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Armenian Power graffiti in Little Armenia, Los Angeles MS-13 graffiti. This is a list of notable criminal gangs in Los Angeles, California. The County and the City of Los Angeles has been nicknamed the "Gang Capital of America," with an estimated 450 active gangs with a combined membership of more than 45,000. [1]
The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the Dragna crime family, the Southern California crime family [7] or the L.A. Mafia, and dubbed "the Mickey Mouse Mafia" by former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, [8] is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Los Angeles, California as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.
Russian gangsters distributing ecstasy in Miami on behalf of a Cuban drug lord appear in Bad Boys II (2003). The Russian film Bimmer (2003) is road movie about four friends who get into trouble with the law and flee Moscow in a black BMW. As the men drive across the Russian expanse, they encounter corruption, violence, poverty and various ...
Monya Elson, leader of Monya's Brigada (a gang that similarly operated from Russia to Los Angeles to New York), was in a feud with Boris Nayfeld, with bodies dropping on both sides. [16] Ivankov's arrival virtually ended the feud, although Elson would later challenge his power as well, and a number of attempts were made to end the former's life ...
Russian: Max: FSB agent turned gang leader, accused of being involved in the Russian apartment bombings: Marat Balagula: Ashkenazi Jewish (Ukrainian Jewish) Was a powerful Ukrainian gangster in the USA. Evsei Agron: Ashkenazi Jewish (Russian Jewish) One of the first Russian gangsters to establish a powerful gang in the USA, thief in law. Ludwig ...
The suit, filed Feb. 15 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleges that there have been nine gang-related shootings at the complex in the last 15 months, with five occurring since December due ...
A Russian man who flew on a plane from Denmark to Los Angeles in November without a passport or ticket told U.S. authorities he didn't remember how he got through security in Europe, according to ...
Jurijus Kadamovas was born on October 22, 1966, in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Iouri Gherman Mikhel was born on April 9, 1965, in Leningrad, USSR. [6] Both men were foreign nationals who emigrated to the United States and lived in Los Angeles, California.