Authorities responded to a shots fired call in the 500 block of Central Avenue at about 8:40 p.m. They found the victim with a non-life threatening gunshot wound. The suspect fled on foot after the shooting. Police conducted an extensive search of the area with a sheriff's helicopter and K9 teams, but the suspect was not fou...
Vancouver police contacted Portland police Wednesday evening after the 22-year-old said he had been shot in Northeast Portland.The injury was not life-threatening, said Lt. Robert King.He said this was the 103rd incidence of gang violence this ye...
Two alleged associates of the Hells Angels have been charged after a police officer was put in a headlock and punched several times in front of a Kelowna nightclub Tuesday.Shortly after 2 a.m. two uniformed Kelowna RCMP members were on patrol when they saw a fight break out between several men on Leon Avenue. When they moved in to arrest the main aggressor, one of the officers was jumped from behind and attacked.The officer who was punched ended...
Four teenagers and a 20-year-old were arrested Tuesday night after they fled a car stop and one teen threw a loaded handgun into a planter box, Watsonville police said.About 8:30 p.m., police and members of the Santa Cruz County Gang Task Force tried to pull over a blue Honda for a vehicle violation on West Beach Street near Rodriguez Street, said Sgt. Brian Ridgway.The car pulled over and a 15-year-old passenger ran away holding his waist,...
Centralia Police arrested four adult males in connection with a gang shooting that happened Tuesday in the 400 block of Ash Street N., in Centralia.According to a news release:Ulises Carrillo-Cruz, 20, Centralia, confessed to shooting a 28-year-old Centralia woman who was not the...
An alleged prison gang member wanted in connection with the killing of a U.S. consulate employee, her husband and another employee's spouse has been extradited to the United States, Mexican authorities have announced. Joel Abraham Caudillo was handed over to FBI agents Dec. 20 in Veracruz at the same time that Julian “El Piolin” Zapata Espinoza, wanted in the February killing of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata,...
With no killings between FOB and FK in nearly three years and the biggest case of them all — the 2009 triple murder at Bolsa Restaurant — resulting in at least two convictions, it would be tempting to assume all is quiet on Calgary’s gang front. That assumption would be wrong. As detailed in a recent article, no small amount of effort goes into monitoring the gang members who aren’t either dead or in jail to prevent any further violence. However,...
Three people are being treated at local hospitals after a drive-by shooting on Hudson Avenue this afternoon. According to Rochester police Capt. Peter Leach, officers responded to Hudson Avenue near Weeger Street at 4:20 p.m. for a report of people shot. Upon arrival, they found three people shot outside of a grocery store. Leach said the shots were fired by people driving by in a gray minivan. After the shootings, the minivan drove away...
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Northeast Division Homicide detectives are asking for the public’s help in providing any information that would lead to the identification and arrest of suspects responsible for fatally shooting a 20-year-old man in the Glassell Park area.Today, around 12:01 a.m., Edgar DeJesus and his two friends were walking in the 3000 block of Estrada Street in the Glassell Park community of Los Angeles. As...
Eight alleged members of the Sureno gang were arrested Thursday on accusations ranging from violation of probation to illegal possession of a firearm, the Merced Police Department said Friday. A police officer on his way to work spotted a 17-year-old male he believed faced a warrant for weapons, according to police. The unidentified youth was driving on West 12th Street with two occupants inside. The officer contacted the Merced Police Department...
The AK-47 attack in one of Osceola County's oldest neighborhoods last month is the latest crime jarring the tranquil image of the century-old community known as "Soldier City," where Civil War veterans settled in the early 1900s. In just seven days last summer, St. Cloud police investigated the suspicious death of a 16-year-old runaway, the killings of two brothers outside a popular bar and the death of a woman linked to an Orlando street gang in...
WEST Vancouver gangster Omid Bayani can look forward to seven years in a federal jail if he makes a public reappearance.But so far it's unknown whether the UN gang member is on the lam from the law, or has met with a more sinister fate at the hands of gang rivals.Bayani, 36, disappeared in September, just two days before he was to be sentenced in Ontario for trafficking a massive quantity of the date-rape drug GHB.The judge in the case described...
• Thuy Yen Vu, 38, of Vancouver, was shot to death while sitting inside a BMW SUV parked in front of a home on the 6400-block Bruce Street in Vancouver at 3 p.m., Dec. 14.• Bradley McPherson, 28, of Surrey, died after being shot at a house party on the 13100-block 67A Avenue in Surrey at 4 a.m. on Dec. 24.• Alok Gupta, 27, of Surrey, died after being shot while working at Ken’s Groceries on the 11000-block 96th Avenue in Surrey at around 3 p.m. on...
Military.com reports that, according to the latest National Gang Intelligence Center Report (NGIC), American street gangs are acquiring high-powered, military-grade weapons with increasing frequency, the result of gang members both enlisted and working as contract civilians at military bases who may be funneling the weapons to gang members on the street.Over the summer, 27 AK-47s were stolen from a warehouse in Fort Irwin, according to the Military.com...
Police say the latest shooting in Adelaide is linked with last week's attack on Comancheros leader Vince FocarelliPolice say shots were fired about 9:40pm on Sunday at and near Caffe Paesano in O'Connell Street.They say two men linked to the Comancheros motorcycle club were sitting at the eatery when they shot at a third man, who returned the fire.Photo: Blood near scene but no victim located by police (ABC: Robyn Powell) Police are hunting a man...
A man linked to the United Nations gang has been convicted in B.C. Supreme Court for his part in a dramatic gunpoint home invasion in Vancouver three years ago.Justice William Ehrcke found Ibrahim Ali guilty of robbery, unlawful confinement, assault with a weapon and several firearms counts in connection with the break-in at Quebec and East 21st Avenue on Dec. 5, 2008.At the time of the incident, Vancouver police called in the Emergency Response...
A police statement said the bloody head was found Wednesday along a commercial strip in Spanish Town, a southern city where violent gangs are deeply entrenched and authorities impose frequent curfews.The head, which investigators say matches Navardo Hodges of the Clansman gang, had a bullet wound in the middle of the forehead, common of gangland executions in the troubled area. A headless body with gunshot wounds was found splayed on a nearby street.Detectives...
Police are seeking a 19-year-old man who they say was involved in a gang-related shooting last week in an apartment on Penny Lane in East Point.Adarius Bullard, of East Point, is considered armed and dangerous, police said. Police said that Bullard had told friends that he would not turn himself in, according to police.Two other suspects have been arrested in the Thursday incident in which a man was shot in the apartment and left there. A maintenance...
Felix and Kelvin Lagares were each found guilty on Monday of conspiring to distribute crack cocaine, heroin, cocaine and marijuana, and using, carrying and possession firearms during their drug conspiracy.The two were convicted after a two-week federal trial. They are two of 33 members and associates of the Newburgh Latin Kings charged in connection with the case, 18 of whom have been convicted.The brothers each face a mandatory minimum sentence...
22-year-old Winnipeg man who was shot in the city's West End was scheduled to be taken off life support late Thursday.Darren George was found shot in a back lane between Beverley and Toronto Streets, near Wellington Avenue, around 4 a.m. on Wednesday. He has since been in critical condition in hospital."There's no brainwave. He's gone. He's just being kept alive by the machines," Natalie Matinet, George's mother, told CBC News on Thursday.Matinet...
Charges were announced against 50 members and associates of the Bronx Trinitarios Gang (“BTG”) for racketeering, narcotics, and firearms offenses. The Indictment alleges that BTG operated as a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO), and charges 41 defendants with racketeering conspiracy, related to their participation in this criminal organization, which engaged in narcotics trafficking, murder and attempted murder. The BTG is...
fast-rising member of a Montreal street gang — involved in robberies, stabbings, beatings, gunplay, turf wars and linked to an unsolved murder — has been ordered out of Canada as quickly as possible in order to maintain public confidence in Canada’s immigration control.The 21-year-old member of a Montreal outpost of the 18th Street Gang, one of the largest and most violent U.S.-based gangs, flagrantly caused mayhem in his adopted city of Montreal...
10th funeral in less than a year for a young black man killed on the streets of the South Side, the Rev. Corey Brooks decided he had had enough.All the men and boys were under 25. The last one was 17. During that funeral, gunfire erupted outside the church as rival gang members refused to allow the living to mourn — or the dead to rest — in peace.Angry, frustrated and heartbroken, the minister hit the roof.On Nov. 22, Brooks rode a rented construction...
Seven members of a notorious Columbia Heights street gang have been indicted on robbery, gun and murder charges.The indictment, unsealed this week, says the seven are members of the G-Rod or 1-4 crew who used "threats, intimidation and extreme violence to protect their turf."Prosecutors say several of the men named in the indictment were behind a 2010 daytime murder on U Street as mourners were leaving a funeral.Five of the seven are now in custody...
TERROR returned to Spanish Town yesterday after gunmen, suspected to be members of the feared Klansman gang, attacked a police patrol, sparking a four-hour gun battle which, at one point, was fought close to St Jago High School where classes were in session. The incident traumatised students who were eventually escorted safely off the premises by the police. St Jago High students walk away from the school compound yesterday after a four-hour...
TERROR returned to Spanish Town yesterday after gunmen, suspected to be members of the feared Klansman gang, attacked a police patrol, sparking a four-hour gun battle which, at one point, was fought close to St Jago High School where classes were in session. The incident traumatised students who were eventually escorted safely off the premises by the police. St Jago High students walk away from the school compound yesterday after a four-hour...
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