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The 18th Street Gang, also known as Eighteen St, Barrio 18, Mara 18, or simply 18 in North America, [1] [15] [16] [17] is a multi-ethnic (largely Central American and Mexican) transnational criminal organization that started as a street gang in Los Angeles.
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]
38th Street gang; The Avenues; Azusa 13; Culver City Boys 13; El Monte Flores; Florencia 13; Logan Heights Gang; OVS; Playboys; Puente 13; Santa Monica 13; Río 13; Shelltown 38th St; Temple Street; Toonerville Rifa 13; Varrio Nuevo Estrada; Venice 13; Westside Locos 13; White Fence; Vineland Boys; Tiny Rascal Gang; Triad. 14K Triad; Bamboo ...
[4] [1] Some stations, such as the East Los Angeles Station, were essentially operated by a deputy gang. A lawsuit filed by eight deputies and the American Civil Liberties Union alleged that the Banditos "controls the East Los Angeles station like inmates running a prison yard." Promotions, working hours, and time off were also alleged to be ...
This is a list of gangs whose members are associated with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) (typically deputies). Press reports indicate the LASD has had a problem with gangs since at least the 1970s which has expanded to at least 18 gangs. [1] The department has used the term "cliques" when discussing these groups. [2]
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The Crips and the Bloods, two majority-Black street gangs founded in Los Angeles (L.A.), California, have been engaged in a gang war since the 1970s. [30] [31] The war is made up of smaller, local conflicts between chapters of both gangs, and has mostly taken place in major cities in the United States, especially L.A.
La Unión Tepito is a Mexican criminal organization. It was created in 2009 under the tutelage of Édgar Valdez Villarreal . Its first leader was Francisco Javier Hernández Gómez ( Pancho Cayagua ), who was murdered in October 2017 in the parking lot of a shopping center in the Indios Verdes area, in the borough of Gustavo A. Madero of Mexico ...