17-year veteran of the New York Police Department has been suspended without pay after a kidnapping victim was found tied up in his garage. The New York Post reports Ondre Johnson, a detective with the Brooklyn north gang unit, was being questioned in connection with the incident and was forced to surrender his gun and badge. A source tells the Post the 25-year-old victim was snatched off the street on July 26. The victim's friends then got calls...
The 3500 hours of taped calls and chats – including recordings made while he was lying low in his flat in Amsterdam – were crucial in forcing him to strike a deal to plead guilty.Transcripts revealed Stevenson and his mob speaking in code about drug consignments...
Jamie “Iceman” Stevenson is back on the streets – less than halfway through his prison sentence for laundering £1million of drugs cash. Scotland’s most powerful mobster has been enjoying meals at expensive restaurants and socialising with pals after being allowed home for a week each month. Stevenson – who was also accused of shooting dead his best friend in an underworld hit – was put behind bars in September 2006 when he was arrested after a four-year...
Police in Alice are investigating a shooting that occurred near Reynolds Street. According to investigators, it all started on South Nayer Street where police say Isaac Vela was standing on the side of the road waiting for a ride. A vehicle -- with four people inside passed by. One of the passengers, police say, shot Vela in the face. The vehicle fled the scene, but the driver only made it a few blocks before he lost control of the vehicle. It smashed...
Reece James, 21, a close friend of Tulisa Contostavlos has been shot dead in a reported gangland attack. The 21-year-old, who appeared with Tulisa in a video for rapper Nines, was shot in the head in a "pre-planned and targeted" hit, 100 miles from his home in London, reports the UK's Sun newspaper. Police found James' body in Boscombe, Bournemouth, at around 2.30am near where Somali drug gangs are said operate. A 22-year-old man was arrested. Reece...
As the alleged "enforcer" of the Latin Kings, Raymon "King Snappy" Gaytan Jr. would be "the face of the gang," an investigator testified in federal court this morning.Gaytan and three other alleged gang members are in federal court today in Grand Rapids for detention hearings. They were arrested during a sweep in which investigators allegedly found several firearms and rounds of ammunition in their homes.Holland's Latin Kings branch is a sophisticated...
The killings occurred in the communities of Grants Pen and Sunrise Crescent, off Red Hills Road, driving fear into residents and causing police to beef up security in the two ‘hotspot’ areas.“The activities that we have been seeing in these two communities are between two rival gangs. It has nothing to do with the residents or persons traversing in and around the communities,” Deputy Superintendent of Police George McFarlane told the Jamaica Observer...
Reformed gangster Mikey Giwa was caught with drugs on a prison visitA reformed gangster who said his criminal past was behind him is awaiting sentence for trying to smuggle mobile phone sim cards and heroin into prison.Mikey Giwa was a prominent member of the notorious Don't Say...
Two people were injured Friday afternoon in Huron in what police are calling a gang-related shooting between local Norteño and Bulldogs street gangs, Huron police said. Officers were flagged down by a bystander in front of the Chevron Market, 36700 S. Lassen Ave., around 2:15 p.m. who said a shooting had happened seconds earlier and that the shooting victims were close by, said Sgt. Ronnie Rubalcaba. The two victims, a juvenile whose age was not...
The cluster of young men hanging out on the porch of the run-down brick home cast menacing stares at the unknown car as a "spotter", a teen on a bicycle, talked into a mobile phone. Beneath a tree across the street, burned red candle wax was the last remnant of an impromptu shrine for a 13-year-old boy, Tyquan Tyler, shot dead two weeks earlier by a killer just a few years older than him. The assailant had run through an alleyway past a boarded-up...
The cluster of young men hanging out on the porch of the run-down brick home cast menacing stares at the unknown car as a "spotter", a teen on a bicycle, talked into a mobile phone. Beneath a tree across the street, burned red candle wax was the last remnant of an impromptu shrine for a 13-year-old boy, Tyquan Tyler, shot dead two weeks earlier by a killer just a few years older than him. The assailant had run through an alleyway past a boarded-up...
Ncedile Gigi’s unrecognisable remains have not been buried since March, when a mob took the law into its own hands, beating and then torching the 26-year-old in crime-ridden Khayelitsha. Accused of theft, Gigi was one of three men who had petrol-laced tyres shoved over their shoulders in Khayelitsha. The heat fused his body with that of another and the charred remains were left on a sandy patch of ground where children play soccer - a macabre warning...
While legalizing drugs such as marijuana would put a dent in Chicago street gang profits, it is not a magic bullet to end violent crime in the city. A very thoughtful post from fellow Chicago Now blogger, C.M. Synder on Make No Little Plans proposed a variety of short and long term solutions for the current levels of violent crime in the city. While many of the ideas are interesting and worth a further discussion, I want to take issue with one...
United States Attorney Bill Nettles and Special Agent in Charge David A. Thomas of the Federal Bureau of Investigation stated a number of individuals were arrested yesterday after the return of a 134-count indictment charging members and associates of the United Blood Nation (UBN, also called the Bloods Street Gang) with various violations of federal law, including racketeering conspiracy (RICO-18 U.S.C. §1962) and with numerous other crimes. The...
2012 Getty Images Dozens of Latin Americans without criminal convictions have been denied green cards or permanent residency since 2006 based partly on the assumption that some tattoos reveal affiliation with criminal gangs, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.Héctor...
U.S. Supreme Court ruling could affect sentencing if two young defendants are convicted of a gang-related Quincy murder. The court ruled it unconstitutional June 25 for states to require judges to sentence juvenile offenders to life in prison without the possibility of parole. That throws into doubt the sentencing sought for two yet-to-be-tried defendants in the murder of Adan Beltran, gunned down outside his Quincy home last year. Beltran,...
A fight involving as many as 40 people broke out at the Hmong Freedom Celebration in St. Paul on Saturday night, leaving a 20-year-old man with a stab wound in the upper back, charges say. The weapon? An umbrella, authorities said Monday, or more specifically, the tip of an umbrella that had been shaved to a point. Ramsey County prosecutors presented the stabbing details in a complaint charging Tou Yang, 18, with two counts of second-degree riot...
The person responsible for murdering a Whitehaven teen is now behind bars. Allen Hall, 18, turned himself in Saturday evening and was charged with 1st degree murder for the shooting death of Cleveion Coley. Coley, 16, is the latest shooting victim, witnesses say, of the gang, Kingsgate Mafia. Friday night’s murder was especially tough on the victim’s older brother, James Wilks. “[The] man didn’t even get to live his life,” he said. “He ain’t got...
Not far from Lincoln Park's North Pond, where neighbors paused to watch a brood of ducklings Saturday afternoon, one man was shot and two other people were run down by a vehicle hours earlier in a suspected gang-related attack. "This is Lincoln Park," said Ann Nordsell, 45, who stopped on her way home Saturday to watch the ducks waddle in the shallow water near Lincoln Park Zoo. She was astonished to learn that gang violence had spilled over into...
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