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 arrests for narcotics sales within the proposed of enforcement.
Terms of the proposed Central City Recovery Zone include provisions restricting named individuals from being present anywhere in the established geographic area of the Recovery Zone, from possessing narcotics, from possessing dangerous weapons, and from using other individuals for the purpose of soliciting narcotics sales.
The complaint includes 124 evidentiary declarations gathered over the course of several months by the City Attorney’s gang prosecutors from law enforcement experts to establish a long existing pattern of criminal conduct and unlawful business practices by the named defendants on Skid Row. According to the declarations, gang members from all over Los Angeles are known to travel to or in some cases move to downtown Los Angeles in order to sell narcotics to the less fortunate and vulnerable who are often times already addicted and seeking services, and subject to relapse.
Narcotics dealers commuting into the Central City Recovery Zone are known to engage directly in street sales of narcotics or use the addicted transient population to sell narcotics in exchange for their own drugs. Primary sites for dealers to loiter and conduct narcotics business include service provider locations, San Julian Park and Gladys Park."
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