Christina Cocca (NBCLA) | February 16, 2013 The mothers of two men facing federal hate crimes charges told radio listeners Saturday their sons are innocent, playing down reports of racial conflicts in Compton between Latinos and African-Americans. The women appeared with other Compton residents on “The Hutchinson Report” on KPFK Pacifica Radio, a program hosted [...]
18th Street Gangs vs MS 13 – Mara Salvatrucha (2007) $13.99 SOLD OUT See All DVDs, Books & Magazines Two of the most celebrated Los Angeles Hispanic gangs from Los Angeles, 18th Street and MS-13, who have their gang roots in the Pico-Union area of Los Angeles. They have been involved in a rivalry in [...]
Bangin’: Livin’ With Colors $12.99 See All DVDs, Books & Magazines This DVD is know by another title, “L.A. Street Life Vol. 3 – Livin’ with Colors” but is is the same DVD. Released in 2005 this DVD takes you deep into the barrios and neighborhoods of Los Angeles’ most active Latino street gangs. Some [...]
Pacoima Brown Stoner Locos (PBSL) is a predominately Hispanic street gang in the Pacoima area of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. Related stories: Pacoima South Side Locos in the Pacoima area of the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles Pacoima South Side Locos (PSSL)… Hispanic gangs in the Pacoima neighborhood of Los Angeles [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer April 3, 2012 | 8:35 a.m. PST It’s been over a year since Daniel “Monster” Silva, 18, was gunned down on the corner of Alsace Ave and Roseland, but his memorial still stands. While sitting in a car, an assailant walked up and shot Silva on the morning of [...]
Kristine Wong (Half Moon Bay Patch) | March 16, 2012 Just a year ago, it might have been unimaginable on the streets of Half Moon Bay. Yet over the course of a few months — from August to October 2011 — five people were shot at (three in August, two in October) in rival Norteños [...]
Rosalio Ahumada (Modesto Bee) | February 10, 2012 A defendant, accused of attempted murder, testified on the witness stand in his trial Friday, telling the jury he did not a shoot an 18-year-old man in a brazen attack in south Modesto. Javier Garcia testified that he was with his sister and a friend paying credit [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer November 7, 2011 | 11:49 a.m. LOS ANGELES – In what federal authorities are calling Operation “Supernova,” three defendants were arrested last week on federal drug distribution and firearms trafficking charges following an undercover operation in Camarillo, where a Colonia Chiques street gang member, Luis Manuel Tapia, was in [...]
Jonathan Van Dyke (Gazettes.com) | July 27, 2011 Early statistics show extreme gang violence is on the decline this year, law enforcement officials say. According to Long Beach Police Department numbers, gang-related shootings have decreased by 30.7% (56 through mid-July versus 84 last year through the same time in 2010) and gang-related murders have decreased [...]
KVOA | June 6, 2011 TUCSON – Ten criminals, including eight from dangerous Mexican street gangs, were arrested while attempting to enter the United States illegally over the weekend. A release from Customs and Border Protection states that using the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, Border Patrol agents in the Tucson sector found one illegal [...]
ALEX K.W. SCHULTZ (THE PORTERVILLE RECORDER | May 02, 2011 A young mother sat on a couch inside her small apartment in east Porterville two weeks ago and cried as she talked about her 12-year-old son. “I’m so afraid he’s going to get into the gangs,” the mother, who wished to be unnamed, said. “I’m [...]
Diana Samuels (Mercury News) | March 01, 2011 Mountain View police announced they are taking a “fresh look” at the unsolved 2004 gang-related murder of a 17-year-old Los Altos High School student in front of witnesses. The police investigation into the death of Giovanni Alejandro “Alex” Fernandez had effectively stalled until detectives recently reinterviewed witnesses [...]
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