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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Rodolfo Cadena (1943-1972), mob boss; later stabbed to death in another prison; Diego Corrales (1977-2007), boxer; served 14 months for assault [15] Fleeta Drumgo (1945-1979), member of the San Quentin Six; served time for attempted murder [16] Rene "Boxer" Enriquez (born 1962), gang member; later sent to Pelican Bay State Prison in 1993 [17]
A former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with murder in the killing of hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas is deriding the case against him as the product of speculation and second ...
On December 17, 1997, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office and Los Angeles Sherriff's Office sought an injunction against the Crenshaw Mafia Gangster Bloods, as the gang had been responsible for 19 murders in the preceding four years. [3] In the two years following the implementation of the injunction, the gang committed no murders ...