UPDATE: Police arrest two in shooting that wounded officer | KGET TV 17: "Police arrested two men in connection with a south Bakersfield shooting early Sunday that left an officers wounded.
David Sebastian Rosas, 23, and a 17-year-old were arrested at the home in the 1000 block of Meredith Drive. The name of the teenager was not immediately released because of his age.
A group of officers was called to the area at about 4 a.m. Sunday to investigate...
Man accused of threatening to kill cops | WIVB.com: "suspected gang member is accused of targeting a pair of police officers in Niagara Falls.
Authorities believe the suspect belongs to one of the most violent street gangs in this country. What began as a drug investigation intensified after police say they developed information that threats were being made against two officers. Niagara Falls police say the two men are members of the “Crips,” a Los...
Where is king cobra of the spanish cobras street gang jailed? | ChaCha Answers: "the Spanish Cobras became the principle founder of the 'Insane Familia', a group of Latino Folks gangs allied on the streets and in the prisons. All organizations granted membership into the Insane Familia...
O.C. gang member charged with killing a man who was pouring a cup of coffee | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times: "reputed gang member was charged Monday with gunning down a man while he was pouring a cup of coffee at a Santa Ana restaurant, authorities said.
Israel Pena Lopez, 35, a Santa Ana resident, is accused of shooting his victim several times in the back Oct. 13 at the Panaderia la Chapina restaurant, the Orange County district attorney's office...
Boise gang member sentenced for gun crime | Treasure Valley Crime | Idaho Statesman: "John Anthony Sanchez, 29, of Boise, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge. Lodge also ordered Sanchez to serve three years of supervised release after his prison term.
Sanchez is a member of the Lost Soul Trece gang.
Sanchez pleaded guilty to the charge on in July and admitted to having a .44 caliber revolver. Because he was a convicted felon,...
Mexico drug gang leader arrested - Los Angeles Times: "Mexican authorities Wednesday announced they had arrested the new leader of the drug gang formerly run by suspected kingpin Edgar 'La Barbie' Valdez Villarreal.
The arrest late Tuesday of Carlos Montemayor marked a fresh blow...
Gypsy Jokers president Ralph Kometer charged over $600,000 meth bust | Perth Now: "GYPSY Jokers president Ralph Kometer and a bikie associate have been charged after 1.36kg of methamphetamine was uncovered in a vehicle stop last night. Gang Crime Squad detectives intercepted the...
Edison Man Pleads Guilty To Racketeering Charge In Gang-Related Murder | njtoday.net – Everything New Jersey: "member of the Nine Trey Headbustas set of the Bloods street gang has pleaded guilty to racketeering for his role in a gang-related murder in New Brunswick in 2008, Attorney General Paula T. Dow and Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor announced.According to Taylor, Davon Parker, 22, of Edison, pleaded guilty late Friday, Nov. 19,...
Police: 4 killed, 4 wounded in gang-related violence in gritty Jamaican city - Winnipeg Free Press: "Jamaican police say four men have been killed and four seriously wounded in a gang-related fusillade in a gritty city just outside of the island's capital.Investigators say gunmen opened fire late Saturday on a group of men playing cards at a house in Spanish Town, a southern Jamaican city where violent gangs are deeply entrenched.In a Sunday statement,...
ERU on streets as new Fat Freddie war erupts - City News, National News - Herald.ie: "ARMED gardai have been deployed to south Dublin after gang boss Fat Freddie ordered a sickening attack on one of his own lieutenants.Heavily armed units from the Emergency Response Unit have been running checkpoints across Crumlin and Drimnagh to quell gangland tensions.A row has erupted within the ranks of Fat Freddie Thompson's drug trafficking gang which threatens...
The Press Association: Guerilla leader 'dies in bombing': "Colombia's president said that a top leftist rebel leader who oversees major cocaine production may have been killed in the bombing of a guerrilla camp in the country's southern jungles.President Juan Manuel Santos said Fabian Ramirez's pistols, rucksack and computers were found at the scene of the pre-dawn bombing.Defence Minister Rodrigo Rivera said at least six bodies had been found.Ramirez,...
Earl Simmons, better known as the rapper DMX, said from jail in Phoenix his recent arrest came because he took a slug of alcohol at a concert in Scottsdale.Court records said DMX was arrested Thursday on several charges, including probation violation, the ongoing use of cocaine,...
Mexican Newspapers Limit Reporting on Cartels' Violence: "Mexico's regional newspapers are failing to report many of the murders, attacks on police and other violence linked to the nation's war against drug cartels, a new analysis shows.The Fundación MEPI, an independent investigative journalism center, studied the crime coverage of 11 regional newspapers and found that the drug-trafficking cartels receive little mention. The data, and interviews...
Killer gangster gets life, but is eligible for parole in 10 years: "Convicted killer Mindy Bhandher wiped away tears as a B.C. Supreme Court judge sentenced him to life in prison Friday with no hope of parole for 10 years. Justice Gail Dickson rejected a Crown argument that Bhandher should have a longer parole ineligibility period because of his admitted history as a gun-toting gangster who trafficked cocaine and smuggled marijuana into the U.S....
Rizzuto slayings have criminal underworld watching - St. Catharines Standard - Ontario, CA: "mob slayings of Rizzuto family members and their associates in Montreal have left observers of Canada's criminal underworld with as many theories as there have been dead bodies.One thing is certain, the dismantling and apparent takeover of the once mighty Sicilian clan is ultimately about money and control over Montreal, the Mafia's crown jewel.'It all comes...
Hells Angels member carried loaded gun without license, Marlborough Police say - Framingham, MA - The MetroWest Daily News: "Jason A. Cavooto, 35, was not licensed to carry the Sig Sauer, Detective Martha Shea said yesterday.'At any time, anything could have gone wrong,' Shea said. 'That's a very dangerous situation for officers.'Police pulled Cavooto over for allegedly speeding. They searched him as a precaution because he appeared nervous, Shea...
BBC News - 'Top gangster' arrested in Japan: "Police in Japan have arrested a man alleged to be second in command of Japan's biggest yakuza crime syndicate. He is accused of extorting more than $400,000 (£250,000) from a businessman in the construction industry. The arrest comes amid a crackdown on gangsters ahead of the expected release of the top boss of the syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, in spring 2011. Energised by a scandal over gangster involvement...
CTV British Columbia - Bacon brother's appeal will be heard in Supreme Court - CTV News: "Supreme Court of Canada will hear the case of an accused British Columbia gangster who says his charter rights were violated by police who found drugs and weapons in his car and home. Jonathan Bacon and his associates Godwin Cheng and Rayleene Burton were arrested in August 2005 after a police surveillance team said they saw them transferring packages between...
notorious Fraser Valley gangsters and longtime traffickers have pleaded guilty in a Seattle courtroom for their role in a drug-smuggling operation that authorities say was carried out on behalf of the Hells Angels.New indictments against nine B.C. men were sworn in October; seven...
The Zeta Gang is a paramilitary organization that uses violence to control smuggling and drug trafficking routes into the US As Congress debates granting amnesty to 65 million people, little attention is given to the unsecured Mexican border. Why has the major media ignored the cross-border violence on the southern border? Behind the 100 billion dollar narcotics trade and smuggling network that enters through the porous southern border, is one of...
Mexico Mexican troops declare killed 11 alleged members of the Zetas drug cartel taking part in a cough up close by the Texas border, state media reported.establishment as well captured two so-called Zetas and seized 25 pounds of marijuana when the gun battle, Mexicos justification...
Ciudad Mier, a picturesque colonial village on the Texas border, was a sleepy tourist attraction until February, when two rival drug cartels turned it into a slaughterhouse.Caravans of armored SUVs crammed with gunmen firing automatic rifles prowled the streets. Parents pulled terrified...
Angry gangs bring UN protest to Haitian capital: "Violent protests against United Nations peacekeepers, blamed for the cholera crisis, have spilled over into the country's capital as gangs of angry Haitian youths trawl Port-au-Prince.Organisers had urged people to vent their anger at the UN and the Haitian authorities in a demonstration at a main square by the presidential palace, but what happened was more like urban guerrilla warfare.Tear gas filled...
2 bodies hung from bridge, man beheaded in Tijuana: "Two men were slain and hung from a bridge, another was decapitated and a fourth was shot to death over 24 hours in Tijuana, the latest gruesome killings in a Mexican border city where hopes had risen that cartel violence was decreasing....
Police: Gang member sought 'street cred' in Yuba City killing | killing, member, police - Local News - Appeal-Democrat: "Yuba City gang member was upset when the fatal shooting he is charged with was reported in the local news section of the Appeal-Democrat, not on the front page, according to testimony Thursday in Sutter County Superior Court.Michael Anthony Mosley, 24, who was held to answer on a murder charge after the preliminary hearing, wanted...
Three members of Drak street gang charged in Tampa Bay area robberies - St. Petersburg Times: "federal grand jury Wednesday indicted three more members of the Drak street gang on charges of conspiracy, armed robbery, carjacking and multiple counts of brandishing a gun during crimes of violence.Charged were Rykeith Andre Levatte, 24; Antonio Cortez Harris Jr., 21, and Alden Bernard Lewis Jr., 27, all of Tampa and all members of the Drak gang, federal...
Nearly 100 Alleged Traveling Vice Lords Street Gang Members and Associates Facing State or Federal Narcotics Charges | Chicago Press Release Services: "Around-the-clock retail street sales of crack cocaine and heroin, averaging between $3,000 and $6,000 per day, seven days a week, were conducted by a core group of several alleged members of the Traveling Vice Lords street gang and their associates on the city’s west side, according to new federal...
A man charged with beating a rival gang member so badly the victim lost an eye pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of aggravated battery.All other charges against Michael Frazier – a second count of aggravated battery, two counts of mob action, and one count of unlawful contact with a street gang member – were dropped in exchange for the plea. He was sentenced to three years in the department of corrections, followed by one year of parole. He will...
Quebec street gang leader Ducarme Joseph, freed from jail earlier this month after he was arrested for a probation violation, won’t be losing his lavish stone mansion on the West Island of Montreal for failing to pay his property taxes.An unnamed person paid a whopping $28,845 property tax bill on Joseph’s two-storey home at 64 Radisson St. in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Que., just before the payment deadline.Had the taxes remained unpaid, Dollard city...
Group indicted for shipping hundreds of pound of cocaine from Los Angeles to Baltimore | Street Gangs Resource Center: "* Ricky James Brascom, as known as “DP,” 28, formerly of Hollywood and now residing in Woodland Hills, the “CEO” of Behind da Scenes Entertainment and the alleged leader of the drug trafficking ring;* Charles Dwight Ransom Jr., 36, of Hollywood, another “CEO” of Behind da Scenes Entertainment who allegedly shipped cocaine to his...
Police nab man wanted in Bronx armed robbery: "Bronx man who is a known member of the Latin Kings street gang has been apprehended in Kingston. The URGENT task force along with the NYPD’s Central Robbery Unit and the 40th Precinct Detective Squad conducted a surveillance operation in the downtown Kingston area on Sunday.They were trying to locate the suspect, Alberto Batista, 40, also known as Roberto Blanco and Nestor Vega, who was believed to...
Borderland Beat: Drug Lord's Death Could Empower Zetas: "Cardenas Guillen, known as “Tony Tormenta” or “Tony the Storm,” was killed Friday during a two-hour shootout in an operation that included 150 marines, three helicopters and 17 military vehicles, the Mexican navy said in a statement. Four of his gunmen and three marines also died during the fighting in the city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas. A local reporter and a soldier were...
Former airman convicted of murder in 2005 Gangster Disciples initiation death - News - Stripes: "A former airman has been convicted of second degree murder and witness tampering in connection with the death of an Army sergeant during a gang initiation ceremony in Germany.Rico Williams faces up to life in prison, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington said. A sentencing date has yet to be scheduled.Prosecutors argued that Williams,...
Hells Angels & Vagos motorcycle gangs: Judge sends shooting case back to Grand Jury - The Prescott Daily Courier - Prescott, Arizona: "Yavapai County Superior Court Judge William T. Kiger sent the Hells Angels shooting case back to the Grand Jury late Monday afternoon during a pre-trial conference.But Kiger did not exonerate bail for the seven men with ties to the Hells Angels charged in the case or change the conditions of their release, in...
Eight members of Partington's Oak Road Crew jailed (From Messenger Newspapers): "MEMBERS of a gang who terrorised Partington have been jailed. The eight gang members of the Oak Road Crew, who all pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing, were sentenced at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court on Monday for a three-day crime 'binge' in Partington. In February, the gang used a homemade ‘stinger’ to deliberately damage a police car on Cedar Avenue, after...
WA gang tension over lucrative drug trade: "attempted firebombing of a Perth tattoo parlour run by bikies may be linked to a gang turf war over the lucrative illegal drug trade in Western Australia, police say.Early on Tuesday morning, security officers were alerted by an alarm at Ink Assault Tattoos at Bibra Lakes in Perth's south, police said.They found a smashed front window and saw the remains of two crude firebombs that had caused minor damage...
Video: Two Mexican gangs in a shootout | NewsWatch: Breaking news | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "Two Mexican gangs in a shootoutA passerby in Tamaulipas, Mexico, shot this video of shootout between two competing gangs on November 10. As Pablo Ordaz blogs for El Pais put it: This is not a scene from the movie Heat. This is Tamaulipas, Mexico, at the border where the war between drug traffickers has raged since the boss known as Tony Tormenta was...
DC jury convicts 4 in gang violence case | Washington Examiner: "Friday's verdict means that three members of the 'Todd Place Crew' face possible terms of life in prison and a fourth faces up to 25 years. Three defendants — Joseph A. Jenkins, James C. Bates and Darnell Anderson — were convicted of first degree murder and other charges and face possible life terms.A fourth defendant, Edward Warren, was convicted of obstruction of justice and weapons...
Neighbors remember man fatally shot in east Salinas | thecalifornian.com | The Salinas Californian: "Salinas man shot and killed while sitting in a wheelchair Wednesday night on Del Monte Avenue has been identified by police as 32-year-old Jose Vasquez. Police say the murder was gang-related.At 9:13 p.m., when police responded to calls of shots fired, they arrived to find Vasquez sitting in a wheelchair next to the curb on Del Monte Avenue at Orchard...
The London Daily News: "The two victims of the double gangland murder have been formally identified by the Met Police.Victim 1 was pronounced dead at the scene at 05:07hrs. He has been formally identified as Lee Wallace (25, 27/5/85). A post-mortem will take place at St Pancras mortuary...
El Ponchis, the sadistic executioner who is terrorising Mexico.... at the age of 12 | Mail Online: "He is the sadistic executioner whose killings have terrorised Mexico.But unlike most of the brutal players in the country's horrific drug wars, El Ponchis (The Cloak) is just 12 years...
Navy SEAL Accused Of Gun Smuggling To Ask For Bail - San Diego News Story - KGTV San Diego: "SAN DIEGO -- A hearing on a request for bail is now scheduled Friday for a Coronado-based Navy SEAL accused of smuggling machine guns and parts from Iraq or Afghanistan and selling them.Nicholas Bickle, 33, faces federal charges of conspiracy to deal in firearms without paying a tax, possessing an unregistered firearm and transferring an unregistered firearm.The...
Glades gang members paraded into court | palm, beach, courtroom - Palm Beach County - WPEC 12 West Palm Beach: "13 of 15 suspects were paraded into the courtroom at the same time.Prosecutors say they are part of a gang that has terrorized people in the Glades for more than a decade.Three of these suspects are charged with attempted murder and were denied bond today. The 12 others had bond set at $500,000 dollars or more.These suspects were arrested...
Gang member gets death for killing of rival - San Jose Mercury News: "gang member who provided details of how he gunned down a member of a rival gang has been sentenced to death. The Hartford Sentinel reports that a Kings County judge on Tuesday ordered Pedro Cortez Valles be put to death after jurors determined last month that he should receive the death penalty. Valles was convicted of first-degree murder in March, with a special circumstance of...
Ex-Marines allegedly sold assault rifles to L.A. gang members - latimes.com: "Three former U.S. Marines and two others were arrested on suspicion of selling illegal assault weapons to Los Angeles gang members, federal officials announced Tuesday.The arrests capped a yearlong investigation...
suspected member of Tacoma’s Hilltop Crips street gang was sentenced Tuesday to seven years, three months in prison.A Pierce County jury last month convicted Deandre L. Beck, 28, of conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery, first-degree robbery and car theft.Prosecutors contended he and other members of the gang beat and robbed a man of his car outside a restaurant in the 3800 block of South Pine Street in July 2009.Beck was one of 36 people charged...
arrested three retired Marines suspected of selling illegal assault weapons to a notorious Los Angeles street gang, authorities said Tuesday.The suspected ringleader, Adam Gitschlag, who served in Iraq and was once based at Camp Pendleton, was arrested at his Orange County home Nov. 2 as part of an operation carried out by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as well as military investigators and local police.The arrests were...
Three persons were wounded after two warring street gangs ran riot along Leon Garcia street, Agdao District early Sunday morning.Rushed to the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) were Alexander Lomanta Palcunit, 18, a resident of Jerome, Agdao; Bernard Cabuguas, 17, Kabayan, Tibungco, and Roberto Maisog, 17, a resident of Cabaguio Avenue, Agdao District, Davao City.Palcunit sustained stab wound in the chest while both Cabuguas and Maisog sustained...
Body armor, assault rifles, handguns, and black-tar heroin: That's what police said they pulled out of eight homes Tuesday, the result of an undercover operation that lasted five months.San Antonio police said they also pulled out a dozen suspected gang members.Federal prosecutors handed down sealed indictments for some alleged members of the Mexican Mafia and arrested them on drug and extortion charges. Agents with the ATF joined San Antonio's gang...
Lil Wayne Continues to Promote Bloods Gang by Wearing Red | Sandra Rose: "rapper Lil Wayne was freed from the Rikers Island Correctional facility in NY where he served 8 months on weapons possession charges.After a brief reunion with his baby mama Antonia “Toya” Carter, label reps and artists, he flew to Arizona to meet with his probation officer.Lil Wayne was sentenced to 3 years unsupervised probation stemming from a 2008 drug charge in Yuma, AZ....
29 suspected Somali gang members indicted in sex-trafficking ring that included Nashville | tennessean.com | The Tennessean: "The indictment targets three groups that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has identified as Somali gangs: the Somali Outlaws, the Somali Mafia and the Lady Outlaws.According to the indictment, members of those gangs traveled from the St. Paul area to Nashville, where they prostituted girls as young as 13 years ol...
Nelson Ramirez Guerrero, 33, is dead after a gunman approached his vehicle and opened fire near an intersection around 8 p.m.Police found the victim’s dead body outside his car when they arrived on scene and a child sitting in the back of the shot-up car.“The victim was dropping his son off at his mother’s residence when the shooting occurred,” said Integrated Homicide Investigation Team spokesperson Cpl. Dale Carr. “Thankfully, he was not harmed...
Masked gang attack billionaire mobile phone tycoon and his fiancee at home | Mail Online: "One of Britain’s richest men was left bloodied and bruised after being attacked with a crowbar during a robbery at his £7.5million home.Mobile phone tycoon John Caudwell – who is worth £1.3billion – was bound and gagged by the masked intruders.After assaulting Mr Caudwell, the gang allegedly turned on his glamorous fiancee, former model Claire Johnson, during...
Man gets 10 years for role in Tacoma Crips gang melee | Crime News - The News Tribune: "Larry Brown, 32, pleaded guilty last month to second-degree burglary, conspiracy to commit second-degree burglary and riot in connection with a melee and shooting at a Tacoma Denny’s restaurant in December 2008.Brown, who previously served time for robbery and manslaughter, avoided a possible third strike that could have sent him to prison for life by entering...
Willie D Sentenced To Prison For Wire Fraud | Street Gangs Resource Center: "Wiliam Dennis, aka “Willie D” formerly of Geto Boys, was sentenced to 366 days in federal prison due to wire fraud. In a press release by U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno to Houston Press, the music artist behind Texas One Wireless Company was exposed to “posing as an electronics salesman and using eBay to establish his credibility with international buyers. Once a buyer...
Police fear escalating gang violence - Winnipeg Free Press: "gang-related violence following Monday's targeted killing of a high-ranking former Hells Angels associate.A justice source told the Free Press officers have received internal mail in recent weeks warning that members of the Rock Machine motorcycle gang are believed to be armed and may be planning attacks against those affiliated with the Hells Angels.The memo was circulated again this week...
Gang member charged in guard deaths | Recordnet.com: "- Seventeen months after two unarmed security guards were found shot to death in the parking lot of the Stockton apartment complex where they were working, prosecutors have charged a 25-year-old Stockton man with their murders.Sary Svay is scheduled to appear in court this morning for further arraignment on a long list of charges, including two counts of murder, multiple counts of attempted murder...
YourNabe.com > Archives > Queens > Far Rockaway Bloods leaders admit to trafficking cocaine: "Two reputed leaders of the Bloods gang in Far Rockaway pleaded guilty to charges of drug trafficking and firearm possession Friday in what the Queens district attorney called “a major blow” to the street gang’s cocaine operations on the peninsula.Robert “Dead Eye” Baley, 32, believed to be the head of the Far Rockaway branch of the Bloods at the...
Gangland Britain, From tea and crumpets to guns and grenades… | Street Gangs Resource Center: "Ten years ago, the idea that the likes of the Bloods, the Crips and the Latin Kings would one day extend their tentacles overseas to the United Kingdom would have been met with scorn and disbelief. Whereas Britain has always had its fair share of criminal activity, there is a clear distinction between organised crime groups and American-style territorial...
1 man arrested in gang killing at party | gang, santa, bertagna - News - The Orange County Register: "Police arrested a man suspected of killing a 22-year-old man and injuring two others during a suspected gang-related shooting at a house party. At least three accomplices remain at large, police said.Salvador Alvarez, 21, of Santa Ana was arrested at his home Monday night on suspicion of murder and gang enhancements, said Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony...
Outlaw 'Milwaukee Jack''s fate unclear - JSOnline: "federal jury in Virginia reached verdicts Tuesday for two of four Outlaws Motorcycle Club members, but were sent home Tuesday before reaching verdicts on the other two, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.The defendants include Jack Rosga, known as 'Milwaukee Jack' and who prosecutors say is the national leader of the notorious gang.Others on trial include William Davey of Asheville, N.C.; Mark...
SAN BERNARDINO: Shootings kill two gang members | Local News | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern California: "Adrian Ray Gutierrez died at the scene of the officer-involved shooting about 2 a.m. Tuesday at 17th and G Streets.Gutierrez, 28, had run a stop sign at 16th and H Streets, prompting a brief police pursuit that ended when he crashed into a tree, said Lt. Jarrod Burguan. Then he tried to run, investigators say.'The...
Alleged gang member slain in Marina District: "Jelvon Helton, 22, was shot numerous times in the chest at the Gravity Room at 3251 Scott St. at 11:58 p.m. Monday, according to police and the San Francisco medical examiner's office. He was pronounced dead at San Francisco General Hospital.Police did not have a detailed description of the shooter, who remains at large, said Officer Albie Esparza, a police spokesman.A representative of the Gravity Room...
ESCONDIDO: Three held in stabbing: "Escondido man is in stable condition after being stabbed about 10 times in a suspected gang-related attack, while three Vista teenagers are in custody and facing attempted murder charges, an Escondido police lieutenant said Tuesday.About 12:30 a.m. Monday, Jose Solis, 20, was on a bicycle in the area of Lincoln Avenue and Gamble Street when three people pulled up in a car and got out, Lt. Craig Carter said.At some...
Marc Candler A reputed gang leader of West Oakland's Acorn gang was sentenced today to 48 years to life | Fugitive Watch / Wanted Fugitives From Justice: "reputed gang leader who has claimed his trial was politically motivated was sentenced today to 48 years to life in state prison for shooting a rival gang member four years ago.Before he was sentenced, Marc Candler, 35, whom prosecutors say heads the Acorn gang based in West Oakland’s Acorn housing...
Police warning extended as four shot and wounded in Gastown - The Globe and Mail: "unprecedented warning by Vancouver police of a “high probability” of gang violence this past weekend has been given an open-ended extension after four people were shot and wounded Sunday morning on the sidewalks of Gastown.“It’s not something we would retract unless we had a very good reason to – for example we made arrests,” Constable Jana McGuinness told a news conference...
Ducarme Joseph released from prison: reports: "Former street gang leader Ducarme Joseph, 42, has reportedly been released from prison. Joseph, who escaped a 50-bullet fusillade that killed two men and seriously injured two others at his high-fashion boutique in Old Montreal on March 18, was released Sunday from a prison in Rimouski after serving two-thirds of his 10-month sentence for assault, according to several media reports. Joseph was reportedly...
GARDAÍ HAVE seized drugs and a firearm and have arrested three people in unrelated gangland incidents in Dublin at the weekend.In one of the operations, gardaí seized cannabis and cocaine. They believe the Dublin gang behind the haul has joined forces with a Vietnamese-led crime gang involved in large scale cannabis-growing operations here.As part of the investigation into the Dublin gang, gardaí raided a house on Glasmanna Road, Finglas, north Dublin,...
cocaine ring run by members of the Bloods street gang, according to authorities.After conducting surveillance and making multiple undercover drug purchases from various players in the alleged ring, officers made their move Thursday night when they arrested two key suspects at gunpoint inside a Berkshire Medical Center parking garage.A third suspect was arrested outside a Seymour Street home early Friday, while a fourth remains at large.Police said...
Medina was a member of the “Krazy Locos,” also known as the “KL” gang, operating primarily in Palm Beach County. The Krazy Locos has been affiliated at times with another gang, the “Making Life Krazy” or “MLK” gang, which also operates in Palm Beach County. From 2007 through 2009, there were approximately forty Krazy Locos gang members and associates.According to documents filed with the court, the Krazy Locos organization made money through the...
killing of the 18-year-old high school student was like so many shootings in Chicago — the alleged work of a gang enforcer armed with a gun and a grudge.But in the aftermath of the late August slaying, police cracked down as part of a new strategy to reduce shootings and homicides, arresting more than 60 members and associates of the Black Souls, the West Side street gang affiliation of the alleged gunman.Most were nailed for drug offenses in the...
Robert Ramirez, 19, a documented member of the SUR-13 street gang, smiled as he walked into Circuit Court Judge Debra Riva’s courtroom with his attorney Carolyn Schlemmer to accept a 25-year prison sentence for a second-degree murder charge.His accomplice, Luis Rincon, 18, also accepted a plea deal in June and was sentenced to 30 years in prison for second-degree murder.Daniel Case, 59, was found Feb. 23, 2009, behind Griggs Plumbing at 12th Avenue...
Police are searching for 18-year-old Carlos Umana, who investigators say is a member of a street gang and is wanted in connection with a recent stabbing incident in Magna. Police say Umana's previous criminal history includes arrests for public intoxication and disorderly conduct.Police...
The Insane M.O.B. has been involved in every crime you can think of, including two murders, murder for hire, drive by shootings, drug trafficking and arson.The investigation started back in 2007 after the shooting of a school bus. The gang was involved in intense gang warfare with a rival gang. News 13 was told their headquarters was the Fade Factory barbershop on Conway Road.Things escalated this spring when gunfire hit the barbershop. In response,...
Someone sprayed the home of a known gang member with gunfire late Wednesday, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.No one was hurt, but deputies did recover several 9mm casings and projectiles from inside and outside of the gang member’s residence in the 5600 block of 12th Street East. A deputy, who heard the gunfire while standing in front of a nearby sheriff’s substation, reported hearing about 15 gunshots, according to a news release.While...
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