beheadings and kidnappings that has caused many residents to flee the border city arrests by Mexican federal police, coming a month after the capture of alleged cartel leader Teodoro Garcia Simental, are the latest...
John Brown was a Gangster Disciples "governor" and major Englewood cocaine supplier.And Thursday, Brown, 38, pleaded guilty to drug charges.Brown's 2007 arrest was an outgrowth of a task force created after then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama and other leaders met in 2006 about killings in the South Side Englewood neighborhood, said Tom Ahern, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.ATF agents interviewed Brown's 69-year-old...
Texas leader for the Latin King's Jose Nava, aka Chino, and gang member James Cole are the only two of seventeen gang members and associates arrested that haven't pleaded guilty to several crimes. Documents outline 11 indictments including narcotics and weapon trafficking, and capital murder charges. Nava is indicted on all 11 counts and Cole is charged with eight.During trial, jurors listened to four witnesses give detailed information on the Latin...
Federal surveillance footage captured one of the defendants, Jose Robledo Nava, among many other Latin Kings at a statewide meeting of the gang's leaders.Nava and James Johnathan Cole are charged with two counts of using a gun to commit murder during and in retaliation to a drug trafficking crime.They are also charged with conspiracy to sell at least 5 kilograms of cocaine and at least 100 kilograms of marijuana.Both men face up to life in federal...
unidentified man was taken to the hospital after what police say was a gang-related shooting in the northwest valley. It happened just before 2 Wednesday afternoon on Rainbow Boulevard near Alexander Road. Police say the victim was transported to University Medical Center, after he told officers someone shot him in the chest from a white, newer model Ford F-150 pickup with at least two people inside. Metro's gang unit is investigating the shooti...
Julian Jose Garza, 28, of Notus, Idaho, and a member of the East Side Locos gang in Caldwell, was sentenced Tuesday to 70 months in federal prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, the United States Attorney's Office announced.He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge, who also ordered Garza to serve 3 years of supervised release after he completes his prison term. He will serve his sentence in a federal prison outside of Idaho.Garza...
Spanish police have detained 54 suspected members of the Hispanic street gang Latin Kings, including its top leaders in the Madrid region, police said Wednesday. The gang had remained under the orders of the Ecuadorian founder of the Spanish branch of Latin Kings, Eric Javier Velastegui, who continued giving orders from prison, according to police.Velastegui is serving a 21-year prison sentence for a rape committed in 2003.The detainees were arrested...
Brandon R. Shell, who prosecutors say admitted to being a member of the West Seattle-based West Side Street Mobb gang, pleaded guilty in October to unlawful gun possession charges.Shell, 27, was arrested following a June 6, 2008, shooting that left one man injured in the 1900 block of East Pine Street. Shell, who has not been charged in the shooting, was stopped while riding nearby in a car that appeared to have been recently struck by a ricocheting...
Body Snatchers are the feared enforcement arm of the notorious 4 Corner Hustlers street gang. Under the leadership of Shawn "Shakey" Betts, police say, the Body Snatchers were akin to the movie Murder, Inc., responsible for dozens of West Side killings and other shootings over the past few years. However, in a criminal complaint filed recently in federal court, the gang's crack cocaine operation along Oak Park's Austin Boulevard boundary with Chicago...
Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll an enforcer for the notorious Daniel clan - was gunned down in cold blood last month.But last night a source revealed: "There is no way these debts will be allowed to die along with him."Carroll's close pal Francis 'Fraggle' Green - the son of crimelord Jamie Daniel - is believed to have issued a personal warning to the dealer. And the source told how NONE of the debts will be forgotten.He said: "A lot of people thought they'd...
Jose Garza, 28, of Notus , and a member of the East Side Locos gang in Caldwell, was sentenced Tuesday to 70 months in federal prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, the United States Attorney's Office announc...
On the night of Dec. 9, 2008, Brewer was allegedly gunning for a member or “wannabe” member of the rival “Bloods.”An errant shot fired from an elevated position above the Wal-Mart parking lot missed the intended victim and struck Sellers, an innocent bystander, in the back of the neck.Brewer’s first-degree murder trial began Monday in Hawkins County Circuit Court.Brewer’s co-defendant, Travis Lee Goins, 23, of Rogersville, is scheduled to stand trial...
shots were blasted at a flat where a known crime figure was staying.There were claims last night that the incident was a revenge attack connected to the gangland murder of Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll last month. The man is said to be linked to Glasgow's notorious Lyons clan.A broken window at the flat was one clue being probed by detectives last night - as well as witness accounts of shots being fired.Police armed response vehicles raced to the scene...
Police say the suspects opened fire on the 22-year-old man Friday night outside a restaurant on Broadway Street. The victim, whose name has not been released, was taken to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and later died.Police Chief Nick Baldiviez say two innocent bystanders — a 12-year-old boy and 14-year-old girl — also were struck by stray bullets as they walked out of a movie theater. They were treated and released from the hospital.Witnesses...
22-year-old Kevin Aaron Alvarado is wanted after a man was fatally stabbed on a Berkeley street around 7:40 p.m. Thursday. The name of the victim was not released.Berkeley police spokesman Officer Andrew Frankel says though Alvarado is believed to be a member of a gang, the stabbing is not believed to be gang-related.Investigators are asking for the public's help in trying to locate Alvarado. They believe he may try to flee the count...
Dirty Harry’s day Harry Calahan’s .44 Magnum seemed like the canon of handguns. Times have changed a lot since then. These days if you run into a Chinese gangster, they are likely packing a shotgun revolver like the one above.Homemade handgun revolvers that use standard 12 gauge...
Anthony D. Singh, 21, fired a bullet through a man’s right shoe after a confrontation in a downtown parking lot that police said stemmed from a dangerous culture of retaliation and intimidation common in gang life.A jury convicted Singh of several felonies after a trial in December...
‘King of the Hill’ found shot dead in the Cheshire mansion of a controversial businessman Arran Coghlan.Stephen ‘Aki’ Akinyemi, 44, was said to be a prominent member of the notorious Cheetham Hill gang, which is believed to be behind major crime and the supply of drugs in Manchester.He...
Julian Jose Garza, 28, of Notus was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge, the United States Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.Garza pleaded guilty to the charge in September, admitting that he had a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun during a confrontation with two men in Caldwell on May 14, 2008. Because Garza had been previously convicted of firing a gun into an occupied dwelling, he was prohibited from possessing...
gang sweep by local and federal agents in Tacoma.Twenty-nine men, suspected members of the Tacoma Hilltop Crips gang, have been arrested in a series of raid since Tuesday morning.One of the men arrested, Manuel Jose Hernandez, pleaded guilty to the Toews murder in 2000. Hernandez was 12 at the time. He was sentenced to state custody until he turned 21 in October of 2008.Since then, prosecutors say, Hernandez has been an active gang member. He was...
Sweep against the Hilltop Crips included serving a series of early-morning search warrants Tuesday. Officers arrested 11 suspected gang members without incident and confiscated guns, drugs and stolen property.Investigators were still searching for five others. The remaining 16 were already in the Pierce County Jail on other criminal charges or serving time in state prison.Prosecutors have filed 51 felony counts in the case. Charges include attempted...
Valentino Sanchez, 33, whose last known address was 8105 White Ave. in west suburban Lyons, was placed into custody at 12:15 p.m. by Chicago Police in a secure area in a lower level terminal area at O’Hare, according to police.Sanchez, an allegedly high ranking member of the Latin...
Dominique Finley, 34, was the highest-ranking member among the defendants with the lofty title “5-Star Universal Elite.” Eric Ollison, 26, who goes by the nickname “Murder,” was his second-in-command, officials say.“They didn’t get the moniker ‘Body Snatchers’ for no reason,” said...
Suspected of being members or associates of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang. The men were arrested as part of Operation Snatched, a coordinated effort by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to target street gangs running drug distribution networks in the Chicago area, Grant said.The men were charged with attempted possession or possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, the FBI said. The charges are felonies and carry...
first gangland slaying of the year had originated in their district. John Paul 'JP' Joyce, a vicious criminal and member of a heroin distribution gang, had been kidnapped in Coolock on Thursday, January 7, murdered and his body dumped near the airport where it was found two days later.Joyce, aged 30, was involved in a feud with a gang which has been establishing complete control over the drugs trade in an area stretching from the north inner city...
Ryan Daniel Jones-Adams, 16, was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree murder committed in association with a gang.He is accused of fatally shooting Marvin Ray Maynard III, who was found Jan. 17 in the street on the 2600 block of James Avenue N. Maynard had his hands in the air when he was shot, according to the criminal complaint.A family member who declined to be named said Maynard was not a gang member and referred questions to his...
Medford Area Drug and Gang Enforcement Team officers arrested Dandre Davaune Parker, 20, on charges of possession, manufacture and delivery of heroin, possession of ecstasy, and manufacture of heroin and delivery of ecstasy within 1,000 feet of a school. He was lodged in the Jackson...
Officers did find three shots were fired in front of 1161 Mazatlan Cir., but were unable to locate a victim.Just after 11 p.m., officers were called to St. Francis Medical Center to investigate a shooting victim. A 20-year-old victim admitted being involved in the earlier disturbance and having an affiliation with the Crip street gang.The victim's injuries are not life threateni...
Bulldogs are described by authorities as the nation's largest independent street gang. Police estimate there are about 12,000 members in this city of 500,000.For most of their 20-year existence, the Bulldogs escaped serious law enforcement scrutiny, even as they taunted cops with barks and howls. Police looked upon them mainly as wayward youth. But the gang that grew out of fights at San Quentin prison over respect eventually showed itself to be...
six Florencia 13 gang members life in prison sentence appears to bring to a close a prolonged and terrifying spate of violence in the Florence-Firestone district allegedly brought on by orders from a prison gang member in solitary confinement 700 miles away.Beginning in 2004, the unincorporated Los Angeles County area north of Watts was the site of one of the region's worst gang sieges since the early 1990s, evolving into what some residents felt...
four accused - Nicola Ciconte, 54, of Rowville, Michael Calleja, 51, of Kew, Vincenzo Medici, 45, of Mildura, and Carmelo Loprete, 41, of Adelaide - will be tried in absentia in the town of Vibo Valentia in Calabria after a failed attempt by the Italian government to extradite them from Australia.Anti-mafia prosecutor Salvatore Curcio has told The Age the prosecution will use testimony from a Mafia turncoat, whose name has been suppressed, to corroborate...
James Bucheger of Oakhurst, is in jail -- accused of breaking into two cabins near Bass Lake. Bucheger told deputies -- he's a Juggalo. The Juggalos claim they're just extreme fans of the band "Insane Clown Posse". But many law enforcement agencies consider them -- a violent street gang. Deputies found the suspect covered in blood at a third home where a party was taking place. The two burglarized homes had smashed windows and blood splattered throughout...
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