Heaven Sutton's 7-year-old body crumpled to the ground on the eve of the summer's hottest day. She was selling candy and snow cones on a West Side sidewalk when gunfire broke out and a stray bullet struck her in the back. Just like that, her name joined the growing list of this year's homicide victims in Chicago, and her image — wide-eyed and smiling — became the face of a street violence outbreak that city officials are struggling to conta...
The spate of what police are calling gang-related violence on the North Side has neighbors concerned that someone they know could be the next victim and has advocates pressing for more social services in poor city neighborhoods. “It’s scary because you don’t know if you’re going to have a bullet come through the kitchen window or whether you can walk safely down the street,” said Racquel Long, 54, of the Mexican War Streets. There were 22 reports...
Donald Ray Dokins appeared in court Friday and a judge set his bail at $3 million. He did not enter a plea and his arraignment was postponed until July 16.Prosecutors contend Dokins rode up on a bicycle on June 4 and opened fire on a crowd standing outside a South Los Angeles home...
A man police consider to be a dangerous and violent street gang leader has been charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of two men outside a Plateau Mont Royal bar over the long weekend. Jean-Philippe Célestin, 31, who has been described as the leader of a Montreal street gang called the K-Crew, appeared at the Montreal courthouse on Monday. He faces five charges in the assault early Saturday that left one man in critical condition outside...
Thirty-four-year-old Randynesh (Randy) Raman Naicker was shot late Monday afternoon by masked gunman outside a Starbucks in suburban Port Moody, east of Vancouver. Vancouver police spokesman Const. Lindsey Houghton notes Naicker is widely known as one of the co-founders of the Independent Soldiers crime gang. The Independent Soldiers are among the gangs in B.C., along with the Red Scorpions, the UN gang, the Hells Angels and the Dhak-Duhre group,...
VANCOUVER, B.C.: JUNE 25, 2012 - The shoes of a man shot dead stick out from under the tarp beside an Infinity Crossover vehicle as police begin their investigation of the suspected gang-related murder in Port Moody, B.C.Photograph by: Ian Lindsay , PNG Naicker, a...
Following a six-month investigation, undercover narcotics officers busted up a market on 47th Street between Michigan and Calumet Avenues, which was home to the Gangster Disciples street gang, Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said Saturday, backed by community members and clergy at the Ward Prairie Baptist Church. Those dealers sold an estimated $1.1 million a year of heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis, he said. Another operation targeted an area between...
federal judge Wednesday sentenced Michael McCloud, of Paterson, to 89 months in prison for his role with the Fruit Town Brims, a set of the Bloods that authorities said terrorized a section of Paterson for years through violent activities connected to dealing drugs. McCloud, 26, also known as “Ike Brim,” was the second Bloods member to be sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler for their part in a broad racketeering conspiracy...
gang member once suspected of setting a fire that killed two Wenatchee boys has been sentenced to prison for a firearms offense. The Wenatchee World reported Wednesday that 20-year-old Juan Manuel Oropeza Lima of Peshastin has been sentenced to 21 months and deportation on a federal firearms possession charge. Police found Oropeza Lima with a handgun while investigating the August 2011 fire that killed 6-year-old Ricardo Alejandre-Garcia and 4-year-old...
A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with separate gang-related killings dating back to 2007, Montebello police announced Wednesday.Montebello Police Chief Kevin McClure is focusing department efforts on unsolved gang homicides and the public can expect more arrests...
The lawyer for gangster James “Whitey” Bulger has asked that his high-profile trial be put off for a year beyond its scheduled Nov. 5 date, saying they “cannot possibly be prepared” on time. “Indeed,” lawyer J.W. Carney Jr. said in a 17-page filing Wednesday night, “to maintain that date will eviscerate the defendant’s rights to due process of law and to effective assistance of counsel under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Federal Constitution.”...
20-year-old man was critically wounded and a teenage boy suffered minor injuries in a gang-related shooting early Saturday morning, police said. Officers responded to a 1:17 a.m. call reporting a man stumbling in the intersection of Olivina Avenue and North P Street, officer Steve Goard said. Officers arrived and discovered a Livermore man -- who had been beaten in his face and shot in his torso -- in front of a business in the 1500 block of Olivina...
Sacramento County Superior Court judge sentenced two gang members to life in prison on Friday for murdering three young men in Rancho Cordova last year. Saul Isidoro-Ausencio and Francisco Delgado were both sentenced to three terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murders of 15-year-old Jamir Miller, 16-year-old Richard Ward and 20-year-old Robert Corpos. Isidoro-Ausencio was sentenced to an additional term...
Oakland man has been convicted of murdering two people outside a public housing complex in what prosecutors called an attempt to impress fellow gang members. Nicholas Harris, 19, was found guilty by an Alameda County jury Tuesday of murdering Nario Jackson, 18, of Oakland and Edward Hampton, 17, of Hayward on Nov. 6, 2010. He faces 100 years to life in prison when he is sentenced in September by Superior Court Judge Morris Jacobson. Jackson...
Anthony Phillips, 26, of San Bernardino, is accused of fatally shooting Maurice Major, 29, of Riverside, at an apartment complex in the 1200 block of North Sierra Way. Phillips was arrested the next day. He is charged with one count of murder, and prosecutors have added a gang enhancement for Phillips' alleged involvement in a San Bernardino gang. Phillips, who was in San Bernardino Superior Court on Thursday, has pleaded not guilty to the charges....
A Jersey City man who is a ranking member of the Fruit Town Brims set of the Bloods street gang was sentenced to 63 months in prison Wednesday for his role in the gang’s criminal enterprises, officials said. Tequan Ryals, 34, had pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy before U.S. District Court Judge Stanley R. Chesler, who imposed the sentence in Newark federal court Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. Ryals, with fellow gang members,...
A mob snitch who couldn’t shoot straight easily pointed the finger at a reputed Colombo gangster on trial for murder. Dino Basciano took the witness stand in Brooklyn Federal Court to testify that he heard Frank (BF) Guerra was part of a hit team that successfully whacked Joseph Scopo in 1993. Basciano, 56, wasn’t much of a hit man himself, botching at least three rubout attempts. In one case, he shot Patricia Capozzalo, the sister of Peter (Fat...
The twin half brothers of Ramarley Graham, the Bronx teen fatally shot by a police officer in February, were convicted Tuesday for gun possenion and being part of a Harlem street gang. Hodean and Kadean Graham were sentenced to eight years in jail for heading a crew known as "One-Twenty-Nine" and "Goodfellas/The New Dons" between 2007 and 2011 in the area around W. 129th Street, between Lenox and Fifth Avenues. The 20-year-old brothers were cleared...
16 years after the fatal gang-related stabbing of a teenager outside his girlfriend’s Fullerton home, prosecutors say they will try one of the rival gang members long suspected of taking part in the attack. Joe Luis Garay Jr., 36, of La Habra, who allegedly belonged to the Devious Hoodlums street gang at the time of the crime, faces 25 years to life in prison if he is convicted of felony murder at his trial in Santa Ana, where opening statements...
Police have locked town a two-block stretch of West 129th Street for weeks, in part because they fear violent retaliation in response to the shooting death of a young father on a basketball court, according to a report. The New York Post says barricades have gone up on the street between Fifth Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard between dusk and dawn. Residents must show ID to get in, and have to meet their visitors at the...
Nine young men were killed, including a 14-year-old boy shot while riding his bicycle. Many more were wounded but lived.Many of the killings could be linked to a feud between two neighborhood gangs — the 10th Street Gang and the 7th Street Gang."There was a feeling of terrorism," recalled Lourdes Iglesias, executive director of Hispanics United, a community services organization on the West Side."It was just crazy that year," said Stephanie J. Simeon,...
A gang member convicted of killing a 15-year-old girl in a hail of bullets he fired into a house in the Kensington-Bailey neighborhood was sentenced today to 25 years to life in prison. A jury in April convicted Kevin J. Davis II, 26, a member of the Gangster Disciples, of second-degree murder for the Sept. 30, 2010 slaying of Dominique Maye. Dominique, a Riverside Institute of Technology ninth-grader, was an unintended target. The teen was staying...
THREE Mafia figures living freely in Australia and labelled "extremely dangerous" by Italian authorities have been sentenced in absentia to long jail terms for international drug trafficking.Australian men Nicola Ciconte, Vincenzo Medici and Michael Calleja have been convicted and...
Emery Allen, a member of the Gunz-Up gang, has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison in connection to a shootout with a rival gang in 2009, district attorney Jan Scully announced today. A jury convicted Allen in April of the attempted murder of Junius Winters, a member of the rival gang, G-Mobb/Guttah Boyz. Allen instigated a gunfight between Gunz-Up and G-Mobb/Guttah Boyz in September 2009 involving as many as 13 people, according to a...
Masked members of rival gangs took part in the mass brawl in a Howdon street armed with samurai swords, machetes and knives in April last year. The two feuding gangs arranged a fight near the Rosehill pub, in Churchill Street, to resolve a dispute over the shooting of Paul Borg the year before. Borg was shot in August 2010 outside his Quay View home in Willington Quay, and the rival factions taunted each other afterwards via text messages and the...
A teenager is fighting for life and another seriously injured after a suspected gang fight in south London. Police said they were called to reports of a fight involving five or six teenagers in Garratt Lane, Wandsworth at 10.05 pm last night. When officers arrived the group had scattered but two 19-year-olds were found collapsed near-by suffering from stab wounds. The young men – who were found in Malva Close - suffered serious knife wounds...
Long Beach police have arrested more than a dozen gang members in connection with a series of shootings over a three-year period. Police Chief Jim McDonnell said Wednesday investigators arrested 16 members of the city's largest gang. Most of those arrested were booked for investigation of such crimes as murder and burglary after they were linked to 13 shootings. Among the cases involve the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man who was standing outside...
Federal prosecutors promised on Tuesday to provide a ground-level look inside the deeds of the Newburgh Latin Kings, including the bloody 24 hours that left two young men dead in 2010. In an opening argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Park Chung said prosecutors would offer recordings of drug deals and the secret weekly meetings conducted by the gang as its power grew in the last years of the decade. He promised the gang's own members would...
More than 50,000 people have been killed in Mexico since a war on drug gangs was ordered in 2006 [Reuters]The dismembered bodies of at least 14 people have been found in an abandoned pickup vehicle in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, authorities say.Veracruz is the scene...
As more gang leaders are arrested, convicted and sent to prison, the gangs they left behind have become "very splintered," he said. Young men on the city's streets agree. "There is no one to control this, so it has become haywire," said Devon Tims, who identified himself as one of the Chicago Vice Lords, making him one of the city's estimated 70,000 gang members. In interviews, McCarthy said the "fracturing" of larger gangs into smaller ones has...
Even seasoned cops are shocked by the crime. Two 15-year-old girls are facing a slew of charges for allegedly forcing other girls, ages 13-17, into prostitution — a human-trafficking ring cops are calling the first of its kind in Canada. “It’s shocking. It’s absolutely shocking,” said police Staff Sgt. John McGetrick. “As a matter of fact, the RCMP couldn’t provide a similar case that they were aware of.” Police are looking for a third suspect,...
Federal police in Mexico say they have captured four top operators of a drug gang that operates in the Pacific coast resort city of Acapulco. One of the suspects is a woman. The gang has been fighting the local Independent Cartel of Acapulco for control of the port city since the 2010 arrest of suspected drug capo Edgar Valdez Villareal, a Texas-born man known as "La Barbie." The new group is known as the "Sweeper" gang or the "Devil's Commando."...
The suspect in a California home-invasion robbery that left four people dead, including the gunman, was a paroled gang member suspected in a separate shooting earlier that day, police said Monday. Police identified 26-year-old Xue Lor as the suspect who fatally shot three people and critically wounded another before he was fatally shot during the attack in Sacramento around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. Robbery appears to be the motive behind the killings,...
The criminal career of Jamaican drug lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke, one of the Caribbean’s most famous gangsters, ended Friday when he was sentenced to 23 years behind bars. The U.S. drug trafficking case brought into sharp focus his reputation for using ruthless acts of violence to strike fear into both foes and allies. Prosecutors in federal court in Manhattan had used the often gruesome testimony of an admitted member of Coke’s drug gang to...
Lorain police tracked down one of the last known at-large MOB gang members yesterday, according to Lt. Mark Carpentiere. Eric Echols, 21, was arrested about noon after he was found hiding inside 818 W. 18th St. He is charged with participating in a criminal gang, Carpentiere said. Echols was indicted in May, along with several other men accused of being members of the Lorain street gang, a target of Lorain police since early May. Also in the home...
Law enforcement officials are saying a Thursday night brawl involving as many as 14 young men with suspected ties to the Sureños and Norteños does not necessarily mean an escalation of gang activity in the county. Tony Gudino Jr., 21, of Colusa, was arrested by Colusa police at Colusa Regional Medical Center after being treated for wounds he reportedly sustained during the brawl, which occurred shortly before 10 p.m. on Lafayette Street, between...
Three men at the heart of the weekend bloodshed at the Eaton Centre, one of whom now faces a murder rap, allegedly have ties to one of the city's street gangs. However, Toronto Police maintain the shooting that claimed one life and sent seven others to hospital, including a pregnant woman and a 13-year-old Port Hope, Ont., boy, was not "gang motivated. "Even though there are several persons who have now been identified in this case as being known...
Three 19-year-old suspected gang members were charged Monday with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at two Anaheim police officers in an unmarked car. Juan Carlos Covarrubias, Jordy Roman Martinez and Andrew Gomez Sanchez face two counts of attempted murder on a police officer and one count each of shooting at an occupied motor vehicle and street terrorism, along with sentence-enhancing allegations of vicarious shooting of a gun by a gang...
The cartel henchman nicknamed "El Loco" was reported behind the latest atrocity in Mexico's ever-more-depraved drug war: mutilating 49 people and piling their bodies - heads, hands and feet missing - by the side of a road leading to the U.S. border. Authorities say he acted this month on orders from the top commanders of the brutal Zeta paramilitary force, who wanted to send a message to the long-dominant Sinaloa cartel and its allies, in a new phase...
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