Alfredo Martinez turned up "Sureño music" in his car at a convenience store parking lot and stared at the man charged with killing him a few minutes later, according to testimony Friday in Sutter County Superior Court.It was the second day of a preliminary hearing for Carlos Antonio Rodriguez, a Norteño gang member charged with the first-degree murder of Martinez and the attempted murder of two people in his car.A woman who was with Martinez mentioned...
1,300 local and federal law enforcement officers have arrested 80 alleged members and associates of a major Southern California street gang early Thursday as part of a two-and-a-half-year investigation, authorities said.During the pre-dawn operation, code-named "Pirate Town" which targets the Rancho San Pedro (RSP) gang which has been active in San Pedro, a port district 24 miles (39 km) south of downtown Los Angeles, authorities arrested 66 people...
convicted drug dealer and reputed ranking member of the Sex Money Murder Bloods street gang in the city has been arrested and charged with the sexual assault of a young girl, which allegedly occurred several years ago.The accusations were made against the suspect in late March, but details of the incidents were not released to the media due to the alleged actions' involvement with family members.However, family members of two alleged victims came...
Jury selection began Monday and is expected to continue into next week in the racketeering and conspiracy trials of five men alleged to have collaborated on a string of shootings, robberies and drug crimes as members of the Buck Wild street gang.Authorities hailed the arrests of eight alleged Buck Wild members last year as a major victory in the fight against Palm Beach County gangs, ranking the group among the most violent in the area.Now, five...
DANCEHALL artiste Spragga Benz has been listed as a major person of interest in Friday night's triple murder in McIntyre Villa, also known as 'Dunkirk' in Kingston.Spragga Benz — whose real name is Carlton Grant — was yesterday asked to turn himself over to investigators at the Elletson Road Police Station by 2:00 pm today. SPRAGGA BENZ… listed as a person of interest in Friday’s triple murder in ‘Dunkirk’ in Kingston"Persons with information on...
The dismembered body of a woman was found scattered in a leafy, upscale Mexico City district, while authorities investigated possible drug gang links in the deaths of five females whose throats were slashed in Acapulco.The mass slaying of women is unusual in Mexico's drug war, and there was no indication the cases in the two cities were related.Residents of the capital's tree-lined San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood discovered the woman's upper...
Police said three of the bodies – including the teenager – were found in a beauty salon. They were stripped with hands and feet tied.The other two victims were also connected to the salon in Acapulco, Mexico.The resort has seen violent turf battles between drug gangs. In January the decapitated bodies of 15 young men were found by police. And 10 men were shot dead in a strip club last mon...
Tyler Willock, who has been associated to both the Independent Soldiers and the Red Scorpions, entered his pleas in Surrey Provincial Court Monday as his trial was scheduled to begin. He will be sentenced in July.Willock had faced eight counts in all following a July 21, 2008 incident in Langley, after which he was arrested by the Gang Task Force.He pleaded guilty to just three of the charges — careless use of a firearm, occupying a vehicle in which...
Glasgow's Cambridge bar - where hood George Redmond was shot dead and his gang crony John McGuire injured in 2008 - has lost its licence.Manager Kirsty Learmont was due in front of Glasgow City Council officials this week but failed to show up.Crime Scene can reveal attempts were made to track her down but the locks securing the boozer have now been changed and she won't be back. An underworld insider revealed: "Her time's up. The police were unhappy...
.Judge John Tomberlin sentenced Jorge Angel Lizarraga of Victorville according to the plea agreement. There was no victim impact statement before Tomberlin pronounced his judgment.The defendant asked Tomberlin if he could have time with his family before heading to prison, but the judge said the courthouse wasn’t equipped for that.Lizarraga pleaded guilty to the voluntary manslaughter of Walter Maradiaga, 21, and Erick Morales, 16. He also admitted...
five-day law enforcement operation targeting suspected members of transnational gangs has resulted in the arrests of 22 men in Bolingbrook, Joliet, Glendale Heights and Melrose Park, officials say.The arrests began April 17 and was dubbed Operation Community Shield. It involved local and state law enforcement officers along with agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations unit.Those arrested, raning...
Bermuda's latest gun victim David Clarke was the third foreigner killed in two years; something that's “bound to risk the Island's reputation”, according to Governor Sir Richard Gozney.Mr Clarke, 26, was born in Barbados but lived in Bermuda since his family moved here when he was four. He was shot dead on North Shore Road, Devonshire, around 10.30pm on Sunday.His murder follows that of Jamaican James Lawes, gunned down in Pembroke on March 22, 2010,...
purported gang member who killed a 24-year-old Seattle man was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison.Pleading guilty to second-degree murder in March, Jymaika S. Hutson, admitted to killing Tyree Lee on April 28, 2007.Lee, regarded by law enforcement as a member of a Central District street gang, was shot to death outside a friend's home. Hutson, 32, had been a member of a rival gang, though he has since insisted that he abandoned the...
Klansman leader Tesha Miller was sentenced in the High Court Division of the Gun Court to seven years imprisonment for illegal possession of a firearm and 15 years for robbery with aggravation. The sentences are to run concurrently meaning that Miller will serve a maximum of 15 years. Tesha Miller, leader of the Klansman gang based in Spanish Town, St Catherine. 1/2 “The conviction and sentencing of Tesha Miller are major blows to organised criminal...
drug trafficking gangs have set up operations throughout eastern Pennsylvania, police arrested a man they say is a member of the Crips after a large amount of heroin was allegedly found during a traffic stop.The arrests of Alik Jerome Harrington, 36, of Kingston, and a woman from Blair County mirror what the federal report titled Eastern Pennsylvania Drug and Gang Threat Assessment details, which says gangs in the eastern half of Pennsylvania...
TWO LEADING members of one of the State’s most notorious criminal gangs being questioned by the Garda in Limerick on suspicion of threatening to kill a 23-year-old woman are due to appear in courtThe brothers, aged 29 and 33, are key figures in the criminal gang based in Limerick city. A 21- year-old woman related to the men was also arrested yesterday evening as part of the inquiry.The three were being questioned in relation to alleged threats against...
The Bistro at The Beach on Front Street, and almost next door to Hamilton Police Station, is to start closing at 1am instead of 3am on certain weekday evenings.Owner Rick Olson says he feels “personally intimidated” by the gang members who drink at his bar in the early hours of the morning.He says the young men hang out in large numbers, have no respect for others, refuse to pay for their drinks and threaten to cause trouble.Mr Olson says their presence...
The head of the Poinciana Bloods street gang dropped his lawyer Friday to defend himself at trial against attempted murder charges and other felonies over gunfire that crippled a guest at a 2009 birthday party.Michael Rigby drew national notoriety last year when he broke out of the Osceola County Jail's highest security cell block and remained free for nearly 3 months before his capture near New York City.The escape prompted the County Commission...
Limerick - Man questioned over alleged threat to killTwo men, arrested in Limerick last night as part of an ongoing investigation into serious crime and gang-related violence in Limerick, are still being detained by Gardai.It is understood they will appear at the city's district court in the morning to face a number of charges.They were arrested after a young woman made a statement to gardaí alleging that the two men, both brothers, made a threat...
Bobby Windsor and Michael Campbell are accused of killing 27-year-old Daniel Herbert, of Holywell Close, Orpington, on August 17 in 2009.Mr Herbert was on his way home from Rotherhithe when he was chased by a gang of men, beaten unconscious, dragged to his knees and shot in the head, in Clements Road, Bermondsey.The trial of Windsor, aged 22, from Bermondsey, and 25-year-old Campbell, from Camberwell, is due to begin at the Old Bailey on Thursday...
Ryan T. Moore, 37, was convicted of murder, attempted murder and conspiracy in the 2006 attack, which shocked the city and was part of a series of high-profile interracial gang crimes that stoked fears of a possible race war.The two gunmen were described as black; the victims were Latino. Police said the dead were not connected to gangs but suspected that the attackers were. However, prosecutors argued race had little to do with the killings.They...
A man shot dead at his Sydney home last week was due to give evidence about death threats against the chief Crown witnesses in a major drug trial.Gemahl Maika, 38, was an important witness in a series of criminal cases against a multi-million dollar cocaine trafficking and money laundering syndicate, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.The raids that broke up the gang in 2007 netted $20 million in cash and firearms including a gold-plated .357 Magnum...
Some of those arrested had ties to the Vice Lords and Gangster Disciples.Also, 45 firearms, more than $26,000 in cash and more than $25,000 in illegal narcotics were confiscated, according to Christopher Felix, supervisory inspector of the U.S. Marshals Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force."A clear message was sent. We will not tolerate gang violence within our community," said Jeff Woodfin, acting U.S. marshal for the Northern District...
MEMBER of 'Fat' Freddie Thompson's drug gang has been shot as a bloody internal row escalates.The gangster, who is in his 20s, was shot in the stomach as he walked in a park in Milltown, Dublin, at about 6.30pm on Thursday.The target, out on bail at the time for a car theft charge, is expected to survive.The shocking gun attack has been linked to an internal feud in the Thompson gang which has also seen grenade and gun attacks and numerous incidents...
FBI releases 'secret' reports on hip-hop's Notorious murder case
Even at the time it seemed like a conspiracy theory of the highest order, but a trove of documents released by the FBI yesterday shows that the agency took seriously the suggested link between the 1990s murders of two...
Two headless bodies are dumped on a street in suburban Mexico City along with a message sent by a mysterious group called "The Hand with Eyes." Days later, a severed head shows up in a car abandoned outside an elementary school in the same suburb.For drug lords, this sprawling metropolis of 20 million has been a favorite hide-out and place to launder money, making Mexico City somewhat of an oasis from the brutal cartel violence along the border and...
The Latin Kings, one of the country's largest street gangs, stretched from 26th Street to the East Coast and Texas, prosecutors say.But on Wednesday, after two days of deliberations, Augustin "Tino" Zambrano, 51, considered by authorities as the gang's highest-ranking leader in the nation, was convicted of racketeering conspiracy and multiple federal charges for orchestrating violence and drug dealing in Chicago. The federal jury also convicted three...
11 people arrested are allegedly members of the Forrest Hill Boyz, a gang that Moultrie Police Department officials said has a long history in the city.“The ones that have been indicted were some of the worst ones we’ve had a problem with lately,” Moultrie Police Department Cmdr. Ben Morris, a member of the Southwest Georgia Gang Task Force, said in a telephone interview on Monday. “The Forrest Hill Boyz has been the most active and the most violent...
U.S. prosecutor told jurors in the federal racketeering and murder conspiracy trial of seven MS-13 gang members in San Francisco today that the gang had a culture of violence."Violence and murder increased their stature in the gang," Justice Department attorney Theryn Gibbons said in her opening statement in the court of U.S. District Judge William Alsup.Gibbons, from the department's criminal gang unit in Washington, D.C., recited the gang's alleged...
But prosecutor Brian McGuire’s sickness caused sentencing proceedings to be postponed.Vassel, 27, known as “Buck” or “Buckshot,” was returned to custody until May 13, following his appearance at the Hurtonario St. courthouse.Following a complicated eight-week trial — plus six days of deliberating — a jury found him guilty last month of the 2007 second-degree murder of Mississauga dealer Husam Dagheim.Justice Michael Tulloch sentenced Vassel to a...
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