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by Shelby Grad (LA Times)
March 20, 2010
Riverside County authorities are investigating yet another threat received Friday against police officers in Hemet.
On Friday afternoon, someone called 911 saying a police car would be blown up in the next two days as revenge for a law-enforcement sweep earlier this week of a local motorcycle gang.
Authorities said they [...]
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March 20, 2010
Out of prison after serving 7 1/2 years for drug-dealing and armed robbery, Cedric Petteway is struggling to find a job in the worst economy in decades, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
The 32-year-old father of two says he has submitted more than 500 resumés for entry-level jobs in the [...]
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by Tony Barboza (LA Times)
March 19, 2010
Customs officers intercepted 12 alleged drug smugglers in a 24-hour period at the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa border crossings and seized 763 pounds of marijuana, methamphetamine and cocaine worth an estimated $1.16 million, authorities said Friday.
The spate of arrests took place between 6 a.m. Thursday and 6 a.m [...]
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by Mark Gomez (SJ Mercury)
March 19, 2010
When a group of gang members from Mountain View crashed a Sunnyvale girl’s 16th birthday party last summer and got into a verbal fight with another guest over disrespect, they responded by stabbing the 18-year-old man to death, according to police.
Sunnyvale cops acted quickly and arrested the suspected gang [...]
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By Fraendy Clervaud (WJBF News)
March 19, 2010
Augusta, GA—Tahlea Manson: “When I go home at night, I think about all the things we have done.”
Tahlea Manson says this is the first time she can speak publicly on behalf of her son, Brandon Manson.
Manson: “I don’t want to see my son behind bars. I don’t want to [...]
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Jeff Gammage (Philly Inquirer)
Mar. 19, 2010
City school district officials formally acknowledged yesterday that 17-year-old Hao Luu was not connected to a street gang – an allegation that was used to ban him from South Philadelphia High.
Evelyn Sample-Oates, the district’s vice president for communications, said a letter had been placed in Luu’s file to acknowledge his [...]
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THOMAS WATKINS (Associated Press)
March 19, 2010
HEMET, Calif. (AP) — Police in this picturesque city in rural Riverside County have been on edge in recent weeks. Someone is trying to kill them.
First, a natural gas pipe was shoved through a hole drilled into the roof of the gang enforcement unit’s headquarters. The building filled with flammable [...]
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The Associated Press
March 19, 2010
EL PASO – More than 200 federal, state and local law enforcement officers swept through El Paso on Thursday, picking up suspected members of the Barrio Azteca gang in an effort to find new leads into the killings of three people who had ties to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez [...]
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Mark Memmott (NPR)
March 19, 2010
After three attempts on the lives of officers working on a Riverside County, Calif., anti-gang task force, authorities are now offering a $200,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.
The Los Angeles Times and Riverside Press-Enterprise report that since December in Hemet, Calif.:
– A utility line [...]
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By Ken Ellingwood (LA Times)
March 18, 2010
Residents of this scruffy border town thought they had seen the worst of the violence five years ago, when rival drug gangs staged wild gunfights in the streets and a new police chief was slain just hours after being sworn in.
The warfare gave way to an uneasy calm after [...]
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by Christopher Sherman (Associated Press)
March 18, 2010
More than 200 federal, state and local law enforcement officers swept through El Paso on Thursday, picking up suspected members of the Barrio Azteca gang in an effort to find new leads into the killings of three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez last weekend.
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Richard Camp tackled the robbery suspect at the Farmers & Merchants Bank and was wounded in the thigh. He thought the bank would help him financially during his recuperation, but it hasn’t.
My-Thuan Tran
March 18, 2010
Richard Camp was hailed as a hero when he tackled a gunman suspected of trying to rob a Long Beach bank [...]
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