Gang-Related News From USA - Last 72 Hours

California - 5th of March, 2017
LA Man Sentenced for Trafficking Meth to Street Gangs (Los Angeles, CA): A gang member with ties to the Mexican Mafia prison gang was sentenced Monday to more than 13 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine to street gangs in the community of Bell Gardens.


District of Columbia - 5th of March, 2017
ICE: 6 charged in gang-related area killings face deportation (Washington, DC): Federal immigration officials have cast a watchful eye on Northern Virginia’s recent string of suspected MS-13 gang killings. Federal authorities have identified for possible deportation five men and a woman who have been charged in connection with two recent deaths in Fairfax and Prince William Counties.


California - 4th of March 2017
Teen arrested in gang related shooting (Redding, CA): Redding Police investigators have concluded an investigation which started on December 6, 2016, after shots were fired into a home in a suspected gang-related shooting.


Tennessee - 4th of March, 2017
Violent fight at Gallatin High School was gang-related (Gallatin, TN): A violent school fight at Gallatin High School now appears to be gang-related, according to the incident report.


Tennessee - 4th of March, 2017
Prosecutors say trail of gang activity explains 2015 College Hill Courts shooting (Chattanooga, TN): The year-long feud in 2014 started just before midnight with a flurry of bullets. Behind a closed door at 1501 E. 50th St., 13-year-old Deontrey Southers asked who was outside that Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The knocker replied with gunshots, and the teenager died with bullets in his chest.


Massachusetts - 3rd of March, 2017
What is MS-13? The 'transnational' street gang on the FBI's radar (Massachusetts): Over the years, members of the international gang MS-13 have been convicted of a number of crimes across the country, ranging from racketeering to murder. MS-13, also known as La Mara Salvatrucha is also one of the largest criminal organizations in the United States, according to the US Attorney's Office in Massachusetts.


New York - 3rd of March, 2017
MS-13 gang members indicted in brutal deaths of high school students (Long Island, NY): More than a dozen members of the MS-13 gang were indicted Thursday on seven killings on Long Island spanning three years, including the deaths of several high school students last year.


California - 3rd of March, 2017
Hundreds of officers target Riverside street gang, arrest 8, recover weapons, drugs (Riverside, CA): More than 200 law enforcement officers took to Inland Empire streets recently as part of an operation targeting a violent Riverside street gang and resulted in the arrests of eight people, officials said.


Indiana - 3rd of March, 2017
Feds file 18 racketeering counts (Fort Wayne, IN): Four alleged gang members have been indicted on 18 federal racketeering charges alleging they engaged in acts of violence. This is the first time in Fort Wayne federal prosecutors used a racketeering law known as VICAR, or violent crime in aid of racketeering, David Capp, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, said during a news conference Thursday.


Florida - 3rd of March 2017
Gang-related shootings down in Lakeland (Lakeland, FL): Lakeland Police say there has been a dramatic drop in the number of gang shootings. In 2014, there were 18. In 2015, there were four. In 2016, they investigated only one.


California - 3rd of March, 2017
Police: Juvenile arrested in gang-related shooting (Redding, CA): Redding police arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with what they said was a gang-related shooting in early December in the area of Akard Avenue and Fell Street.


Washington - 3rd of March, 2017
Man convicted of first-degree murder in gang-related shooting (Everett, WA): An Everett man was convicted of first-degree murder Friday for a 2015 gang-related shooting, but the jury apparently was unconvinced that prosecutors had proven he pulled the trigger.


Delaware - 3rd of March, 2017
Gang-Related Charges Against Teen to Stay in Superior Court (Dover, DE): A Delaware judge has refused to transfer charges against an alleged Wilmington gang member from Superior Court to Family Court. The 16-year-old is among several defendants in a 109-count indictment against alleged members of the Only My Brothers gang.


Virginia - 3rd of March, 2017
Northern Virginia gang activity ‘out of control,’ says police chief (Fairfax County, VA): Gang activity is “getting out of control” in Northern Virginia and to blame for the deaths of two people whose remains were found in a Fairfax County park, police officials said Friday announcing the gruesome discovery.


California - 3rd of March, 2017
BPD seeks public help for info in gang-related shootings (Bakersfield, CA): The Bakersfield Police Department is asking the community for any information that can help solve two shooting cases involving juveniles that occurred in Bakersfield over the last two weeks.


California - 3rd of March, 2017
Fresno police unleash gang crackdown after alarmingly violent start to 2017 (Fresno, CA): The Fresno Police Department has begun a crackdown on gang violence after an alarming trend of murders and shootings in Fresno since the beginning of the year.


New Jersey - 3rd of March 2017
Man bragged in jail about killing rival gang member, cellmate testifies (Elizabeth, NJ): A man accused of fatally shooting a rival gang member bragged to a cell mate in the Union County jail about the killing, a witness testified in court Thursday.


California - 3rd of March, 2017
Baldwin Village gang raids net 15 suspects, guns, drugs (Los Angeles, CA): In an early-morning raid, Los Angeles police arrested 15 senior gang members in the Baldwin Village area and seized an array of weapons, drugs and even body armor.


Georgia - 3rd of March, 2017
13 Savannah gang members busted in End Gun Violence initiative (Savannah, GA): The Savannah-Chatham police department, along with partners from federal, state and local levels, announced the arrest Friday of 13 individuals affiliated with the Gangster Disciples gang.


Texas - 3rd of March, 2017
FBI: MS-13 brutality and gang violence escalating to frightening levels (Houston, TX): Gang experts in Houston estimate 75 of the city's 300 murders last year were gang-related. A much smaller number is directly linked to MS-13, the Central American gang believed to be connected to the killing and dumping of Genesis Cornejo.


Virginia - 3rd of March, 2017
Bodies found in Virginia park raise fears of a gang scourge (Richmond, VA): The remains of two apparent murder victims were discovered in a Northern Virginia park, and police are exploring whether the deaths are related to a resurgent MS-13, a gang that has ties to a wave of violence the county police chief called "out of control."


Texas - 3rd of March, 2017
MS-13 gang members charged with 'satanic' killing, kidnapping appear in court (Houston, TX): Two known MS-13 gang members, formerly of El Salvador, appeared in Houston court Wednesday to hear charges against them in the kidnapping and torture of one victim and the "satanic" killing of a second.


California - 3rd of March, 2017
Cash, weapons and armor seized in pre-dawn raid targeting drug trafficking ring (Los Angeles, CA): First, undercover police officers bought cocaine, PCP and meth from street dealers in southwest Los Angeles. Then, investigators worked their way up the hierarchy of the Black P-Stone gang, gathering enough intelligence to prepare search or arrest warrants for alleged mid- to high-level gang leaders.


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