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Hooites-Meursing started to engage in gun-running and smuggling cocaine for the Red Scorpions while having B.C. Bud marijuana smuggled into the United States. [15] By 2005, the Red Scorpions had become a major gang in the Lower Mainland. [9] The gang primarily sold cocaine, heroin and ecstasy via the so-called "dial-a-dope" lines. [9]
In January 2003, the UN gang shot and killed the Red Scorpion Edward "Skeeter" Russell in revenge. [9] When a tape emerged of an UN gang member, Gupreet "Bobby" Rehal, laughing about the killing of Russell and stating he arranged for the murder, [10] the Red Scorpions decided that he must had been Russell's shooter. [9]
The Brothers Keepers were founded in 2016 [12] by Gavinder Singh Grewal; with most of the gangs membership and leadership formerly made up of former Red Scorpions.Grewal was rumoured to have taken the gang's name from a line uttered by Wesley Snipes’ gangster character in the 1991 movie New Jack City.
Federal and L.A. County law enforcement raid 30 homes linked to South L.A. gang Florencia 13 in the shooting death of LAPD Officer Fernando Arroyos in 2022.
At least seven people were injured in a Long Beach, California, shooting late Saturday, according to police. Officers with the Long Beach Police Department responded to the shooting in the area of ...
Raymundo Duran was charged with attempted murder in the 'ambush' shooting of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Samuel Aispuro. Gang member charged with attempted murder after deputy shot in the back
In January 2003, the UN gang killed the Red Scorpion Edward "Skeeter" Russell in revenge for Thiphavong's death. [29] An audio tape of an UN gang member, Gupreet "Bobby" Rehal emerged with Rehal laughing about Russell's murder, which led the Red Scorpions to conclude that he was Russell's killer. [29] Hooites-Meursing was ordered to kill Rehal ...
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 ...