FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 1, 1998 CONTACT: Makini Hammond, Deputy City Attorney, Code Enforcement Unit, 533-5664 City of San Diego Achieves Next Step in Declaring Lincoln Park Gang Members a Public Nuisance San Diego, CA (December 1, 1998) — The City Attorney’s Code Enforcement Unit has taken the next step in declaring members of the [...]
By The Associated Press 10.28.1998 SAN DIEGO — Gang members can keep their pagers after a state appeals court decided the devices cannot be included in court orders prohibiting members from meeting or conducting some other normally legal activities in certain neighborhoods. An absolute ban on a common, legal communications device goes too far, even [...]
By Corey Q. Bradley First Amendment Center 09.01.98 The Compton Varrio Tortilla Flats gang may be the latest group to find itself targeted by anti-loitering laws. Los Angeles County prosecutors last week filed a lawsuit seeking restrictions against gang members to prevent them from confronting, intimidating, harassing or threatening residents. Critics of such injunctions say [...]
Friday, August 14, 1998 Shooting: Area where LAPD officer was gunned down has long been known as hard-core gang territory. Crackdowns by police and the FBI have failed to suppress 18th Street clique. By ROBERT J. LOPEZ, RICH CONNELL, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers Members of the 18th Street gang who claim the area where [...]
Gang Members Barred From Meeting Publicly; Courts: Judge Approves Injunciton Against Harpys, Accused of Terrorizing Area Near USC. Youth Worker Calls Order A License For Police To Harass Young People. HECTOR BECERRA, TIMES STAFF WRITER August 5, 1998 A Superior Court judge Tuesday ordered 30 members of a street gang accused of terrorizing a neighborhood [...]
Saturday, Jul. 11, 1998 Court order aims to oust gang members Local district attorney wants to create similar law preventing people from gathering By JUAN B. ELIZONDO JR. Associated Press/Corpus Christi Caller Times AUSTIN – A judge has issued Texas’ first civil court order against alleged members of a gang, preventing them from doing such [...]
Pubdate: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 Source: Austin American-Statesman Author: Dave Harmon, American-Statesman Staff SUSPECTED GANG MEMBERS GET RESTRAINING ORDER SUBPOENAS Judge Still Must Rule On Whether Suspects Are Public Nuisances Officer Bruce Thompson’s knuckles rapped three times on Shang Yahoshua’s apartment door Thursday, and moments later, the 21-year-old stepped outside into a semicircle of police [...]
Authorities Say “Mara Salvatrucha” Gang Terrorizes Residents LOS ANGELES, Posted 7:50 a.m. April 14, 1998 — Members of a Hollywood street gang are prohibited from gathering in public, blocking sidewalks and other activities under a preliminary injunction issued Monday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Collins issued the order in a public nuisance lawsuit filed [...]
Copyright 1997 Gannett Company, Inc. USA TODAY November 12, 1997, Wednesday, FINAL EDITION SECTION: LIFE; Pg. 11D LENGTH: 465 words HEADLINE: Injunction quashes L.A. gang BYLINE: Doug Levy DATELINE: INDIANAPOLIS BODY: INDIANAPOLIS — Police in Los Angeles are finding that reams of paperwork can stop gang violence. In March, investigators concluded a year and a [...]
Second Injuction Against Notorious Gang Granted LOS ANGELES, Posted 3:15 p.m. August 29, 1997 — A second injunction has been granted against some members of the 18th Street gang. A judge Friday barred 50 of the 18th Street gang members from simple and abhorrent activities against residents and businesses in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood. Civil [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer May 13, 2012 | 10:49 p.m. Former LAPD detective that was convicted of murder last March was sentence Friday by Judge Robert Perry to 27 years to life. Stephanie Lazarus, 52, has been incarcerated in the Los Angeles County jail since her 2009 arrest for the 1986 murder of [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer May 9, 2012 | 4:09 p.m. LOS ANGELES – After about 4 hours of deliberations the jury found 18th Street gang member Pedro Espinoza guilty of 1st degree murder in the 2008 killing of Jamiel Shaw Jr. While walking home in the Washington Heights neighborhood, Shaw crossed paths with [...]
Photos: Los Angeles Riots in 1992 and 20 years later (page 1 of 2)
Los Angeles Riots property damage from 1992 and 1997
Funeral Service for Rolland Miller in Los Angeles
Candle light vigil for Rolland “Rocky” Miller turns out hundreds of friends
McDonald’s sign charging Blacks a surcharge is fake
James Whitey Bulger photos through the years