Dispute among gang members at a North Miami-area funeral home sparked a mass shooting that injured 12 people and killed two men, according to Miami-Dade police and law enforcement. The gunmen, who fired a barrage of bullets at a crowd of mourners Friday night, remained on the loose. Investigators have not released information about the shooters, only that a white car may have been involved. One of the victims, a 43-year-old man, died outside...
It took the better part of three days but a jury unanimously concluded Real Christian Honorio was one of the gunmen who fatally shot three people at Bolsa Vietnamese Restaurant on New Year's Day 2009. The jury spent some 27 hours deliberating before convicting the 28-year-old member of the 403 Soldiers street gang of first-degree murder in the daylight execution-style deaths of rival FK gang member Sanjeev Mann, 23, and FK associate Aaron Bendle,...
The Crips, one of the largest and most violent street gangs in the United States, has spread its network of crime into high schools across the country, including Virginia, where gang leaders recruited young girls as prostitutes with promises of “lots of money” and then maintained their allegiance through beatings, threats, assaults and an endless supply of drugs. With over 35,000 members in an estimated 800 individual gangs or “sets” in more...
Joseph Ray Rice was convicted in a jury trial March 2 of the first-degree murder of Delvon Williams to benefit a gang. On Nov. 19, 2010, Williams, 26, took a friend out to the nightclub for his 21st birthday. Williams had never been to Karma before, according to his family member. The surveillance video shows Rice walking around the victim on the patio prior to the shooting. While Rice was talking to Williams’ group, the victim indicated...
Police charged dozens of reputed Albany gang members and associates Tuesday in a large-scale takedown of a violent multi-state drug ring tied to 27 shootings, three killings and two shootings at police officers. In early morning sweeps, investigators working for state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman charged 52 defendants, including alleged members of the South End-based Original Gangsta Killas and Bloods street gangs. The bust...
high-ranking member of the New Black Panther Party was arrested for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. DeKalb County Sheriff's Office Hashim Nzinga, 49, was arrested for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. More Atlanta area news » Immigration-related complaint may become ‘moot' 'Chicken Man' house explodes Trayvon Martin rally at Capitol draws many Gang member guilty...
A man believed to be 20 years old was shot in the leg when two male suspects confronted him in San Francisco's Mission District early this morning, San Francisco police said. The 20-year-old was walking near 15th and Capp streets around 2 a.m., police said, when he was approached by two males dressed in all black who asked him if he was in a gang. The victim said he was not affiliated with any gangs, after which the suspects shot him in the...
9 Charged In Rape Of 14-Year-Old Girl In St. Paul Nine men and teens have been charged in the rape of a 14-year-old girl who was forced onto a mattress on the floor and held down while some of the defendants assaulted h...
Honorato Christovao, 54, died four days after being attacked in the Rose Lane car park in the city by Anton St Paul and Spencer Yiadom. Yiadom, who admitted his part in the attack earlier in the trial at Norwich Crown Court, must spend at least 24 years in jail, and St Paul, who was found guilty by a Norwich jury yesterday, will spend at least 23 years in jail. The attack on February 10, 2011 was the result of a drug dispute, which spilled over...
VIOLENT criminal who was overpowered by police as he was on his way to murder underworld figure Mario Condello was told yesterday it was still not too late to give up crime. Justice Lex Lasry told Sean Sonnet that despite his 45 prior convictions and long history of violence he was not "beyond redemption" and that authorities should consider Sonnet for parole when his minimum term expires. "It is not too late for you if you choose to make...
THE final link in Sydney's extravagant "Golden Gun'' cocaine syndicate cut a forlorn figure in the courtroom. A long way from the Versace-dappled luxury that characterised the lifestyles of the drug ring's chiefs, a former swimming-pool finisher faced sentencing in the District Court for handling the racket's ill-gotten gains. Louie Pucariello, an Italian-born, 58-year-old former body builder, was caught with a suitcase and backpack stuffed...
The purported leader of the Greeks gang didn't worry that the body of murder victim Ronald Thom was left on a street in Vernon, B.C., because he wanted to send a message to others not to cross the gang, British Columbia Supreme Court heard Friday. A former gang member turned Crown witness testified he had no concerns about leaving Thom in public view after the May 2005 killing because that is what Peter Manolakos wanted. "Everything was clean...
Photograph by: Abbotsford Times, File photoA lawyer for notorious gangster Jamie Bacon argued Friday that a judge wrongly admitted at trial firearms seized by police from a secret compartment in a vehicle.In December 2010, Bacon was sentenced in B.C. Provincial Court to...
A mafia traitor was beaten to death and then eaten by Serbian gangsters, police believe. Milan Jurisic, 37, was killed with a hammer by a gang of criminals from the Zemun Clan, a mafia group from Belgrade, in Madrid. His remains were then ground up with a meat grinder, cooked, and eaten, according to a confession by another Zemun Clan member, Sretko Kalinic, nicknamed "The Butcher". Later the gang reportedly threw the bones into the River Manzanares...
It seems that Chinese gangster pictures from a lost cell phone show a hoodlum fondling puppies, Porsches, and a purse among other things. The gangster in the viral photos actually posed with huge stacks of money (about $174,000).The online album is called "Pics from a Chinese...
The shootings come on the heels of a weekend in which eight people were shot, followed by a drive-by fatal shooting Monday night in the Bayview neighborhood. Several of the incidents appear to have stemmed from robbery attempts, and others have occurred in neighborhoods not typically associated with gun violence in the city. Related Charges pending in Baltimore Co. triple stabbing Brooklyn man sentenced for selling $140,000 in fake IDs Supreme...
The victims of a fatal drive-by shooting on the Broadway Extension were identified by police Wednesday. Charles Gordon, 24, was killed, and Dewon Thomas, 33, was wounded Tuesday night, said Sgt. Jennifer Wardlow. Charles Gordon, 24, was killed in a shooting Tuesday night in north Oklahoma City.Oklahoma City police identify man killed in drive-by shooting Mar 21Police are searching for a car used in a drive-by... Oklahoma City police identify...
The suspect in the death of 15-year-old Miguel 'Mickey' Hernandez has pleaded guilty to charges of first degree murder and criminal gang activity. Boris Alfredo Juarez Ascencio, 19, of Fairfax, was in court this week for a jury trial, but changed his pleas from not guilty to guilty, according to a report on InsideNova.com. The charges stem from the stabbing death of Hernandez as he walked home from Osbourn High School to his home in Georgetown South...
Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) gang member David Harlow was found guilty today by Senior United States District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr in Houston of racketeering aggravated assault and conspiracy to commit racketeering aggravated assault for his role in the 2008 beating of a gang prospect. The guilty verdict was announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and United States Attorney...
The mobsters were picked up by armed gardai during a dawn raid at a property in the north inner city and are currently in custody at Store Street Garda Station. Sources do not believe that either is the gunman who actually killed Dunne in the gangland murder in a Cabra pub in April 2010 but they believe that the pair played a key role in organising the hit. The Herald can today reveal that gardai also planned to arrest the young criminal...
The victims were found lying in the street. A third man suffered minor injuries. Police say another gang related death and shooting happened on the 8100 hundred block of West Lane. It was there that they found a 21-year-old lying next to the curb. He later died at the hospital. A second man at the same scene was taken to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. He's listed in stable condition. No arrests have been made in either ca...
Latin Kings gang leader from Pennsylvania was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for a series of violent crimes, including a foiled attempt to assassinate rival gang members in Vineland in 2004. Federal law enforcement authorities say Luis Colon, 28, of Allentown was the founding member and “First Crown” of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation Bethlehem Sun Tribe. Colon went by the nickname “King Respect,” authorities said. He was among...
George Warren, living in Blenheim, appeared before Judge Denys Barry in the Blenheim District Court yesterday, facing two charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and one charge of possession of a class A drug, namely LSD. The items were recovered during a police search warrant in Tawa, Wellington on December 8, Judge Barry said. Since the incident, Warren had removed himself from his past and left his gang associates behind, by relocating...
A deputy spotted the yellow Chevrolet Cavalier just after 3 a.m. Tuesday. The vehicle had no license plate, authorities said, so the deputy flipped on his siren and emergency lights. The Chevy bolted, a report said, speeding south on Deltona Boulevard at more than 100 mph. As the deputy lost sight of the suspect's vehicle, he switched off his lights and, at a normal speed, also drove south. At the intersection of Deltona and Spring Hill Drive,...
A parolee and known gang member was arrested when officers searched his home and found a loaded sawed-off shotgun hidden under his bed. The 22-year-old was taken into custody Sunday after a routine parole check at his home in the 400 block of West Stanislaus Street turned increasingly suspicious, Assistant Police Chief Rusty Stivers said. Officers knocked on Alfredo Ayala Jr.’s door around 9:30 p.m. and were led inside by his father. When they...
A Kingston man, who is a member of the Bloods street gang, has been arrested on an active parole violation. Kingston City Police investigated the whereabouts of Cedric Smith-Williams, 30, of 175 Marys Avenue in Kingston and traced him to Rosendale where he was spotted in the area of Route 32 and Main Street on Tuesday. He was charged with felony parole violation and remanded to the Ulster County Ja...
A former Penthouse Pet and swimsuit model accused of running a global crystal meth ring from Hollywood says she jumped bail in Australia and hid for a month because she feared for her life, according to an interview she gave Down Under. "I wasn't trying to flee the country at all; I was trying to protect myself from being killed or harmed," she told The Sunday Telegraph while being flown back to Sydney (photo). She jumped $150,000 bail and...
Five people were killed and at least 12 other people wounded in shootings Saturday night and Sunday morning across the city. Three people were shot -- one of whom later died -- about 1:50 a.m. on the 5300 block of South Loomis Boulevard in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, police said. Two were taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County and one was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said. One of the three died, Chicago...
Darnell Nolley was found guilty for orchestrating a March 28, 2011, shooting in Monroe but recently pleaded guilty to a lot more. Nolley was found guilty March 8 by a jury in Walton County on charges of attempted armed robbery, aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, obstruction and 17 counts of violating the Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act. During his sentencing last week, the 24-year-old Covington...
More than 100 people are thought to have been at the party at the time of the stabbing. Mr Hide and his family have relocated as investigations continue. Confirming identity A cordon is in place as crime scene investigators examine the site. Officers have spent the night speaking to witnesses, Norfolk police said. A police cordon is in place at Herbie Hide's house Det Supt Julian Gregory, of the joint Norfolk and Suffolk Major Investigation...
Santa Ana police have arrested two men on suspicion of committing the city’s first gang-related killing of the year, authorities said Wednesday. Rene Mojarra, 19, and a 16-year-old male juvenile, both from Santa Ana, were taken into custody about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in connection with a fatal shooting a day earlier, said Cmdr. Stephen Colon of the Santa Ana Police Department. Monday’s shooting occurred at an apartment complex in the 200...
An unidentified man, with tattoos of the "Alpine Street" gang on his abdomen, was found shot to death in Juárez Monday afternoon, Chihuahua Attorney General's officials said. The victim, in his mid 40s, was lying in the middle of the street at Batopilas and Carlos Adame Streets, Anáhuac neighborhood, officials said. He sustained several gun shot wounds to his body, according to forensic experts. Seven .40 caliber bullet casings were recovered from...
Reputed high-level Bloods street gang leader Asmar Bease and a co-defendant went on trial Tuesday on charges of attempting to murder a Paterson man who the state says confronted Bease for having sex with his wife. Bease and co-defendant Corey Cauthen shot victim Alphonso Gee when Gee came after Bease looking for a fistfight, Passaic County Assistant Prosecutor Jason Statuto told jurors during his opening statement in state Superior Court in...
Killer Beez gang boss Josh Masters has stalled his own case for almost four years because life must be "more comfortable" in remand, police claim. Masters will appear at the High Court in Auckland later this month, where he has to apply to vacate his guilty plea on drugs and money laundering charges - something he has previously suggested he wants to do - or be sentenced. The gang boss has already been accused of toying with the system for the...
Contra Costa jury convicted an El Sobrante gang member in the death of a San Pablo teen hit by gunfire that was intended for an acquaintance. After a week of deliberations, the jury convicted Jordan Smith, 23, on Monday of second-degree murder, street terrorism and charge enhancements in the April 13, 2007, shooting of 17-year-old Raymond Adams, deputy district attorney Danielle Douglas said. The defense had argued that Smith was driving his girlfriend's...
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf Wednesday sentenced Curtis Hester, 26, to 7 1/2 years in prison to be followed by four years of supervised release, and Timothy Moynihan, 36, to 12 1/2 years in prison to be followed by nine years of supervised release. Both were sentenced for conspiring to distribute more than 28 grams of cocaine base and distribution of cocaine base. Hester's sentence was due in part to Judge Wolf's finding that...
18th Street gang member convicted in five aggravated murders was sentenced Friday to five consecutive life terms, the Los Angeles district attorney's office said. William Vasquez, 31, was ordered to serve life without the possibility of parole plus 156 years by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler. A jury convicted Vasquez of five counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances, including use of firearms and actions in furtherance...
Federal officials are worried that a vicious Bloods street gang leader up on murder charges might be planning a prison break -- if not the killing or intimidation of a witness -- after a cell phone was found in his solitary-confinement cell in a New York City jail. Ronald "Ra Diggs" Herron, a self-styled rapper from Brooklyn who has used Twitter and YouTube to threaten violence against informants and the children of police officers, is being...
Alleged crime boss Timothy L. Barreira pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to tax evasion charges. Barreira, 49, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the federal government, tax evasion and failure to file taxes when he appeared before U.S. District Judge Joseph L. Tauro. The judge scheduled sentencing for June 6. Barreira faces up to five years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine...
Another rapper gets added to the long list of emcees being arrested in Las Vegas, as Coolio was arrested this past weekend in Sin City. The ‘Gangster’s Paradise‘ emcee was stopped on the Las Vegas strip by local police for a routine check, when officers discovered that Coolio had two bench warrants out for his arrest that were the results of multiple traffic violations. The 48 year old, real name Artis Leon Ivey Jr., was only a passenger in the vehicle...
Catherine Greig, the girlfriend of notorious Boston gangster James (Whitey) Bulger, has agreed to plead guilty to charges she helped him escape — but she won’t have to rat out her man. The feds nabbed Greig, 60, along with her mobster lover after they had evaded the law together for almost 17 years. A plea agreement filed Monday, first reported by the Boston Globe, stipulates that she won’t have to testify against him. “In early 1995, I agreed...
Michel Smith, a Quebec member of the Hells Angels wanted se 2009 in connection to 22 murder cases, has been arrested by authorities in Panama, according to media reports. However, officials from the Surete du Quebec and RCMP were not immediately able to confirm or deny the reports. According to the RCMP, Smith is a member of the South Chapter of the Hells Angels and goes by the nickname "L'animal." He has been on the run since 2009 in connection...
21-year-old man was fatally stabbed late Sunday in what Chicago police suspect may have been an internal gang dispute, authorities said. The stabbing occurred just after 8 p.m. in front of a liquor store in the 200 block of South Western Avenue in the city's Near West Side. Officers responding to a large fight discovered the victim lying on the street with a single stab wound to the chest, police said, citing early reports. The victim, whose...
Quebec fugitive -- and alleged member of the Hells Angels -- who is wanted on murder charges has been arrested in Panama, local media reports say. Michel Smith, 49, who was linked to Quebec's deadly biker war in the 1990s, was reportedly arrested Friday. Smith -- whose nickname is "animal" -- has been on the run since 2009. He was taken into custody by local police in the tourist area of Playa Coronado on the Pacific Ocean coast, according...
The slayings of four youths whose bodies were cut to pieces and left in plastic bags has horrified the central Mexico city of Cuernavaca, calling up memories of a similar crime a year ago that spurred the creation of a national crime victims' movement. Prosecutors in Morelos state said the victims, ranging in age from 14 to 21, were found Thursday in plastic bags on a Cuernavaca street along with a threatening note from a drug gang. Photos...
The hunt is still on for a lone gunman who shot four unarmed men in front of a house Thursday night, then escaped on foot in a quiet Roselle neighborhood, authorities said today. Two died and two were shot in the legs, which authorities are calling a "targeted" shooting — and one of the dead men was a Crips gang member, said Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow. The shots were fired just after 10 p.m. in front of the house on Walnut Street,...
Two Northern California men arrested last fall during a sweep of suspected gang members have been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors say 37-year-old Miguel Gonzalez and 31-year-old Adrian Gamino were both sentenced by a federal judge in San Jose Wednesday after pleading guilty in December to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag says Gonzalez, who is from Salinas, and Gamino from Morgan Hill, were...
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