KABC | November 05, 2012 LOS ANGELES — One person was killed and another was injured in a shooting outside a church at Beverly Boulevard and Reno Street in the Rampart area of Los Angeles on Sunday night. Police said a suspect was writing graffiti on an outside wall about 6:30 p.m. when the two [...]
Associated Press | February 7, 2012 NORWALK, Calif. – A Southern California gang member who shot and killed a woman for interrupting a graffiti crew has been convicted of murder. Prosecutors say a jury convicted 21-year-old Angel Chris Rojas on Monday for killing 58-year-old Maria Hicks in the Pico Rivera area. Hicks was behind the [...]
Abby Sewell (Los Angeles Times) | December 11, 2011 A young man was fatally shot while spraying graffiti in Lake View Terrace early Sunday morning, police said. The victim, about 18 years years old and whose name has not been released, was tagging on Terra Bella Street at about 2:35 a.m. when unknown suspects drove [...]
Gang Injunctions & Civil Abatement in Los Angeles A gang injunction in Los Angeles is when the City Attorney’s Office with approval from a judge issues a restraining order against specific gang members of a particular gang. With information gathered from police officers, a judge will grant a restraining order against identified members of a [...]
Tonya Strickland (The Tribune) | June 11, 2011 Twenty-two people were arrested or cited this week during a two-day crackdown on alleged gang activity and other crimes in Paso Robles, authorities announced Friday. Authorities made arrests on probation violations, weapons possession and street racing and issued a series of minor citations. The San Luis Obispo [...]
Cathy Locke (The Sacramento Bee) | May 12, 2011 The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department announced that three known gang members were arrested Wednesday in connection with a rash of graffiti incidents in the Arden Arcade area. Dana Aviles (left), 18, Jesus Nava (right), 19,and a 14-year-old boy were arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism and [...]
Jeannette Rivera-Lyles (Orlando Sentinel) | November 9, 2010 Osceola County is being marked by the foreclosure crisis in a very literal sense: Graffiti is sprouting on hundreds of empty homes and commercial buildings like weeds in a vacant field. “I have to look at this every day, and it isn’t pretty,” said Gloria Rullán, a [...]
Maryland AP News Oct 29, 2010 DOVER, Del. (AP) ? Dover police say at least 16 gangs are responsible for a majority of the violent crime in the city. Det. Sgt. Jason Pires said during a Safety Advisory and Transportation Committee meeting Wednesday that authorities believe the gang-related crime began in 2002. Pires says one [...]
Courthouse News Service Friday, October 15th, 2010 OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) – The Oakland city attorney seeks an injunction to prevent 42 suspected gang members from associating in a proposed safety zone in Oakland’s Fruitvale district. The injunction would prohibit members of the Norteños gang from loitering, selling or possessing drugs and guns or intimidating residents [...]
ABC7 Friday, October 08, 2010 SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) — Hundreds of Orange County parents are teaming up with police to help take a stand against gangs at 26 elementary and middle schools. More than 750 parents are taking part in the new Gang Reduction and Intervention Partnership (GRIP) parent greeter program. The program is [...]
Brian Day (Whittier Daily News) | September 29, 2010 PICO RIVERA – Authorities Wednesday went on the offensive, arresting five suspected members of a Pico Rivera tagging crew believed responsible for more than $200,000 worth of vandalism damage. Deputies carried out a search warrant at nine homes in Pico Rivera to target 10 suspected members [...]
Marci Shatzman September 15, 2010 A West Boca sheriff’s deputy has been pulled into a countywide probe of a gang of graffiti artists blamed for hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Deputy Eric Tatum was detached from District 7 this past Monday to spend a month on a State’s [...]
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