Posts Tagged ‘Crime’

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-law-enforcement-partners-announce-41-arrests-over-60 California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, alongside law enforcement partners, announced the results of “Operation Red Rooster” which was focused on the Norteño criminal street gang activity in Merced County. After 18 months, the operation concluded this morning with 41 arrests, over 60 pounds of narcotics seized, and 27 guns confiscated. The suspects are…

amny.com/news/young-Brooklyn-street-gang-member-shootings/ Eighteen reputed gang members in Brooklyn, some of whom are only teenagers, face a slew of serious criminal charges connected to 12 shootings that left two people dead and 10 others injured. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and the NYPD announced Wednesday against members of the H-Block/Billy’s Gang and Gates Fam Street, whom they…

https://highlandcountypress.com/headlines/15-gang-members-indicted-drug-trafficking-and-firearms-possession-northern-ohio#gsc.tab=0 Federal, state and local law enforcement officials recently announced the unsealing of a superseding indictment charging 15 members of the Fully Blooded Felons, a criminal street gang that was active in Northeast Ohio and in the Ohio prison system. The gang members were charged for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving their…

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/four-men-indicted-federal-racketeering-charge-allegedly-murdering-man-increase CHICAGO — Four men have been indicted on a federal racketeering charge for allegedly murdering a man to maintain and increase their positions in a violent Chicago street gang. JOSHUA BROUGHTON, 34, of Chicago, CHRISTOPHER SINGLETON, 24, of Chicago, JARON DAVIS, 22, of Lansing, Ill., and GRIEG MACON, 27, of Chicago, are charged with…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/23/dc-drug-gang-arrests-violence Two dozen people have been arrested on drug and gun-related charges as part of a crackdown on two rival criminal groups operating in Northeast Washington, authorities said Thursday. The arrests targeted members of a crew operating in the Carver Langston neighborhood, near 21st Street and Maryland Avenue, along with members of a rival crew…

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/members-brooklyn-based-hyena-crips-gang-charged-multiple-murders-and-racketeering Murder Victim, Mistaken to be a Rival, was Stabbed in the Neck by Hyena Crip Gang Member at the 2012 West Indian Day ParadeEarlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, a superseding indictment was partially unsealed variously charging seven members of the Brooklyn-based Hyena Crips gang with racketeering and using a firearm in the…

WASHINGTON – Six members of “18th Street,” a violent international street gang, were found guilty in U.S. District Court on an array of charges that included racketeering, kidnapping, and murder.             The convictions were announced today by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Scott of…

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-new-york-city-arrests-ms-13-gang-member-wanted-el-salvador-terroristic-activities NEW YORK — Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New York City arrested of an unlawfully present citizen and national of El Salvador May 6 who is wanted by Salvadoran authorities for prosecution of the crime of terrorist organization with aggravating circumstances. ERO New York City’s Long Island office arrested the previously removed the 29-year-old…

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/trinitarios-gang-leader-sentenced-life-prison-murdering-confidential-informant Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIAM JONES, a/k/a “Principe,” was sentenced today to life in prison for the December 2019 murder of Frederick Delacruz. JONES, who was a high-ranking member of the Trinitarios gang, lured Delacruz from the Bronx to Suffolk County, New York,…

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/baltimore-bgf-gang-member-sentenced-28-years-federal-prison-racketeering-conspiracy Defendant Was Hired by Co-conspirator to Target Rival in Northeast Baltimore; Defendant Received Payment Through Co-conspirator’s Intermediary Following AttackBaltimore, Maryland – On Tuesday, May 21, U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Wayne Prince, a/k/a “Taz,” age 24, of Baltimore to 28 years imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for conspiring to…