Posts Tagged ‘Crime’

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…

An October 2010 federal search warrant obtained by FOX45 News reveals the Black Guerrilla Family gang has long been tied to violence prevention efforts in Baltimore, including the embattled Safe Streets program. Described as part of the Black Guerrilla Family’s then-attempt to “make [BGF] look like a legitimate organization,” law enforcement officials filed a 164-page…

With the Trial Convictions of the Gang’s Founder and Prison Leader, Dwight Reid, and the Gang’s Street Leader, Christopher Erskine, All 21 Defendants, Including Numerous Godfathers and Godmothers, Have Been ConvictedDamian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DWIGHT REID, a/k/a “Dick Wolf,” and CHRISTOPHER ERSKINE, a/k/a “Beagle,”…

Christopher Acevedo, a founder and leader of the Wood City street gang based in the Woodhull neighborhood of Queens, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Diane Gujarati in federal court in Brooklyn to two terms of life imprisonment to run concurrently, for murder in aid of racketeering and causing death through the use…

Erie’s biggest criminal case has produced its first prison term with the sentencing of the eighth-highest ranking member of the Erie gang 4-Nation. The defendant, Marius L. Rus­sell, 32, was sentenced to a mandatory minimum of 10 years in federal prison immediately after he pleaded guilty on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Erie. He…