Gang News

A San Diego area criminal street gang member has been sentenced to a 55 years to life, plus an additional 26 years in the slammer for the 2019 deadly shooting of an Alpha Project security guard, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office. The defendant, Johnny Hill, has faced justice for his role…

HARRISBURG – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Johnny Jenkins-Armstrong, age 26, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced on December 4, 2023, to life imprisonment for his role in the June 25, 2016 murders of three individuals in Mercersburg, Franklin County, one of whom was cooperating with state and…

Three suspects have been arrested on murder charges in a shooting which left three men dead at a home in a gated Porter Ranch community back in February. Travis Reid and Chaquetta Cook were arrested Wednesday in the Baltimore, Md., area, Los Angeles police disclosed at a news conference Thursday. A third suspect, Kenneth Peterson,…

BATON ROUGE – Members of a Baton Rouge street gang were formally charged Friday. Bradley Payne, Jermonte Clark, Tawayne Bridgewater, and three juveniles were accused of being apart of the “Never Broke Again North Side Ranger” street gang. For more than a year, Baton Rouge police have targeted gang violence in the city. Friday a…

Baltimore, Maryland – Oscar Efrain Zavala Urrea, age 23, an El Salvadoran national residing in Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded guilty to his participation in a racketeering conspiracy, including a murder, related to his activities as part of the MS-13 gang. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek…

Derek Chauvin was stabbed in prison 22 times by a former gang leader and onetime FBI informant who told investigators he targeted the ex-Minneapolis police officer because of his notoriety for murdering George Floyd, according to federal prosecutors. John Turscak is charged with attempted murder after the Nov. 24 attack at the Federal Correctional Institution…

A San Diego area criminal street gang member has been sentenced to a 55 years to life, plus an additional 26 years in the slammer for the 2019 deadly shooting of an Alpha Project security guard, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office. The defendant, Johnny Hill, has faced justice for his role…

Five gang members of the Trinitarios Dominican street gang were arrested were arrested in a West New York drug bust where roughly $20,000 in cocaine was recovered following a four-month probe, authorities said. From left to right: Wanderson Ceballo-Ramos, Ingri Cruz-Villatoro, Wellington Cruz, Angel Diaz, and Christian Gomez. Photos courtesy of the West New York…

BALTIMORE — Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Baltimore apprehended an undocumented noncitizen and self-admitted member of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) street gang convicted of attempted voluntary manslaughter Nov. 20. Deportation officers from ERO Baltimore’s Fugitive Operations Team arrested the 21-year-old Guatemalan national near his residence in Hyattsville. “This Guatemalan noncitizen has proven to be…

everal Federal Bureau of Investigation agents executed a search warrant at the Belair Edison Safe Streets location Thursday morning, along with the homes of two Safe Streets employees. The raid, which took place in the morning sometime before 10 a.m. according to neighbors who saw the FBI agents at the location. While the FBI is…