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The meaning and histories of criminal tattoos vary from country to country, and they are commonly assumed to be associated with gang membership. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They could also be a record of the wearer's personal history—such as their skills, specialties, accomplishments, incarceration, world view and/or means of personal expression. [ 2 ]
The name Red Scorpions was chosen as the name for their gang in 2000. [9] Both Narong and Le were bullied as teenagers by a Korean-Canadian teenager, Richard Jung. [10] In the summer of 2000, Le and Narong led their gang into the Hi-Max karaoke club in Coquitlam and beat Jung to death in the men's washroom. [11]
The gang has since expanded throughout Latin America and the United States due to the Venezuelan refugee crisis, with the growth of the gang following the migration of Venezuelans to host nations. [4] [5] Due to the severity of its crimes, combating the gang has become a priority to many nations where Tren de Aragua has entered. [4]
Tattoos on the hands and fingers were common, and for women, palm tattoos showing insults were popular in the 1940s and 50s. [35] A church with three cupolas – "eternal prisoner" applied to someone with at least three convictions. [36] An eagle – denotes an authoritative thief, or an escapee from a camp. [37]
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.
The gang members began arriving two years ago, around the same time scores of Venezuelan migrants from the Texas-Mexico border aboard charter buses ordered by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, said Savino ...
The rapper, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, is in court in Fulton County, Georgia, fighting gang and racketeering charges in connection with what prosecutors say is a violent street gang he ...
Two years ago, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department internal investigators learned about a group of Lakewood station deputies who shared a common tattoo of a spade, with the number 13.