Posts Tagged ‘Crime’

Baltimore’s top prosecutor on Friday blamed the District’s crime for this month’s shooting at Morgan State University after a teenage boy was arrested in connection to the incident. Baltimore police said Thursday they arrested and charged a 17-year-old boy from the District with multiple counts of attempted murder for the Oct. 3 shooting that injured…

NASSAU COUNTY, Long Island (WABC) — Nassau County police have arrested an MS-13 gang member was arrested in connection to two homicides including the murder of a 19-year-old at McDonald’s last year. 20-year-old Gerson Hernandez was charged with gang assault in connection with the fatal shooting of Hector Manuel Valencia Gomez, who was shot multiple…

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — After months on the run, an alleged gang member wanted in connection to a drug trafficking investigation in Baltimore is now in custody. Jawaan Jordan was featured on Maryland’s Most Wanted this past spring. Investigators say Jordan was a member of the 1800 Boys, a Baltimore-based gang that sold heroin and fentanyl,…

The notorious Hells Angels biker gang allegedly used a California funeral home dubbed the “pizza oven” to get rid of bodies, federal prosecutors claim. Merl Hefferman, a member of the Sonoma County Hells Angel, told Levi Phipps, manager of Yost & Webb Funeral Home in Fresno, that he wanted to make things disappear — which…

Philadelphia, PA – Jalen Mickens entered a guilty plea on Thursday, October 12, for his involvement in three separate shootings in West Philadelphia. The conviction comes as a result of a collaborative effort between the District Attorney’s Gun Violence Task Force and other law enforcement agencies. Mickens was on trial for incidents that took place…

On Tuesday, the Montgomery County Police Department announced the arrests of four suspects who have been charged in connection with the teenager’s death. Pedestrian killed after struck by motorcycle in GreenbeltAccording to the department, Roberto Carlos Rivera-Delgado, Iris Tudella Alonzo-Salgado, Aracely Abarca-Melgar, and Edwin Alexander Rivas-Salvador killed Sanchez Merino sometime around May 1 and buried…

An 11-count indictment was unsealed on October 4, 2023 in federal court in Central Islip charging Carlos Humberto Aquino-Hernandez, also known as “Caprichoso” and “Flaco” (“Aquino-Hernandez”), who is a member of the Coronados Locos Salvatruchas subgroup or “clique” of the MS-13, the violent transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatruchas, and Gerson Hernandez, also known as…

TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — With tattoo-covered faces, and wearing white shirts and shorts, gang members captured during El Salvador’s state of exception are gradually filling the country’s new mega prison. Unveiled earlier this year, the prison 45 miles (72 kilometers) southeast of the capital now holds some 12,000 accused or convicted gang members, barely…

NEW YORK, NY – William Jones, also known on the street as “Principe,” was found guilty on all charges related to the 2019 murder of Frederick Delacruz. The verdict was delivered after an eight-day jury trial overseen by U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos. Jones was convicted of racketeering conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, and…