Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said that as the targets of M-13, the immigrants without legal status were extorted, robbed, raped and murdered by M-13 members. Since 2007, L.A. county had tried to weaken the gang's power by sending hundreds of its members to prison. "Today's ...
Hispanic American studies Faith and community| Recovering gang members in Los Angeles UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo FloresEdwardThis dissertation examines how urban, faith-based organizations facilitate Latino men's recovery from gang life. Drawing upon in-depth interviews ...
000 purported Los Angeles County gang members, 62,000 of whom were identified largely by officers from the now-disbanded Los Angeles Police Department CRASH units--including those in the scandal-ridden Rampart station, senior police officers say....
A San Pedro gang member was sentenced to death Monday for the 1994 carjacking murders of two Marymount College film students from Japan, where the incident prompted sharp criticism of Los Angeles’ “gun culture.” Raymond Oscar “Mugsy” Butler, 21, twitched nervously as a Long Beach Superior...
East Los Angeles cholas are the female counterparts of the cholos, the latter the street gang members that come from marginal situations and conditions. While there has been little research on female gang members overall, the role of females in the street life is significant. Sisters, girlfriends...
38th Street Gang The 38th Street Gang was founded sometime in the 1920s on the border between South Central Los Angeles and the City of Vernon. It gained fame in 1942 after multiple members were arrested for what was known as the Sleepy Lagoon Murder. This was also the time of zoot s...
gang formation in Los Angeles. I also discuss the way in which wider social marginalisation has sustained this. In the main body of the chapter, I share insights from life history interviews conducted with male Latino gang members from the most socially disadvantaged areas of the city, all ...
List of Los Angeles bands, listed by their level of fame. This Los Angeles musicians list includes both bands and solo artists. All famous Los Angeles bands ...
part of the gang share a common leg tattoo that depicts a skeleton that's wearing a sombrero and holding a pistol and has a bushy mustache called a brocha. "If the deputies resist recruitment, the gang tries to 'roll out' the deputies, getting them to quit ...
On Tuesday, the first of eight members of the Satanas gang to be tried in connection with the killings was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury. Simplicio Mortel, 26, of Glendale, also was convicted of attempted murder, assault with a dead...