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August 2010 Blog Posts (52)

Caity

I am quite frustrated at the fact that my daughter Caitlan is still awol and due to many facts; school is starting and she has a grade 8 education; people in my everyday life that know her are saying "hi" , knowing where she is, and that I have heard she is being pimped out ( she is 15), yet not willing to help her get off the streets, yet these are her friends?? Yet Ihave complete strangers knocking on my door offer me info, good info may I add as new as today. Where does it society and…

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Added by Alanna Nickerson on August 16, 2010 at 7:39pm — No Comments

Teen arrested in gang related killing in D.C.

A 17-year-old has been arrested in the gang-related killing Wednesday of a 19-year-old in Adams Morgan, D.C. police said Saturday.

Robert Givens of Northwest Washington was arrested Friday and charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the shooting of Sean Robinson near 17th and Euclid streets, police said.

Robinson, of the 1600 block of Euclid Street…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 16, 2010 at 2:16pm — No Comments

Innocent teen murdered in gruesome gang initiation...

A Connecticut teenager visiting his dad in The Bronx to go shopping for school was gunned down yesterday in a random drive-by shooting being eyed as a gruesome gang initiation, a police source said.

The victim, Tashawn Bromfield, 16, had been working out all summer…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 16, 2010 at 2:12pm — No Comments

A dispute between members of two city street gangs .......

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…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 16, 2010 at 2:07pm — No Comments

33 gang members nabbed in Hillsborough drug operation

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…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 16, 2010 at 2:05pm — No Comments

Five shot in attack police link to gangs

As children rode bicycles and played outside late yesterday afternoon in Egleston Square, a hail of gunfire pierced the air, striking five males.

The wounds were not life-threatening, Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis told reporters at the scene.

He said one victim had been shot in the chest, but he did not give details on the others. The victims ranged…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 16, 2010 at 2:02pm — No Comments

Man dies a day after he was shot in the head in gang-related Austin shooting

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…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 13, 2010 at 8:36pm — No Comments

Watsonville Police Investigate Gang-Related Stabbing Near Middle School

WATSONVILLE, Calif. -- A 15-year-old boy was stabbed Tuesday morning near a middle school in Watsonville in a gang-related incident, according to police.

Officers found the boy at about 10:15 a.m. in a parking lot at E.A. Hall Middle School at 201 Brewington Ave.

He told officers he had been walking in an alley near the 600 block of Palm Street when he was approached by a man in an Oakland Raiders… Continue

Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 13, 2010 at 8:33pm — No Comments

Authorities seize heroin, arrest 23 in Chicago

Federal authorities say an investigation on Chicago's West Side has led to nearly two dozen arrests and the seizure of heroin worth at least $1.2 million.



Most of the 29 defendants named in the 230-page indictment are members or associates of the New Breeds street gang. On Thursday, 23 were in federal custody.



Authorities allege the gang and its associates ran an open air drug market within a…
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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 13, 2010 at 8:31pm — No Comments

14 S. Ind. men arrested for foreign gang links

Federal and local authorities have arrested 14 men in southern Indiana for their alleged involvement with violent foreign gangs.



Most of the 14 taken into custody this week are from the Jasper and Evansville areas.



Immigration and… Continue

Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 13, 2010 at 8:17pm — No Comments

The violent new face of border smuggling

Photo by James Tourtellotte In America’s border ‘war zone,’ a U.S. Border Patrol agent is assaulted every eight hours

Border Patrol Agent Jose Morales has patrolled the same stretch of no-man’s-land in his unmarked SUV between Tijuana, Mexico and San Ysidro, Calif., hundreds…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 13, 2010 at 6:28pm — No Comments

When violence hits too close to home...

Mexico Border crossing
The kidnappings, beatings, and murders that mark the drug-related violence of Mexican border cities like Tijuana and Juarez have increasingly spilled over the…
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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 13, 2010 at 6:10pm — No Comments

Man dies a day after he was shot in the head in gang-related Austin shooting

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 said.

The man shot in the head was identified…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 11, 2010 at 5:56pm — No Comments

Gunmen on bicycles kill 8 year old, injure another

CHICAGO - Police say two gunmen on bicycles killed an 8-year-old girl and wounded her younger cousin as the children were skipping rope in a Chicago neighborhood.

Deputy Police Superintendent Ernest Brown says the shooting…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 11, 2010 at 5:53pm — No Comments

10 immigrants rescued from Arizona desert

Border Patrol agents assigned to the Border Search, Trauma and Rescue Team rescued 10 suspected illegal immigrants Tuesday traveling in the scorching sun.

The group had been abandoned by their guide and was lost in a west desert…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 11, 2010 at 5:51pm — No Comments

Former NFL linebacker Mark Fields arrested in Goodyear

Former NFL linebacker Mark Fields was arrested early Tuesday on suspicion of beating the mother of his 6-year-old daughter outside a Tutor Time in Goodyear, according to Maricopa County Superior Court documents.

Fields, 37, was arrested about 1 a.m. at his…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 11, 2010 at 5:48pm — No Comments

Former Corrections officer gets 2 years in cocaine case

A former private prison security officer goes from guarding inmates to becoming one after attempting to secure cocaine for an inmate.

Juan Nunez, 41, of Coolidge was sentenced Monday to 24 months in a federal prison followed by three years of supervised release.

Nunez previously pleaded guilty to attempt to furnish an inmate with contraband on April 10.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 11, 2010 at 5:44pm — No Comments

Arizona mom with baby accused of selling meth from apartment

Authorities said they arrested a Florence woman who…
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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 11, 2010 at 5:40pm — No Comments

Arizona agents seize backpacks filled with pot

Arizona agents seize backpacks filled with pot

Agents assigned to a…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 10, 2010 at 6:52pm — No Comments

CBP Officer Pleads Guilty to Alien Smuggling and Bribery

BROWNSVILLE, TX—A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer has been convicted of alien smuggling and bribery, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today.

At a hearing late Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010, on the eve of jury selection for trial, Rudy Trace Soliz, III, 44, of Brownsville, pleaded guilty to two counts of an indictment. He admitted that on Sept. 25 2009, while serving as a public official—a Department of Homeland Security CBP officer—he knowingly allowed a…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on August 9, 2010 at 4:17pm — No Comments

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