Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s first reading material each morning, at 5:30, is not a budget update, a legislative proposal or a packet of headlines. It is an e-mail from the Chicago Police Department listing the crimes that were committed during the night that just ended. By 7 a.m., he is calling Garry F. McCarthy, the police superintendent. That is unlikely to be their final conversation of the day, or even of the morning. Multimedia Graphic Homicides...
Police investigators are at the scene of a Monday afternoon shooting near St. John's and Queens Streets in Port Moody.Photograph by: Ian Lindsay , PNG Vancouver Police are investigating the daylight shooting, which occurred just before 4:45 p.m. near St. John’s and...
Dallas T. Thompson and Crystal M. Moss are being held in the Ada County Jail on felony charges of possession of controlled substance with intent to deliver after Boise police say they found 19 grams of methamphetamine in their car during a traffic stop Tuesday night. Police reports say the 31-year-old Thompson, who is from Middleton, is a documented gang member but not which gang he belongs to. A Boise patrol officer pulled over Thompson’s car...
Four more alleged members of a nationwide outlaw biker gang, including two from Chicago, are facing charges accusing them of crimes including robbery, kidnapping and murder, federal prosecutors said Friday. The U.S. attorney's office in St. Louis announced a superseding grand jury indictment naming the four additional men. Eighteen others were indicted in June 2011. The case involving the Wheels of Soul motorcycle gang began after gang-related...
Gang enforcement officers and Crime Stoppers are asking for the public’s help to solve a gang-related shooting at a Northeast Portland nightclub last month. Sgt. Pete Simpson, a spokesman for the Portland Police Bureau, said the shooting occurred in the early morning hours of May 6 at the 715 Inn, at 715 Northeast Broadway. A woman inside the club, 60-year-old Christine Anderson, was struck once in the chest; she survived her wound. Witnesses told...
Anthony Phillips, 26, of San Bernardino, is accused of fatally shooting Maurice Major, 29, of Riverside, at an apartment complex in the 1200 block of North Sierra Way. Phillips was arrested the next day. He is charged with one count of murder, and prosecutors have added a gang enhancement for Phillips' alleged involvement in a San Bernardino gang. Phillips, who was in San Bernardino Superior Court on Thursday, has pleaded not guilty to the charges....
A Jersey City man who is a ranking member of the Fruit Town Brims set of the Bloods street gang was sentenced to 63 months in prison Wednesday for his role in the gang’s criminal enterprises, officials said. Tequan Ryals, 34, had pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy before U.S. District Court Judge Stanley R. Chesler, who imposed the sentence in Newark federal court Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. Ryals, with fellow gang members,...
A mob snitch who couldn’t shoot straight easily pointed the finger at a reputed Colombo gangster on trial for murder. Dino Basciano took the witness stand in Brooklyn Federal Court to testify that he heard Frank (BF) Guerra was part of a hit team that successfully whacked Joseph Scopo in 1993. Basciano, 56, wasn’t much of a hit man himself, botching at least three rubout attempts. In one case, he shot Patricia Capozzalo, the sister of Peter (Fat...
The twin half brothers of Ramarley Graham, the Bronx teen fatally shot by a police officer in February, were convicted Tuesday for gun possenion and being part of a Harlem street gang. Hodean and Kadean Graham were sentenced to eight years in jail for heading a crew known as "One-Twenty-Nine" and "Goodfellas/The New Dons" between 2007 and 2011 in the area around W. 129th Street, between Lenox and Fifth Avenues. The 20-year-old brothers were cleared...
A field report by Southern Pulse describes how Acapulco represents the future of Mexico's drug conflict, in which super-powered street gangs, the descendants of the big cartels, are increasingly responsible for much of the violence. And the gangs currently fighting for control of their turf may only get smaller and more numerous. Reprinted with permission from Southern Pulse. This is an excerpt from the full report, "Acapulco Criminal...
The splintering of established drug gangs has young men grabbing the tools of their trade – handguns – to jockey for position. Or it is that rival gangs, once miles apart in different public housing complexes, suddenly finding themselves sharing the same street corner. Whatever the reasons, Chicago has seen a spike in its homicide rate – with eight killed and at least 35 wounded in a spasm of gunfire last weekend alone – that has authorities...
'The victims were holding a wake when several men erupted into the San Martin funeral home and launched Molotov explosives,' said Arturo Sandoval, spokesman for the Chihuahua Attorney General's office in Juárez to the El Paso TimesAuthorities said that the suspects fled the...
Clary, 29, was shot to death in a dispute with a rival dealer over narcotics trafficking along Sheridan Street in South Camden, according to police reports and investigative records. "Easy was having a problem with the lower end of Sheridan Street," one informant told investigators. Another said that a few weeks before he was killed, Clary and an associate had "shot up the bottom of the block," wounding a worker for the rival dealer. For...
" align="center"> " align="center"> " align="center"> " align="center"> " align="center"> A trio of Norteño gangmembers who prosecutors say fired on a San Bruno cop while on their way to kill a rival appeared in court yesterday, including...
Toronto police are about to crack down on gangs operating across two divisions near the city’s core in the wake of the Eaton Centre shooting. “We are going to take back the neighbourhoods,” a police source told the Star. The initiative, nicknamed Project Post, will target two gangs, the Project Originals and Sic Thugs. (Post is an acronym of their names.) The police project will launch in the next few days. A meeting will be held Wednesday to...
One of the victims of Saturdays shooting at the Eaton Centre was working toward getting away from his past gang affiliation, according to a Toronto gang-activist. The victim, in his early 20s, started with the Breaking the Cycle program in Scarborough just a few months ago. According to the program’s director, Gary Newman, he was doing well and enjoying the program. “He had two job placements; he works four days a week,” said Newman. “He’s been...
Police say Gastonia streets are safer following the roundup of dozens of gang members indicted in a federal case that details murder plots, drug deals and robberies. The 27 people charged are members or associates of the United Blood Nation – more commonly known as the infamous “Bloods” gang, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The suspects, many of whom live in the Gaston County area, were arrested May 18. The 59-page indictment, unsealed...
teenager was shot near the railroad tracks in Santa Cruz on Friday night in a gang-related incident, police said. Police responded to reports of gunshots near the railroad tracks underneath the West Cliff Trestle at 8:04 p.m. Initial reports were that a person with a gun was shooting at several others who were running away. When police arrived, they found a 16-year-old boy suffering from gunshot wounds to his lower body. That victim was flown...
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