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A total of 68 suspected gang members with ties to White supremacy were charged in the Los Angeles area Wednesday in a large-scale takedown, federal prosecutors said. The Peckerwoods Gang members ...
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]
By the late 1980's, another deputy gang called the "Cavemen" had formed within the East Los Angeles sheriff's station. It is alleged that former county sheriff Alex Villanueva is or was a member of the gang, and he stated before a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting on March 12, 2019 that "we were all Cavemen." [4]
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 homicide victims whose deaths police are attributing to the gang members, all of whom were fatally shot, include Arron Sutton, 18, killed in Florence on Nov. 15; Christopher Woods, 61, killed ...
Twenty-seven suspected gang members were arrested and almost 150 pounds of drugs were seized in an operation targeting a “violent street organization” in Los Angeles.. Officials say that ...
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.
Two suspected gang members were arrested in connection with a series of shootings in the Los Angeles area that killed four people, including a 14-year-old boy, authorities said Tuesday. The ...