By Alex A. Alonso for Streetgangs.ComJanuary 8, 2021 Ernest “Kilroy” Roybal was born on March 3, 1939 and grew up in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles. He became a member of Varrio White Fence during the early 1950s and quickly became a major member within the varrio. As a juvenile he was arrested multiple times and […]
STREETGANGS.COM | December 31, 2020 The City of Compton lost Lyle “Bartender” Thomas 44 years ago this month, while he was attending a dance at Dootos Music Center on Central Avenue in Compton. Dootos Music Center was established by Walter Williams, known as Dootsie during the early 1960s. Williams had established a record label and […]
STREETGANGS.COM | December 26, 2020 Alfred “Blackie Coward was part of the Westside Crips and became a close friend to Stanley “Tookie” Williams. According to the statement he gave to the police, Coward was involved in the murder of Albert Owens, 26, the store clerk at the 7-eleven in Whittier, California. Present with Tookie and […]
By LIZ KEOGH and JOHN ANNESE | NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | MAR 21, 2019 | 6:00 AM “I don’t need to clear my name,” the Staten Island man accused of gunning down Gambino boss Frank Cali told the Daily News in a brief jailhouse interview on Wednesday, Anthony Comello, 24, who once tried to […]
By JOSH CAIN | Los Angeles Daily News PUBLISHED: March 19, 2019 at 6:42 pm | UPDATED: March 20, 2019 at 2:50 pm Newly released data showed a steep increase in the number of both homeless suspects and victims of violent crime in Los Angeles, including a jump in reports of homeless people killed last […]
Christina TkacikContact Reporter | The Baltimore Sun November 13, 2018 Brandon Bazemore, 25, who prosecutors said went by the street name “Man Man,” was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison for his involvement in the Trained To Go gang, which operated in West Baltimore’s Sandtown neighborhood. “Brandon Bazemore was a member of one of […]
By ALENE TCHEKMEDYIAN | Los Angeles Times NOV 08, 2018 | 11:20 PM A man who was wanted for questioning in seven Antelope Valley homicides and was suspected in an eighth was killed by authorities Thursday morning when he pulled out a weapon during his arrest, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said. Homicide detectives tracked […]
By Associated Press | November 7 at 8:59 PM WASHINGTON — Prosecutors say a former medical student has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for the 2017 shooting of a U.S. diplomat. A news release from the U.S. Department of Justice said 33-year-old Zia Zafar of Chino Hills, California, was sentenced after […]
By Heather Nolan, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Updated Nov 5, 7:59 PM; Posted Nov 5, 7:59 PM The Times-Picayune Nimali Henry spent the last hours of her life in a cold, bright, tiny isolation cell – the “birdcage” – in the St. Bernard Parish Prison. The 19-year-old Chalmette woman died during a roughly 10-day stay […]
By CINDY CARCAMO , HANNAH FRY and CORINA KNOLL | LATIMES.COM NOV 02, 2018 | 5:00 AM They have been touted as the faces of illegal immigration, chilling examples of murderous men. The remorseless cop-killer who smirked and swaggered in court. The gang member who shot a high school football star in the head. The […]
Dept of Justice | Thursday, October 25, 2018 LOS ANGELES – A prominent member of the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC) – who was found guilty by a jury last year of three counts of distribution of crack cocaine, which included him selling crack cocaine near schools – has been sentenced to 35 years […]
Oct. 30, 2018 / 9:52 AM PDT / NBCNEWS By Pete Williams, Tom Winter and Rich Schapiro Notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger was found dead at a federal prison in West Virginia Tuesday, federal officials said. Bulger, 89, had recently arrived at the high-security penitentiary USP Hazelton in West Virginia, according to the Boston […]