indictment charging 13 alleged members or associates of the notorious Tri City Bomber ( TCB ) street gang

sealed indictment charging 13 alleged members or associates of the notorious Tri City Bomber ( TCB ) street gang with trafficking in cocaine and Ecstasy and with firearms violations has been unsealed, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno and FBI San Antonio Division Special Agent in Charge Cory Nelson announced today. These charges are part of a coordinated national effort to combat gangs and gang-related violence through federal prosecutions of members and associates. The Department of Justice announced today that more than 41 members of various street gangs charged in indictments or criminal complaints unsealed today in five judicial districts. In total, 112 defendants have been charged, pleaded guilty, or been sentenced in February 2011 as part of this ongoing effort involving U.S. Attorneys' Offices across the country, the Criminal Division's Gang Unit, and federal, state, and local law enforcement partners."

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US Latin Kings gang leader gets 60 years prison

AFP: US Latin Kings gang leader gets 60 years prison: "A leader of the Latin Kings gang in the US state of Maryland was sentenced to 60 years in prison for racketeering in connection with his activities with the violent street clan, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Erick Roman, also known as 'Erick Javier Sierra,' was considered the 'Inca' of the local tribe of the the Latin Kings, a street gang with 'tribes' across the United States that traces its roots to neighborhood protection efforts in the 1940s.
Roman was sentenced Monday in a case in which eight co-defendants have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges.
'As the founder and leader of a Latin Kings tribe in Maryland, Mr Roman orchestrated a series of violent crimes, including a murder, firebombings and robberies,' said Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer.
'As this case shows, the Justice Department is committed to working with state and local law enforcement to target the leadership of local gangs and make our communities safer.'
Prosecutors said that Roman brought the Latin Kings to Maryland and founded the Royal Lion Tribe. He served as the Inca of the tribe and, in that capacity, sanctioned or ordered numerous violent acts"

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Carjack gang leader Roger Dominguez arrested in QC - Nation - GMA News Online - The go-to site for Filipinos everywhere - Latest Philippine News

Carjack gang leader Roger Dominguez arrested in QC - Nation - GMA News Online - The go-to site for Filipinos everywhere - Latest Philippine News: "Driving against the flow of traffic in a one-way street in Quezon City led to the arrest of Roger Dominguez, the co-leader of a notorious carjacking gang linked to two high-profile murders.

Roger is the brother of Raymond Dominguez. Both are considered leaders of a carjack gang linked to at least two high-profile killings in January.

Quezon City police director Chief Superintendent Benjardi Mantele said Roger was arrested on Thursday noon while driving a sport-utility vehicle that went the wrong way along Timog Avenue in Quezon City.

Mantele said records of the District Anti-Carnapping Unit (DACU) showed that DACU operatives flagged down an Outlander SUV going against the flow of traffic along Timog Avenue.

Mantele said Roger allegedly introduced himself to arresting officers as a policeman."

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UN Gang founder should do 30 years: U.S. Attorney

UN Gang founder should do 30 years: U.S. Attorney: "United Nations Gang founder Clay Roueche should not get any reduction in his 30-year U.S. sentence because of new evidence of his gang's links to violence, the U.S. Attorney argues in court documents filed Wednesday.

Roueche is due back in U.S. District Court next week after he won a partial victory in the U.S. Court of Appeal last fall.

That court ordered Judge Robert Lasnik to re-sentence Roueche, and to clarify whether Lasnik relied on any disputed evidence when he handed the Fraser Valley man the three-decade term in December 2009."

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Police intervene in Waterhouse gang war

Police intervene in Waterhouse gang war - News - JamaicaObserver.com: "ST Andrew South Police are moving to quell growing tensions between criminal gangs in Waterhouse community following a drive-by shooting yesterday that left four men nursing gunshot wounds.
“The men were standing in a section of the community called Balcombe Drive when gunmen drove into the area and opened fire hitting them,' said one resident in the area. The incident has since left a tension over the community.
Cops have linked the attacks to an altercation between gangs in the area.
Head of the division, Superintendent Delroy Hewitt, said that hours after the incident police seized two guns and arrested one man.
“After hearing of the incident the police visited the area and during an operation in the area one man was held and two guns found at a premises in the area,” Hewitt said."

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Cops crackdown on Klansman, One Order gangs

Superintendent Anthony Castelle, who heads the division, said that the police are aware that the notorious Klansman and One Order gangs were continuing to operate illegal transport centres in the Old Capital.
The police will be cracking down on these centres, which also help fund the gangs' other activities, said Castelle.?
'This is part of our ongoing operation,' said Castell.
He refused to divulge more details, but said other components of the police crime plan would be implemented soon.?
Spanish Town has been wracked by violence in recent weeks as members of the Klansman gang have turned on each other, resulting in several murders and shootings."

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Jamaican charged for attempted murder in New Jersey - News - Go-Jamaica

A Jamaican man was arrested and charged for attempted murder and weapons offences in the Mercer County Court, New Jersey yesterday.

He has been identified as 20-year-old Fitzroy Turner, otherwise called ‘Swag’ from Jamaica.

According to the Trentonian Newspaper, the victim from Ewing, surprised the doctors at the Capital Health Regional Medical Center, when he walked into the emergency room last month with stab wounds to his heart, lung, liver and sternum.

Assistant Prosecutor Michael Mennuti told the judge at the bail hearing on Wednesday that the alleged attacker was identified by his alias ‘Swag’.

The accused was later identified during an identification parade, where he was arrested and charged."

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WE NEED the death penalty Crime in the Caribbean: In the shadow of the gallows

Crime in the Caribbean: In the shadow of the gallows | The Economist: "“WE NEED the death penalty…that is the word of God,” said Benjamin Agard, a Pentecostal pastor, in his funeral sermon last month for Cecil Carrington, a retired police officer shot dead by bandits at the small hotel he owned on Trinidad’s windswept east coast. The funeral came a fortnight after Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, promised to remove legal obstacles to hanging, offering a parliamentary debate on February 18th.

Her stance is popular across the English-speaking Caribbean, where murder rates have soared since the 1990s. Her country suffered 472 killings last year—close to 5% of all deaths. In 1999 there were just 93. Almost everyone can name a friend or relative who has met a violent end. Last year’s murder rate, of 36 per 100,000 people, was seven times that in the United States and 30 times that of Britain. But it trailed Jamaica (53), Belize (42) and tiny St Kitts-Nevis (40)."

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'He's got a gun,' victim warned cousin in shooting outside club

Yeury Colon died trying to warn his cousin about a gunman, according to testimony Thursday in the trial of the alleged shooter.

Colon was running across the parking lot of Club 570 in Hazleton on Aug. 1, 2009, yelling 'He's got a gun. He's got a gun.' His cousin, Rafael Calderon Brito, was approaching Johan Pujols when Pujols flicked the gun and fired and Colon dropped, Brito testified in Luzerne County court.

Brito said he grabbed Pujols' hand, twisted him to the ground and heard the gun fire again. Figuring the gun was empty, Brito said he released Pujols, who said he didn't want any trouble as he walked away.

Earlier in Thursday's testimony, a city police detective and gang expert testified that a man wounded by a gunshot in the incident was not a gang member.

Luis Perez-Rodriguez didn't belong to a gang but was a poser, Hazleton Detective Christopher Orozco said after being shown photos of Perez-Rodriguez flashing hand signs.

Orozco said the signs were from three different gangs; a true gang member wouldn't flash signs for other gangs.

Perez-Rodriguez was wounded outside the Hazleton club when Colon was shot to death. Pujols is charged with shooting them both. His attorney has argued that there was a gang conspiracy to kill or injure Pujols."

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Police charge 31 Newburgh Latin Kings in murder, racketeering probe | poughkeepsiejournal.com | Poughkeepsie Journal

Police charge 31 Newburgh Latin Kings in murder, racketeering probe | poughkeepsiejournal.com | Poughkeepsie Journal: "ndictment charging 31 members and associates of the Latin Kings gang in Newburgh with racketeering, murder and attempted murder, and a number of other federal crimes. The original indictment was
filed last May.

Today’s superseding indictment charges members of the gang with three murders: the murder of Jeffrey Zachary in May 2008, the murder of Jerome Scarlett in March 2010, and the murder of John Maldonado in March 2010.

The defendants are also charged with two attempted murders, attempted robbery, assault, conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, heroin, powder cocaine,
and marijuana, the use and possession of firearms in connection with the crimes of violence and drug distribution conspiracy, and witness tampering, from 2007 through the present."

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The Loyal Soldiers - one of the most violent gangs in the capital

Two teenage gang members were arrested during a series of raids today over a dangerous new weapon being used on London's streets.

The youths are allegedly members of The Loyal Soldiers - one of the most violent gangs in the capital, according to police.

About 100 officers raided two addresses in Leytonstone after receiving intelligence that two members of the gang, aged 16 and 17, had been in possession of a 'pen gun'.

Police say they are seeing more and more of these weapons, which fire potentially lethal nail-shaped pellets, on the streets. They are lightweight, come disguised as pens and can be bought online easily.

Operation Cinnamon was launched after police found a pen gun wrapped in a sock when a gang was dispersed in November.

After officers in riot gear forced their way into the 16-year-old's terraced house, his father told of his 'huge shock' and said he had no idea his son was involved with"

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60 suspected members and associates of the Bloods and 18 alleged members and associates of the Latin Kings were charged with a variety of drug offenses.

"Ten suspected members and associates of the Latin Kings street gang were charged Thursday as part of a sweep in Newburgh, N.Y., by federal, state and local law enforcement, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, Orange County District Attorney Frank Phillips, as well as officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the New York State Police and the Newburgh Police Department, are expected to announce murder and racketeering charges at a press conference in White Plains, N.Y., later Thursday.

Nine people were arrested as part of the multi-agency investigation, the person said. In total, 10 have been charged, the person said.

The sweep follows raids by hundreds of law enforcement officers in last year against suspected members of the Bloods and Latin Kings gangs. In May, 60 suspected members and associates of the Bloods and 18 alleged members and associates of the Latin Kings were charged with a variety of drug offenses."

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Click Clack Gang

Kevion Darnell Bifford, also known as “2 Gunn Kevi,” 24, his brother, Kevin Levance Jackson, 22, Prince Earl Clarence Gilbert, Jr., 24, Charles V. Williams, also known as “Cortez Hanley,” 23, Gary D. Smith, 44, Taj Runnell Griffin, 19, and Deron Andrew Scott, 23, all of Kansas City, were charged in a 12-count indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday, Feb. 8 2011. The indictment was unsealed and made public today upon the arrests of several defendants.

The government has filed motions to hold all seven of the defendants in custody without bond. According to those court filings, the indictment is the result of a long-term investigation by the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives into the activities of individuals who identify themselves as members of the Click Clack Gang. The gang derives its name from the sound of cocking a gun or “racking the slide” (putting a round into the chamber) of a semi-automatic handgun. This is corroborated by the number of semi-automatic handguns recovered from the Click Clack Gang and the number of photographs and video evidence of the members with firearms."

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Scores arrested in major gangs crackdown across USA cities

Scores arrested in major gangs crackdown across USA cities "In a major nationwide crackdown on illegal street gang activity, 41 gang members were arrested in five cities, the US Justice Department has announced.

Authorities said it was a co-ordinated law enforcement effort aimed at crushing a wide range of violent criminal activity. The FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials were involved.

Federal criminal charges were slapped on seven members of the Click Clack gang in Kansas City, 12 Colonias Chiques gang members in Los Angeles, two members and associates of the Sureno13 and San Chucos gangs in Las Vegas, seven MS-13 members in Washington, DC and 13 Tri-City Bombers members and associates in McAllen, Texas."

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members of the Doctors Path Flames, a faction of the “Bloods” gang, allegedly distributed $20,000 worth of cocaine in the area each week

DA busts Riverhead drug, guns and counterfeit bills ring | Riverhead News Review: "gang-related cocaine dealing, cash counterfeiting and weapons trafficking ring that operated mostly in the Riverhead area has been busted, its 23 alleged members rounded up and arrested, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said Thursday.

The operation, connected with members of the Doctors Path Flames, a faction of the “Bloods” gang, allegedly distributed $20,000 worth of cocaine in the area each week and printed thousands of $20 counterfeit bills, which were sold for 10 cents on the dollar.

Search warrants were executed at 10 locations late last month where members of the East End Drug Task Force recovered half a kilo of coke, $2,000 in counterfeit bills, three illegal handguns ­— one of which was used in two shootings in Riverhead — and gear that suggested members were planning to impersonate police officers, Mr. Spota said.

“This shows you right here in Riverhead…we have bad, bad people,” he said."

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Gang gunbattles, street blockades in Mexico

Gang gunbattles, street blockades in Mexico: "Suspected drug cartel gunmen hurled grenades, burned vehicles and blocked streets in a rapid series of attacks in Mexico's second–largest city, authorities said Wednesday.
The seven attacks within two hours late Tuesday appear to have been coordinated, and were staged by drug gangs, possibly in retaliation for the arrests of their members, said Fernando Guzman Perez, interior secretary of Jalisco state, where the city of Guadalajara is located. A policeman and two transportation workers were injured in the attacks."

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Indian Posse man gets life after 2007 killing

Winnipeg man gets life after 2007 killing - thestar.com: "street gang member in Winnipeg has been sentenced to life in prison after an order to shoot rival gangsters ended in the death of an innocent man.

Tyson Kane Roulette, who is a member of the Indian Posse, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the killing of Anthony Woodhouse and will not be eligible for parole for 10 years.

Woodhouse — a 30-year-old man with no ties to gangs — was gunned down on the front porch of a home in September 2007.

Court heard Roulette told a co-accused to go after rival gang members who were reportedly at the residence."

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Gang leader pleads to racketeering in D.C. area

Gang leader pleads to racketeering in D.C. area - Washington Times: "leader of a violent street gang tied to the attempted murder of two rival gang members and to the extortion of pimps trafficking prostitutes from Maryland into Virginia pleaded guilty Thursday to federal racketeering charges, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

ICE Special Agent in Charge John P. Torres, who heads the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations Division in Washington, D.C., said Jose Anibal Vigil, 21, of Falls Church, Va., pleaded guilty to charges involving being a member of Gangsters Locos Salvatrucha (GLS), an offshoot of Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, a racketeering enterprise.

He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison at sentencing on May 6.

“MS-13 and the violent tactics they use to instill fear throughout our communities will not be tolerated,” Mr. Torres said. “As evidenced in today’s plea, MS-13 operates as a criminal enterprise using brutal acts to include attempted murder as a means to spread their control in our neighborhoods.”"

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