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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Suspected Israeli mobsters to be extradited on charges of trafficking Ecstasy
California | Local |
August 26, 2008
Suspected Israeli mobsters employed members of the Vineland Boyz, a San Fernando Valley gang, to distribute tens of thousands of Ecstasy pills throughout Los Angeles, provide security and gun down an Encino man who allegedly tried to steal a drug shipment from them, according to a federal indictment unsealed Sunday. Read more
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Santa Ana councilwoman’s brother arrested
California | Local |
August 21, 2008
A Santa Ana councilwoman’s brother was among those arrested as part of a three-day operation targeting gangs in central Santa Ana, officials said Wednesday. Read more
Friday, August 15, 2008
Dead man in O.C. park identified as gangster
California | Local |
August 15, 2008
A man found dead at a San Clemente park was identified Thursday as a gang member named in an injunction that barred him and other gangsters from hanging out at the site where he died, authorities said. Read more
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Gangs get into identity theft
Business |
August 12, 2008
Identity theft is soaring in California, and street gangs are angling for a piece of the action. Read more
New charges filed against Hells Angels
California | Local |
August 12, 2008
New charges were filed Monday against Hells Angels members in connection with a double stabbing during a bar fight with a Christian motorcycle gang late last month, Newport Beach police said. Read more
Saturday, August 9, 2008
5 Christian bikers face gang counts
California | Local |
August 9, 2008
Five members of a Christian motorcycle gang were charged Friday with a variety of felony weapons and gang crimes after high-profile raids this week targeting the Anaheim-based group. Read more
Saturday, July 26, 2008
In Salinas, fasting to protest gangs
California | Local |
July 26, 2008
Plagued by gang violence for years, the city of Salinas has taken the standard approaches: beefed-up police patrols, court injunctions, parenting classes, high-minded gatherings of experts. Read more
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
NFL is looking at all the signs
Sports |
July 16, 2008
Hand signals captured on videotape are once again being scrutinized around the NFL. Only this time, it’s not the New England Patriots studying them for a competitive advantage, but league officials in search of a more sinister message. Read more
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Boy, 6, covered in spray paint by tagger
California | Local |
July 10, 2008
A teenage gang member was arrested Wednesday for allegedly spray-painting the face and body of a 6-year-old boy who saw him vandalizing a wall, authorities said. Read more
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Interrogation, then revenge
California | Local |
July 2, 2008
On a cool spring night five years ago, 16-year-old Martha Puebla sat on the curb outside her Sun Valley home, talking to a friend, when a man walked up from behind. Read more
Monday, June 30, 2008
Gang turf wars endure in south Orange County
California | Local |
June 30, 2008
Gia Lugo knows all about the gang turf battles in southern Orange County. Read more
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Big Mike has the gangs in his sights
California | Local |
June 28, 2008
Big Mike hitches up in front of Jordan High School in Watts like a bull snuffling for trouble. Read more
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Huge raid targets gang
California | Local |
June 26, 2008
Heavily armed police and federal agents stormed into a Glassell Park neighborhood Wednesday morning to wrest control away from a street gang – and loyalists with deep family ties to its members – that has in effect turned the sequestered swath of run-down apartments into rogue territory. Read more
Friday, June 20, 2008
Lawyer tries to link slain youth to gang
California | Local |
June 20, 2008
A defense attorney Thursday sought to link a high school football player gunned down near his Los Angeles home to a local gang embroiled in a bitter war with a rival group. Read more
Thursday, June 19, 2008
California | Local |
June 19, 2008
Even as gang-related homicides have been dropping in the last several years, the proportion of such killings in which race was a factor has increased, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said Wednesday. Read more
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
$2.5 million couldn’t keep Anaheim gang member from his old friends
California | Local |
June 17, 2008
Nobody wanted Jose Luis Muņoz to fail. Read more
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Man, 21, killed in Anaheim shooting
California | Local |
June 15, 2008
A man was killed and a 15-year-old boy seriously wounded when five suspected gang members started shooting at a graduation party in Anaheim, authorities said Saturday. Read more
Sunday, June 8, 2008
At least 9 slain in L.A. County during the weekend
California | Local |
June 8, 2008
At least nine people were slain in Los Angeles County this weekend, and authorities suspect several of the killings were gang-related. Read more
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Japan’s flamboyant gangsters
California | Local |
May 30, 2008
In a society otherwise marked by gentle formality and good manners, the Japanese crime syndicates known as the yakuza have for decades been linked to murder, money laundering, racketeering and pornography. Read more
