Featured Blog Posts – July 2010 Archive (52)

(AllHipHop News) Rapper Rick Ross has drawn the wrath of John Gotti’s family for naming his album Teflon Don, the nickname of the infamous former leader of…

Our focus is true stories of people who used to be involved in the gang, thug, drug life and how living the street life has affected their lives, the lives of others, how they…

Being in a street gang is now forbidden for members of the U.S. armed forces. But you might not guess that if you were to visit U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to soldiers who have recently served there.

Jeffrey Stoleson, a Wisconsin corrections official, returned from Iraq in January with photos of gang graffiti on armored vehicles, latrines and…

WOW, NO WONDER WE ARE LOSING THIS WAR. Home of a Mexican Drug Lord being raided

Yes, That is cash piled on that table in the background!

Just a small collection of guns - these people are not really dangerous at all.....

Yes, that is real gold on these guns!

Gold and…

Porvenir, Chihuahua – It has been 100 years since the Revolution expelled many Mexicans and now thousands flee the narcotraffickers. A house with blue walls, but no roof, welcomes whoever arrives at Porvenir, Chihuahua. Until recently, the house was occupied but now looks like a blacksmith’s shop, only with doors and windows.

This isn’t the only building like this one. In this town in the Juarez Valley, burned homes predominate. Residents left their furniture, clothing and their…

The Tohono O’odham area and for that matter, the southern Arizona Desert has become almost a second home during my 8 years at Fox. This includes 5 trips to the lawless border town of Sasabe, patrolling with the federal agents on horseback, reporting on immigration stories with the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation, among at least 60 other reports I have covered in this border region. Night, day, winter, summer, we have seen the desert and this battle in every form and just when it…

Mexican drug cartels have set up shop on American soil, maintaining lookout bases in strategic locations in the hills of southern Arizona from which their scouts can monitor every move made by law enforcement officials, federal agents tell Fox News.

The scouts are supplied by drivers who bring them food, water, batteries for radios -- all the items they need to stay in the wilderness for a long period of time.…

A pastor from suburban Philadelphia has admitted fatally shooting his eldest son after a violent confrontation at the family's home on Christmas.

Forty-four-year-old Kirk Caldwell pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in Delaware County Court on Monday. Judge Frank Hazel sentenced Caldwell to two to four years in prison, minus time served.

The…

PONTIAC, Mich. -- A Detroit-area woman who pleaded guilty to having sex with the biological son she gave up for adoption and later tracked down on the Internet has been sentenced nine years to 30 years in prison.

Thirty-six-year-old Aimee L. Sword of Waterford Township apologized at her sentencing Monday in Oakland County Circuit Court. She had pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree…

LOS ANGELES

Three men whose arrests led to the discovery of hundreds of pounds of marijuana in a railroad tanker car have been charged with drug possession in Los Angeles.

The district attorney's office says 28-year-old Jesse Lopez, 18-year-old Justin Coffey and 19-year-old Kristopher Maldonado were each charged Tuesday with two…

The Detroit News

July 12: Police remove a child from a home in Highland Park, Mich., where a woman reportedly held her 3-year-old grandson hostage for several hours.

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich.

Police in the small Detroit enclave of Highland Park are investigating what a neighbor described as the bloody ax…

PHILADELPHIA - July 13, 2010 -- Three Philadelphia police officers plotted with drug dealers and staged a traffic stop and drug seizure in a scheme to steal $15,000 worth of heroin from a supplier and sell the drug, federal authorities charged.

Officers Mark Williams, James Venziale and Robert Snyder were named in a 14-count indictment announced Tuesday, along with Snyder's wife and three suspected drug dealers. The plan went awry…

COLUMBUS - Efforts to stop gang violence in Ohio's youth prisons are ineffective and three facilities remain unacceptably dangerous places for young people, according to a new report.

While the Department of Youth Services has tried to fix the problem, the agency is also guilty of "a widespread and somewhat misguided belief that gang violence may no longer be a significant problem," the report released late Wednesday said.

"The time has come for a different approach to gang…

A two-week federal investigation in Gallatin County ended Friday with the arrest of 10 Mexican-born men, seven of whom are associated with a…