FALL RIVER —
Three of the highest ranking members of Fall River’s Mafioso Street Gang have been indicted in connection with a previously unsolved 2005 double shooting outside the former Regatta night club on Davol Street, District Attorney Sam Sutter said Wednesday.
Michael Peralta, 28; Nigel Vaughn, 25; and Jared Robinson, 28, all formerly of Fall River, have been indicted by a Bristol County Grand Jury, and each…
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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.…
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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…
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The arrests were made as part of Operation Community Shield, an ongoing initiative by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Homeland Security Investigations National Gang Unit.
ICE partners with other federal, state and local agencies to target transnational gangs.
Of the 102 individuals arrested, 29 are currently facing prosecution on state criminal charges. Three of the suspects arrested will be prosecuted for felony re-entry after deportation.
“Gang…
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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…
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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…
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Tempe police arrested dozens of people and seized cash and drugs during an undercover heroin-trafficking investigation.
According to Sgt. Steve Carbajal, property detectives and patrol officers continue to arrest a number of residential burglary suspects in Tempe. A narcotics investigation dubbed "Dark Carnival" was implemented and confirmed that many of those burglary suspects were heroin users committing crimes to support their habit.
Detectives tracked the…
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Four arrested after Phoenix police seize AK-47s, marijuana
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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… Continue
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. —
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
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by Joseph J. Kolb
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 10:38 pm
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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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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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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