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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.
Toonerville Rifa 13 was formed in the 1930s in North East Los Angeles and South Glendale. Prior to taking the name of Toonerville in the early 1940s, the gang was known as the "Latin Souls." The change to "Toonerville" came in the 1940s and named after the Pacific Electric Railway trolley that used to run through Atwater Village and South Glendale.
During the 1950s and 1960s, White Fence was considered one of the "most violent and powerful gangs in East Los Angeles." [13] [12] The rivalry between the gang and another Hispanic gang, El Hoyo Maravilla, is one of the longest, ongoing feuds in all of Los Angeles, a rivalry going back to the 1930s.
Jessi Fernandez, a onetime gang member from L.A.'s Eastside, is part of a swelling pipeline of ex-convicts who make it to a UC or Cal State and find an unexpected path forward.
The first known deputy gang to exist in the public eye was that of the "Little Devils" in 1970, based out of the East Los Angeles sheriff's station. Deputies of that gang were responsible for violence against protesters during the National Chicano Moratorium March on August 29, 1970. Three years later, a list of 47 deputies with the red devil ...
By BRIAN MELLEY LOS ANGELES (AP) - More than two dozen suspected members of a gang that terrorized a housing project for a half century and controlled drug dealing in an East Los Angeles ...
Latin Kings (gang) Lopers; Los Angeles crime family; Menace of Destruction; Mongols Motorcycle Club; Moonshiners Motorcycle Club; MS-13; Norteños; Peckerwood. Nazi Lowriders; Public Enemy No. 1; Rancho San Pedro Gang; Satanas; Sinaloa Cartel. Beltrán-Leyva Cartel; Sureños. 38th Street gang; The Avenues; Azusa 13; Culver City Boys 13; El ...
Varrio Nuevo Estrada has expanded to other local communities such as East Los Angeles, Montebello, and Lancaster.VNE cliques include the Tiny Winos, Tiny Locos, Devils, Ninos, Chicos, Cutdowns, Dukes, Tiny Dukes, Tiny Gangsters, Termites, Santos, Spantos, and Malos in Estrada Courts, Tick Tocks, and Tiny Locos in Montebello, Primos in Lancaster and Rosamond and Southill which sits in parts of ...