TERRY COLLINS (Associated Press) | December 28, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court has ruled that a suspect can’t be convicted of felony gang participation if he committed the crime by himself. Thursday’s ruling in San Francisco affirmed a 3rd District Court of Appeal decision two years ago that reversed a Yuba County [...]
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Vivian Ho (San Francisco Chronicle) | July 10, 2012 Authorities say they didn’t know where a suspected gang leader accused of the 2008 triple-slaying of a San Francisco father and his two sons had been hiding for the past four years, but evidence suggests that on several occasions he was within their reach. Wilfredo “Flaco” [...]
Lee Romney and Maria L. La Ganga in San Francisco (Los Angeles Times) | June 15, 2012 In a criminal complaint that has stunned friends and relatives, the San Francisco district attorney’s office claims a couple killed their 17-year-old daughter’s pimp, a Compton gang member. Barry Laprell Gilton and Lupe Mercado tried to persuade the [...]
PAUL ELIAS (Associated Press) | May 31, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO—Todd Ashker and Danny Troxell are among the 78 prisoners who have lived for more than 20 years in notorious solitary confinement cells at a California prison.Troxell painstakingly crafted a handwritten federal lawsuit on behalf of both convicted killers in December 2009, claiming their prolonged isolation [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff March 20, 2012 | 1:15 p.m. PST San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi was sentenced Monday to three years of probation in a domestic-violence case involving his wife, Eliana Lopez a former Venezuelan telenovela star. The saga began New Year’s Eve, when Mirkarimi, his wife and their 2-year-old son, Theo, went out for lunch, [...]
U.S. Attorney’s Office | February 23, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO—Late yesterday afternoon, a federal jury found Christopher Bryan Ablett, a/k/a “Stoney,” a member of the Modesto Chapter of the Mongols outlaw motorcycle gang, guilty of all four felonies with which he was charged including murder in aid of racketeering, assault with a deadly weapon in aid [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER February 15, 2012 The night ended in resounding anger and frustration when Philip Beasley, also known by his stage name of Philthy Rich, came out of a nightclub in San Francisco’s Richmond District after his performance Sunday night. The 29-year-old Oakland rapper was arrested at around 1:30 a.m. when [...]
Dan McMenamin (Bay City News) | February 6, 2012 The brother-in-law of Edwin Ramos, an alleged MS-13 gang member accused of a triple killing in San Francisco in 2008, testified today that Ramos changed cliques in the gang because he felt his old clique was not violent enough. Abraham Martinez, 22, continued his testimony today [...]
Ari Burack (SF Examiner) | January 22, 2012 The triple-murder trial of an accused MS-13 gang member, whose case brought the country’s immigration debate to the steps of San Francisco City Hall three years ago, is set to officially begin today. Edwin Ramos, 25, is accused in the June 2008 fatal shootings of Anthony Bologna, [...]
KABC | August 21, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO — Two people were shot after a NFL preseason game in San Francisco Saturday night. Police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said Sunday that no suspects were in custody and that “I have no suspect description at this time.” The men were shot and injured in the parking lot of [...]
Bob Egelko (San Francisco Chronicle) | August 15, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s biggest gang trial in years is heading to a federal court jury today after attorneys offered a final round of competing narratives of organized mayhem on the city’s streets and unreliable accusations by government-paid informants. The Mission District unit of the [...]
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