Archive for: January, 2010
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1 wounded in apparent La Mirada gang shooting

1 wounded in apparent La Mirada gang shooting

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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Lead Mexican investigator in the slaying of El Monte official Bobby Salcedo has been killed

Lead Mexican investigator in the slaying of El Monte official Bobby Salcedo has been killed

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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Plastic surgeon erases last signs of gang membership — tattoos

Plastic surgeon erases last signs of gang membership — tattoos

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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Stiffer Calif. charges in tattooing of child, 7

Stiffer Calif. charges in tattooing of child, 7

Associated Press
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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Video: Gang members offered education from LA man

Video: Gang members offered education from LA man

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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Gang Disrupts Courtroom, Intimidates Witnesses in Ohio

Gang Disrupts Courtroom, Intimidates Witnesses in Ohio

from NewsNet5.com
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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Police investigating possible links in Monrovia and Duarte drive-by shootings

Police investigating possible links in Monrovia and Duarte drive-by shootings

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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Commission hears of violence in many city schools

Commission hears of violence in many city schools

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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O.C. deputy pleads guilty in lobster poaching case

O.C. deputy pleads guilty in lobster poaching case

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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Jury convicts two accused gang members in racketeering case

Jury convicts two accused gang members in racketeering case

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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Suit: Union City letting gang target blacks

Suit: Union City letting gang target blacks

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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Local agencies help with statewide gang roundup

Local agencies help with statewide gang roundup

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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