Federal agents and local police have arrested 28 suspected gang members and associates in New Mexico as part of a national roundup of gang members linked to drug and human trafficking. Officials with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations announced Wednesday that members and associates affiliated with the South Side Locos and Brown Pride gangs in Albuquerque, southern New Mexico and the Four Corner's region...
Police investigating the fatal shooting of a reputed Canadian gangster in Mexico fear there may be retribution for his death -- at home, and abroad. Thomas Gisby was gunned down on Saturday morning at a Starbucks in Nuevo Vallarta, just north of the western resort city of Puerto Vallarta, police say. RCMP allege the 50-year-old was a "high-ranking organized crime figure" involved in drug trafficking and other illegal activities. In the wake of...
A hooded gang member from Bush Hill Park has been found guilty of the murder of a rival in Kilburn last year. Mohammed Hashi, 19, of Agricola Place, and three other gang members knifed Millad Golmakani, 22, to death after ambushing him while he played football on a sports pitch on April 20, 2011. Mr Golmakani was left bleeding to death with 14 separate wounds to the neck and back, and a punctured lung, with his 17-year-old friend lucky to escape...
Abbotsford gangster Jarrod Bacon and his former father-in-law Wayne Scott could face 15 to 21 years in prison, if a judge accepts the Crown prosecutor's recommendations. They were found guilty last Feb. 3 of conspiring to traffic 100 kilograms of cocaine, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. At a sentencing hearing Friday, prosecutor Peter LaPrairie asked the judge to impose a prison sentence of up to 21 years for Bacon and up to...
The head of a notorious organized crime syndicate based in B.C. was gunned down in a Mexico coffee shop Friday, police said. Thomas Gibsy, 50, who police allege built and controlled an international criminal empire with links to the Hells Angels, was shot in the head as he walked into a coffee shop in Nuevo Vallarta around 10 p.m. Friday “This individual was highly ranked and probably thought he was at such a high level he was immune from both...
Montreal police said their anti-gang squad has dismantled a cocaine ring linked to the Mafia, resulting in 11 arrests. Police seized drugs, cash and several weapons in a series of raids in 18 different locations in Montreal, Laval and Longueuil on Thursday. Police said the investigation into the ring, operating in the northern and eastern ends of the island, began last fall. Those arrested are expected to be charged Friday afternoon with counts...
B.C.'s police gang task force is continuing to investigate the daytime gang shooting at a Kelowna casino hotel in August 2011 in which one of the notorious Bacon brothers was killed and three other people were injured. Larry Amero, a full-patch Hells Angel, and James Riach of the Independent Soldiers gang were both shot and wounded. Leah Hadden-Watts, 21 - whose uncle, Michael James "Spike" Hadden, is a full-patch member of the Haney Hells Angel...
Asian gang member sat quietly at a counsel table Friday while he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole plus 255 years to life in prison for his role in an unprovoked gang shooting at a Cypress café that left one woman dead and several others wounded. The sentence means that Stephenson Choi Kim, 31, of San Gabriel, will never be considered for parole, unless his conviction for the special circumstances murder of Venus Hyun,...
Criminal charges have been filed against three known gang members for a drive by shooting that occurred in south west Fresno on Sunday. Police say 21 year old Garrett Street gang member Jahquaivious Anderson, 21 year old Modoc Street gang member Robert Jackson, and 19 year old Modoc Street gang member Devonta Murphy were arrested for shooting at a man in the 1600 block of West Oleander on April 22nd. 26 year old man was not injured in the shooting...
A man was wounded this evening is a drive-by shooting in the Del Paso Heights area. Sacramento Police Department spokesman Sgt. Andrew Pettit said the shooting occurred about 6:30 p.m. in the 3700 block of Norwood Avenue. He said the suspect and the victim are believed to be acquainted with one another and may have been involved in a dispute before the shooting occurred. The victim, a man in his late 40s, was shot in the upper body and was taken...
A man was wounded this evening is a drive-by shooting in the Del Paso Heights area. Sacramento Police Department spokesman Sgt. Andrew Pettit said the shooting occurred about 6:30 p.m. in the 3700 block of Norwood Avenue. He said the suspect and the victim are believed to be acquainted with one another and may have been involved in a dispute before the shooting occurred. The victim, a man in his late 40s, was shot in the upper body and was taken...
Robert Turner feels blessed to be alive. He says one bullet missed him about an inch. "It happened real fast," said Turner, who was watching TV in his living room when he heard gun shots. "It was a pow-pow-pow-pow! And I rolled and screamed because I thought I was shot." Luckily, Turner wasn't hit. He says Thursday night, someone pulled up next to his mailbox and shot six bullets at his house on Cleveland...
The 12 arrested face federal and state firearms or drug charges, including distribution of powder cocaine, crack cocaine and methamphetamine. The arrests took place Tuesday at locations around the area, all without incident, a release from the FBI said. The investigation, dubbed Operation Devil's Playground, was started in 2009 as a joint effort of the FBI's Joint Task Force on Gangs, with assistance from the Chicago High-Intensity Drug-Trafficking...
The MS-13 gangster who admitted to shooting one of our sources in the head -- and fatally shooting one of his friends -- was formally indicted today by a federal grand jury. Additionally, Carlos "Silencio" Ortega, 22, was indicted in the machete-to-the-face murder of a fellow MS-13 gangster who refused to "put in work" for the gang by murdering a rival gangster. In all, Ortega was hit with 12 counts (racketeering, murder in aid of racketeering,...
He may not be cooperating with investigators, but he told police what he needed after he was injured in an apparent drive-by shooting over the weekend. Springfield police officers Carla Daniele and Jonathan Torres located a 23-year-old gunshot victim after responding to a report of gunfire in the vicinity of Maple Street and Avon Place at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday. The officers tried to get information from the man regarding who had shot him, but the...
Five people have been arrested in the slaying of a Marine veteran and father of four during a March 31 bar brawl in Antioch that didn't involve the victim, police said. Detectives have linked the five suspects, identified by police as gang members or gang affiliates, to the shooting death of Lizandro "Tony" Bertolazzi, 38, at Cruisers Saloon on A Street early in the morning of March 31. Antioch police announced Monday the arrests of 22-year-old Juan...
The drive-by shootings have subsided, but SUR-13's signature blue bandanas and "SURX3" tattoos have far from disappeared from South Florida streets. State prosecutors last week ended a four-year racketeering case in Palm Beach County against 14 suspected members of the notorious SUR-13 gang, sending them all to prison for stretches of up to 55 years. Yet local and state gang investigators say the Mexican street gang has swelled in areas where poor,...
The Trotwood bar near where a Dayton man and a Dayton undercover police officer were seriously wounded last weekend has been the scene of nearly 30 reported thefts, assaults, fights and other criminal acts since January 2010. Authorities suspect those events, which led to 16 arrests, are an indication of gang action. “The activity we’ve seen at Leo’s II is consistent with the activities gangs are involved with: weapons, shootings, parking lot fights,”...
A gang feud over a gambling debt has led to three shootings and a stabbing since Wednesday, prompting enhanced policing in the city’s southwest. Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano and police officials announced their plan Saturday at the intersection of Elm and Oak streets in response to four days of violence that they said is related to a dispute over a dice game between gangs on Riverdale Avenue and Cottage Place Gardens, a public housing complex off Warburton...
30-year-old man is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of a Burnside neighborhood handy man earlier this week, authorities said. Michael Jones was ordered held without bail Friday by Cook County Criminal Court Judge Edward Harmening in the fatal shooting of his neighbor, 58-year-old James Reddick. Chicago police officers assigned to the Gresham District were responding to a call of an unrelated armed robbery when they heard gunshots...
Four people have been shot in Framingham since February, but a wall of silence put up by victims and witnesses has hindered the search for those responsible, a police official said. That lack of cooperation is making it difficult to solve the shootings — none of which was fatal — even though investigators have ideas who may be responsible for some of them, Framingham Police Lt. Kevin Slattery, the head of detectives, said yesterday. So far, no...
The Bishops Bloods gang is known for running the 52nd Street corridor on the Eastside of South L.A. Most of the set's beefs seem to involve other African American gangs that dwell in the LAPD's rough Newton Division, but for some reason a Blood named Baby Uzi opened fire on at least two Latinos who weren't banging, killing them both. The U.S. Attorney's Office this week announced that ... ... Baby Uzi, a.k.a. 22-year-old Marquis Edwards, has pleaded...
A member of the Pueblo Bishops Bloods, a criminal street gang that had used violence and intimidation to control the Pueblo del Rio housing project in South Los Angeles, pleaded guilty this morning to federal racketeering charges, specifically admitting that he was involved in the murders of two people not affiliated with any gang in attacks that had been unsolved prior to a federal RICO indictment, announced United States Attorney André Birotte,...
A gang member has been charged with second degree murder in connection with the shooting death of a man last weekend at a Tacoma warehouse party. Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist says 35-year-old Devennice Gaines was arraigned Thursday and is being held without bail. He also has been charged with one count of unlawful gun possession. Forty-year-old Bruce Price was shot early Sunday morning outside a warehouse in downtown Tacoma. According...
COURT heard that today that gangland figure Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll may have tried to to defend himself from a hail of bullets by holding up an Audi car manual. Ronald Withers, 67, a forensic scientist specialising in firearms, said eight bullets were fired into the car Carroll was sitting in at an Asda supermarket car park, hitting his head, chest, arm and hand. Mr Withers was present at the crime scene and the post-mortem examination of...
A well-known Abbotsford gangster is in serious danger and local police want everyone to stay away from him.That's why Abbotsford Police put out an extraordinary public warning Thursday telling people to steer clear of Chadwyn Marcus (Chad) Weber.Police went to Weber April 11...
Since notorious street gang MS-13 put down roots in the D.C. area, officials in tiny Arlington County have worked to establish one of the most extensive gang prevention programs in the region, focusing on keeping children out of gangs and helping current gang members get out. Arlington documented 10 active street gangs in 2011, and 237 gang members came into contact with police in the same year. But the county has more prevention programs than any...
It's low risk and high yield, picking up girls at the mall or at the bus stop who had words with their parents before storming out of the house. An outreached hand offers to help. "Poor thing," says the friendly girl, "let me buy you something to eat." And within 48 hours, that middle schooler, who is often between the ages of 11 and 14, has been gang-raped, drugged or transported to another state and is being sold on the street or in a car or in...
Alleged gang leader Richard Goodridge covers his face as he exits a hearing at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday, April 18, 2012.Photograph by: Allen McInnis, THE GAZETTE An alleged street gang leader who was at the centre of an investigation that shut the doors...
Drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman purportedly has come gunning for the vicious Zetas gang on the South Texas border, leaving 14 of their butchered bodies and a message vowing to rid Nuevo Laredo of its criminal scourge as a calling card. “We have begun to clear Nuevo Laredo of Zetas because we want a free city and so you can live in peace,” proclaims a banner, under which were posed the bodies, as well as the gunmen presumably in Guzman's...
A Prince George gangster who was first ordered deported to South Africa more than four years ago has turned himself in to police on charges of kidnapping and assault. Prince George RCMP say Francois (Frankie) Meerholz, 24, who police say is linked to the Game Tight Soldiers and Renegades biker gangs, as well as his brother Dillan Meerholz, 22, turned themselves in to police late Tuesday. Responding to a report of a kidnapping, Mounties went to...
FOR a bloke a judge once described as intelligent and articulate, Matthew Charles Johnson squandered any potential he may have had. Watch Ended 0:00 / 0:51Scrubber mute Share Fullscreen Carl's killer sentenced Matthew Johnson is handed a 32-year jail sentence for bashing imprisoned gangland boss Carl Williams to death Johnson was serving his third stretch in Pentridge Prison. While the Dickensian jail and its tough-nut population no doubt...
On Feb. 6, 2011, the Steelers lost Super Bowl XLV to the Packers 31-25. Five weeks later, Jarami Thomas paid for it with his life. The 20-year-old placed a $40 bet on the game over Facebook, according to the Tarrant County District Attorney's, and lost it to a member of an Arlington street gang called Lynch Mob. Another member of that gang, 19-year-old Clevin Earl Brown Jr., was sentenced today to 50 years in prison for shooting Thomas to death...
Darko Janceski, 32, was shot several times early last night when a gunman arrived at his father's Berkeley house in New South Wales on a motorbike. Superintendent Wayne Starling says the father heard the shots and ran outside to confront the man responsible. "The father has also raced out when he's heard the gunshots fired and engaged in a fight with the person who fired the shots," he said. "A number of superficial wounds were sustained by Mr...
Police arrested a third Fort Carson soldier Saturday in the March 3 killing at the Sin City Disciples motorcycle club. Pvt. Eric Bartholomew, 22, of Colorado Springs, was held without bail on investigation of first degree murder, El Paso County jail records show. He is assigned to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson said Saturday. Sgt. Christopher Mountjoy and Sgt. John Burrell, also Fort Carson soldiers, were already in...
A woman wounded in a shooting that killed her boyfriend last year was slain over the weekend, and officials say she suffered more than 20 gunshot wounds. Kimberly Harris, 25, was shot around 7 p.m. Sunday in the backyard of a house in the 2900 block of West Arthington Street in the Lawndale neighborhood, according to Harrison District Police Lt. John Andrews. Shell casings were recovered from the scene, the lieutenant said. Harris, 25, of the 1100...
A Syracuse man whose toddler was killed in a drive-by shooting has been charged with what police are calling another gang-related street shooting. Rashaad Walker Sr. was charged Saturday with felony assault and weapons possession. Police say he was riding in the passenger seat of a car when he allegedly shot a 22-year-old man in the neck on March 20. The man survived. The shooting came a week after reputed gang member Saquan Evans was convicted...
Portland police investigators are frustrated by a "code of silence" among gang members that has kept officers from solving two gang-related homicides from last year and one this year where a host of witnesses likely saw something, Assistant Chief Eric Hendricks says. He cited the killings of Shalamar Edmond, 18, in New Columbia's McCoy Park last May 16; Leonard Irving Jr., 34, across the street from a nightclub on Northeast 82nd Avenue last June...
The Boise Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred early Sunday morning in downtown Boise. Investigators believe the shooting is gang related. It happened on the southeast corner of Capitol Boulevard and Main Street at 1:15 a.m. No one was seriously injured, but now Boise Police are looking for who fired. Doug Winter works in downtown Boise, just feet away from where the reported gang shooting took place. “I was here for...
Stephone Reed Authorities said they have captured three members of the local Gangster Disciples, including the gang's leader, after a carjacking and robbery. Police said Stephone Lee Reed, 21, of 3301 Through St., is the gang's "Big Homie." Also arrested were Anston Baker and Demarquis Dillard. After the March 31 incident in Brainerd, a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper spotted the stolen car in Bradley County. It was stopped after a pursuit. ...
A crooked custody officer stole a police mugshot to create a Facebook page falsely accusing a heroin dealer of being an informant to help a rival pusher. Within hours of the picture appearing on the social network, the man shown in the picture - 31-year-old Domenico Masciopinto - had been shot by a gunman. Jonpaul Pasqualone, 28, was jailed for seven years after stealing Masciopinto's mugshot which he posted online with the caption: 'A Police...
Nine reputed members of the Cliff Street Gangsters have admitted to conspiring to sell drugs and to violently keeping rivals at bay in the Nodine Hill section of Yonkers, as prosecutors continue to build their case against a chief enforcer of the group. An indictment detailing some of the men’s activity was unsealed last August during a sweep of dozens of city gangsters. Since then guilty pleas for many of the reputed Cliff Street Gangsters...
BIKIE boss Mahmoud ''Mick'' Hawi has been sentenced to at least 21 years jail for murdering a rival gang member in the 2009 Sydney Airport brawl, despite the sentencing judge finding he may not have actually inflicted a single blow on the victim. Hawi, until recently the powerful national president of the Comanchero motorcycle clubs, sat expressionless in the dock as NSW Supreme Court Justice Robert Allan Hulme ordered that he not be released...
The incident happened at around 2.30pm on Saturday in the Hannahglen Heights area.
Four masked men got out of a black Mercedes van and attacked the man.One of the gang was armed with a suspected gun while another had a knife.The victim sustained wounds to his hands.The men made off in the van towards the Glen Road.:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holderThe...
Three alleged gang members arrested Tuesday night after gunfire was exchanged between two vehicles near Kennedy Park were in Yuma Justice Court Wednesday. Marlee Cahoe, 19, Adrian Covarrubias, 18, and Gabriel Lugo, 19, appeared before Judge Gregory S. Stewart to learn what charges they may be facing if the prosecution files a formal complaint in the next two days. Cahoe is facing one felony for allegedly organizing and or managing a street...
Closing arguments will be heard this morning in the second murder trial of a man charged with gunning down a Jersey City father of four on Clinton Street in December 2008. The first trial of Darnell Reeves, 26, of Jersey City, on charges of killing Henry Molesky, 41, near West Side Avenue, ended in a hung jury in September. The jury was also deadlocked on a gun charge he faced. Reeves, a reputed high-ranking Bloods street gang member, is facing...
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