Violent drug gangs are terrorizing Mexico's famed Acapulco beach resort, with hitmen shooting at rivals on the hotel strip and dumping beheaded bodies in a battle for control.Bloodshed has jumped in the area, a flashpoint in President Felipe Calderon's war on drugs, since troops killed cartel kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva in December, triggering a power struggle within his organization.Hitmen have been deployed in Acapulco, a playground for Hollywood...
Cops: Shooting at Oakland funeral was gang-related - San Jose Mercury News: "Police believe gangs are responsible for a shooting after an Oakland church funeral that erupted into a massive brawl involving hundreds of people. Mourners were gathered at Cosmopolitan Baptist Church on Tuesday to remember 18-year-old Davante Riley, who allegedly was killed by a 15-year-old girl he had been dating. Authorities say rival gangs exchanged gunfire in the church's...
Men charged with assault of gang unit detective: "Chad M. Jordan, 24, was seen punching a man in the face, according to police. Court documents show that when the man fell, Jordan continued to punch him and another man, David A. Rengo, 24, also began hitting him as he was lying on the ground.Police said the man was not fighting back and tried to crawl away.One of the detectives left their patrol vehicle and grabbed Jordan.Rengo then came up behind...
City Journalist Directory - Nicky Ayers - Liverpool Gangster Executed in West Derby Street: "Liverpool gangster executed after midnight today as he is killed instantly when three gun shots are pumped into his bodyNicky AyersShot dead atSouth Cantril AvenueWest DerbyFeatures :-• Police say the killer was lone gunman• Nicky Ayers was in his mid forties• A witness said he heard 4 shots• The gangster had a fearsome reputation in Liverpool• Hence the...
"As we speak, National Guard members are working side-by-side with our troops to fight a war halfway around the world. ... We have another war that is just as deadly taking place right in our backyard."Fritchey's first glitch is rather revealing: National Guard servicemen and women are troops, and definitely our troops -- a reserve of trained soldiers able to fight in their own units or augment U.S. regular forces. His second glitch, conflating Afghan...
Gang Hitmen Suspected in Shootout that Leaves Eight Dead: "Mexican authorities believe a number of gang hitmen are responsible for a brutal ambush that left seven police officers and one bystander dead in the volatile city of Ciudad Juarez. According to reports the police had been traveling in two vehicles and were stopped at an intersection when the gunmen opened fire from behind. Six federal officers and one local police officer were among the...
Judge faces trial tribulations: "Hells conducted their war against the Alliance, an umbrella group of rival gangs including the Rock Machine. The Crown contends that almost every Hells Angel in Quebec voted for the showdown.Its ultimate toll included 160 murders.At least three non-gang members were gunned down after they were mistaken for Rock Machine adherents by hitmen from the Hells, according to police. The unlucky trio all lost their lives in...
Adrian Robles to Be Charged with Murder in Simpson Slaying - Noozhawk.com: "Adrian Robles, 20, is believed to be the man who fatally stabbed Simpson on April 15.He wasn’t formally arraigned Friday, as there was confusion over who — or what agency — would represent him. Attorney Ben...
Gangsters Out Blog: LAPD Names Anton as a Person of interest: "Anton Hooites-Meursing as a person of interest in the murder of Joe Bralic in LA back in 2001. The police say he isn't a suspect in the actual murder but he is a person of interest because he appears to be the one who hooked up Bralic with his drug connections in LA.For those of you who aren't familiar with the story, Joe Bralic was a local bodybuilder who made a deal to trade some B.C....
Leading organised crime figure shot dead in Dublin - The Irish Times - Sat, Apr 24, 2010: "Eamon Dunne was gunned down just before 10pm last night at the Fassaugh House pub in Cabra.It is believed he was shot a number of times in the head. Gardaí said today four men were involved in the attack and are believed to have fled in a red LH-registered car. The killing is one of the most significant gangland murders of the last decade.The motive for the...
MS-13 gang member receives life sentence | Latest: "Luis Bonilla, aka Chofre, 23, the leader of a MS-13 street gang in Jamaica, N.Y. was sentenced to life imprisonment by U. S. District Judge Sterling Johnson, Jr., at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn today. The sentencing was announced by Benton J. Campbell, U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.Bonilla plead guilty to racketeering and predicate acts of murder and attempted murder....
CBC News - Manitoba - Gang member guilty in Haiart killing: "Winnipeg jury has found a 24-year-old Philippine man guilty of the killing of an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of a violent drug dispute between two street gangs.Jeff Cansanay was convicted Thursday evening of second-degree murder and three counts of discharging a firearm with intent to wound in the shooting death of Phil Haiart, the son of a city doctor.He was acquitted of...
4-19-10 3 MEN INVOLVED IN GANG FIGHT IN SEPT. 2009 SENTENCED TO 4YRS IN JAIL: "three young men admitted to taking part in a gang fight last September that left a 24-year-old Central Point man dead. Lucas Molina, 19, Guibran Ramirez, 20, and Sergio Meza, 19, each pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted second-degree assault and a riot charge for their roles in a fight at an apartment complex on Beatty Street. Each was sentenced to four and a half...
Seventeen MS-13 Gang Members Indicted in Long Island | Before It's News: "dozen alleged MS-13 gang members were indicted on Friday in connection with the murder of a Hempstead bouncer. The suspects are also facing federal racketeering, witness tampering, and firearms charges, according to a report released by the FBI on Friday.MS-13, which stands for La Mara Salvatrucha, has a strong presence in Long Island. The suspects were arraigned before the...
Mexico's Drug War Nears Capital - WSJ.com: "Mexico's drug war is spreading uncomfortably close to the capital at a time when drug-related violence is spiraling out of control throughout the country. Over the weekend, panic gripped the central city of Cuernavaca after alleged drug traffickers imposed a nighttime curfew on the city, which sits just an hour south of the capital. Cuernavaca, a city of one million, is a popular weekend retreat for Mexico...
UK on alert after 'granny gun' gang feud - Local & National, News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk: "Gardai have alerted British police about the possible danger of a west Dublin gangland feud overspilling into their jurisdiction. The warning comes after last week's discovery of two handguns in the carry-on luggage of a 68-year-old grandmother at Dublin airport. Gardai believe the woman was not aware the guns had been placed in her hand luggage and she...
MS-13 members charged with series of violent crimes: "Federal prosecutors Friday charged members and associates of Long Island's largest street gang with a series of violent crimes including racketeering and murder - the second time in three weeks that authorities have carried out a large gang crackdown.Seventeen members or associates of MS-13 were charged with the felonies, which also included conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murd...
Inmate from Mafia-linked gang escapes in Ky. | DailyComet.com: "Police were continuing Thursday night an intensive search in central Kentucky for a federal inmate who kicked his way out of a prison van and is described as dangerous.Versailles police spokesman Pat Melton said authorities began night operations at about 9:15 p.m. EDT as the manhunt for 37-year-old Derek A. Capozzi continued.Melton said police were searching Woodford County and in the...
Editorial: Gang fued threatens the innocent | Adelaide Now: "ARSON attacks, homemade bombs and drive-by shootings - Adelaide's worsening feud between the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club and the New Boys street gang threatens to spiral out of control. Yesterday morning's brazen firebombing of the Edwardstown house of a late Hells Angels member was the latest wanton act of violence to unfold in the two-year dispute.While two Hells Angels associates died...
Police: Gang linked to killing of store owner at Tel Aviv Central Bus Station - Haaretz - Israel News: "solved the murder of a store owner at Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station in January. The police have arrested three members of what they say is a violent gang trying to take control of all the businesses in the area. On January 17, the police were alerted of a robbery at Alfa Club, a money-transfer shop at the bus station catering mostly to migrant...
Gang fears put the wraps on Montreal strip club: "intended target in the shooting was the owner of the boutique, street gang leader Ducarme Joseph, 41, possibly as a response to the December killing of Nicolo (Nick) Rizzuto Jr., the son of reputed Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.Joseph slipped away from the shooting unharmed, but his close associate, Peter Christopoulos, 27, was one of the two fatalities.A summons for the hearing detailed some of...
London gangs are aligning themselves to LA-based Bloods and Crips | The Sun |News: "BRITAIN is becoming a battleground for the notorious Bloods and Crips gangs that once brought fear to Los Angeles. Around a QUARTER of mobs in London now align themselves with the two crime networks. The massive UK market for cocaine has led to second generation members launching a new 'front' here and in Spain. A recent police census into gangs in the capital found...
Inside Out: New Fed Charges Allege Prison Gang’s Street Operations Infiltrate Nonprofit Anti-Gang Efforts | Baltimore City Paper: "“I need you down here. Cause I’m down here with the brothers, Meech and all them,” Todd Andrew Duncan tells someone known as “Killa” over his cell phone on the afternoon of March 27.“Where at?” Killa asks. Duncan replies, “Down by my job.”Duncan’s job was as a youth counselor for Communities Organized to Improve Life...
TV girl receives death threats after three people are shot at her rap party | The Sun |News: "Weeping model Donatella Panayiotou, 26, had hate calls after it emerged she may have been the gunman's intended target. More than 600 revellers were at Donatella's rap music gig when a gunman opened fire with a 1,200-rounds-a-minute MAC-10.DJ Werewolf, 23 - standing near Donatella - was hit four times in his chest and buttocks.He is seriously ill in hospital,...
The Associated Press: Mexico's Zetas drug gang now in El Salvador: "Mexico's Zeta drug gang has entered El Salvador and has made contact with local gangs in what appears to be an exploration of opportunities.Funes says the gang already has extended its operations into Central America, operating in countries like Guatemala and Honduras. But he adds it is not clear whether the violent gang has set up shop yet in El Salvador.Funes told reporters Wednesday...
Deadly street shootout strikes fear in Acapulco - latimes.com: "chaotic shootout Wednesday on a hotel-lined boulevard in the beach resort city of Acapulco left as many as six people dead, Mexican authorities said.Federal police officers patrolling the area came under fire after they heard gunshots and saw attackers shooting at two men in a car, authorities said. The gunmen also shot at other vehicles as they tried to flee, riddling dozens of cars...
Mafia Shooting Trial: Giovanni Strangio Accused Of Killing Six Italians In 2007 Hit | World News | Sky News: "Giovanni Strangio was arrested in Amsterdam with his brother-in-law, also wanted for mob activity, in an international police operation.The shootings in Duisberg, northwest Germany, in 2007, were described by police as the bloodiest episode in a long-running feud between the rival clans.Giovanni Strangio followed the opening of his trial...
Man stabbed in back in gang attack - SignOnSanDiego.com: "man was stabbed twice in the back in a gang-related attack Monday night in Logan Heights, police said.San Diego Police Sgt. David Jennings said the 31-year-old man was challenged by two rival gang members on Sampson Street near Ocean View Boulevard about 9:20 p.m.He said the attackers stabbed him twice, and he was taken to a hospital with wounds that were not life-threatening. Jennings said...
Orosi 19-year-old shot in leg Saturday; gang officers seeking information | visaliatimesdelta.com | Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Advance-Register: "-year-old Orosi man reported being shot in the leg Saturday.The incident occurred in the 12700 block of Avenue 424, according to a Tulare County Sheriff’s Department report. No details of the incident — including the time it occurred — were provided.The victim was treated at Kaweah Delta Medical Center...
Feds say Border Patrol vehicles being 'cloned' by Mexican smugglers | Washington Examiner: "Federal agents along the Texas border were warned by the Department of Homeland Security that Mexican drug cartels are using 'cloned' Border Patrol vehicles to smuggle drugs into the United States, according to documents obtain by the Washington Examiner.The DHS report was sent to Border Patrol officials in Webb County, Texas, in March. It asked Border Patrol...
Bikers' 'code of honour' brings cycle of violence to sedate Berlin - The Irish Times - Fri, Apr 09, 2010: "700 Hells Angels in Germany, but no reliable figures for Berlin. The numbers keep changing because of their violent feud with the Bandidos.Formed in Texas in 1966, the Bandidos is a much smaller organisation with about 2,400 members worldwide. A decade ago the organisation came to Germany and began recruiting Hells Angels – a move viewed as...
City Attorney Seeks An Injuction To Curb Rampant Drug Sales By Gangs, Criminals On Downtown’s Skid Row: "complaint names 80 individuals and one criminal street gang identified by law enforcement as the top narcotics dealers in the Recovery Zone area. Of the 80 individuals named, 56 have documented evidence of association with more than 30 of the area’s most notorious gangs. All named individuals in the complaint have also had three or more prior...
Va. murder suspect had been allowed to leave juvenile jail to go to dentist: "teenager who was locked up on malicious wounding charges and had previous gun and gang convictions was allowed to leave jail with his mother for a dentist's appointment last fall with the approval of a Fairfax probation officer. The 16-year-old did not return. Four months later, police allege that he took a baseball bat and fatally smashed open the head of a rival gang...
70-year sentence for man who killed sleeping 6-year-old - chicagotribune.com: "sentenced Mark A. Downs almost a year after a jury found him guilty of murdering Nicholas 'Nico' Contreras during a botched gang-retaliation shooting.The crime shocked Aurora residents and produced a wave of anti-gang sentiment.Downs, 33, was already serving time for a 2004 gang-related shooting when former gang members implicated him in Contreras' death. Witnesses at...
Keansburg man, ex-prison officer among 22 indicted in gang case | APP.com | Asbury Park Press: "indictment charges Lewis Alford, 33, a.k.a. 'Killah LA,' of Keansburg, with promoting organized street crime for the Nine Trey Hillside Beehive set of the Bloods.The set's founder and leader, Clarence Scott, 35, directed the gang from New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, where he is serving a life sentence for murder, according to state Attorney General...
night after busting out of the Osceola County Jail, Rigby eluded a nationwide search by spending the night with a woman in a North Carolina motel.Surveillance video shows the 21-year-old Bloods street gang leader walking into the Raleigh, N.C. motel's parking lot about 26 hours after his Feb. 19 escape, according to a broadcast last weekend of America's Most Wanted TV program on the Fox network.Dressed in white slacks and a military-style camouflage...
4 wounded in attack at S.F. home's garage: "Four people were wounded, one critically, when a man fired into a garage in Visitacion Valley Wednesday morning in what police believe was a gang-related attack.Just after 10 a.m., at 83 Arleta St., the gunman walked up and opened fire, said San Francisco police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza. Ten shell casings were found at the scene. Three of the victims - two men and a woman - suffered less severe injuries...
Gang member wanted in ex-girlfriend's kidnapping | bertagna, castellon, girlfriend - News - The Orange County Register: "Rudy Castellon is suspected of going to his ex-girlfriend's parents' house around 6:30 p.m. Monday and banging on the front door asking for her, said Santa Ana Cpl. Anthony Bertagna.The woman's mother came to the door and told him he was not allowed in, Bertagna said. That's when Castellon is accused of displaying a handgun and...
Sweep targets Pico Rivera gang - Whittier Daily News: "served a search warrant at one home then went to four other residences to check if members of Rivera 13 were complying with the conditions of their parole and probation. Deputies said the gang's activities increased recently. One member, Rudy Ruiz of Whittier, was tied last year to the June 27 shooting outside Falcone's Pizza that left three men dead and seven people wounded. Ruiz and Canta Ranas...
Sydney is the biggest generator of dirty money and ancillary shooting, stabbing and kneecapping. In the past decade there has been an average of about eight murders a year that can be seen to have organised crime and Sydney connections. If the marksmen were more efficient the number...
Two Hells Angels and one member of the Mongols, a rival motorcycle gang, were killed in a massive brawl on Harrah's casino floor that night. Dozens of bikers on each side of the rivalry were arrested. Many more, including innocent bystanders, were injured.Dobyns, an undercover federal agent and one of the few law enforcement officials to infiltrate the legendary motorcycle gang, remembers the mood of his "brothers" at the Flamingo, a little more...
Gangbangers marauded through Times Square and nearby streets last night, storming businesses and harrassing pedestrians as three people were shot in possibly related violence. Hundreds of cops struggled to disperse the youths. Police made 54 arrests on a variety of charges, including disorderly conduct.One man was shot in the ankle on West 41st Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues. Early this morning two people were shot at 34th Street between...
five people were killed during a battle between an armed gang and Mexican army soldiers Friday morning.The shootout occurred early Friday morning in the Lomas de Jarachina Sur neighborhood on the southwest side of Reynosa. Information about possible casualties among soldiers was not disclosed.Friday morning's fatalities pile onto what has been a violent week in Tamaulipas' border cities. Authorities have now confirmed at least 25 fatalities among...
RS member or an associate or linked to it somehow, YOUR GONNA BE NEXT TO GET SHOT8 RS guys down including 3 teens and a womenfirst victim is already in the ambulance as police and paramedics scramble to stabilize the injured and lock down the area. Violence is rapidly escalating in Vancouver as the city moves towards the 2010 Olympics. Since winning the bid in 2003 local law enforcement has cracked down hard on the illegal drug industry. Gangs feel...
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