Archive for October 2023

ATLANTA — Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr Wednesday announced his office’s Gang Prosecution Unit has secured a 52-count indictment charging three alleged gang members with a variety of drug and weapons offenses. Chiquille Bell, Contrellis Books, and Marcus Thornton are accused of violating the state’s Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act, trafficking oxycodone, possession with…

A Brooklyn gang member was sentenced Wednesday to more than 20 years in prison for multiple armed carjackings that took place in his home borough during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities said. Dieuverson Caille, 22, who was convicted of four carjackings following a one-week trial in March, was sentenced to 24 ½ years…

At the time of the offenses, defendant was on release for four separate state firearm charges BOSTON – A Boston man pleaded guilty today to illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition while under house arrest for four state firearm charges. Dumari Shakur Scarlett-Dixon, 22, pleaded guilty to being an unlawful drug user in possession of…

Nine young men were brought into a crowded church auditorium and given a choice: Pledge to stop perpetuating violence and take advantage of available support, or continue on your path and face the consequences. The choice was laid out for the nine by city of Columbus, Franklin County, and federal officials and community members at…

Multiple Northwest Arkansas residents have been arrested in connection to recruiting minors to a gang. A Washington County Sheriff’s Office incident report says that around May 31, a detective with the sheriff’s office was contacted in reference to a request for help from Springdale police with investigating the Savage Locos street gang. An investigation was…

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Daniell Mykall Williams went to Valley Plaza mall on a May evening last year. He minded his own business, didn’t bother anyone. East Side Crips gang members spotted him driving through a parking lot and, erroneously believing he was a rival gang member, followed him in another vehicle from the mall…

Four MS-13 members took an 18-year-old Olney woman to a wooded area and killed her with a machete in an “unauthorized” gang murder in May, Montgomery County Police and prosecutors allege in charging documents. The body of Rosa Sanchez Merino was not recovered until late last month when one of the suspects led authorities to…

The former president of the Fresno chapter of the Hells Angels biker gang has been sentenced for disposing of the body of a murdered biker from Sonoma County, Joel Silva. Merl Hefferman was sentenced to four years in federal prison on Thursday. Prosecutors say he cremated the man’s body at a funeral home in Fresno…

BALTIMORE — Investigators say the suspect wanted in the Morgan State University mass shooting is a member of a notorious DC gang known as the Kennedy Street Crew or KDY. Jovan Williams, 18, is wanted for several charges of attempted murder. Investigators say it was Williams and a 17-year-old male who opened fire on MSU’s…