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The Florencia 13, also known as South Side Florencia 13, Florence Gang, F13 is an American criminal street gang based in Los Angeles, California, composed mainly of Mexican Americans. The gang is named after the Florence area of Los Angeles County, controlled by the Mexican Mafia. [7] They are involved in drug smuggling, murder, assault and ...
Federal and L.A. County law enforcement raid 30 homes linked to South L.A. gang Florencia 13 in the shooting death of LAPD Officer Fernando Arroyos in 2022.
In recent years, however, Florencia-13 members have been directed to eschew violent inter-gang rivalries in favor of pursuing new rackets, said a former member of the gang, who spoke on condition ...
A Florencia-13 gang tag in the Florence–Firestone area of L.A. County. Authorities said Juan Garcia, a reputed Mexican Mafia member originally from the Florenica-13 gang, was shot Saturday in La ...
The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or the Organization) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Chicago, Illinois, which originated in the city's South Side in 1910. The organization is part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.
Mexican American street gangs originated in Los Angeles in the early 1900s as a result of various factors, including economic conditions and racial prejudice. In 1957, the Mexican Mafia (or La Eme), California's first prison gang, was established by Luis "Huerro Buff" Flores and other East Los Angeles gang members, at the Deuel Vocational Institution.
Federal prosecutors charged four people with killing Officer Fernando Arroyos as a violent crime in aid of racketeering for the Florencia 13 gang.
On August 13–14, 2017, New Jersey MS-13 faction member Walter Yovany Gomez, who was added to the FBI most wanted list in April 2017, [167] was apprehended and charged with the brutal 2011 murder of his friend, Julio Matute, for associating with another gang. After a night of drinking, Gomez and another MS-13 member smacked Matute on the head ...