Two teens delayed entering pleas in Marin County Superior Court May 20. The case involves the murder last week of an alleged rival gang member.

Carlos Eduardo Gutierrez, 18, and Bryan Sandoval Rocha, 17, both of San Rafael, are charged with killing 21-year-old Jeffrie Lee Olmstead of Corte Madera after a car chase in San Rafael on May 11. Rocha is being tried as an adult.Both teens are also charged with participation in a street gang and assault, Deputy District Attorney Yvette Martinez-Shaw said.Gutierrez also is charged with felony vandalism of a Ford Explorer, the car Olmstead got out...

Adrian Rodriguez, 21, of Santa Ana was detained Wednesday night during a traffic stop near McFadden Avenue and Raitt Street,

Adrian Rodriguez, 21, of Santa Ana was detained Wednesday night during a traffic stop near McFadden Avenue and Raitt Street, police said. He was booked on one count of murder and gang enhancements at the Santa Ana City Jail, said Santa Ana police Cpl. Cpl. Anthony Bertagna.Adrian Rodriguez, 21, of Santa Ana, is accused of being involved in the fatal altercation that happened Sunday night outside Taqueria Zamora in the 3100 block of South Main Street,...

massacre in northern Guatemala, which has left at least 27 people dead, is another reminder of the growing influence exerted by powerful Mexican drug gang, the Zetas, in Central America.

massacre in northern Guatemala, which has left at least 27 people dead, is another reminder of the growing influence exerted by powerful Mexican drug gang, the Zetas, in Central America.The Zetas may have first entered Guatemala at the invitation of two drug bosses, Otoniel Turcios and Hearst Walter Overdick. But instead of partnering with local Guatemalan smugglers, the Mexicans became intent on displacing them.The Zetas cemented their presence...

Police found nine bodies over the weekend next to the bull ring in Durango city,

Police found nine bodies over the weekend next to the bull ring in Durango city, the capital of the like-named northern Mexican state, the Public Safety Secretariat said in a posting on Twitter.The bodies of the nine men were found Sunday morning in a street by the bull ring in the city’s San Ignacio district, the secretariat said.Investigators are trying to determine who killed the men, the secretariat said, without providing details about the cause...

Along the Central Coast in California the FBI arrested thirteen suspected members of the Deuce Brims Bloods and the Northwest street gang on various drug, weapons and other charges

GANGWAR NEWS: Along the Central Coast in California the FBI arrested thirteen suspected members of the Deuce Brims Bloods and the Northwest street gang on various drug, weapons and other charges:  "The FBI says the Northwest street gang is known as the largest Hispanic street gang on the Central Coast and has ties to the Mexican Mafia."*** The Mexican Mafia rules the roost in California prisons according to Kings County Gang Task Force...

Jackson, of the 5100 block of South Union Avenue, was one of several Black P Stone gang members who had fought with rival Gangster Disciples earlier in the day and then returned to even the score, police said.

Lesean Jackson, 21, was convicted in a bench trial last month of first-degree murder in the October 2007 slaying of Arthur Jones in the 800 block of West Garfield Boulevard.Jackson, of the 5100 block of South Union Avenue, was one of several Black P Stone gang members who had fought with rival Gangster Disciples earlier in the day and then returned to even the score, police said.Arthur, who went by the nickname "AJ," was heading to a store nearby...

"Our goal is simply this, dismantle gangs from the top to the bottom", says U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr., "from the street soldiers to the shot callers and to put their drug-dealing associates out of business as well."

13 people were arrested during the early morning operation... nine of them on federal charges including drug trafficking.. specifically the distribution of methamphetamine.Most of the federal defendants are from Santa Maria and range in age from 23 to 51:Freddie Sutton, 51, OceanoMike Shepherd, 50, Santa MariaChristopher DeLong, 50, Arroyo GrandeKeshon Cole, 34, Santa MariaRandy Fuston, 29, Santa MariaMelvin Braddock, 40, Santa MariaEduardo Sanchez,...