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Whittier Daily News
01/31/2010
LA MIRADA – A man was wounded Sunday in an apparently gang-related shooting in La Mirada, authorities said.
The shooting took place just after 6 p.m. in the 13800 block of Ratliffe Street, Los Angeles County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor Art Marrujo said.
The victim, a Latino man in his 40s, suffered several gunshot wounds [...]
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Tracy Wilkinson (LA Now)
January 30, 2010
The lead investigator in the slaying in Mexico of El Monte educator Agustin Roberto “Bobby” Salcedo has been killed in an ambush, officials said today.
It was not clear whether the death of investigator Manuel Acosta will have any effect on the case, in which little progress had been reported. [...]
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By Cara McCoy (Las Vegas Sun)
January 30, 2010
Dr. Julio Garcia knows how powerful gangs can be. The notorious Latin Kings ruled the Chicago neighborhood where he grew up, and when the gang tried to recruit him, his family uprooted and moved to a different part of the city.
So when Garcia, now a Las Vegas plastic [...]
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January 30, 2010
A Fresno County judge is reinstating stiffer charges against two men accused of tattooing a 7-year-old boy with a gang symbol.
The aggravated mayhem charges mean the boy’s father and his friend could face life in prison if they are convicted.
A judge ruled in October that Enrique Gonzalez and Travis Gorman should face [...]
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By Subha Ravindhran (KABC)
January 29, 2010
A Southland man is making a difference, taking gang members off the streets and into the classroom to teach them trades and change their lives.
These days it’s hard enough for anyone to find a job. But for an ex-gang member it is next to impossible. One man is trying to [...]
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POSTED: 4:24 pm EST January 29, 2010
There was chaos in the courtroom, as a judge in Lorain County ordered the courtroom clear when gang members disrupt a murder trial.
On Thursday, witnesses said it was a circus, as gang members intimidated witnesses and tried to disrupt the trial.
Teenage members of an Elyria gang called MA [...]
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By Nathan McIntire (Pasadena Star News)
Posted: 01/29/2010 04:48:27 PM PST
Police were trying to determine Friday whether a shooting on Magnolia Avenue that wounded a man was related to another shooting in nearby unincorporated Duarte minutes later.
In the first incident, a dark-colored sedan veered onto the wrong side of Magnolia near Genoa Street and pulled alongside [...]
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Kristen A. Graham (Philly Inquirer)
Jan. 29, 2010
PHILADELPHIA – Violence is a problem not just at South Philadelphia High but also at schools around the city, several parents, teachers, and residents told the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations last night.
It’s particularly acute at Audenried High School in Grays Ferry, where neighborhood violence and gang activity has [...]
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Robert J. Lopez (LA Now)
January 28, 2010
Lobster An Orange County sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty today to possessing too many spiny lobsters, authorities said.
William Robb III, 39, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count each of possessing an excessive number of spiny lobsters and possessing undersized spiny lobsters, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office.
Robb was [...]
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By Tricia Bishop (Baltimore Sun)
January 29, 2010
A federal jury convicted two Maryland gang leaders, one of whom produced the infamous “Stop Snitching” videos, of racketeering Thursday evening, after two days of deliberation.
Sherman Pride (also known as “Dark Black” and “DB”), 35, of Salisbury and Ronnie Thomas (“Skinny Suge” and “Tall Vialz”), 36, of Baltimore face [...]
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By: Henry K. Lee (San Francisco Chronicle)
January 28, 2010
Union City police and school officials have failed to protect African American students from a Latino gang, whose members killed a black youth in 2007 at a middle school and then shot at his friends last weekend in Hayward, according to attorneys who filed a class-action lawsuit [...]
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By: Neal Wagner (Shelby County Reporter)
January 28, 2010
A pair of Shelby County law enforcement agencies recently aided federal and state officials in arresting 27 suspected gang members throughout the state.
The Pelham Police Department and the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office provided manpower, booking facilities and other help to agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [...]
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