Daniel Taylor, 20, agreed to speak with Kings Cross detectives following simultaneous raids on a property owned by Mr Ibrahim at Dover Heights and the home of his bodyguard, Semi ''Tongan Sam'' Ngata, at Merrylands.Mr Taylor, of North Bondi, was charged with recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, malicious damage and entering a car without the owner's consent. He was released on bail to appear in Central Local Court on April 20.Advertisement: Story...
Ex-South Africa rugby star 'murders at least three people with an axe in revenge for gang-rape of his daughter'A famous former rugby player has been arrested in South Africa after allegedly butchering at least three people to death with an axe.A newspaper claimed the unnamed 34-year-old sportsman had launched a murderous rampage in revenge after his daughter was gang-raped and infected with HIV.Afrikaans daily Beeld reported that one of the star's...
Anthony “Ace” Coleman, 26, a member of the Gangster Killer Bloods street gang, is charged with murder in the death of rival Nine Trey Gangster Kareem Washington on Aug. 28, 2005, said Deputy Attorney General Daniel Bornstein.Washington was allegedly killed in retaliation for the shootings of three GKB gangsters, prosecutors said.Defense attorney David Oakley asked Mercer County Superior Court Judge Edward Neafsey to have the state place the plea...
Warren and five members of his gang were convicted in October 2009 of a plot to smuggle £1 million worth of cannabis into Jersey, the Channel Islands.The 47-year-old appealed his conviction arguing that his sentence should be overturned because police in Jersey obtained key evidence by illegally bugging a car driven by a member of his gang, Jonathan Welsh, as he drove through Europe to work on the drugs deal.The illegally-recorded audio, despite...
leader of the MS-13 gang in Washington was sentenced to life in prison plus 150 years on Thursday, a sentence the judge said he hoped would deter gang violence.William Cordova, 26, was convicted in December along with two other gang leaders in the 2007 murder of 18-year-old Edwin Ventura, a rival gang member. During an eight-week trial prosecutors introduced evidence showing that Cordova had terrorized a family he was living with, threatening to...
14 people, including six self-identified members of Saskatoon gang the Terror Squad, were arrested beginning Monday at the conclusion of a intensive five-month investigation that targeted gang-related crime. Collectively, they are facing more than 40 charges.“The reputation of the Terror Squad has reverberated as a group that is untouchable by law enforcement,” said Saskatoon police Insp. Neil Wylie, head of the Saskatoon Combined Forces Special...
A man who controlled a café in Rivière des Prairies until it was shut down last year because the police felt it posed too high a risk to public safety insisted he does not do business with street gangs."No one sells drugs for me, because I don't sell drugs," Vincenzo Padula said Wednesday during the second day of a hearing before the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux.Padula was addressing the most serious allegation among many levelled at...
Mexican authorities detained an in-law of top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman who allegedly ran a transnational drug operation that reached as far as Ecuador, federal police said Wednesday.The suspect, Victor Manuel Felix, is both an in-law of Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, and the godfather of one of the drug lord's children. He is know by the nickname "El Senor," roughly "Mister" or "The Man."Ramon Pequeno, the head of anti-drug...
Francois (Frankie) Meerholz, who police say is linked to the Game Tight Soldiers and Renegades biker gangs, was picked up by Prince George RCMP about 5 a.m. Friday.The Canada Border Services Agency is now asking that Meerholz remain in custody for his alleged breach. At a detention hearing in Vancouver Tuesday, Meerholz asked to have the matter put over to next Tuesday.Adjudicator LeeAnn King agreed to the adjournment but said based on information...
Eight alleged members of the "Ivy Street Gangstas (ISG)" street gang were indicted by a federal grand jury for running a criminal organization that engaged in acts of violence including murders, robberies, narcotics distribution, and weapons violations.According to the 36-count indictment, the eight men are accused of coordinating with one another to obtain money and property through robberies, narcotics distribution, and acts of bank and credit...
Patrice Thimes, gunned down Thursday night as she drove her SUV through the intersection of Page and Euclid, was an innocent bystander caught in a crossfire between elements of the same street gang. Even though St. Louis Police officially have not called the murder of the 39 year old mother of two gang-related, sources say it was just that. And city Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce is indirectly criticizing the police policy of refusing to talk about...
Just the leader alone of a South Side street gang reportedly attempted to murder a man in 2008 and kill another by kicking, punching and pistol whipping him in 2010.Other members of the LSP street gang were involved in much of the same type of activity over a period of eight years, marking their territory with graffiti, selling drugs and retaliating against who they thought were traitors. When they were done, they'd often brag about it online."Thank...
Nipsey Hussle’s brother, Samiel Asghedom, was arrested last Friday (March 19), following reports of an altercation in Los Angeles that allegedly involved the 2011 Freshmen and his former manager Eugene “Big U” Henley.According to streetgangs.com, Nipsey and Henley were involved in a fight in Hyde Park. The site spoke to eye witnesses who claim that Asghedom pulled out a gun to defend his brother and fired into the air. An LAPD officer then arrived...
Wyclef Jean has been released from hospital after suffering a gunshot wound in Haiti.The former Fugees man was shot in the hand late last night (March 19) in the city of Delmas, reports Billboard.No further details of the shooting, which came just before the general election was due to take place in the country, have been made public yet. Jean, who had attempted to register to run for President himself there, was in Haiti to support musician candidate...
Orange County jury has convicted an Asian street gang member of murdering a woman and attempting to murder six others during a shooting in a crowded cafe.Stephenson Choi Kim of San Gabriel was found guilty on Monday of one count of murder, six counts of attempted murder and one count of street terrorism. Kim was also found guilty of a number of other multiple sentencing enhancements.The penalty phase of the trial is expected to begin on Wednesday.Prosecutors...
Thirteen members of a D.C. street gang were indicted on charges related to deadly shootings between rival crews in the Southeast Washington neighborhood known as "Simple City."The indictment charges that several gun battles occurred between the Benning Terrace-area crews from the "Avenue" and "Circle""Today's indictments allege that rival street crews who shared a tiny patch of real estate in Benning Terrace engaged in urban warfare that turned deadly,"...
Six reputed members of the Brown Pride Locos street gang were arrested today, in the latest move by local law enforcement against gang activity in Bradenton and Manatee County.The six were charged with racketeering and conspiracy to racketeering, reflecting the continuing strategy of going after gang members for their alleged associations and organized crime activities and not for specific offenses.The arrests come after an 18-month-long investigation...
Mr Standen is facing trial in the NSW Supreme Court charged with conspiring to import a substance to manufacture drugs, supplying pseudoephedrine and perverting the course of justice.The 53-year-old former assistant director of the NSW Crime Commission was arrested in June 2008 and has been in custody since then after a judge ruled he would present a flight risk if released.The trial jury of six men and six women was sworn in yesterday in front...
34-year-old D.C. man who authorities said is the leader of a violent drug gang was sentenced to 45 years Friday for his role in two murders and other crimes.David Wilson, the alleged leader of the Congress Park Crew, was sentenced in D.C. federal court. He was one of six defendants who went on trial in 2007 for multiple crimes, including crack cocaine dealing, armed robbery, attempted murder and murder. The trial lasted eight months.The jury in the...
23-year-old who ordered murders and sold hand grenades, AK-47s and a plethora of drugs from his suburban Lantana home on Friday agreed to spend the rest of his life in prison to spare loved ones lengthy prison sentences.Answering "Yes, sir" nonchalantly, acknowledging he knew he would be sentenced to a minimum of life plus 85 years in prison, Jonathan Gonzalez pleaded guilty to 11 felonies, including two counts of racketeering murder. In exchange...
34-year-old Visalia man was found guilty Friday of murdering two people while they sat in a car.Joseph Florez is a long-time Norteño gang member and the highest-ranking gang member in the Tulare County jail system, according to the Tulare County District Attorney's Office. The murders were gang-motivated, a news release said.On Dec. 17, 2008, Tommy Madrid Jr., 33, and Lisa Bourget, 27, were sitting in her car outside Madrid's home about 6:45 p.m....
Thirty-five leaders, members, and associates of Barrio Azteca, one of the most brutal gangs operating along the U.S.-Mexico border, have been charged in a federal indictment in Texas with various counts of racketeering, murder, drug offenses, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.Of the 35 subjects, 10 Mexican nationals were specifically charged with the March 2010 murders in Juarez, Mexico of a U.S. Consulate employee and her husband, along...
Perth nightclub bouncer has been charged with assault after a man suffered serious head and facial injuries in an altercation.The fight started outside the Subiaco nightclub just before 3am (WST) on Saturday morning, after the man tried to enter the premises but was refused entry by the 43-year-old crowd controller.Police said during the altercation the 28-year-old man suffered serious head and facial injuries. He is recovering in Sir Charles Gairdiner...
Los Zetas has used family and personal connections to make the Dallas area into a sophisticated distribution point, moving cocaine, pot and methamphetamine to other U.S. markets, weapons, ammunition and millions of dollars in bulk cash back to Mexico, authorities say.Recent developments underscore the region’s role in an increasingly dangerous criminal network. On Feb. 15, Texas-based U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata was...
37 gang members were arrested as part of an operation to target the 30 Deep gang. The four-day operation was conducted by the Atlanta Police Department, the U.S. Marshals Service and nearly two dozen other agencies.As part of the operation, heavily armed agents arrested members of the 30 Deep gang and affiliate groups in the Pittsburgh, Mechanicsville and the Cleveland Avenue corridor. Their charges ranged from minor probation violations to felonies....
“These guys aren’t hanging out with choir boys — they’re hanging out with gang members,” task force commander Keith Booker said. “We conducted numerous interviews with these guys during the operation so we’ll have a database we can go to.”The teams of heavily armed agents rolled into neighborhoods in convoys of SUVs, hoping to catch gang members at home. But the mission’s logistics curbed much of the surprise. Atlanta police Sgt. Jeffrey Branum,...
schoolboy is dead and three teenagers are now facing the prospect of life imprisonment, after what could be yet another tragic case of gang rivalry.An Old Bailey jury yesterday (March 10) found two 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old guilty of the murder of Nicholas Pearton.Another 16-year-old was cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter, while a 14-year-old boy and another 16-year-old boy were acquitted.Nicholas was stabbed to death on May...
Gang members understand what being disrespected by rivals requires.You have to comeback when "they try you," one man explained."If you lived the gang lifestyle you'd know this," said Wilson Almendares.Almendares, an admitted member of the street gang called La Onda, testified Thursday in Hall County Superior Court where Fernando Acosta and Juan Pablo Hurtado are facing charges of fighting as part of a criminal street gang.The witness shed light on...
defense theory that Nigel Ali Maitland was firing in self-defense when he allegedly shot and killed 9-year-old Ciara Savage on Mother's Day 2009 was dealt a blow Wednesday morning when a letter from Maitland was read aloud in court.Writing from prison to his cousin, an alleged member of the Parkway gang, Maitland wrote that he was in a "fall-back" position, apparently regarding members of the south-side gang, "but them b-- n--s went too far."Mentioning...
"The angels and demons were fighting on my shoulder, and my head was just exploding," the man said. His mother came into his room and asked him what was wrong, and he blurted out: "I did something very bad," he said. "I joined a gang, and they want me to kill someone.""Oh my God," his mother replied, the man testified.He told his mother he didn't want the police involved, and that he just wanted to "go away" and live with relatives in Florida. But...
TEENAGE girl murdered with a machine gun at a fried chicken shop was the innocent victim of a local gangs rivalry, the Old Bailey heard today.Agnes Sina-Inakouju, 16, died 36 hours after being shot as she waited for pizza in Hackney, east London, in April 2010.The jury yesterday viewed CCTV footage showing the moment the 16-year-old was fatally shot in the neck.Agnes was standing inside the shop next to its glass window with friends when the killer,...
purported gang member alleged to have killed 24-year-old Tyree E. Lee during a Central District gang rivalry has pleaded guilty to murder.Changing his plea Monday, Jymaika S. Hutson admitted to killing Lee in 2007. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, and will likely be sentenced to 14 ½ years in prison.Lee, regarded by law enforcement as a member of a Central District street gang, was shot to death outside a friend's home on an April evening...
accused of being a ringleader of the Manchester OGs street gang sought Tuesday to be released to his girlfriend's house, but U.S. Magistrate Judge Ervin S. Swearingen ordered him jailed pending trial on drug and weapons charges.Jeremiah Manghan, 20, was one of five people whose 10 cell phones were tapped as part of a three-month investigation into the OGs. As a result of those taps, surveillance and a series of Thursday morning raids, he faces charges...
teardrop tattoo is a symbol that signifies someone has killed a rival gang member, a gang expert told a murder trial Wednesday.Mark Totten was called by the prosecution at the trial of Warren Abbey — who, court has heard, had ties to the Malvern Crew.The Crown has alleged he fatally shot Simeon Peter on Jan. 8, 2004, wrongly thinking he was a member of the rival Galloway Boys street gang. Abbey, 25, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.Totten...
charged 10 associates of El Paso's Barrio Azteca street gang in connection with the slayings last year of three people connected to the U.S. Consulate in Juárez.The Department of Justice said 35 members and associates of the gang were named in an indictment on various counts of racketeering, murder, drug charges, money laundering and obstruction of justice.Ten of the gang members - all from Mexico - were indicted in the deaths last March of Lesley...
Migrant groups going gang busters | The Australian: "LAST week in the Melbourne Magistrates Court, a man alleged to be the 'Mr Big' behind a large ecstasy haul was committed to face trial in a case that provides a fascinating insight into the changing face of organised crime in Australia.
Magistrate...
TEENAGE girl gunned down with a machine gun at a fried chicken shop was the innocent victim of local gang rivalry, a court was told today.
The shots were fired completely randomly as two people on bicycles rode past the takeaway without stopping, the Old Bailey heard.
Agnes Sina-Inakoju, 16, was standing inside the shop next to its glass window with friends when the two youths in hoodies allegedly rode up outside.
She dropped to the ground as the...
The woman who drove the shooter and three other people away from the scene of a gang-related homicide in April on Madison's East Side was sentenced Monday to four years in prison.
The sentence for Karen Giron-Cruz, 20, was the longest that Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi has handed down among the three people convicted in the case so far.
Giron-Cruz pleaded no contest in December to felony murder for the April 28 shooting death of Antonio...
One of the victims of a double murder in Northern Ireland had been charged with the killing of a teenager ten years ago.
He was named locally as Hugh McGeough who was found dead in his home with partner Jacqueline McCartney in Craigavon, County Armagh on Monday evening.
Detectives are now working on a number of theories in relation to the fatal shooting including a possible link to drug gangs in the north Armagh area. Both victims had sustained...
E police yesterday put up a $500,000 reward for the capture of two alleged members of the notorious Spanish Town-based Klansman gangs.
The reward is being offered for Navardo Hodges, otherwise called 'Dee Jay' and Amal Roman, otherwise called 'Satan'.
These photographs, supplied...
Solved: Guilty plea in slaying of Seattle gang leader: "On the eve of trial, a purported gang member alleged to have killed 24-year-old Tyree E. Lee during a Central District gang rivalry has pleaded guilty to murder.
Changing his plea Monday, Jymaika S. Hutson admitted to killing Lee in 2007. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, and will likely be sentenced to 14 ½ years in prison.
On April 28, 2007, officers were called to the 2600 block...
Gun battles between rival gangs have killed 18 people in a north-eastern Mexican town, a day after seven police officers and an inmate died in an ambush of a convoy transporting prisoners in the west of the country.
The fighting in Abasolo erupted on Monday morning and left at least 18 people dead, according to the Tamaulipas state government. The shooting came a month after a further 18 people died in the nearby town of Padilla, several of them...
police are looking for Ricky Loven Dean, 26, a known Gangster Disciples gang member, after a Sunday shooting that left a black man in his 20's hospitalized in stable but critical condition.
Police say the victim was shot in the Hunt Club's parking lot about 1:51 a.m.
This is the second time since November that someone has been shot at the nightclub located at 1900 N. 31st Ave. On Nov. 14, three University of Southern Mississippi football players...
Finks bikie jailed over CCC contempt "A fifth member of the Finks bikie gang has been jailed for two years for refusing to answer questions at a secret hearing of WA's Corruption and Crime Commission.
47-year-old Steven Wallace was found guilty of being in contempt of the CCC which was investigating a violent brawl between the Finks and the Coffin Cheaters at the Kwinana motorplex in October last year.
Wallace had to have some of his fingers...
Bikie hospitalised in ambush : "bikie gang member is in hospital after being ambushed on a street in Sydney's south-west overnight.
Police say the Rebels club member stopped at a red light at Revesby, when he was thrown from his motorbike and bashed with what is thought to have been a tyre lever.
A jacket displaying his club colours was stolen along with his mobile phone.
The 52-year-old is in a stable condition with head, chest and neck injuries.
Police...
Milton Woolf, 55, of St John's Wood, and Jacqueline Swan, 47, of Barnet, offered anonymity to criminals, who opened boxes ranging from single drawers to walk-in storerooms. Among more than £500 million of assets seized by police were gems, crack cocaine and heroin, elephant tusks, child abuse images and £56 million cash.
Five handguns were recovered in raids on the centres in Park Lane, Hampstead and Edgware, including Glock pistols owned by contract...
Coffin Cheaters agree to tear down Bayswater fortress walls"THE Coffin Cheaters bikie gang has agreed to remove fortifications from their Bayswater clubhouse, avoiding a stand-off with police and lengthy court battle.
Today, police announced that Cheetah Investments Pty Ltd, the owner of the Coffin Cheaters' Raleigh Rd clubhouse, had accepted conditions set out in a fortifications removal notice.
Under the directive, WA's biggest bikie gang must...
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