Black P-Stones street gang raid target 11/10/05
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Black P-Stones street gang raid target 11/10/05
Law enforcement raids target violent LA street gang
By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, Associated Press Writer
Last Updated 8:35 pm PST
Thursday, November 10, 2005
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police and federal agents carried out raids Thursday against alleged members of a notorious street gang accused of conspiracy and drug trafficking, arresting at least 18 people and seizing stashes of crack cocaine.
Nearly 1,000 law enforcement officers conducted sweeps targeting the Black P-Stones street gang - a Bloods set known for its violent history in Los Angeles and Chicago - in parts of Los Angeles' Baldwin Village area, Hawthorne and Inglewood, FBI officials said.
Eight defendants were indicted on federal charges of conspiracy and distributing cocaine base, with the remaining 10 facing various state counts. Another eight indicted on federal charges still were being sought, said J. Stephen Tidwell, assistant director in charge of the FBI's local office.
The gang allegedly made one of its homes in Baldwin Village, a lower-income community in South Los Angeles that's seen 28 murders and more than 1,500 assaults in the last five years, officials said. Also seized Thursday were weapons, including an AR-15 assault rifle and an AK-47.
"We are sending the gang a very clear message: You are not untouchable," police Chief William Bratton said.
The sweep, dubbed "Operation Stone Cold," was conducted by the FBI, the Los Angeles Police Department and other agencies as part of a joint investigation aimed at "combating homegrown gang enterprises terrorizing the streets," Tidwell said.
Hoping to break up the gang, authorities targeted its leadership. Law enforcement officials said they plan to maintain a large presence in Baldwin Park and other neighborhoods in the coming months in an effort to keep the group from regenerating.
"We won't forget about this gang," Tidwell said. "We'll continue to make sure we've ... dismantled it."
Though the gang was believed to have partly originated in Chicago during the 1960s, there have been no sweeps there as part of the crackdown, officials said.
http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/ ... 9899c.html
By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, Associated Press Writer
Last Updated 8:35 pm PST
Thursday, November 10, 2005
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police and federal agents carried out raids Thursday against alleged members of a notorious street gang accused of conspiracy and drug trafficking, arresting at least 18 people and seizing stashes of crack cocaine.
Nearly 1,000 law enforcement officers conducted sweeps targeting the Black P-Stones street gang - a Bloods set known for its violent history in Los Angeles and Chicago - in parts of Los Angeles' Baldwin Village area, Hawthorne and Inglewood, FBI officials said.
Eight defendants were indicted on federal charges of conspiracy and distributing cocaine base, with the remaining 10 facing various state counts. Another eight indicted on federal charges still were being sought, said J. Stephen Tidwell, assistant director in charge of the FBI's local office.
The gang allegedly made one of its homes in Baldwin Village, a lower-income community in South Los Angeles that's seen 28 murders and more than 1,500 assaults in the last five years, officials said. Also seized Thursday were weapons, including an AR-15 assault rifle and an AK-47.
"We are sending the gang a very clear message: You are not untouchable," police Chief William Bratton said.
The sweep, dubbed "Operation Stone Cold," was conducted by the FBI, the Los Angeles Police Department and other agencies as part of a joint investigation aimed at "combating homegrown gang enterprises terrorizing the streets," Tidwell said.
Hoping to break up the gang, authorities targeted its leadership. Law enforcement officials said they plan to maintain a large presence in Baldwin Park and other neighborhoods in the coming months in an effort to keep the group from regenerating.
"We won't forget about this gang," Tidwell said. "We'll continue to make sure we've ... dismantled it."
Though the gang was believed to have partly originated in Chicago during the 1960s, there have been no sweeps there as part of the crackdown, officials said.
http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/ ... 9899c.html
come on man don't be a well wisher . you know just as i will i do once the money gets cut the feds just gonna sit back and watch that hood implode. it ain't got shit to do with blood or crip hood. i am startin to wonder bout yall bloods on here some of you. you cats talk like cause bloods don't have as many numbers as crips that , that alone makes bloods tougher which is false every crew got bitch as niccas. if i miss took your post then my bad. i am gonna say it every hood has its day every empire comes to an end. large gangs miss a key element yeah they have the numbers what they don't have is organization. just a bu nch of niccas trying to get cookies off a name.
II heard that they were going to do something, but I thought they would do what they did to CMG with more injunctions and stuff. They said they were going to make police-evictions (sicne most landlords are afraid of gangs) and some other ideas for getting people out of the area.
That's cool seeing them do something, though, BPS attacks a lot of non-bangers, and they have all these rapes charges, which to me is disgusting.
That's cool seeing them do something, though, BPS attacks a lot of non-bangers, and they have all these rapes charges, which to me is disgusting.
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A much more detailed article, including names of those arrested and those who are still fugitives.
From the Los Angeles Times
Agents Arrest 8 in Gang Sweep
Action is aimed at drug-related violence in Baldwin Village in southwest L.A. Seven more are detained on parole violations.
By Richard Winton
Times Staff Writer
November 11, 2005
The FBI and Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday arrested what authorities described as the leaders of a gang responsible for 28 murders over the last five years in and around a one-square-mile area of southwest Los Angeles.
Hundreds of heavily armored LAPD officers and FBI agents carrying 16 federal drug indictments stormed locations in the Baldwin Village area, arresting suspected members of the Black P-Stone gang.
The arrest capped more than a year of investigation in which authorities used informants to infiltrate the organization and make drug buys that were recorded secretly on videotape. All of the charges related to drug offenses, including conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.
"This is a battle between good and evil. These are evil people. They are murderers. They are drug dealers. They poison these neighborhoods," Police Chief William J. Bratton said at a news conference. "We are making a major effort to disrupt and hopefully dismantle the leadership of one of the more prolifically violent gangs in the city of Los Angeles."
Bratton said the Black P-Stones have deep roots in a gritty section of low-slung apartment houses between La Brea Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard south of Coliseum Street. Baldwin Village, for generations known as "the Jungle" for its rich assortment of tropical foliage, was the backdrop for portions of the crime film "Training Day."
Baldwin Village has long been an island of heavy gang activity in a larger community of middle-class and upper-middle-class neighborhoods that dot southwest Los Angeles at the foot of the Baldwin Hills, said Police Capt. James Craig, division commander for the southwest area.
Baldwin Village is less than a mile square, but the LAPD estimates that it is home to 700 to 800 gang members. Police Lt. Paul Vernon said that is an extraordinarily high ratio — even for the city's highest-crime neighborhoods. "These are the guys who lure teenagers into the gang life," he said.
Over the last five years, Black P-Stone members have been involved in 800 street robberies and 1,500 aggravated assaults as well as the 28 murders, said Craig.
Bratton has been so concerned about crime in Baldwin Village that he selected the area as one of five neighborhoods to receive extra officers, who are pursuing small crimes such as trespassing in hopes of preventing more serious crimes. Craig said that this effort has reduced crime somewhat, but that officials expect a larger drop in the wake of the arrests.
The FBI and LAPD called the investigation "Operation Stone Cold." Detectives spent more than a year building cases against gang leaders with street nicknames such as "Briminal," "Blaster" and "Bandit."
Authorities said many of the cases are built around videotapes of gang members selling drugs to informants.
"We've worked to put them away for a very long time. Those arrested today face 40 years to life if convicted," J. Stephen Tidwell, assistant director in charge of the Los Angeles FBI office, said at a news conference announcing the arrests.
Authorities had arrested eight people as of 8 p.m. Thursday and were searching for eight others. An additional seven not listed on arrest warrants were detained for alleged parole violations and other charges.
Those arrested Thursday included: Shannon Thomas Adkins, known as "Big Stray Dogg," 31, of Los Angeles; Lorenzo Clay II, known as "Big Man," 32, of Hawthorne; Ronald Herbert Ellis, known as "Blaster," 40, of Los Angeles; Lawrence Eugene Hill Sr., known as "LB" and "Lil Black," 35; David Dermaine Jones, known as "Tall Blood" and "Popkorn," 29, of Los Angeles; Derek Pascascio, known as "PB" and "Quran Durant," 29, of Los Angeles; Aaron Westley Smith Sr., known as "Bandit," 31, of Los Angeles; James Womack IV, also known as "J-Berry" and "J-Bear," 32, of Inglewood.
Eight others remain fugitives: Carlos Merrel Broady, also known as "Wink," 28; Cornel Crosby Carnegie, known as "J.J.," 26; Mark Anthony Dacosta, known as "Marky Boy," 34; Jesse Lee Floyd III, known as "Jesse James," 49; Ronald Lionel Hill Jr., known as "Big Rat Boy," 26; Quentin Lamont Howard, known as "Briminal," 32; Richard Pecantte, known as "Richie," 37; and Ray Dannell Walker.
http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/la-me-sw ... ewslocal-1
From the Los Angeles Times
Agents Arrest 8 in Gang Sweep
Action is aimed at drug-related violence in Baldwin Village in southwest L.A. Seven more are detained on parole violations.
By Richard Winton
Times Staff Writer
November 11, 2005
The FBI and Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday arrested what authorities described as the leaders of a gang responsible for 28 murders over the last five years in and around a one-square-mile area of southwest Los Angeles.
Hundreds of heavily armored LAPD officers and FBI agents carrying 16 federal drug indictments stormed locations in the Baldwin Village area, arresting suspected members of the Black P-Stone gang.
The arrest capped more than a year of investigation in which authorities used informants to infiltrate the organization and make drug buys that were recorded secretly on videotape. All of the charges related to drug offenses, including conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.
"This is a battle between good and evil. These are evil people. They are murderers. They are drug dealers. They poison these neighborhoods," Police Chief William J. Bratton said at a news conference. "We are making a major effort to disrupt and hopefully dismantle the leadership of one of the more prolifically violent gangs in the city of Los Angeles."
Bratton said the Black P-Stones have deep roots in a gritty section of low-slung apartment houses between La Brea Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard south of Coliseum Street. Baldwin Village, for generations known as "the Jungle" for its rich assortment of tropical foliage, was the backdrop for portions of the crime film "Training Day."
Baldwin Village has long been an island of heavy gang activity in a larger community of middle-class and upper-middle-class neighborhoods that dot southwest Los Angeles at the foot of the Baldwin Hills, said Police Capt. James Craig, division commander for the southwest area.
Baldwin Village is less than a mile square, but the LAPD estimates that it is home to 700 to 800 gang members. Police Lt. Paul Vernon said that is an extraordinarily high ratio — even for the city's highest-crime neighborhoods. "These are the guys who lure teenagers into the gang life," he said.
Over the last five years, Black P-Stone members have been involved in 800 street robberies and 1,500 aggravated assaults as well as the 28 murders, said Craig.
Bratton has been so concerned about crime in Baldwin Village that he selected the area as one of five neighborhoods to receive extra officers, who are pursuing small crimes such as trespassing in hopes of preventing more serious crimes. Craig said that this effort has reduced crime somewhat, but that officials expect a larger drop in the wake of the arrests.
The FBI and LAPD called the investigation "Operation Stone Cold." Detectives spent more than a year building cases against gang leaders with street nicknames such as "Briminal," "Blaster" and "Bandit."
Authorities said many of the cases are built around videotapes of gang members selling drugs to informants.
"We've worked to put them away for a very long time. Those arrested today face 40 years to life if convicted," J. Stephen Tidwell, assistant director in charge of the Los Angeles FBI office, said at a news conference announcing the arrests.
Authorities had arrested eight people as of 8 p.m. Thursday and were searching for eight others. An additional seven not listed on arrest warrants were detained for alleged parole violations and other charges.
Those arrested Thursday included: Shannon Thomas Adkins, known as "Big Stray Dogg," 31, of Los Angeles; Lorenzo Clay II, known as "Big Man," 32, of Hawthorne; Ronald Herbert Ellis, known as "Blaster," 40, of Los Angeles; Lawrence Eugene Hill Sr., known as "LB" and "Lil Black," 35; David Dermaine Jones, known as "Tall Blood" and "Popkorn," 29, of Los Angeles; Derek Pascascio, known as "PB" and "Quran Durant," 29, of Los Angeles; Aaron Westley Smith Sr., known as "Bandit," 31, of Los Angeles; James Womack IV, also known as "J-Berry" and "J-Bear," 32, of Inglewood.
Eight others remain fugitives: Carlos Merrel Broady, also known as "Wink," 28; Cornel Crosby Carnegie, known as "J.J.," 26; Mark Anthony Dacosta, known as "Marky Boy," 34; Jesse Lee Floyd III, known as "Jesse James," 49; Ronald Lionel Hill Jr., known as "Big Rat Boy," 26; Quentin Lamont Howard, known as "Briminal," 32; Richard Pecantte, known as "Richie," 37; and Ray Dannell Walker.
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Enough with the racial stuff.Quickdraw wrote:Moes aint no damn Bloods. Thats why I hate these white folks speaking on this shit. And they are not a gang, they are an organization 20,000 members strong in my city, the Almighty Black P. Stone Nation. There is no "partly originated", either you is or you aint.
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Midwest Stones are diffrent from LA
In LA they are Bloods.They arent the same as the Black P Stones in the Chi and Mil.Quickdraw wrote:Moes aint no damn Bloods. Thats why I hate these white folks speaking on this shit. And they are not a gang, they are an organization 20,000 members strong in my city, the Almighty Black P. Stone Nation. There is no "partly originated", either you is or you aint.
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the media does have it mixed up, but there is a connection between the BPS Bloods in LA and the Black Peace Stone Nation in Chicago.Quickdraw wrote:Moes aint no damn Bloods. Thats why I hate these white folks speaking on this shit. And they are not a gang, they are an organization 20,000 members strong in my city, the Almighty Black P. Stone Nation. There is no "partly originated", either you is or you aint.
read this: http://www.streetgangs.com/bloods/bpsn.html
and read Alonzos interview with T. Rodgers: http://www.streetgangs.com/magazine/trodgersbook.html
Correction, they did have a connection. But I doubt they plugged with the CHI cuz they dont even be up on they keys and lessons. And Stones aint supposed to be Blood in the first place. Thats like claiming Black Disciple Crip. And Stones aint start banging in 62, Chief Malik had started that shit in the late 1950's, they aint get strong till 1962. Stones old as hell and nobody is special just cuz their Prince spread it from Chicago cuz Stones been spread before Prince Rodgers came out that way. SO LA Stones aint the second predessors or first sons of CHI Stones cuz niggas banged Stone in places like Wisconsin and other MidWest places before they even came to Los Angeles. In fact, Stones were the first gang to ever migrate, Prince Rodgers wasnt the first Stone to spread.GDbigtimdog wrote:the media does have it mixed up, but there is a connection between the BPS Bloods in LA and the Black Peace Stone Nation in Chicago.Quickdraw wrote:Moes aint no damn Bloods. Thats why I hate these white folks speaking on this shit. And they are not a gang, they are an organization 20,000 members strong in my city, the Almighty Black P. Stone Nation. There is no "partly originated", either you is or you aint.
read this: http://www.streetgangs.com/bloods/bpsn.html
and read Alonzos interview with T. Rodgers: http://www.streetgangs.com/magazine/trodgersbook.html
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