DENNIS TAYLOR (The Monterey County Herald) | May 23, 2013 A Monterey County gang kingpin long sought by the FBI was arrested Thursday at the conclusion of a sweeping investigation targeting the leadership of the Nuestra Familia regiment in Salinas, law enforcement officials announced. Officials said the multi-agency operation severely crippled the leadership and drug [...]
JULIA REYNOLDS (Monterey Herald) | November 22, 2012 A woman who had close ties to prominent Salinas and Watsonville gangs has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison following last year’s Operation Garlic Press Sweeps. The case of Rosa Martinez, 32, has been viewed by some in law enforcement as a classic example of [...]
Marissa Pendergrass (KION) | August 20, 2012 SALINAS, Calif- Can being in a certain age range in parts of Monterey County, put a target on your head? Central Coast News found out just how dangerous it is to simply be a young man living in the county. We took a look at how you don’t [...]
Chloe Beardsley (KION) | June 16, 2012 SALINAS, Calif.– Neighbors are fed up with gang violence on their streets. Some say its gotten so bad that they’re moving out. On Friday night one man was shot to death in his car in the Acosta Plaza parking lot in Salinas. The next morning it was a [...]
Jacqueline Tualla (Kion) | June 12, 2012 SALINAS – The Salinas Police Department is taking a page from Santa Cruz to fight crime. The department is turning to predictive policing to fight gang violence. Gang violence is all too familiar in the city. That’s why Salinas is looking at an alternative to hiring more officers [...]
Susanne Brunner (KION) | October 19, 2011 SALINAS, Calif. – A new group is stepping up to help keep your children out of gangs and off the streets. These mentors though, are in state prison. They told Central Coast News they hear about what goes on outside these prison walls… Youth violence plaguing their Central [...]
Alexei Koseff (Monterey County Weekly) | July 28, 2011 Hideous. Modern art. Criminal. Free expression. Graffiti can inspire strong, divided reactions within a community, leading to disagreements over what it is, whether it has purpose, and what to do about it. For recent CSU Monterey Bay grad Scott Lydon, it was initially a way to [...]
Scott Johnson (Oakland Tribune) | June 08, 2011 LOS BANOS — State and federal agents swarmed across several small communities in and around the San Joaquin Valley town of Los Banos early Tuesday morning and arrested 75 suspected members of a prison gang and a street gang. The raid, code-named “Red Zone,” also netted weapons, [...]
JULIA REYNOLDS (Monterey Herald) | May 19, 2011 The state’s “gang office” — the department that brought the Ceasefire intervention strategy to Salinas and gang suppression funds to four south Monterey County cities — may cease to exist just one year after Gov. Jerry Brown made a campaign promise to keep it alive. Brown’s May [...]
MARC CABRERA (Monterey County, The Herald) | May11, 2011 In Salinas, many think media coverage trends toward the sensational, especially in a community where gang-related crimes have propelled the youth homicide rate to the worst in the state. Media coverage was the focus of a study and presentation by a group of CSU Monterey Bay [...]
JULIA REYNOLDS (The Herald) | April 22, 2011 A Naval Postgraduate School study applying counterinsurgency theories to Salinas gang violence has come up with some startling conclusions: Street gangs control and exploit information better than law enforcement, giving them an “information advantage” that city officials must work to overcome. After lengthy surveys of Salinas police, [...]
KIMBER SOLANA (The Californian) | April 8, 2011 Salinas leaders on Friday touted how the city now has gained advantage for any federal grant money to combat gang violence — as a direct result of its participation in this week’s White House-sponsored gang summit in Washington, D.C. “Everyone in the nation needs money, every police [...]
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