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This is a list of notable criminally-active street gangs operating or formerly operating in California. To be included in this list, the gang must have a Wikipedia article with references showing it is a California street gang.
Kumi African Nation Organization, generally referred to as 415 or Kumi 415 is a predominantly African-American prison gang that was originally formed in Folsom State Prison in the mid-1980s, and the founding members were mainly from the San Francisco Bay Area.
Lloyd Fernandez Avery II (June 21, 1969 – September 4, 2005) was an American actor. He appeared in John Singleton's Oscar-nominated film Boyz n the Hood (1991) as one of the Bloods who murdered high school football star Ricky Baker (played by Morris Chestnut) and was later killed by Doughboy (played by Ice Cube) in retaliation.
Authorities say they have traced seven homicides — two in a California prison, five on the streets of Los Angeles County — to three men suspected of being top members of the Aryan Brotherhood.
The gang has approximately 300 members and operates in the San Fernando Valley. [2] The Vineland Boys have formed alliances with Armenian Power and the Abergil crime family. The gang allegedly first teamed up with Abergils in 2000, offering protection and cooperation to the Israeli mafia's ecstasy trafficking ring operating in their territory. [3]
The beleaguered manhunt for two Louisville fugitives, alleged members of the notoriously violent Victory Park Crips street gang, spanned more than a year and more than 2,100 miles, ending near a ...
Knight, now 58, is serving 28 years in a California prison for the death of a Compton businessman in 2015. He has not implicated Davis, even though Davis said in his book that the two men ...
The Public Enemy No. 1 gang emerged from the hardcore punk scene in Long Beach, California during the 1980s. [1] [8] By the 1990s, however, PEN1's base of operations was in Orange County where the gang began recruiting white suburban adolescents and became involved in methamphetamine trafficking, prostitution and identity theft.