By Stefani Camille www.streetgangs.com staff writer February 07, 2013 Christopher Dorner, 33, former Los Angeles Police officer, was fired from the LAPD in 2008 for making false statements. According to documents from a court of appeals hearing in October 2011, Dorner was fired after he made a complaint against his field training officer, Sergeant Teresa [...]
By Stefani Camille www.streetgangs.com staff writer January 17, 2013 Anaheim receives another gang injunction against one of its violent gang on Wednesday. This is the 4th gang injunction slapped onto an Anaheim gang, and the 12th issued in Orange County. This injunction is the result of legal and investigative work that started in March 2012 following [...]
Defense reveals flaws in 2009 Grand Jury indictment January 15, 2013 Los Angeles, California – January 15, 2013 – After a three-and-a-half-year ordeal that began in June of 2009, the government has requested that the court dismiss all the charges brought in a RICO grand jury indictment against peacemaker Alex Sanchez. According to the official [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer January 13, 2013 | 1:15 p.m. PST LOS ANGELES – A federal criminal defense attorney was sentenced last Thursday to seven years in federal prison for his conviction on racketeering and money laundering offenses committed on behalf of 18th Street gang members from Los Angeles which included Mexican Mafia members. Isaac Guillen, [...]
By Crimesider Staff | December 12, 2012 (CBS/AP) NEW YORK – Police in New York City say a gunman who shot and killed a Los Angeles man in broad daylight Monday near Columbus Circle did not act alone. Police say 31-year-old Brandon Lincoln Woodard was walking on 58th street between 7th Ave. and Broadway before [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer December 11, 2012 | 1:31 a.m. PST According to the New York Times gang scholar from Columbia University was the subject of a intense investigation last year into a the spending of a quarter-million dollars that Columbia auditors said was insufficiently documented, misappropriated or outright fabricated. Venkatesh briefly led the largest social [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer December 5, 2012 | 4:22 p.m. PST LOS ANGELES — A man accused of gunning down four people outside an overcrowded, unlicensed boarding house in Los Angeles was arrested at a Las Vegas casino-hotel along with three alleged accomplices, police said Tuesday. The four suspects were arrested without incident at the Silverton [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer November 28, 2012 | 7:12 p.m. PST SANTA ANA, California – Two men who orchestrated an elaborate identity theft scheme from behind the walls of a state prison were sentenced by a federal judge who ordered both men to spend 25 years in federal prison. The two men were the lead defendants [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer November 9, 2012 | 2:09 a.m. Last Friday, Judge Ronald Rose upheld the jury’s sentence of death against Pedro “Darky” Espinoza who was convicted in the 2008 first degree murder of Jamiel Shaw. Many observers who had been watching this trial anticipated that this sentence was inevitable because of [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer October 25, 2012 | 3:58 p.m. PST A 25-year-old female passenger on a Cleveland RTA bus hurled repeated insults at the bus driver. The video shows Shi-dea N. Lane, 25, arguing with 59-year-old Artis Hughes, a Cleveland Regional Transit Authority driver of 22 years. After about 3 minutes, Lane can be heard [...]
By Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times October 25, 2012 Prosecutors of The L.A. County district attorney’s office found that Oscar Carrillo lied when he said he was robbed at gunpoint by19-year-old Kendrec McDade, but the lie just “was one in a series of acts … that culminated in the fatal shooting,” the prosecutor’s report said. [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff Writer October 12, 2012 | 4:01 a.m. PST LOS ANGELES – Early Friday morning the Space Shuttle Endeavour hit the streets of Los Angeles and embarked on its 12-mile journey through Inglewood and South Los Angeles to the Science Center in Exposition Park. It will take two days for the shuttle to travel [...]
Photos of former Navy and LAPD officer Christopher Dorner
Twin sisters struck by car in Leimert Park die
Cle “Bone” Sloan on the set of Southland – Nickerson Gardens projects
Space Shuttle Endeavour parks near Randy’s donuts in Inglewood
California Department of Corrections once allowed gang colors
PHOTOS: Mexican Mafia members from Southern California