ANTOINE ABOU-DIWAN (Imperial Valley Press) | April 20, 2013 IMPERIAL — The city of Imperial is pursuing a civil gang injunction against a local gang, the first for the area. “We’ve been working on that for months,” said Imperial Police Chief Miguel Colon, confirming that “ImpXIII” is the group in question. The impetus for seeking [...]
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 [...]
Chris Meagher (Santa Barbara Independent) | February 23, 2012 A juvenile court judge will have to decide whether the city can use juvenile records to bolster its case for a gang injunction, Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Colleen Sterne said Tuesday morning. The proposed injunction, which the city unveiled last March, would create safe zones [...]
FRED SWEGLES (THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER) | January 18, 2012 San Clemente’s chief of police services assured the public Tuesday night that the Sheriff’s Department is clamping down on gang activity. Two gang-related incidents in a week’s time – a Jan. 6 beating and a Jan. 14 shooting – have raised tensions in town, and [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER October 19, 2011 40 Glocc, or Big Bad 40, real name Lawrence Wright, was arrested in January with charges for carrying a loaded weapon in a public space when a gun was retrieved from his parked Range Rover. Wright was sitting in the vehicle with several associates near the [...]
Sean Maher (Oakland Tribune) | August 14, 2011 OAKLAND — The debate over proposed gang injunctions in the Fruitvale neighborhood has never lacked for spirit, but it recently got a new dash of color. A mural was painted on the side of a shop at 34th Avenue and Foothill Boulevard, about 30 feet wide and [...]
The Associated Press | August 3, 2011 RIVERBANK, CA – An anti-gang measure employed in cities with major gang problems might be tried in Riverbank due to an increasing number of drive-by shootings. Riverbank already reported 23 shooting this year versus nine in all of 2010. Due to this spike in gang-related activity, the Police [...]
The Associated Press | July 22, 2011 LA PUENTE, Calif. — Los Angeles County prosecutors say they’ve made a 16-square-mile area of the San Gabriel Valley off-limits to gangs. The district attorney’s office says it obtained a permanent court injunction Friday for a zone that includes the cities of Industry, La Puente, parts of West [...]
KATHERINE JARVIS (Daily Democrat) | July 10, 2011 While many believe the Broderick Boys gang injunction will continue to reduce crime in West Sacramento, a lawyer representing the alleged gang members still hopes to have the ruling overturned.In a judgment released in June, Yolo County Superior Court Judge Kathleen White ruled members of the Broderick [...]
Henry K. Lee (Chronicle Staff Writer) | June 25, 2011 OAKLAND — An Alameda County judge signaled Friday that he will approve Oakland’s second gang injunction, a legal order that would prohibit five alleged Norteños from gathering in the city’s Fruitvale neighborhood. Superior Court Judge Robert Freedman issued an interim order saying the city had [...]
Sean Maher (Oakland Tribune) May 18, 2011 OAKLAND — Gang injunctions in North Oakland and the Fruitvale district won the support of the City Council Tuesday night. In a 4-3 vote, the council decided to continue funding both efforts, which have cost the city about $760,000, mostly in staff time. The North Oakland injunction has [...]
Ali Winston (KALW News) | May 4, 2011 More than a year since Oakland filed its first gang injunction in Alameda County Superior Court, the City Council is poised to take action on outgoing City Attorney John Russo’s controversial anti-crime strategy that has polarized parts of the city and exacerbated police-community tensions. Representatives from the [...]
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