Kathryn Herr (CBS47) | May 17, 2012 Fresno Police busted a gang house in southwest Fresno. Inside the home they found a sawed-off rifle with a threat to police carved into the stock. The home is just four blocks away from the house where a murder occurred Friday afternoon. At the gang hideout discovered by [...]
NBCLA | May 17, 2012 Seven deputies from the Los Angeles County sheriff’s gang unit are on paid leave during an investigation into their suspected involvement in a secret clique that promoted aggressive policing and celebrated officer shootings, sources confirmed to the LA Times Wednesday. The Times broke the news about the suspected “Jump Out [...]
Robert J. Lopez (Los Angeles Times) | May 17, 2012 A reputed gang member was convicted Thursday in a deadly 2009 Halloween slashing in La Habra, authorities said. Steven Salvador Hernandez, 19, was accused of stabbing the 18-year-old victim in the neck while he was being attacked at a party with a bat and fists [...]
JULIE JOHNSON (THE PRESS DEMOCRAT) | May 15, 2012 A Santa Rosa couple suspected of having connections to a white supremacist gang were arrested Tuesday for ramming their car into the vehicle of former associates, Santa Rosa police said. Michael E. Warren Jr., 37, of Santa Rosa was behind the wheel of a silver Nissan [...]
KABC | May 15, 2012 VAN NUYS, Calif. — A gang member connected to a 1994 cold case murder through DNA evidence was convicted of the crime Monday. Following a nine-day trial, it took jurors two days to convict Kevin Bernard Smith Jr., 36, of the first-degree murder of Rupert “Rudy” Thompson, 73, and the [...]
DENISSE SALAZAR (THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER) | May 14, 2012 FULLERTON – Authorities identified Monday a gunman shot and killed by Fullerton police officers after a high-speed chase that ended when the vehicle crashed through a fence and plunged 20 feet into a drainage canal. The man has been identified as Aurelio Paul Ramos-Navarette, 22, [...]
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 [...]
Kim Christensen (Los Angeles Times) | May 13, 2012 Los Angeles homicide detectives were investigating the fatal shooting of one man and the wounding of another early Sunday at a party at the Brewery Lofts in Lincoln Heights. Investigators sought to determine what prompted the shooting, which occurred at about 1:30 a.m. in the 600 block [...]
Samantha Yale Scroggin (Santa Maria Times) | May 12, 2012 The words “gang member” may conjure up images of hardened, tattooed men committing violent crimes on Santa Maria streets or locked up in prison. But in reality, many gang members and associates are as close as the nearest Santa Maria junior high school, and could [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff May 11, 2012 | 10:23 p.m. PST A Riverside jury found Earl Ellis Green of killing Riverside police officer Ryan Bonaminio at point-blank range as the officer pleaded for his life. The jury deliberated for three hours before returning Friday with the guilty verdict on first-degree murder. That conviction also carried a special [...]
CNN | May 11, 2012 Four gang members potentially face life in prison without parole after being convicted Friday of using violence and intimidation to extort “rents” from drug dealers and suppliers on their Los Angeles turf, a federal prosecutor’s office said. This scheme ended up claiming the life of a 3-week old baby, who [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff May 7, 2012 | 3:30 p.m. PST A 14-year-old, who remained unidentified because of his age, was arrested on Thursday, while at school. He’s accused of shooting a 16-year-old student in the stomach just a block from Santa Ana High School, on April 27. The boy was booked on suspicion of attempted murder and assault [...]
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