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L.A. Gangs in NY Blood-Crip war comes east Newsday; 1/27/1993; Peg Tyre Newsday 01-27-1993 L.A. Gangs in NY Blood-Crip war comes east By Peg Tyre. STAFF WRITER The notorious Los Angeles gangs, the Crips and the Bloods, have begun carving up the Big Apple, federal sources said yesterday. Their violent rivalry has already left three men dead in Brooklyn. Federal sources said the victims were Bloods gunned down by a Crips hitman. And agents fear the killings may signal another wave of gang-related drug violence for New York. The alleged killer, 19-year-old Sandro Santos, who lived in L.A. after fleeing charges in his native Belize, is being extradited from Chicago on federal weapons charges in connection with the Brooklyn killings. Santos, who has been identified by federal agents on both coasts as a Crips hitman, is wanted in Belize on charges of attempting to kill a police officer. He has been arrested in Chicago three times since Dec. 4 - as a suspect in a drive-by shooting and for possession of an Uzi, for possession of a Barretta and as a suspect in a homicide. He was twice charged with gun possession, a misdemenor in Illinois, but was not charged in connection with the two shootings. Gang experts said the Crips and the Bloods have been expanding eastward for five years, after saturating L.A. and nearby cities with crack cocaine. "They are going everywhere," said gangs expert Sgt. Dennis Lee of the Los Angeles Police Department. New York Police Department officials refused to comment. But federal agents said they believe the Crips and the Bloods have established a toehold in the Bronx, upper Manhattan and Brooklyn, where they are trying to take over crack-cocaine distribution. Known Los Angeles gang members have been spotted in New York in the past, but this is the first time police have been able to link the Crips and the Bloods to a New York murder. Armed with high-tech weapons and a seeming disregard for innocent bystanders, the Crips and Bloods have brought an increased number of street killings and drive-by shootings to cities outside L.A. such as Denver, said Lee. Until recently, L.A. police officials said, the Crips and Bloods had been shut out of the New York drug trade by well-organized cocaine networks. But in-fighting and prosecutions have created a void that the L.A. gangs plan to fill. Last year, in L.A. County, there were 800 gang-related murders. Police attribute half to Blood-and-Crip warfare. On June 14 in East New York Kevin Augustus, 22, of Manhattan, Linden Arnold, 24, of the Bronx, and Francis Zayala, whose age and address are unknown, were shot as they waited to enter a social club, police said. One of the men, federal sources said, was wearing a red hat - the "colors" of a Bloods gang member. Investigators said they had not yet pinpointed the motive for the shooting but said it was part of an "ongoing turf dispute" between Crips and Bloods in Brooklyn and other boroughs. The shooter, eyewitnesses told police, walked up to the three men, shot two at close range and then fired on the third as he ran away. According to eyewitness statements to police, the shooter was driven away in a blue Camaro, the color used to identify the Crips gang. Copyright 1993, Newsday Inc. News Topics | Home | Research | History | Blood Gangs | Crip Gangs | People| Life in a Gang | Gallery | Iraqi Cards | Memorial | Migration | Graffiti | Resume| Injunctions Homicides | Maps | California Prisons | Contact

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