*** MS-13 member convicted for pimping out a 12-year-old girl in the D.C. metropolitan area.
*** Texas Mexican Mafia member gets 18 years in prison for his role in racketeering enterprise involving drugs, extortion and murder: "the extortion involved 'the dime,' a 10 percent drug tax collected from drug distributors known to member of the criminal enterprise" and "collection was enforced by robbery, serious bodily injury, or other acts of violence, including murder." Nine other crew members remain to be sentenced.
*** In Brooklyn, NY the Lo-Lifes wear Ralph Lauren: "such is the influence the Lo-Lifes had, they are cited as the primary reason why Ralph Lauren began to be championed in hip-hop culture."
*** Crips member gets 75 years for murdering 17-year-old girl and wounding two others at a party in the Bronx, NY.
*** The Wolfpack held a neighborhood hostage in Rochester, NY.
*** Vice Lords lieutenant gets life sentence for Christmas Day murder of rival Wood Street Players member in Jackson, MS.
*** Gangland in Washington State: "country living 'is kind of an untapped resource in the gang world' says Grant County Sheriff's Deputy Joe Harris."
