*** In Riverside, CA a black teen allegedly murdered two Hispanic teens in order to gain membership into the 1200 Blocc Crips: "This is a guy who's aimless. He was given instructions that he needed to kill somebody, and if that person happened to be Latino, more the better."
*** A Crips member convicted of running a drug trafficking ring in Portland, OR that generated $300,000 a month gets 13 years in prison.
*** In Wichita, KS a Crips member gets 84 months in prison following his conviction on federal racketeering and drug charges.
*** A 14-year-old suspected Bloods member pleads guilty to her role in prolonged torture and then murder of Crips member and his girlfriend in gang-related dispute in Camden, NJ.
*** In Memphis, TN a college student dies from an intiation beating into the Bloods.
*** Suspected MS-13 member Rodolfo Godinez convicted "for the brutal execution-style murders of three people at a New Jersey elementary school playground":
The killings took place the night of Aug. 4, 2007, when four friends met at Mount Vernon elementary school in Newark to socialize. Prosecutors argued that Godinez, along with five other defendants, set upon the group with machetes and guns, hacking at the victims before lining them up against a wall and shooting each one at point-blank range. One of the victims, then-19-year-old Natasha Aeriel, survived the attack, in which members of the gang sexually molested her, shot her and cut her with with a machete.
*** Police shutter nightclub in Charlotte, NC as an alleged MS-13 haven: "The club has a long and violent history. FBI agents have linked it to the MS-13 gang, alleging that the gang controlled the club and met there to discuss gang business."
*** In Milwaukee, WI fifteen suspected members and associates of Menace of Destruction are charged with racketeering and other crimes:
The complaint details the history and customs of the gang, including its violent initiation practices, its use of the color red and the symbol of five dots. The gang engaged in drug trafficking, auto theft, burglary, intimidation and a continuing turf war with the Asian Crips gang, which resulted in more than 120 shootings and other acts of violence between 2004 and 2009, according to the complaint.
*** In the 75th precinct of Brooklyn, NY -- the East New York neighborhood -- violent crime is up 8 percent: "the precinct's gang problem -- Bloods, Crips, Latin Kings and Trinitarios -- is persistent and worrisome."
*** The communities of southern West Virginia experiencing a growing gang problem.
*** In San Bernardino, CA the police arrested twenty-two suspected members of the Delmann Heights Ghetto Boys, a/k/a Delmann Heights Bloods, and "seized 32 pounds of methamphetamine, $20,000 cash, 10 guns, two vehicles and a plethora of gang paraphernalia."
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