Posts Tagged ‘Gangs’

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…

The 37th and final defendant charged as part of the case against members and associates of the Simon City Royals gang – a gang aligned with the Gangster Disciples – pleaded guilty today to racketeering (RICO) conspiracy. “The Simon City Royals terrorized Mississippi prisons and communities for far too long,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General…

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…