Latin Kings gang member known as "King Jake" was charged Tuesday with the October home invasion robbery of several Lehigh University students, police said.Miguel Angel Estrada, of Allentown, pointed a semi-automatic pistol at two students on Oct. 26 as they sat on the front porch of their home in the 400 block of Filmore Street, Bethlehem police said. Estrada was with a second man who was carrying a baseball bat, police said.Estrada and the other...
arrested 17 members of the Gangster Disciples. All gang members are accused of being part of a cocaine dealing ring in Wisconsin, Texas and Illinois.In another major bust, investigators were led to a little Racine barber shop run by 76-year-old Ruth Healy.RelatedMilwaukee County Sheriff's seize 57 grams of marijuana during I-94 traffic stopSheboygan drug dealer busted for trying to sell drugs to cops in a squad carHealy, who owns Ruth's Barbershop,...
When police mounted a major drugs bust on a cannabis factory in Northern Ireland last year they uncovered hard and shocking evidence of a link between the drug barons and human trafficking.Inside this makeshift 'factory' in Belfast a Chinese man was being held captive and forced to work as a 'gardener' night and day, tending to the cannabis plants.The man had been trafficked into the province and was working to pay off his debt to his traffickers."That...
Tuesday to serve another three months in jail in exchange for a plea deal and youthful offender status."There are all kinds of reason why this makes sense. This is a good resolution," said Theodore Shaw, an attorney for the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, which posted $25,000...
James (Whitey) Bulger may have been on the lam, as they say, but he did not let it cramp his style.During his 16 years in hiding, federal prosecutors say, Mr. Bulger, the legendary Boston crime boss, traveled to Las Vegas often to play the slots. And wearing a disguise, he even returned...
Two documented gang members were arrested Friday night for allegedly robbing a man in the 1200 block of West 8th Street, Merced police reported.The incident was reported around 10 p.m., after the victim flagged down a Merced police officer, saying he'd been robbed. The victim said he was approached by two males, who accused him of stealing a stereo, according to Lt. Tom Trindad.One of the suspects punched the victim in the face. The victim ran away,...
Gardai investigating the slaying of Darren Cogan (22) in the Black Horse Inn, Inchicore, believe taunts on the social networking site could have led to his killing.Detectives were today carrying out a detailed trawl of Facebook to provide vital information about the latest gangland murder in the capital.Cogan was gunned down at 12.15am on Saturday, just an hour after two masked men had burst into the pub brandishing a shotgun and handgun. Gardai...
Earlier today, Edwin Henriquez, also known as “Joker,” a member of the La Mara Salvatrucha (“MS-13”) street gang on Long Island, was sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment for the September 19, 2004, murder of 16-year-old fellow MS-13 member Olivia Melendez Mendoza (“Melendez”) in Old Westbury, New York. The sentence was imposed pursuant to Henriquez’s November 3, 2010, guilty plea. The proceeding was held before Senior United States District Judge...
The Terror Squad had recently established itself as the top street gang in the city, beating out numerous rivals in a crowded field of feared brands such the Indian Posse, Crazy Cree and Native Syndicate. These aboriginal gangs, largely imported from Winnipeg, take advantage of poor or damaged inner-city youth by promising big money, a family and respect, according to various police investigations over the years. Some of them claim a racial or cultural...
On the run for 17 years, the accused Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger and his longtime girlfriend were finally caught in California by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday.They were arrested without incident at a residence in Santa Monica, the FBI said in a statement,...
29-year-old East Texas man has been sentenced to life in federal prison for his role in a 2007 double murder ordered by a leader of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.Charles Cameron Frazier of Nacogdoches pleaded guilty in January to committing a violent crime in aid of racketeering activity in the deaths of David Mitchamore and Christy Rochelle Brown in Nacogdoches County. Frazier was sentenced Tuesday.Federal officials say Mitchamore was killed for...
Latin Kings boss ordered his underlings to kill a Lodi woman so she couldn't testify in the shooting death of a Hasbrouck Heights teen six years ago, an assistant Bergen County prosecutor said Monday.Juan Rosario of Passaic being led into a courtroom in Hackensack for the start of his attempted-murder trial in the 2005 attack on Monica Penalba of Lodi.Gang members and wannabe gang members then stabbed the woman, Monica Penalba, more than 30 times...
16-year-old South Side male found in a pool of blood with bullets in his chest Saturday was part of one of the city's youngest and most potentially dangerous street gangs, though detectives said they do not believe the killing was gang related.Brandon Adkins, 16, 372 E. Philadelphia Ave., who was shot to death Saturday at 3124 South Ave., was part of the youth gang H-Block, whose territory includes Hilton Avenue on the city's South Side.The Mahoning...
The alleged leader of the Trenton Nine Trey Gangsters who participated in a 2005 clash between three rival gangs that left three people dead pleaded guilty yesterday to a weapons charge, the state Office of the Attorney General announced today.Robert "Snoop" Christie, 25, of Trenton, agreed to a plea deal that calls for him to receive five years in state prison at his sentencing in August. The term would be added to the current 8-year sentence Christie...
Three members of various Mexican street gangs and two individuals with violent criminal histories were apprehended by Border Patrol agents in the Tucson sector on Friday.On Friday, Casa Grande Station agents were patrolling near Sells when they apprehended an illegal immigrant who was identified as a member of the Mara Salvatrucha 13 street gang, according to a release from Customs and Border Protection.Later that evening, agents from the Ajo Station...
Testimony is expected to end Tuesday in the racketeering and conspiracy trials of five men suspected of being members of the alleged Riviera Beach gang known as Buck Wild.Assistant State Attorneys Greg Kridos and Cheryl Caracuzzo since early May have been presenting jurors with evidence in their cases against Marquis Alfred, 20; James Anderson, 22; Larry Coe, 25; Quamaine Falana, 19; and James Roundtree, 22.They rested today after questioning a records...
James Lara, 43 and David Lara, 47, of Banning were taken into custody three days apart, June 3 and June 6, respectively, following a carjacking incident that occurred on May 30 at 10:11 a.m. in the 50000 block of Ramona Road in Cabazon.Riverside County Sheriff Captain Ross Koepp said during the incident two men approached a man as he sat in his vehicle, brandished a knife and threatened to shoot him if he did not give up his vehicle.“In fear for...
State and federal agents swarmed across several small communities in and around the San Joaquin Valley town of Los Banos early Tuesday morning and arrested 75 alleged members of the Nuestra Familia prison gang and the Norteno street gang.The raid, code-named "Red Zone," also netted weapons, including five assault rifles, $64,000 in cash and unnamed quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana. The operation was the culmination of a two-year...
Joaquin Guzman is currently one of the most wanted criminals in the world. In fact, Guzman’s power has become so great that a senior U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) official recently told Forbes magazine that the kingpin is now the most influential drug runner in history. “Chapo...
Chicago-based Latin Kings gang has been purchasing cocaine from Mexican drug cartels for between $16,000 and $18,000 per kilo, roughly a third cheaper than what it would pay if it bought from its normal suppliers in Chicago. The cost savings has also bolstered the ability of...
Mexican authorities on Friday announced the arrest of the man they say directed the kidnappings of 72 Central and South American migrants found slain in northern Mexico last year.Federal police said Edgar Huerta Montiel, 22, told them he led the capture of two freight trucks packed...
Maria Celeste Mendoza was among six teenage suspected gang members arrested this week by police after a shoot-out with authorities in central Mexico, one of the growing ranks of young people working for the country's drug cartels.
Dressed in combat fatigues and with her face hidden,...
Genesee County jury has convicted Jarvon Brown, a Pierson Hood gang member, for the drive-by shooting that killed a Flint boy nearly seven years ago.ABC12's Lori Dougovito was in court Friday when that verdict came down.The case has been open almost as long as the little boy, Karibe Anderson Jr., had been alive.It took nearly seven years for the case to get to trial, yet only one week in court and hours of jury deliberation to find Jarvon Brown guilty....
Shaq has been accused as one of the masterminds behind the 2008 beating of a former business partner by a gang in Los Angeles. The victim, Robert Ross, claims The Big Diesal ordered the Main Street Crips gang to beat him up in order to recover a sex tape.
The sex tape reportedly...
Rolando Franco and Jonathan Gonzalez were best friends. Franco kept a picture of Gonzalez in his bedroom. He treasured a letter Gonzalez wrote, describing how they would grow old together.However, when Franco, 22, decided to leave the violent Krazy Locos gang and build a new life, Gonzalez didn't let personal feelings stand in his way: He ordered Franco's execution.It was all in a day's work for the ruthless gang leader, federal prosecutors said...
, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers in Baltimore arrested Saul Antonio Uriba, a known MS-13 gang member who was previously deported by ICE’s legacy agency, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), in 1998.Uriba, 34, from El Salvador, was convicted on July 11, 1996 in Arlington County, Va., of possessing burglary tools and tampering with an automobile. He was sentenced to three...
Three former members of the gang were arrested as they tried to abduct the financial services worker.The trio were detained with two other city criminals in a swoop by crack armed detectives.The three Blanchardstown-based gangsters -- who were in custody today -- were members of the infamous Westies, whose leaders Shane Coates and Stephen Sugg were murdered in Spain's Costa-Del-Crime in 2004.Officers believe they intended kidnapping a bank worker...
The victim was thought to have been sat in a car when he was shotThe man, who has not been named, was shot in Wythenshawe, south of the city on Monday.It is believed the man had been sat in a parked car on Floatshall Road in Baguley when shots were fired into the vehicle.He was taken to hospital but died a short time lat...
The investigation into the shooting of Eccles shopkeeper Nasar Hussain, in July 2009, was launched after a court case into his death.And the independent Police Complaints Commission has ruled that the killing of Mr Hussain, an innocent shop worker in a gang drugs war, could not have been prevented by police or the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).Mr Hussain was serving customers at an off-licence in Eccles, Greater Manchester, when Simeon Henderson...
Philistin (Crazy) Paul tried to delay his sentencing by requesting he be able to change lawyers, just before Quebec Court Judge Jean-Paul Braun rendered his decision Tuesday.Paul had been represented by three lawyers during his trial, and the question of who actually represented him was raised during a sentencing hearing in April. During that session, defence lawyer Gilles Daudelin said he was finished with the case and would no longer represent...
Four people, including one minor, are killed and a further two injured in northwestern Medellin, in what authorities believe to be related to gang retaliations, as well as innocents caught in gang crossfire, Caracol Radio reported Monday.The three separate incidents occurred in the adjacent neighborhoods of Kennedy and Castilla, with an outbreak of shooting causing many frightened citizens to flee to the safety of their houses.Two men were seemingly...
The death of Frank E. Roch Jr. has been a stumper for Houston police from the moment officers found the heavily tattooed man dying slumped in his pickup truck that had crashed beside a Houston freeway.First, there were all of the different identification cards he had on and around him — so many, in fact, that investigators had trouble identifying him. Indeed, it would be hours before they learned the man had headed the largest faction of one of the...
alleged MS-13 gang member accused in the 2008 fatal shootings of a father and his two sons in San Francisco's Excelsior District, prosecutors said today.Edwin Ramos, 24, was arrested three days after the killings of Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, on June 22, 2008.Ramos, an El Sobrante resident, has been charged with three counts of murder and multiple special allegations involving gang membership, firearm use and...
A member of the criminal street gang the Crips pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to charges of conspiring to conduct a racketeering enterprise related to his membership in a Pittsburgh Crips criminal enterprise, according to a report obtained by the Organized Crime Control Committee of the National Association of Chiefs of Police. Nicklas Gay, 23, aka “GK,” pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Gustave Diamond to one...
Officers found a shrine to one of the city’s most notorious gangsters — Jeff Fort — when they searched the home of another suspected gang leader last year on the Southeast Side, a police source said.The shrine included photos of Fort locking arms with other Chicago gang kingpins.Police also found receipts of $100 wire transfers to Fort, 64, at the supermax prison where he’s being held in Colorado, the source said.It turned out that Fort is the uncle...
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