STOCKTON - A 14-year-old boy beaten, kicked and stomped to death by at least seven others near Panella Park earlier this month drew the group's resentment because he wanted out of his street gang, the victim's relative told investigators.

Rin Ros died because his gang apparently wanted to "jump him out," according to a search warrant return that Stockton police Detective Mark Reynolds filed Monday at San Joaquin County Superior Court.…

Los Angeles - Four alleged members and associates of the Watts-based Bounty Hunter Bloods street gang were arrested on Tuesday on federal narcotics charges, capping a two-year investigation.

The arrests were the result of a series of indictments returned last week by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Nine defendants are named in the seven indictments, which allege some distributed crack cocaine and one was a convicted felon in…

A three-day crime spree in May led to the recent arrests by Metro Police of 10 suspected members of an all-female gang known as the Lady Maccz, who sport the color pink and use monikers and a hand sign.

Officer Dan Woodard said police have arrested 10 women, five of whom are juveniles, for charges that include conspiracy, robbery and burglary. One woman, 21-year-old Laquay Tate from Las Vegas, is still outstanding, he said.

Woodard said the string of events began May 14 when…

CHINO VALLEY, Ariz. - The investigation into a shootout in Chino Valley involving members of the Hells Angels and rival Vagos motorcycle gangs.

Neighbors reported a barrage of gunfire between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday afternoon.

According to the Yavapai County Sheriff's Department they received several phone calls of shots fired in the 2600 block of Yuma Drive around 12:15 p.m.

Chino Valley police detained several suspected motorcycle gang members when they arrived…

Four arrested after Phoenix police seize AK-47s, marijuana

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A dispute between members of two city street gangs may have led to the shootings that killed four people at a downtown restaurant over the weekend, reliable sources told The Buffalo News today.

And according to a prominent East Side pastor, police have been searching the city for one suspect -- a young man reportedly affiliated with a gang -- for more than 24 hours.

"I know the police have been searching for this young man, and I am trying through intermediaries to get him to…

TAMPA - The tractor-trailer was hauling avocados, limes, green peppers and cilantro from Texas when it was pulled over on Interstate 75 in Hillsborough County.

But the produce was only there to mask the smell of the hidden narcotics, investigators said.

The ploy didn't fool a drug-sniffing dog.

The drug seizure came toward the tail end of a nearly two-year undercover operation into gang-related drug activity in the…

A man has died a day after he was shot in the head in an on-going gang dispute as he was driving in a car in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.

At 12:25 a.m. Monday, two men were driving north in the 500 block of North Leamington Avenue in a Chevrolet Malibu sedan when at least one gunman approached them on foot and opened fire, shooting the driver in the head and the passenger in the leg, Austin District Lt. Michael Stevens…