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He chose the moment when Will surprised a gang member when the gang member was pleasuring himself in the bathroom.
In one case, a teenager was attacked by a known gang member, and ICE used the incident to classify the victim as a gang member as well.
When a gang member argues with another gang member, or a robber sticks up a liquor store, there's always a risk that the situation can escalate to some kind of violence.
They did not kill a man or a gang member.
"We'll take them, Big Joe," one gang member assures him.
Police have confirmed that Lesandro was not a gang member.
The victim is believed to be a known gang member.
The State also believes Melly is a criminal gang member.
Chicago police tell PEOPLE that McCullum was a documented gang member.
"Jesse Sebourn was not a gang member," De La Cruz said.
Greg Abbott calling out Barnes' alleged killing by a gang member.
His look is part-biker gang member, part Hindu epic hero.
His look is part biker-gang member, part Hindu epic hero.
Asked if Woodruffe is a gang member, Andrews declined to answer.
Gang member Kenny, portrayed by Kevin Rankin, appeared in a flashback.
The police said he had been mistaken for another gang member.
Then, when he was 17, he shot a rival gang member.
No special handshakes to avoid being misinterpreted as a gang member.
If you&aposre an MS-13 gang member-- INGRAHAM: So only that?
He is a known gang member and parolee, say authorities, KTLA reports.
Gio didn't sell drugs, and he didn't consider himself a gang member.
"He got in a fight and decked some gang member," Eustachy recalled.
The gunman is a known MS-13 gang member, Chief Shea said.
The gang member lived an empty youth and finds purpose in crime.
The probable cause documentation said Lathan was accused of violating parole by associating with a gang member -- that gang member being Nipsey Hussle, who was a member of the Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips, defense attorney Lauren Noriega told CNN.
Their gang member aliases included nicknames such as "Killer", "Horror" and "Lil Clandestino".
PERINO: Well, that&aposs why the MS-13 gang member calls themselves animals.
We were curious: Who exactly is cast as a gang member in film?
The answer: Gang member (and related) roles are disproportionately filled by black actors.
And he remembers what a gang member promised, pointing a gun at him.
I interviewed this young Mara Salvatrucha gang member and his nickname was Montana.
"They believe once you are a gang member, you are damned" for life.
But Hernandez was not actually a gang member when that video was made.
Massoud is currently starring in Hulu&aposs "Reprisal" playing gang member Ethan Hart.
My mother knew every drug dealer, every gang member and every police officer.
Shaw's son was shot by two Hispanic men, one an undocumented gang member.
The gang member brought down an axe, removing index, middle and ring fingers.
"The only time we are going to be working with ICE to target an MS-13 gang member who is here illegally is when we have confirmed that they are, in fact, an MS-13 gang member," Mr. Sini said.
What&aposs the difference between a murdering MS-003 gang member and an animal?
The 26-year-old man who died was a known gang member, he said.
I had been labeled a gang member because I must have looked like one.
When she arrived home, the abuse by the gang member continued, the report says. 
The caller, a gang member, demanded up to $2300 every month in extortion payments.
The police were investigating whether the man was a gang member, the chief said.
" Former gang member Bruce Knights read from his memoirs he titled "The Deepest Truth.
"It's not a good time to be a gang member in Brentwood," he said.
There, six armed men, including the gang member who first approached him, pummeled Herver.
LOS ANGELES — A police officer is shot dead in Whittier by a gang member.
When he refused, officers identified him as associating with a gang member, he said.
Unhelpfully, determining that someone is or is not a gang member is very tricky.
He's a former gang member who once did 5 years for shooting a man.
The bar for being labeled a gang member is low, and the consequences are serious.
"You didn't want to do it the easy way," Rodriguez recalled the gang member saying.
Hernandez Cruz was repeatedly raped by a gang member over several months, the Guardian reports.
One of them, a Barrio 220 gang member, raped her while others stood guard outside.
The suspect is a known gang member and a registered sex offender, according to authorities.
He is a former gang member who tries to steer youngsters away from violent crime.
An astounding 62 percent of all actors who were credited as "gang member" are black.
He was a gang member -- whatever, or he had a grudge or he was stalking.
What's going on between him and his father (Skeet Ulrich), a Southside Serpent gang member?
I wasn't a gang member but I'd done something that really upset one of them.
Friends said Martinez had asked for police protection after one gang member escaped from prison.
The iPhone belongs to Desmond Crawford, an alleged gang member, whom the FBI is investigating.
The suspect, a known criminal and gang member, was present in the United States illegally.
" He said Anthony "associated" with neighborhood gang members but was "not a criminal gang member.
Earlier this year Mr. Daji was killed, apparently after a dispute with another gang member.
It is still unclear why Junior's assailants might have mistaken him for a gang member.
One was killed by military police while another was killed by a rival gang member.
Davila argued that he had meant to shoot a rival gang member — the girl's father.
"She's a Southside serpent, a gang member, and Jughead's first friend," Morgan says of her character.
The child was tracked down earlier this month and found with a gang member in Goa.
Stephen Peacocke played surfer gang member Darryl Braxton on "Home and Away" from 2011 to 2016.
" "There is no evidence Mr. Podolski is either a migrant gang member, nor being human trafficked.
Tieu is a documented Vietnamese gang member, Sawyer said, and Tien Duong has Vietnamese gang affiliations.
But if U.S. officials determine that a teenager is a gang member, they stay in custody.
"This individual has also been identified as a documented gang member," ICE said in a release.
There is no evidence Mr. Podolski is either a migrant gang member, nor being human trafficked.
Mr. Alvarez said he and another gang member punched and kicked Lesandro before dragging him out.
He also said the violence had left one suspected gang member dead, and one officer injured.
" A gang member, buff from working out during his latest prison stay, is a "walking condominium.
He said Guzman told him to make the killing look like revenge from a gang member.
Meeink was eventually arrested and imprisoned for kidnapping and brutally torturing a rival skinhead gang member.
He is also a former gang member and addict, who lost his father to drug addiction.
"There are times when we know someone is an MS-13 gang member, and we know someone is an active MS-13 gang member, but we're not in a position to make a criminal arrest," Timothy Sini, the Suffolk County police commissioner, said in an interview.
Shaw's teen son, Jamiel Shaw Jr., was murdered by a gang member living in the US illegally.
According to the complaint, Catalan-Ramirez was targeted because Chicago police had labeled him a gang member.
Red Jackson was a gang member in Harlem and probably one of Gordon Parks' most important stories.
He was then dismembered, and one gang member cut his heart out of his body, authorities said.
"They mistook Heriberto for a Sureños gang member because he was wearing a blue hat," Vega says.
Police said the victim is a gang member and the shooting is believed to be gang-related.
As the LA Times points out, Bkhchadzhyan was apparently the girlfriend of an alleged Armenian gang member.
Police claim at least seven bullets were fired at a gang member who was walking among children.
For a gang member tired of the gang life, at any rate, there is nowhere to go.
Authorities believe Barrios, who was not a gang member, was not the intended target of the shooting.
This man had a sister who'd had a romantic relationship with a gang member in El Salvador.
A third gang member captured alive was produced by the Afghan police hours later as a corpse.
A gang member, I would learn, had fired at a car driving by, but had terrible aim.
Many young people see only two choices: Emigrate or live long enough to become a gang member.
The episode ends with a few twists: Jughead returns home to two Serpents "interrogating" a gang member. Why?
One informant told the authorities that Balian tipped off a gang member in Los Angeles about a raid.
Next to it stands a lone gang member, his back to you, coughing, hacking and swearing to himself.
Authorities have identified the body as that of a 28-year-old suspected gang member named Peter Martinez.
But a gang member can do a drive-by and shoot up all the windows in this building.
A police officer takes a picture of a gang member of 18 Revolucionarios in San Salvador, El Salvador.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article confused the criteria for gang member self-identification in the Kno.e.
An unknown male approached a 26-year-old man, a gang member, and shot him in the abdomen.
Jacobs was shot "multiple times" by Mackey, a "self-described gang member" and "violent convicted felon," Miller said.
A different gang member began pursuing Elena, and fired shots at her house after she turned him down.
The crew manager, himself a former gang member, talks to the homeless workers about resources available to them.
The suspect had no known affiliation with a criminal gang member nor any mental health history, police said.
The men who attacked Lesandro believed he was a gang member, law enforcement officials said, but he wasn't. .
He also claimed Trippie Redd was a gang member, but from a rival Bloods sect from Nine Trey.
The gang member was bullying Kayla, and the school did not respond to her concerns, Ms. Rodriguez said.
BOSTON — A year ago, Kyle L. Gathers, a gang member and longtime drug dealer, was sitting in prison.
In the frenzied media coverage that follows, Justyce is stunned to find himself described as a gang member.
" He continued that "the Department of Justice has targeted every violent criminal gang member in the United States.
CHICAGO – A Chicago gang member is facing sentencing for helping steal about 100 new guns from a freight train.
But an appeals court later found that while Morales may have been a gang member, he wasn't a terrorist.
One informant told the authorities that Balian tipped off a gang member in Los Angeles about an incoming raid.
According to Kading, Knight subsequently hired Bloods gang member Wardell "Poochie" Fouse to kill Biggie in retaliation for $13,000.
Even the Honduran government admits that many children have two alternatives: join the army or become a gang member.
One night, Tom hacks the webcams of each gang member just to sit on his bed and watch them.
What was the reason for such soft treatment of a known gang member who was part of a murder?
At a park in Burke, Virginia, a gang member fired shots into the crowd — hitting Sakran in the throat.
And they can&apost have an anonymous gang member be a villain, because that doesn&apost fit the bill.
A male walked up to a 17-year-old gang member and shot him in the chest, police said.
Police on Friday identified the man in the video as Perkins, who they said was a documented gang member.
These children face an unthinkable choice between becoming a gang member or risking death for themselves and family members.
Another hero is Sammy Rangel, the former gang member who co-founded the Chicago-based NGO Life After Hate.
"It will ensure that when ICE positively identifies a known alien gang member, they may act immediately," said Rep.
" — hear her pray for Mr. Castile's life, hear her testify for him: "He's never been a gang member, anything.
So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?
They may speak with a local gang member or to someone considering a retaliation killing for a family member.
And one of the few things worse than ratting on a gang member is getting thrust between rival gangs.
According to an LASD document, that gang member was in Las Vegas with Anderson the night Tupac was killed.
Oscar Barcenas, a 28-year-old documented gang member, was hospitalized after police shooting in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood.
He's a former gang member from Miami who did 12 years in Florida state prison for attempted murders and robberies.
"They were radicals — in the way that a street gang member might be radical — but they weren't 'radicalized,'" Hersh tweeted.
For example, in her book, she writes about being a violent gang member while in middle school in Los Angeles.
His lawyers appealed the conviction and questioned the credibility of a witness who was a felon and former gang member.
Authorities claim Vang is allegedly a known gang member and convicted rapist with a long history of violent criminal behavior.
The defense minister said it may have been fired by a gang member trying to shoot down a police blimp.
Doing harm to others used to be my life as a gang member, and now LA kitchen is my gang.
Appellant related that after another gang member sexually assaulted the second girl, he "turned her around" and anally raped her.
Among those arrested in Los Angeles, the agency said, was a Mexican gang member who entered the United States illegally.
The punishment is a 30-year prison sentence, the same as for a gang member who is convicted of murder.
Prosecutors fear she is a flight risk and accuse Esparza of being a known gang member with ties to Mexico.
The central testimony in the trial came from Mr. Hernandez and another former gang member turned government witness, Kristian Cruz.
He slipped out of the cell, and the gang member stepped in, while his friends stood casually in the hallway.
During the trial, two witnesses testified that Mr. Murphy shot and killed a rival gang member, Walter Sumter, on Dec.
"After he spoke we couldn't get nowhere," a gang member later told Karl Anatol and John Bittner of Purdue University.
Once, during his commute, a group of police officers pulled their guns on him, mistaking him for a gang member.
Terry Crews stars as an ex-gang member reluctant to take revenge in Will Forbes's over-the-top action flick.
"I feel so powerless," she said, explaining that they escaped together after Sandra's former partner, a gang member, became abusive.
The sheriff's office said the man was a documented gang member who had been deported from the US in 2015.
"Bony's no drug dealer," says Jean Beaujean, a Montreal-North former gang member who knew him since they were teens.
Juan, the former gang member, said he recently found religion and a girlfriend, with whom he had a son in 2016.
Direct quotes from Dorner's manifesto, such as "I'm not an aspiring rapper, I'm not a gang member," intensify the ominous monologue.
Police say the arrested suspects include an evangelical pastor and a former urban gang member who worked in a school cafeteria.
Guglielmi says he was in his 30s, wasn&apost a known gang member and didn&apost have a recent arrest history.
Jamiel's 17-year-old son was viciously murdered by an illegal immigrant gang member, who had just been released from prison.
The family fled the Mexican state of Guerrero because a gang member told Morales's husband he had to join their crew.
In 2010, Nario Jackson, 53, was shot and killed by a suspected gang member in West Oakland, The Mercury News reported.
I mean, imagine if I got randomly sent down now—I'd be fucked; they'd think I was actually a gang member.
He couldn't pay them back, and after a gang member visited his workplace, Castillo decided to flee to the United States.
MS-21984 gang member known as &aposAnimal&apos sentenced  to 154 years in prison over killing of 15-year-old boy.
The authorities who detained Medina say he admitted in custody to being a gang member, which could lead to his deportation.
" In February 2016, the district attorney announced the indictment of Tellis, whom he identified as a gang member and "habitual offender.
Hallock says that Tieu is "a documented Vietnamese gang member," and that his alleged crimes are believed to be gang-related.
"We know where you are with your bitch and your kids," read one Facebook message he received from a gang member.
But then a gang member threatened my father, and my parents had no choice but to move or risk being killed.
On that day, I accompanied Darryl to an encounter with a gang member who, days earlier, had sexually assaulted Darryl's wife.
He was always bragging about being a gang member and celebrating his criminal behavior, the "convict code" and the street mentality.
"The Ballad of Rocky Rontal," about an abused boy who becomes a gang member, is narrated entirely in the subjunctive mood.
He was murdered by an illegal immigrant gang member previously convicted of burglary who had also been released from Federal Custody.
Jamiel's 2000-year-old son was viciously murdered by an illegal immigrant gang member who had just been released from prison.
Both had been housed at Baldwin State Prison in Milledgeville, Ga. Mr. Dubose, 24, was a gang member, Sheriff Sills said.
The gang member, she said, had kidnapped her for several months, dragging her from motel room to motel room in Florida.
A Bloods gang member with a long record was sentenced to 27 years in prison for vehicular homicide and other charges.
The Utah Court of Appeals said the search was lawful because he was acting belligerently and was a known gang member.
A Bloods gang member with a long record was sentenced to 27 years in prison for vehicular homicide and other charges.
In one case last April, prosecutors said, the gang's members held up a rival gang member at gunpoint near Times Square.
To even be allowed entry, you need to be accompanied by a native, who can then introduce you to a gang member.
"People in the neighborhood don't run around asking who is a gang member and who isn't," he told me over the phone.
Ramirez was a "self-admitted gang member," said Rose Richeson, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in a statement.
Waiting for them was an 18-year-old high school dropout described in the police incident report as a suspected gang member.
" In February 2016, District Attorney John Champion announced the indictment of Tellis, whom he identified as a gang member and "habitual offender.
She also challenged the testimony of a gang member who testified that Dwright Doty bragged about killing the boy while in jail.
This is clearly a terrorist act as is any gang member that opens up on a crowd, that&aposs a terrorist act.
Investigators allege the shooting was retaliatory – payback for the death of another gang member, who was killed by Oslushla Smith, KenDarius' uncle.
He was playing a white-supremacist gang member who, in the script, gets into a violent dispute with Jeffrey Wright's character, Louis.
Within seconds, the situation escalated and Darryl fired several shots in a struggle for the gun, wounding the gang member and himself.
In Washington, ICE agents attempted to strip DACA protections from an immigrant because they claimed he'd admitted to being a gang member.
When the gang member started to threaten Yovani directly, he said, he fled to the United States with his wife and children.
"He said he was not a gang member," she said as she left the courthouse, "and they killed him just for fun."
The first came seven years ago when Luis Cherry, a gang member from Queens, was charged with killing a Long Island man.
Tawanna Hilliard is also accused of looking up information on the gang member who allegedly told her to report back on informants.
ICE said Rodriguez-Espinoza was a documented Latin Kings gang member with a 2016 burglary conviction and 2008 theft conviction in Chicago.
"If we're sitting here bored, getting high and we got guns around, it ain't nothing else to do," one gang member said.
When Ricky is shot and killed by a gang member, Doughboy, his half brother, seeks revenge, but Tre backs away from retribution.
The government alleges Ramirez told immigration agents he is a gang member, an affiliation that generally disqualifies undocumented immigrants from gaining DACA protection.
MATAMOROS, Mexico – An MS-22013 gang member left eight voicemails on Brenda Mendez&aposs cellphone demanding that she turn over her teenage boy.
Ramirez -- a self-admitted gang member -- was encountered at a residence in Des Moines, Washington, during an operation targeting a prior-deported felon.
He changed his life, emerging from homelessness and being a gang member to become a student leader with a chance to attend college.
J.Z. suspects that his high school's resource officer profiled him as a gang member, which led local police to report him to ICE.
In some cases, wearing the wrong color shirt or merely being seen speaking with a suspected gang member can be considered damning evidence.
Pressed by McGraw on whether Hernandez was a gang member, she said, "Not from knowledge," before conceding she probably wouldn't have known otherwise.
The killer, an 18-year-old gang member named Tiqueon Cox walked through my mother's house and shot each member of my family.
In another, Mr Martínez visits an isolated Salvadorean town where a former gang member awaited the trials of those he would testify against.
I was an 18-year-old Crip gang member and I wanted to make a name for myself, so I pulled out a .
One high-ranking gang member said in an interview that there was now no possibility of having a new dialogue with the government.
Swensson says Wright, who is believed to be armed and dangerous, has an extensive criminal record and is allegedly a gang member himself.
Hernandez, a domestic worker who was studying to be a nurse, has said she was impregnated after being raped by a gang member.
"Everybody is a murderer, a thief, a rapist, a gang member," Villarreal told CNN of the modern perception some have of Hispanic immigrants.
In the rapper's most recent song and video with fellow Taylor Gang member Ty Dolla $ign, "Something New," those good times keep rolling.
Just yesterday, an MS-13 gang member was taken into custody for a fatal shooting on a subway platform in New York city.
When Palacios finally obtained his client's detention memo, the paperwork ICE uses to justify calling someone a gang member, he couldn't believe it.
A 13th man, also considered to be a gang member, was arrested last month and police have said they are searching for another.
It's often flat and tame, and obvious in the wrong ways: An addled gang member, Kurtz, charts a course to "Nowhereland," for instance.
Garden Grove Police Chief Tom DaRé described Castanega as a "documented gang member," but did not say what gang he was affiliated with.
The third guest, Jamiel Shaw Sr., is the father of a teen killed by a gang member who was in the U.S. illegally.
Mr. Pagan was also a Bloods gang member who had been released from prison six months before he was killed, the police said.
Just yesterday, an MS-13 gang member was taken into custody for a fatal shooting on a subway platform in New York City.
That bullet was suspected to have been fired by a gang member trying to shoot down a police blimp or drone, officials said.
"Once you're in there, the chances of getting out of being called a designated gang member are next to nothing," Ms. Pinheiro said.
I had no desire to look like a gang member or a drug dealer; I simply loved Michael Jordan, like many kids did.
But cops say the rampage turned deadly just days later, when the sex offender and known gang member killed 62-year-old Pamela Johnson.
Kading alleges that detectives learned Combs had allegedly hired a Crips gang member named Duane Keith "Keffe D" Davis to kill Shakur and Knight.
Self-identifying as a gang member, in addition to tattoos and officers' descriptions of "gang related" clothing, are used to make a gang distinction.
A gang member kept asking her then–16-year-old daughter to be his girlfriend, which is often akin to being a sex slave.
Hernandez said she was raped by a gang member and unaware of her pregnancy until just before delivering a stillborn son in April 2016.
But the day after she filed the report, she said in the interview, she got a call from the gang member who raped her.
Giralt Brun said that one gang member told him the audition process made him more nervous than the prospect of kidnapping an entire family.
Morgan, 31, showed no emotion when the verdict was announced one day after fellow gang member Dwright Doty was convicted of first-degree murder.
Farrell and Guevara sat down with Montanez, the reported gang member who owned Kool-Aid's Buick at the time of the Logan Square murder.
In addition, the Board concluded that the respondent's claim lacked a nexus between the feared harm and his status as a former gang member.
"I know the whole police force," Reed, a former gang member who has spent about 16 of his 43 years behind bars, said later.
The family was later told that one gang member had played a prank on another, saying Terrell was a member of a rival gang.
At 10, a gang member sliced her face, leading her mother to enroll her in a safer school two hours from home, she says.
A scene was being shot for the docuseries "Rich and Acquitted," putting the spotlight on the 1993 shooting death of gang member Philip Woldemariam.
Maxfield was a member of the Southside Crips gang, prosecutors argued, and the shooting was retaliation on who he thought was another gang member.
The Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday that Holder was an aspiring rapper and suspected gang member who went by the nickname "Fly Mac".
Nicholas Kristof TAPACHULA, Mexico — Elena was 11 years old when a gang member in her home country, Honduras, told her to be his girlfriend.
In the second-to-last episode, "Granite State," Andrea was shot by Todd, the gang member who formerly worked with Jesse, Walt, and Mike.
One gang member was arrested and was in federal custody for questioning, Mr. Sini added, although a motive for the murders was still unclear.
"He is not a gang member, he doesn't support MS-13, he fled gang violence in his home country," his lawyer, Paige Austin, said.
The case concerned Abel Daniel Hidalgo, who agreed to kill Michael Cordova, whom he did not know, for $1,000 payment from a gang member.
Nipsey Hussle's raps boasted of his exploits as a young man in South Central Los Angeles and the perils of becoming a gang member.
Days later, when Kerry Lathan was arrested, it was, officials said, because he had violated parole by associating with a known gang member: Hussle.
"I've been kicked out of a home I used to live (in) because police have accused me of being a gang member," he said.
One gang member watching from the corridor looked into the cell and pronounced the fight over, and the group broke up and drifted away.
D.L. said if Brown had testified against a gang member and then got shot, it would be natural to suspect the gang was involved.
One with a radio pointed to the rooftop from which he said the police had shot a fellow gang member dead the previous week.
Jennifer Blake, a charity worker and former gang member, thinks it's important that we stop viewing black women as the masterminds behind criminal activity.
Ben was convicted years ago, but he's been granted a retrial due to jury bias — he's covered in tattoos and is a former gang member.
Orellana said she fled El Salvador with her 8-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son after she was shot by a gang member.
He believes Tyjuan was mistaken for a gang member when he was killed in a drive-by shooting just a few blocks from his home.
The boy, who was shot multiple times in the face and back, was targeted because his father was a ranking gang member, according to authorities.
"No one of these 'features' will lead us to assert one as a gang member," wrote Amit Sheth, study author and executive director of Kno.e.
You controlled a rollerblading gang member zipping through the streets, avoiding police and tagging walls in an attempt to bring color back to the city.
At one point, Jackie Chan kicks Jason Statham (gang member posing as a stepdad) so hard in the nuts that he loses his British accent.
Elena fled for her life as well: She had been in a relationship with Melissa's father, a gang member who eventually threatened to kill her.
Rodriguez's mother, Nellie Guttierez, alleged to KGPE that her son was a gang member who had been living for nearly 10 years with the victim.
"It was just normality," he says of his drug-dealing youth, which soon morphed into harder crime, with his time as an armed gang member.
The former Navy SEAL, pro wrestler, bike gang member, Minnesota Vikings radio announcer, and elected offical is famous, perhaps infamous, for being a straight talker.
Agents have expertise in differentiating someone seeking asylum from an MS-13 gang member; they know the tattoos, they know the right question to ask.
But if divided equitably among the estimated 212015,211995 members of MS-15, each gang member would earn $15 a week and about $65 a month.
On Monday morning, an apparent rivalry between motorcycle clubs became violent when one gang member entered a sign-making shop in Sydney and opened fire.
As Coates wrote at the time: Darren Wilson is not the first gang member to be publicly accused of a crime he did not commit.
After its release she was contacted by a gang member in the city, who asked if she'd help negotiate a truce with a rival crew.
A February 2017 warrant from El Salvador alleges that Ms. Q is an MS-13 gang member, but she's never been convicted of a crime.
A gang member who participated in the killing of 15-year-old Lesandro Guzman-Feliz said that a misunderstood secret code led to the attack.
According to testimony by a gang member in Stuttgart, Germany, part of Mr. Deripaska's value to the group were his links to Russia's security services.
But the men who attacked Lesandro, outside of Cruz and Chiky bodega last Wednesday, mistakenly believed he was a gang member, law enforcement officials said.
Kendra and Roberto's mother, Doris Cruz Garcia, 34, fled El Salvador in 2013 after repeated beatings and death threats by Kendra's father, a gang member.
"He's speaking for the dead," said Jamiel Shaw Sr., whose teenage son was shot to death by a gang member in Los Angeles in 22009.
The Los Angeles Police Department has suspended or reassigned several cops accused of mistakenly identifying an innocent person as a gang member and falsifying records.
Nine other defendants were indicted along with Mr. Smith, including another gang member who was already incarcerated and accused of ordering a murder from prison.
After one gang member was promoted, he called a friend in prison and said, "There's mad discrepancies going on with the Forbes," according to prosecutors.
I focused on a 14-year-old Honduran girl, Elena, who was forced into a relationship with a gang member when she was only 11.
During his time as a gang member, he was able to minimize his feelings of guilt by convincing himself that the ends justified the means.
He filed a police report against the gang member responsible but it led only to death threats, and his family had to move to another city.
"There could be an MS-13 gang member I know about, if they don't reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about them," she said.
But the overall story has become all too familiar for Chicago — the apparent result of yet another targeted shooting against a documented gang member, the boyfriend.
He was arrested and accused of violating his parole by associating with a gang member because Hussle was a member of the Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips.
For instance, Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, which went public last week, famously spurned a $3 billion takeover offer from Gang member Facebook in 2013.
Newton was killed by a young gang member in 1989 during a dispute over drugs, not far from where the first Black Panther chapter was founded.
"There can be an MS-13 gang member, if they don't reach a certain threshold, I can't tell [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] about them," she added.
This time, the FBI is looking to intercept voice conversations of an alleged MS-13 gang member in real time, according to a report from Reuters.
National Briefing | South A gang member killed a Greenville police officer on Friday, then called his mother before turning the gun on himself, the police said.
While the teenage gang member talked, three of his little siblings circled the breakfast — scrambled eggs, beans and plantains — that waited in cartons on the floor.
In August, the resettlement agency created its Community Safety Initiative, which says that no gang member can be released to a sponsor without a judge's order.
Hernandez, 21, said she was raped by a gang member and was unaware of her pregnancy until just before delivering a stillborn son in early 2016.
Investigators said they were also able to thwart an attempted killing in Harlem that stemmed from an affront against the mother of a jailed gang member.
To become an MS-13 member, recruits have to commit a serious act of violence — like assaulting a rival gang member — and endure a group beating.
When his fellow gang member later raped and impregnated her, and then another threatened to kill her, she finally fled to the United States in 214.
"Breaking Bad" actor Aaron Paul portrays a former cop turned gang member in the film, which he called "the darkest thing" he had ever worked on.
This one involved the discovery of a letter, not given to the defense at trial, in which a gang member said the defendant had been framed.
After those men and Marine guards left the scene, Mr. Zerón arrived by helicopter, along with a previously detained drug gang member and two other men.
Back when I was locked in a double-bunk cell in level-four security at Chippewa Correctional Facility, a young gang member moved in with me.
The suspect's name has not been made public, but police have described him as an alleged Los Angeles gang member who had recently been released on parole.
Kristin Cavallari's family says her brother Michael suffered from extreme paranoia leading up to his fatal disappearance in Utah ... fearing a Mexican gang member was after him.
Next time I look at a night sky, I'm guessing the brightest star I see glittering is my friend and funny, mystery-solving gang member, Casey. Zoinks!!!!
Mr. Murphy fatally shot the younger Mr. Sumter, 18, a rival gang member, outside a party on West 154th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in December that year.
When Trump brought up MS-13 this time, it was in reference to a New York City shooting that police say involved an MS-13 gang member.
Landa-Rodriquez, 55, is accused of sanctioning murders, assaults and the kidnapping and planned murder of a relative of a gang member who defied him, prosecutors said.
The officer explained that a real gang member would not draw signs of a gang he wasn't a member of — the drawings were not incriminating, just dumb.
According to a transcript, the government lawyer asked him exclusively about his school suspension, his being labeled a gang member and the meaning of the number 240.
Whether you're a Barb, Bardi Gang member, both, or neither, it's a sign that we can coexist in ways men don't even have to think twice about.
But then added to it was an attempted murder sentence because of another gang member that was involved that he testified that he was trying to shoot.
As a validated gang member, he was put in solitary confinement at High Desert State Prison, in Susanville, and ended up in the SHU at Pelican Bay.
This includes Kate's Law, the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act, the Criminal Gang Alien Gang Member Removal Act and two other House resolutions that passed this year.
Tekashi69's ratting out his former fellow gang members in the Nine Trey Bloods, testifying they delivered a beatdown on Trippie Redd ... an alleged rival gang member.
"An employed gang member may or may not go back to prison, and an educated one may or may not go back to prison," Father Boyle said.
If a gang member wrongs an inmate from a different gang, he said, leaders from the offender's group will typically agree to punish him on their own.
Authorities proceeded to argue that they could deport Ramirez, because he was a gang member (something Ramirez vehemently denies) and therefore violated the terms of his DACA protections.
Fox & Friends hosts told the story of an undocumented immigrant accused of murder in Colorado and claimed a DREAMer detained under Trump's executive order was a gang member.
Prosecutors said the teenaged Guzman-Feliz, a member of a New York Police Department youth outreach program, had been mistaken by his killers for a rival gang member.
The "gang member" label that federal authorities have been gleaning from gang databases is not based on the determination of a court, and is applied without due process.
Trucker Carrigan, town bad boy and gang member, is not someone Pinky needs to be crushing on, but she is, and his sexy taunts don't make things easier.
Her story is briefly told within the book's pages: The Floridian was driving when she was shot in the pelvis by a gang member wielding an AK-47.
Despite Nipsey's gang affiliation and that Holder is believed to be a gang member as well, Moore said the dispute between the men does not appear gang-related.
Police have said the crime was linked to rivalry between Lee's father, a suspected gang member, and another group, and was connected to at least two other murders.
It was being used as evidence against Rob Ford's driver, Alexander Lisi, who was on trial for allegedly using the video to extort a now-convicted gang member.
Wilson, who was 22018 at the time, and Robert Earl Butts, a fellow gang member, approached Donovan Corey Parks, an off-duty corrections officer, in a Walmart store.
A domestic worker who was studying to be a nurse at the time of her stillbirth, Hernandez said she got pregnant after being raped by a gang member.
The report, which cited a senior police department official, also said that Loury had prior contact with police and was considered by police to be a gang member.
It turned out that Mr. Rodríguez had told people he had witnessed Mr. Aquino-Simon stab a rival gang member at a Bronx street fair in June 863.
A captured CJNG gang member claimed it had over half of Jalisco's municipal police on its payroll, said a former official from the state government who interviewed him.
National Briefing | Midwest A man fatally wounded during a shootout with the Chicago police was identified Tuesday as a gang member and felon with more than 40 arrests.
While Holder is alleged to be a gang member himself, the New York Times reports that the LAPD does not believe the argument or shooting was gang-related.
Ice Cube and Morris Chestnut play his friends, one a Crips gang member on parole and the other a scholarship hopeful who runs afoul of the wrong crowd.
"I can't say, 'I'd like to get a letter from the leader of the MS-703 to say this kid is not a gang member,' " he told me.
She had sued the Brentwood school district for negligence in Kayla's death and her dispute with an MS-13 gang member that the authorities said began at school.
Kayla Cuevas, one of the girls who was murdered, and an MS-13 gang member first encountered each other at Brentwood High School, her mother, Evelyn Rodriguez, said.
So I've prepared this video telling the story of Elena, 14, who was forced into a relationship with a gang member in Honduras when she was only eleven.
Drugs can also be used in social contexts: If a gang member offers you a hit of his inhaler, choosing whether or not to accept could have consequences.
" The agency said the man was a "documented Latin Kings gang member with a 2016 burglary conviction and 2008 theft conviction, in Chicago and placed him into custody.
In a series of phone calls with CNN, Hill reflected on the 21-year-old gang member he once was, and how different he says he is today.
A brawl ensued and Tekashi claims Shotti then instructed a Nine Trey gang member to open fire at the rival crew ... he did, but no one was hit.
During the trial of Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman last year, a senior gang member testified he had paid Garcia Luna millions of dollars in bribes.
On March 16, a longtime colleague and friend, Yadira Arroyo, was killed when a 25-year-old gang member commandeered her ambulance and crushed her beneath its wheels.
After Mr. Lathan, 56, spent 10 days in jail, apparently even parole officials could no longer reconcile Nipsey Hussle the local hero with Nipsey Hussle the gang member.
The gang member who murdered Yetunde Price -- the half-sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams -- is now a free man after serving 12 years in prison.
In the last two episodes, Cesar's brother Oscar, who also goes by Spooky, tells him he must kill a rival gang member named Latrelle after he threatens Cesar's life.
" Young and his lawyers argued he no longer was a Bloods street gang member, had matured in prison and hoped to show others "look where you can end up.
Hernandez was raped by a gang member and said she was unaware of her pregnancy until just shortly before she gave birth to a stillborn son in April 2016.
He got jumped into a gang as a teenager to help protect his family, and spent his youth days and adulthood as an active gang member and graffiti artist.
Investigators said in March 2017, Fulton clique members kidnapped a rival gang member and drove him to the forest, where six people took part in attacking him with machetes.
However, any attempt to peg someone as a gang member based on social media activity should be read in the context of highly controversial initiatives like California's CalGang database.
Amazon, once merely a great online retailer, now makes a range of hardware and is a leader in the nascent artificial intelligence field, where every Gang member is toiling.
Hanna said the killings were vicious, including one in which several MS-13 members participated in the dismemberment of a rival gang member who reportedly defaced MS-13 graffiti.
The gang member who informed the authorities about the plot subsequently recanted his confession, though Astrid believes that he did so only because he, too, is afraid of Wim.
"There could be an MS-22019 gang member I know about, if they don't reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about them," Mims said to the president.
Dounia even takes on an actively patriarchal role: She protects and provides for her mother, but also exacts revenge on a fellow gang member for having sex with her.
Jamiel Shaw, Sr.: Shaw's son, Jamiel Jr., was a high school football star before he was shot "by an illegal immigrant, who was also a gang member," in 2008.
A 101-count indictment said that members of GS9 had murdered a rival gang member at a Brooklyn deli and nearly killed an innocent woman while shooting at rivals.
Josue Mendez and his girlfriend, Carmen Palma, said they left San Salvador with their three children after Palma was pressured by a gang member into becoming his sexual partner.
Hussle, born Ermias Joseph Asghedom, channeled his upbringing and adolescence as a gang member into music that spoke powerfully to many who live in Los Angeles' most vulnerable neighborhoods.
He told the unnamed inmate that he had "nothing to lose" from an escape attempt and that he and an unnamed Bloods gang member had devised a complex plan.
She'd got to know a patient, a gang member and former prisoner who told her that he wanted to turn his life around and maybe even become a minister.
How Mr. Hernandez went from a lost Brooklyn teen to a viral social media star and rapper to an accused gang member is a cautionary tale for hip-hop.
Prosecutors cast Osorio-Arellanes, the sixth of seven defendants in the case to be convicted and sentenced to date, as the gang member who actually shot Terry to death.
He discussed wanting to switch to selling crack cocaine — "I was scared, bro," he told another gang member — but said the heroin was too profitable, according to the indictment.
The police called him a drug suspect and a gang member; witnesses said officers fired on Djastin as he tried to run from them, fell and had a seizure.
I opened the newspaper one day and saw a picture of a gang member being tortured by the police, so the next day, I started looking for this guy.
He was murdered by an illegal immigrant gang member previously convicted of burglary, who had also been released from federal custody, and they knew it was gonna happen again.
But it turned out that her cellmate, the Latin Kings gang member who had raped her, was being transferred at the same time — on the same bus and plane.
Some girls view getting pregnant by a gang member as a way to be protected from rival gangs, and believe they are less likely to face pressure to commit crimes.
And because of family structures, employment and simple geography, it's entirely possible to be "associated" with a gang member or suspect without having ever been convicted of a crime yourself.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Medina had admitted to being a gang member, while his attorneys denied that accusation and said he was not a threat to public safety.
His assailant, a gang member and convicted killer, unleashed a flurry of blows on his face and midsection, according to Mr. Thorton's account, which the authorities later concluded was credible.
"If we have a violent gang member that we can't build a case against, we will certainly work with Homeland Security Investigations to remove them from the streets," he said.
He also found comfort in faith for the first time, regularly attending services at a small brick church run by an ex–gang member who is also a Christian rapper.
"The determination of whether or not someone is a gang member is so subjective and the threshold for criteria is so low as to be virtually useless," he told VICE.
The video was used as an exhibit in the extortion trial of Rob's friend, Sandro Lisi ... who was charged with trying to extort a gang member to get the clip.
"I'm positive this is going to turn out all right," said Hernandez, who had previously said she was unaware of her pregnancy after she was raped by a gang member.
While Kibaltchiche and Maîtrejean thought of the labor movement as a way forward, others (including Kibaltchiche's boyhood friend and Gang member Raymond Callemin) liked bank robberies, counterfeiting, and shooting cops.
A Customs and Border Protection spokesperson did not provide ProPublica or an immigration court with evidence that the father, identified only as Julio in the story, was a gang member.
In April, the government launched new programs aimed at regaining control of prisons and areas occupied by gangs, which Cotto said have helped boost gang member detentions and weapons seizures.
The suspected gang member was found with a 9 mm pistol, which the Berkeley County Sheriff&aposs Office said Wednesday could have been the weapon used in the Texas murder.
He was murdered by an illegal immigrant gang member previously convicted of burglary, who had also been released from federal custody, and they knew it was going to happen again.
One day in 2014, an imprisoned leader of the 18th Street gang who goes by the alias Chiki was issuing instructions to a low-level gang member identified as Shaggy.
I'd joined gangs, including one of L.A.'s oldest, because coming from mixed-race parents, taunted as a "half-breed," being a gang member gave me a home, an identity.
Junior told a friend the night before he died he had seen another youth stabbed by Trinitarios cruising Adams Place, and they seemed to take him for a gang member.
Court documents say she uploaded John Doe's video with the title "NYC Brim Gang Member Snitching Pt. 1"; she is accused of only facilitating the posting of Jane Doe's video.
Although compiling accurate statistics on gang-related homicides is an extremely difficult business — if a gang member shoots his girlfriend, is that an act of gang violence or domestic assault?
A bullet fired by a gang member smashed through the windshield of the car he was driving, rattled around the interior and lodged itself in the back of his skull.
An arrested gang member had informed police of the paintings's location: in the former house of Camorra's leader in Castellammare di Stabia, which lies about 20 miles south of Naples.
At 1 AM one night, I was doing a patrol and saw a gang member from MS13 get arrested by the police, on his knees, handcuffed, and he was crying.
It signals that they are likened to the racial-gendered stereotypes of the terrorist, the gang member, and thug, which then permits continued state-sanctioned disavowal and removal of their presence.
A former gang member who spent decades in prison, De La Cruz now studies the sociology of criminal groups and testifies for defense attorneys as an expert witness in gang trials.
He was taken into custody and spent more than six weeks in an immigration detention center, with ICE accusing him of being a gang member — a charge he has steadfastly denied.
The two left San Salvador on May 12 after Jimenez was extorted by a gang member at his home and later accused by police of being a gangster, the father said.
"It's not a crime to be a gang member," said Wes McBride, a retired sergeant and executive director of the California Gang Investigator's Association who pioneered the state's gang monitoring system.
Tonight's Riverdale episode ended with a literal bang, as a shot went off, seemingly killing Serpent gang member Fangs Fogarty (Drew Ray Tanner), or at least critically wounding the innocent teen.
The Board attributed the gang's motives to their "desire to enforce their code of conduct and punish infidelity to the gang," rather than the respondent's status as a former gang member.
A gang member from the state of Jalisco, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, explained how his cartel makes sure local officials tip them off to law enforcement actions.
Rob Rousseau, the freelance journalist who declared he would rather his daughter date an MS-13 gang member than a Republican, has a history of deliberately upsetting conservatives with inflammatory rhetoric.
" At that moment, he was referring to creative decisions, but the idea was echoed when he described "a lot of interview brunches" at the Ace Hotel about being "a gang member.
The department alerts federal immigration officials when someone who has committed a crime - or is positively identified as a gang member - is found to be in the country illegally, he added.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) returned a 85033-year-old Salvadoran boy to his father on Tuesday, 11 weeks after the agency alleged that the parent was a gang member.
Other topes seem to have been created more with vengeance in mind, which now makes me wonder: Was someone after a corrupt gang member or businessman who sped by every morning?
Flores says that choice helped her achieve the success she has had in life, and helped a former teen gang member become a current candidate for the US House of Representatives.
And most recently, Tuesday's State of the Union: Just yesterday, an MS-13 gang member was taken into custody for a fatal shooting on a subway platform in New York City.
This is how much he fears the gang member who killed his brother, who forced two other close relatives into exile and who, he says, is trying to murder him next.
"You have individuals building homes rather than doing home invasions," says John Harriel, a former gang member turned tradesman who has helped Kaiser recruit previously incarcerated people at the construction site.
Police detectives viewing video footage recognized one of the armed men as a known gang member and convicted felon who was thus prohibited by law from carrying a gun, Best said.
A trenchant New York Post headline — " 'Sanctuary City' Law Let Gang Member Walk Free From Rikers" — lit up social media as Trump supporters across the country railed against New York's defiance.
These people, who requested anonymity, saying they were afraid of reprisals, said Gil had been a gang member and that an existing, but unspecified rivalry with Moreno had sparked the brawl.
During the three-hour journey, the gang member, who was serving time for beating a man with a hammer, counseled Pokora to do whatever was necessary to minimize his time behind bars.
"It sounds strange but if, as a girl, you don't want to be in a gang you get a boyfriend who is a gang member because they will protect you," Sierra said.
A gang member belonging to the syndicate told local press [link in Chinese] that he had bought raw materials online and mixed them to mimic the products, in another factory in Henan.
The arrested Sureño gang member accused of murdering a California police officer last week had no encounters with the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency prior to the alleged shooting, immigration authorities said.
His lawyers appealed the conviction and questioned the credibility of prosecution witness Armando Morales, a convicted felon and former gang member who testified that Guandique confessed to him that he killed Levy.
Derren Sorrells is a known gang member who is also on parole for motor vehicle theft and escape, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said, adding he has six felony arrests on his record.
"It just brings me to tears, just thinking about it," said Angel Sanchez, a former gang member from Miami who served 12 years in Florida state prison for attempted murders and robberies.
As TMZ reported ... Central Casting put the call out for "gang member types" for the upcoming CBS adaptation of the movie "Training Day" ... and more than a few OGs answered the call.
Tekashi69 is still dodging ass-whoopings -- the latest one was nearly at the San Antonio airport, but cops were on scene this time to arrest a gang member who threatened the rapper.
Five days after the shooting, Lathan, who is out on parole after serving 20 years for murder, was arrested at his halfway house for associating with a known gang member -- namely, Nipsey.
"Napoleon Dynamite" star Efren Ramirez says ICE and the Trump Administration are hanging an ex-gang member out to dry, and essentially signing the death warrant of the 19-year-old kid.
By the mid-to-late 20th century, "cholo" morphed into the slang term for gang member, but it was also used by women in party crews who had adopted a similar style.
On this week's episode of VICELAND's The Wrestlers we learn about Assad's journey from teenage gang member to wrestling superstar, and hear about his unique perspective on the next generation of talent.
Christopher Bergner of the Sheriff Department's Homicide Bureau said Anthony was "known as a local gang member in the area" and had failed to follow deputies' instructions just before he was shot.
It is not just the gang member on the cornerwhose aim we have to dodge,but also police on the beatwhose itchy trigger fingersleave us with our brain mattersplattered on the concrete.
The issue was first discovered when a mother reported to the department that a letter from the department mistakenly identified her son as a gang member, according to the department's news release.
Last month, after returning from Paris Fashion Week, Pop Smoke was charged with stealing a $375,000 Rolls-Royce, and a federal prosecutor said they believed Pop Smoke was a Crips gang member.
"Here I am, a mother without my son…an innocent, 15-year-old boy who was not a gang member who roamed the streets with bad intentions," Leandra Feliz, Lesandro's mother, said.
There was nothing extraordinary about the case that sent Morgan to prison: He was a low-ranking gang member who had been the gunman in an unsuccessful drive-by shooting in 1996.
As for the documentary, which purports to chronicle the 1996 murder in Vegas, the author relies on a confession from a Crip gang member, who said Diddy hired him to kill Tupac.
According to the Grand Co. Sheriff's report -- obtained by TMZ -- Michael Cavallari's mother Judy told cops he was diagnosed as bipolar and had recently claimed a gang member was out to get him.
Police had sent the handgun and two magazines of bullets for testing, said police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, who added that Augustus wasn&apost a known gang member and had no recent arrest history.
Eliana Ferreira Campos, a suspected gang member, was hosting her birthday party at a home in the municipality of Ji-Parana, about 1,143 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro, when she was attacked.
When a gang member is trying to take over a particular area, he tells the people in the area that the gang will take care of everything—against a protection tax, of course.
This is the man who had to go to court accused of second-degree murder in the shooting dead of a gang member at a Palms park—in a suit covered in sweets.
Nearly six months later, Kading alleges Knight, who was not injured in the drive-by shooting that claimed Tupac, retaliated by hiring Bloods gang member Wardell "Poochie" Fouse to kill Wallace for $13,000.
Due to a series of unfortunate accidents, the group discovers the body of a young gang member in the trunk of a car Shaolin is supposed to dispose of for Fat Annie's son.
A woman in El Salvador who gave birth to a stillborn baby after she said she was raped by a gang member at 18 was reportedly cleared of murder in a retrial Monday.
But, when a white police officer shoots a Black gang member or beats up a Black drug dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.
The Rise Above Movement, led in part by a gang member who had gone to prison for an attack, turned beat-downs into an art form, which they promoted on YouTube, drawing recruits.
In a news release, the agency emphasized that the operation targeted immigrants who posed a safety risk, such as one Mexican who was a known gang member and had been convicted of rape.
Insiders will recognize real-world touches: the bookish spectacles one defendant dons for court, the feral dogs that roam gang neighborhoods, the civilian police employee who passes tips to her gang-member nephew.
Before founding the Rise Above Movement, Mr. Rundo served 20 months in a New York State prison for stabbing a rival gang member from MS-13 in a 2009 attack in Flushing, Queens.
Gang-related violence is not uncommon in towns like Ozubulu, where drug cartels are active; one even occurred recently during the funeral of a reputed gang member who had died in South Africa.
In Smith's case, someone was killed — a 2360-year-old good Samaritan named Terry Brown, who came out of his house to help a wounded gang member and was shot in the neck.
He wasn't a gang member who began rapping and found acclaim; he was an unaffiliated musician who sought out gang camouflage for credibility and protection, then blurred the lines between actor and participant.
Gutierrez, the man arrested Monday, is accused of shooting an alleged rival gang member, Abel Mosso, 20, in the face in broad daylight on a 7-train platform in Queens a day earlier.
The night before he died, Lesandro had a run-in with Trinitarios who were cruising his neighborhood in cars, and he told a friend they seemed to take him for a gang member.
At the same time, "Yardie" (the title is Jamaican patois for a gang member) has something to say about the way immigrants can become trapped in the loyalties and vendettas of their homelands.
Based on Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Anita is the best friend of Maria (Natalie Wood) who urges her not to cross racial and social lines by taking up with rival gang member Tony (Richard Beymer).
Here are a few Chicagoans we've met during our reporting: Tre Bosley lost his brother, Terrell, when he was mistakenly shot by a gang member while helping a friend take drums into a church.
The court documents say that younger associates of the Fulton clique who want to become full-fledged MS-13 members were required to kill a rival gang member or other adversary to gain initiation.
The rapper -- who admitted to selling a kilo of heroin and paying someone to shoot at a rival gang member, among many other crimes -- remains behind bars and will be sentenced January 24, 2020.
Family members say she exited her car with her arms outstretched to signal she was not a gang member - but not before wedging her infant daughter's car seat on the floor of the vehicle.
They said only that a gang member, for reasons they would not detail, began menacing Yovani's family, killing his brother and forcing his mother and an aunt to seek asylum in the United States.
Yolanda López, 21, who was staying in the same shelter, said she fled El Salvador with her two young children after their father, a gang member, violently threatened to take them away from her.
She said that during her credible fear interview she didn't give the government all the information about threats to her family from an MS-13 gang member because she worried he would find out.
Instead, this week the House will take up the Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act, aimed at MS-13 and other immigrant gangs, and the Legal Workforce Act to expand electronic worker verification efforts.
As district attorney of San Francisco, she recalled how she refused to seek the death penalty against a gang member who fatally shot a city police officer in 2004, sparking criticism from both sides.
Ramirez's lawyers call him a "law abiding" young father, but federal immigration officials say he is a gang member, issued him a "notice to appear" at immigration removal proceedings, and have terminated his DACA protection.
The fight, which centers on an alleged MS-13 gang member in Fresno, California, has been kept out of public court records, but Reuters broke the story on Friday, citing sources familiar with the situation.
The neighbor told the women he learned a few days later that Holder was the suspect in Nipsey's murder case, but he was afraid to report his encounter because he knows Holder's a gang member.
Although the film is not solely focused on violence, it hilariously inserts Stacey (De'Aundre Bonds), a Crips gang member and Alicia's brother, into its story to give the film some of its best comedic moments.
BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. magistrate judge in Boston in February ordered Apple Inc to assist law enforcement officers in examining the iPhone of an alleged gang member, according to a court filing unsealed on Friday.
Jamnogo Blessing, a gang member, recently turned up in Yenagoa, a turbulent city in the oil-pumping Niger Delta, to buy a stash of weapons from militants who hung up their boots seven years ago.
PIRRO: Okay, but here is the problem, you know, it&aposs like something that you were talking about where there are people saying they rather date an MS-13 gang member, than a Trump supporter.
Neighborhoods like Chicago's North Lawndale, home of the North Lawndale boxing league, where former Vice Lord gang member Derek Brown trains kids after school to show them discipline, community, and an alternative to gang life.
As they are for other violent subcultures of society (ex-gang member bakers and chefs are decidedly a "thing"), the restaurants also became a place where wrestlers could go when they were over the hill.
Instead of targeting a gang member, however, the Trinitarios dragged 93-year-old Lesandro Guzman-Feliz from a bodega and stabbed him repeatedly in what the police said was a chilling case of mistaken identity.
One afternoon, during a sudden bust by area police, just over one gram of crack landed in Freeman's cart's trash can, he says, discarded by a well-known gang member who had patronized the cart.
How the Trinitarios Gang Killed an Innocent Teenager by Mistake A gang member who participated in the killing of 15-year-old Lesandro Guzman-Feliz said that a misunderstood secret code led to the attack.
This time, the prosecutor, claiming that Hernandez was a violent gang member and a "scammer" with access to large amounts of cash, asked the judge to set the bail high enough to keep him inside.
Alicia, 41, a former street vendor, said she and her 17-year-old son were fleeing death threats from a gang member in their town, and hoped to apply for asylum in the United States.
Gillespie has invested far more time and money into provocative attacks than Northam, starting with the MS-13 ads, featuring photos of a gang member in El Salvador with face tattoos, back in early September.
Near Seattle, a 23-year-old man who was protected from deportation and allowed to work lawfully under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is picked up anyway, accused of being a gang member.
The six are accused in the 2017 slaying of fellow gang member, Michael "Steak Knife" Staton, whom they believed had betrayed them by stealing drugs and a Hells Angels motorcycle vest, according to court papers.
As President Donald Trump addressed Congress for his second State of the Union Tuesday night, an alleged MS-21989 gang member was being arraigned on murder charges at a criminal court in Queens, New York.
As President Donald Trump addressed Congress for his second State of the Union Tuesday night, an alleged MS-13 gang member was being arraigned on murder charges at a criminal court in Queens, New York.
Such gang member categorization sometimes based on superficial if not completely fabricated indicators is part of a longstanding campaign of deportation of young people supported at the federal level, and increasingly so under the Trump administration.
At the hearing, Ramirez's lawyers did not address the allegations that Ramirez is a "self-admitted gang member," as an ICE statement labeled him, or that officials doctored legal documents in an attempt to prove it.
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A gang member was sentenced to 49 years in prison on Monday for the murder of a transgender teen, in the first ever transgender hate crime prosecution in the United States.
Texas said he confessed to the killings and told investigators he intended to "have a shoot-'em-up" and kill the father of Queshawn Stevenson, a rival gang member who was not injured in the attack.
In more recent years, he had accompanied other gang members when they shot at or stabbed rivals, and last year, when he was 17, he fired gunshots at a rival gang member, according to the charges.
It made me think about one of my homies who turned his life around, but still fell victim to murder, and it happened to be the police ...not even a gang member or anything like that.
" Deloris Johnson, tenant association president of the apartment building where the incident occurred, told NY1 that the officer "held out the gun like he was one of them god damn gangsters or like a gang member.
In the charges filed on Tuesday, Mr. Gallman stands accused of visiting Mr. Cherry, the street gang member, at the Downstate Correctional Facility in January 2015, shortly after Mr. Ross's trial had started on Long Island.
The next morning, before he left the apartment, his cousin made sure that he was dressed in a plain T-shirt and slim-fitting pants, so that he was not mistaken for an American gang member.
He later wrote the book and collaborated with the singer and songwriter Paul Simon on the lyrics for "The Capeman," a musical about a Puerto Rican gang member who murdered three people in Manhattan in 1959.
The fifth child of an overwhelmed single mother, Awan was kicked out of four schools and took a bullet in the shoulder before going to prison at 18 for trying to shoot a rival gang member.
Instead, he accused Ismael Zambada, another gang member, of running the show, alleging that Mr Zambada paid Mexico's two most recent presidents, Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto, millions of dollars to pursue the Sinaloa gang's rivals.
By the end of "Chapter One," we find out Cesar wasn't lying, but only shared that very personal information to "protect" Monse from his gang member older brother Oscar "Spooky" Diaz (Julio Macias), who recently left jail.
A Chicago gang member will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after he killed a pregnant teenage girl in 2011, firing on her multiple times as she reportedly pleaded for mercy, PEOPLE has confirmed.
"No single 'feature' such as this would identify one as a gang member, however a combination of many of these features each using known affinity to gang activity leads to the good result we report," Sheth continued.
The petition described Fults, a former gang member, as "the kid who fell through the cracks," with an alcoholic, drug-addicted mother who tried to abort him by drinking turpentine, an absent father and an abusive stepfather.
In California, one out of every 40 boys and men of color between the ages of 15 and 34 is documented as a gang member in the state's database, known as CalGang, according to Garcia-Leys's report.
According to a new documentary, erstwhile detective Greg Kading claims that Combs hired Crips gang member Duane Keith "Keffe D" Davis to kill Shakur and his manager at the time – Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight – for $20153 million.
Now he is standing trial, accused not only of being an active member of 216 Staccs but also of gunning down a rival gang member, Walter Sumter, who had mocked his sister's death in a rap video.
He identified as a violent gang member on social media and confessed to being present when the shooting started in a videotaped statement, but his lawyer, Jay Cohen, maintained at trial that his admission had been coerced.
The outpouring reflected the depth of admiration for Hussle, who incorporated his upbringing and experience as a gang member into his music, which spoke powerfully to many who live in the city's poorest neighborhoods and well beyond.
Points were given if a person was a gang member or on parole, had a history of violent crime, was arrested with a handgun, or had "quality police contact" — a term that wasn't defined in department documents.
There's no shortage of cinematic tropes when it comes to the teen-age boy, be he the geek with a master plan, the evil prepster, the hapless stoner, the alpha jock, or the singing, snapping gang member.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: 0 dead, 5 injuredAt about 2:30 AM, police believe 33-year-old Cleavon Oneal Dantzler opened fire on a rival gang member in a club, hitting that individual and four bystanders before fleeing.
As the Verge notes, once police have classified someone as a gang member or charged with gang violence, they face longer prison sentences, additional charges, and are barred from entering certain areas or associating with certain other people.
When I met Manuel Carrizalez, a soft-spoken ex-gang member turned peace advocate, he pulled up to an intersection surrounded by shuttered shops and bail bonds businesses and showed me the track mark scars on his arms.
So, basically, if you post YouTube links to rap songs, use the n-word, employ certain emojis, and publish photos of money or other supposedly gang-related items, then the algorithm may tag you as a gang member.
Maybe a reformed gang member or a reformed outlaw like me sorry Helaine, who understands Henry some of what I did and we did to help create Trump can help bring the country together and heal the divide.
To the gang member who accidentally crosses over into the wrong territory and (wrongly) imagines the 15-year-old boy at the park was reaching for a gun when he was just pulling a baseball from his bag?
Sometimes people feel that in order to get past a trauma, they need to forgive whoever caused the damage — the parent who sexually assaulted them, the burglar who robbed their house, the gang member who killed their son.
The name appeared to have come from F.B.I. investigators who noticed that at least one gang member, usually Mr. Reid, wore a stopwatch around his neck to keep holdups within the group's self-imposed two-minute time limit.
It notes, however, that instructions do not apply if the person has an outstanding criminal warrant, has been convicted of a felony, is a defendant in a criminal case or has been identified as a known gang member.
"I have a simple message for every gang member and criminal alien that are threatening so violently our people: We will find you, we will arrest you, we will jail you, and we will deport you," Trump said.
"He was a gang member, and there were social circumstances that certainly played a role in his ending up in the emergency room," said Weiser, who at the time was a medical student at the University of New Mexico.
A MS-13 gang member with a warrant by Interpol was among 91 people, including some with violent criminal records, arrested over a five-day period in New Jersey by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency announced Monday.
While ICE would not comment on the lawsuit, a spokesperson noted that individuals can be identified as a gang member if they meet two of eight criteria, which include wearing gang clothing or frequenting places known for gang activity.
While entry into a gang database alone does not automatically trigger deportation proceedings or incarceration, being identified as a gang member does embolden federal agents to selectively carry out deportation procedures and allows prosecutors to call for sentence enhancements.
It was there that Goran Tomasevic, a Serbian based in Istanbul, captured a shot of a rooster walking past the slain body of a gang member, a demonstration of the violence that has caused so many migrants to flee.
All 12 were arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of 15-year-old Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, who was mistaken for a rival gang member and whose assault was caught on surveillance video on June 20, officials said Wednesday.
"It was very painful for me because I didn't want him to follow my very same path but, before I realized, he had become a gang member already and I wasn't able to do anything for him," she said.
Gay men, lesbians and transgender people face sometimes deadly violence and discrimination, while women who are abused by their husbands or boyfriends find little protection from the police (a problem often exacerbated if their partner is a gang member).
However, a team of independent experts that picked holes in the account said that Zeron had visited the location a day earlier with an alleged gang member, without notifying the man's lawyer or filing a report on his visit.
But one day last year, after making a drug run to Eastbourne, she was told by a gang member that the police had caught her on camera and were waiting to arrest her at her home in South London.
His trip to El Salvador on Thursday, coinciding with the Salvadoran government's announcement of hundreds of gang-member prosecutions, came as Mr. Trump himself prepared to deliver a speech on Long Island regarding MS-13 gang violence on Friday.
The attack was carried out by members of a gang called the Mongolian Boys Society in retaliation for the murder of Randy Xiong, the brother of a gang member, Fresno Police Department Chief Andy Hall told a news conference.
There's a lot more, including Tekashi talking about the shooting of another gang member named Snow, and a brawl that went down at a tribute party for A$AP Rocky's manager where he claims Ado stabbed a security guard.
After an initial appearance at the federal courthouse in Buffalo and a few days in a nearby county jail, Pokora was loaded into a van alongside another federal inmate, a gang member with a powerlifter's arms and no discernible neck.
The shooters hit a 163-year-old man in the foot, a 30-year-old man (a gang member, according to police) in the legs, and two women, ages 18 and 19, in the legs as well; they were all hospitalized.
But Ramirez's lawyers filed a lawsuit in federal court, saying he is not a gang member and that immigration agents never had any legal cause to take him to a holding facility where was alleged to have made the disputed confession.
A police source  told the New York Post on Monday  that Guzman-Feliz resembled a young man seen rapping in a video that shows a girl – believed to be the relative of a Trinitarios gang member – having sex in the background.
Let me just give you a couple, `May 2018, border control apprehended an adult male who was travelling with his supposed one year old son, he&aposs a known MS-20203 gang member, previously removed from the country in 2012.
Guevara and Halvorsen also added another new piece of information: they said knew of a gang member who had recently been seen driving a Buick and who happened to know the victim in the first murder, the one on Fullerton Avenue.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement that a person can be identified as a gang member if they meet two or more criteria, including having gang tattoos, frequenting an area notorious for gangs and wearing gang apparel.
In 2003, Boseman, then 26, was hired to play the role of Reggie Porter on the ABC soap opera, but was allegedly fired after speaking to producers about his concerns that the character, a teen gang member, was a racial stereotype.
Marines also killed a lower-level Zetas gang member in a separate firefight in the state capital of Ciudad Victoria, a security official said on Saturday on condition on anonymity since he was not authorized to speak to the media.
While I was there, I asked a man named Wild Wild the General, an admitted gang member in the Altgeld Gardens Homes project on the South Side, whether his city is better or worse off than people think it is.
" Echoing some of these concerns, the new memo notes in a preamble that not all child cases involve innocents, and that the courts might see "an adolescent gang member" or "a teenager convicted as an adult for serious criminal activity.
MUNICH (Reuters) - A suspected neo-Nazi gang member on trial for involvement in the murders of 10 people apologized to the families of the victims in a German court on Tuesday, even though she denies taking part in the killings.
"He was scared from the minute he got there and referred to a 'watcher' in almost all correspondence, so he couldn't talk too much," Richards said, alluding to someone the family believed to be a gang-member keeping tabs on Turner.
A 28-year-old Greenville, South Carolina, police officer was shot and killed Friday – just months before the birth of his third child – while attempting to interview a fleeing teenage gang member, who then shot and killed himself, authorities said.
Being classified as a gang member or related to a gang crime can result in additional criminal charges, heavier prison sentences, or inclusion in a civil gang injunction that restricts a person's movements and ability to associate with other people.
Comparisons were made to the case of Mark Duggan, an alleged gang member shot and killed by police while in possession of a gun in a taxi in north London in 2011, whose death led to an unprecedented spate of rioting.
The number was a test, designed by a Trinitarios leader, to determine if someone was a member of a rival group, according to testimony on Monday from a gang member who has pleaded guilty to taking part in the killing.
With dialogue that doesn't make concessions to clear exposition, the movie hints at several possible futures for Dayveon: a stable life with his family; afternoons skipping rocks with a friend (Kordell Johnson), who is also a new gang member; more robberies.
Being labeled a gang member — and added to CalGang — has the potential to color every future interaction that person has with law enforcement, said Katharine Tinto, director of the Criminal Justice Clinic at University of California, Irvine School of Law.
The indictment said Mr. Smith, 49, would give orders through prison phone calls, including once directing a gang member to carry out an act of violence last year, saying anyone who disobeyed the order would be kicked out of the gang.
Like when we argue that a woman from Honduras who reports a rape by a gang member to the police is expressing a political opinion and is therefore eligible for asylum — even though the current law doesn't favor such an outcome.
A spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement late Tuesday night that Mr. Ramirez is a "self-admitted gang member" who is a "risk to public safety" and has been placed in removal proceedings in immigration court.
Goran Tomasevic captured an image in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, a city with one of the highest murder rates in the world, of a rooster scratching in the dirt next to the slain body of a Barrio 18 gang member.
Second of all, the context in which MS-240 was mentioned was itself very specific: someone identified by the sheriff's department as a "known" gang member but who doesn't meet the "threshold" of being charged with or convicted of a serious crime.
Daisy Domergue, the fugitive gang member played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, has a tender exchange with her brother Jody (Channing Tatum), who's come to her rescue, right before he gets shot in the head and his brain matter splatters all over her.
LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 29: Handcuffs are seen on the hands of a twenty-year old "Street Villains" gang member who was arrested by Los Angeles Police Department officers from the 77th Street division on April 29, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
During her time as San Francisco district attorney, in a highly publicized and widely criticized decision, she did not pursue capital punishment for then-22-year-old David Hill, an alleged gang member who shot and killed city police officer Isaac Espinoza.
According to a local ABC station, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed that the alleged gunman, who fatally shot one person at a subway station in the borough of Queens, was a known MS-13 gang member and was in the country illegally.
Detective Simplicio received a tip that Mr. Rodríguez had been feuding with the Cholos over his plans to testify in court that Mr. Aquino-Simon was responsible for the stabbing of a rival gang member in June 2015 at the Bronx Terminal Market.
He's grown tired of waiting for the sugar, as well as the money, so he decides to leave the remaining thug with the family and go hold up a church instead, it being the day for it, taking his newest gang member along.
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas on Wednesday executed a man convicted of opening fire at a children's birthday party in 2008, believing a rival gang member was present and fatally shooting a woman and her 5-year-old granddaughter in a spray of bullets.
But Ramirez' lawyers filed a lawsuit in federal court, saying he is not a gang member and that immigration agents never had any legal cause to take him to a holding facility where it was alleged to have made the disputed confession.
In the 1990s, WCW made wrestlers from Mexico household names, but mostly they were either pure high-flyers—almost always in masks—in the Rey Mysterio mold, or they toyed with slightly dangerous-to-middle-class-sensibilities gimmicks like Konnan's gang member aesthetic.
The idea of a North London gang member using an 18th century blunderbuss to ward off rivals might seem a bit far-fetched, but according to the National Ballistics Intelligence Service, a trend has emerged of modern-day criminals wielding antique weapons.
But in the rural department of La Paz, one of the most violent in El Salvador, a 2424-year-old gang member clambered to his feet from an old mattress on the dirt floor of a mud-walled house to defy that rule.
In court on Monday, prosecutors claimed that Satoru Nomura, head of the Kudo-kai syndicate, conspired with senior gang member Yoshinobu Nakata to go after a woman who was working as a nurse during the cosmetic procedure back in 2012, Japan Today reports.
One young man, who had been a gang member since he was 8 years old, could not leave the building after participating in a restorative circle with Common Justice because he was shaking so badly after admitting the harm he had done.
" In January, Mark Morgan, head of Customs and Border Protection appeared on Fox News's "Tucker Carlson Tonight" and declared, "I've looked at them and I've looked at their eyes, Tucker, and I've said, 'That is a soon-to-be MS-13 gang member.
ICE labeled Noel a "gang member" when he was detained, then downgraded him to a "probable member" and finally, on the day of his hearing, settled on calling him a person identified by a school resource officer as "associated" with the gang.
But a team of independent experts who picked holes in the account found that Zeron had been to where the fragment was discovered a day earlier with an alleged gang member, without notifying the man's lawyer or filing a report on his visit.
More than a dozen Los Angeles police officers were suspended or reassigned after a Southern California woman reported that her son had been incorrectly labeled a gang member, unleashing a broader inquiry into whether officers were falsifying records, according to the authorities.
The debate over just who is considered a gang member has taken on new significance because President-elect Donald J. Trump could use the database to help deport unauthorized immigrants the administration regards as criminals, even if they have no criminal record.
CreditCreditChristie Hemm Klok for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Kamala Harris was three months into her tenure as San Francisco district attorney in 2004 when a gang member killed a police officer with a hail of bullets from an AK-47.
Seattle (CNN)Lawyers for a Mexican immigrant facing deportation proceedings despite having been allowed to remain in the country under an Obama-era program are disputing key aspects of the case against him -- including by denying he ever confessed to being a gang member.
As far as they know, prosecutors declined to press charges against the young men they consider their daughter's captors, even when Jenny returned home drug-addled and teary and confessed she'd been in a sexual relationship with a gang member several years her senior.
After nearly a year and a half of continued threats from the gang, E. left El Salvador in March to seek refuge in the US. While she was making the journey, an MS-211 gang member threatened in a social media post to kill her.
A former gang member who has rebuilt his life after a prison stint, Mav has raised his only daughter Starr (Amandla Stenberg), who has just witnessed her friend's murder at the hands of a white police officer, to be just as tough as he is.
There's also a part-crocodile-part-man, a character whose only trait is being Australian, a former gang member who discovers he has pyrotechnic powers, and one guy who gets killed before we get a chance to learn his powers, I'm sure they were awesome.
He doesn't always land the shift in tone, but if he falls short it feels true to character; it's perfectly believable that a ninth grader  might struggle to look hard as a gang member when he'd rather be planning a birthday party with his friends.
Taylonn Murphy, a 20-year-old gang member, was given mercy, not by the judge, who sentenced him to 50 years to life for murder and other charges, but by the father of Walter Sumter, the young man Mr. Murphy had been convicted of killing.
In the 22003 fiscal year, there were 22009 stabbings and slashings of inmates in city jails — most of which involved a gang member as either an assailant or a victim, or both, according to correction officials — compared with 2415 in the 2011 fiscal year.
Thursday's bill, titled the Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act, is the first immigration measure considered in the House since the Trump administration's announcement last week that it is phasing out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program over the next six months.
The victims of this policy, deported in some cases to their deaths, are refugees like Carlos, a 13-year-old with a scar on his forehead from the time a gang member threw him to the ground in the course of executing his uncle.
Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of Federal District Court in Brooklyn wrote in a decision marked by notes of hesitation that the gang member, Ronell Wilson, was ineligible for execution because he was considered to be intellectually disabled under a relatively recent Supreme Court ruling.
This week's crackdown — which reportedly uses terrorism charges against some suspects — also prompted allegations that the government is using gang-related charges to round up its most outspoken critics, including Dany Romero, who claims to be a former gang member campaigning for human rights.
He said that everyone had been after him: the police, because being young and Salvadoran made him a potential MS-13 member; the black gangs, because he looked like a Latino gang member; the Latino gangs — including MS-13 — because he wasn't then a member.
The 38-year-old former gang member, serving a sentence of 41 years to life for second-degree murder when he was 16, says it is that fear which helps him empathize with the terminally ill inmates he looks after at a California prison hospice.
It was as much a tribute to his fallen fellow gang member as it was a symbol of what he represented to hip-hop: a young rapper with a raw, rough but real story of growing up in Atlanta's drug-dealing areas, known as traps.
In the 40th Precinct, the police have faced a similar silence in their efforts to solve the deaths of Freddy Collazo, a 20-year-old gang member gunned down in February, and Jessica White, a 28-year-old mother killed on a playground in June.
Their political differences played out in the headlines early in Harris' career when, as San Francisco district attorney in 2004, Harris said she would not seek the death penalty for a gang member who fatally shot a 29-year-old police officer, Isaac Espinoza.
The former gang member told the F.B.I. that his psychotherapist, Ms. Sylvia, had learned about his links to organized crime in therapy sessions, according to the complaint, and then she asked him for help in finding someone who could commit a murder for her.
Days later, Mr. Lathan, using a wheelchair while he recovered from his wound, was arrested and held in the Men's Central Jail — not because he had committed a crime, but because he had violated parole by associating with a known gang member: Nipsey Hussle.
One slightly confusing revelation, however, came from former biker gang member John Lawson, who told me that a major factor in his decision to go straight was reading a story about himself in the paper and realizing that perhaps he wasn't the nicest of guys.
CLEVELAND – A Cleveland man has been found guilty of aggravated murder for killing his former 17-year-old girlfriend who he recruited to rob a bank Prosecutors say a co-defendant and fellow gang member told Kiechaun Newell to kill the girl to silence her. Cleveland.
"Individuals are confirmed as gang members if they admit membership in a gang... or if they meet certain other criteria such as having tattoos identifying a specific gang or being identified as a gang member by a reliable source," the agency said in a press release.
Ronil Singh Authorities arrested a Sureño gang member for the murder of California police officer Ronil Singh early Wednesday Gustavo Perez Arriaga, a 32-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested by Kern County sheriff's deputies at a home in Bakersfield, California, on Friday morning.
David, a former gang member-turned-criminal defense attorney and his girlfriend Emiley; Christina, who was crowned Miss South Carolina USA in 2014 and her boyfriend Matt, who is worried about not being able to ask his parents for money, and longtime friends Angela and Michele.
Rios, a former gang member, told me later that he understood the pressures on Goffman and that he was urged to write his story in a way that would command broad attention — ''My best friend was killed in front of me; I ended up in juvie.
After serving 13 years in various New York prisons, the 39-year-old former Bloods gang member turned his life around, and today, serves as the executive director of Gangstas Making Astronomical Community Changes, a nonprofit organization focusing on minimizing gun violence by helping local youth.
The indictments also allege that more than a dozen gang members beat people with deadly weapons, stabbed a rival gang member in the back, and "obtained, sold, and profited from street level drug dealing" to maintain control of turf in Fresno County in the Central Valley.
A state law passed in 2013 requires law enforcement agencies to detain an individual for breaking immigration laws if they have been convicted of a felony, are a known gang member, are on a federal terrorism watch list or face criminal charges and have not posted bond.
Among the murders detailed in the indictment is that of a rival gang member who was abducted and hacked to death on March 6, 2017 in a remote area of the Los Angeles National Forest by MS-13 members who believed he had defaced their graffiti.
His status with the program, known as DACA, was revoked and he was deported to Guatemala in March 2017 after he was convicted of assault and battery by a mob and suspected of being an MS-13 gang member, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Carissa Cutrell said.
According to law enforcement, Tellis is a gang member with a rap sheet and has served time previously, but his gang affiliation does not appear to have anything to do with Chambers' killing, and drugs do not appear to be a factor in her death, Champion said.
Greig's attorney noted on Thursday that her initial sentence was longer than the five years Bulger associate Kevin Weeks served for his role as an accessory to five murders and now will approach the 12 years that "Winter Hill" gang member John Martorano served for 20 killings.
The urgency of their calls for communal solidarity against institutional racism was made more urgent by panelist Leon Ford, Jr., who was shot five times by police in Pittsburgh and left paralyzed, after purportedly running a stop sign and being mistakenly profiled as a gang member.
"When we were prosecuting the case, I turned to my assistant trial counsel, and I said, 'You know … I feel like we're prosecuting a gang member' because of the way his unit was treating us and the way they were trying to intimidate us," Christensen said.
The Los Angeles Police Department opened an investigation early last year, when a mother in the San Fernando Valley approached a local police station to tell officers about a letter she had received saying that her son, a minor, had been identified as a gang member.
Among the 150 people arrested by ICE in the past few days, include a fugitive and gang member who had been previously been deported four times and others with criminal convictions including assault, DUI and sex with a minor under 16 years old, the agency said.
A neo-Nazi gang member in Utah has lost his legal challenge to the practice of stop-and-frisk in the state, after an appeals court ruled that police officers had justifiable cause to search him after he behaved belligerently during a traffic stop in 2017.
Shaw is a black man from Los Angeles grieving over the 2008 murder of his son, 17-year-old Jamiel "Jas" Shaw, Jr. An undocumented immigrant gang member, Pedro Espinoza, killed him after mistakenly believing he was in a rival gang because of the color of his backpack.
But CUNY Law School Professor Babe Howell, who has studied the raids intensively, says that in almost every case, the charges are simply used as leverage against a defendant in an attempt to get them to take plea deals—or act as a witness against another alleged gang member.
He had been released from prison three months earlier after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in 2007 and admitting to helping kill a 26-year-old man, who was beaten to death after stealing money from the former girlfriend of another white supremacist gang member, the statement said.
He spoke with his forehead furrowed, his expression pained and puzzled, as the commissioners guided him through various episodes of childhood delinquency — stealing bikes, cutting school — until they arrived at the crime he was incarcerated for, the botched attempt at a revenge killing of a rival gang member.
Chicago Reels as 163 Children Are Gunned Down in 4 Days A suspect was charged with murder in the shooting of Takiya Holmes, 11, on Saturday, part of a series of shootings that also took the lives of a toddler, a 12-year-old girl and a gang member.
I'm sure that like any other large organization, there were people who entered the NYPD for the purpose of infiltration—whether they were a gang member or a relative of someone involved in a gang and corrupt behavior—and tried to gather information to be an intelligent source for them.
Segregation of gang members from the general population is inherently difficult because gang members are not using identifying tattoos as frequently anymore, and without detailed law-enforcement intelligence, which does not exist in Honduras, it is nearly impossible to tell a gang member from a dispirited teenager in a poor community.
I played "Scene of the Crime," in which I was told by a grinning white actor that a man of color had been spotted in the neighborhood and that I could do my civic duty by reporting him as either a gang member, a drug dealer, or a sexual predator.
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Although it happened to me personally, it was not until I had earned my Ph.D and began researching the insidious forms of gang abatement and the legality of anti-gang policing that I realized how low the bar was for being labeled a gang member, and how high the stakes could be.
In a horrific crime in Washington, D.C., MS-13 members stabbed a man more than 100 times and decapitated him and tore the heart right out of his chest or this case in Louden County, Virginia, where an MS-13 gang member beat a Muslim girl to death with a baseball bat.
According to his lawyers, the government said a video existed of him flashing gang signs (which they have been unable to see), he wore clothing that distinguished him as a gang member, he had been identified by the Suffolk County Police Department as belonging to the gang, and he had gang tattoos.
"These alleged members of MS-13 exhibited their propensity towards violence and murder when they plotted to murder a rival gang member in a place where the public congregates, with no regard to innocent lives," Angel M. Melendez, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New York, said in a statement.
Check. Even smaller details like the soundtrack — bass-laden hip-hop songs that I'd never heard before and wouldn't choose to listen to popped up whenever a gang member and a car appeared — and Dmitri's clothes — he looked like a cross between Wesley Snipes in New Jack City and Wesley Snipes in Blade — irked me.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — It is a once-unimaginable scenario: Sometime soon in an American courtroom, a criminal defense lawyer may argue that the prosecution of an MS-13 gang member is a politically motivated "witch hunt" built around a witness who has "flipped" and taken what the lawyer calls a plea deal of dubious legality.
Just when you thought the Trump family saga could not get more absurd, The New York Post, the premiere Trump divorce publication, served up an eye-popping tale about Don Jr.'s soon-to-be ex: Vanessa Trump's high school romance on the Lower East Side with a Latin King gang member, Valentin Rivera.
Many of the experiences Lamar recounts will be familiar to those for whom racism and violence are daily realities: there's the constant fear of being killed by a gang member or by the police, "'cause that's what you do when you're 17", and the desire for retribution that accompanies the news that a loved one has been murdered.
An ICE statement said some had lengthy criminal records, including one, Armando Nuñez-Salgado, whom the agency called a "documented Sureño gang member" who had been deported four times and who over the past 18 years had accumulated convictions — it listed burglary and hit-and-run causing injury — resulting in more than 15 years in prison.
As part of his plea, Tekashi — known for his album Day69: Graduation Day  — admitted to joining the gang in the fall 2017, and hiring a fellow gang member to "shoot at" rap rival Chief Keef in June 2018, in order to "maintain or increase my own standing in Nine Trey," according to documents cited by TMZ.
And on Tuesday, in a shooting captured on Facebook Live, a 2-year-old boy, Lavontay White, was fatally struck in the head by a bullet, and a 26-year-old man, a known gang member, was killed while both were in the same car, the police said, adding that it appeared to be a targeted shooting.
One ex-girlfriend of a gang member told Blitzer that when they needed to lie low, "Carlos and his friends from MS-13 would change their style of dress" — like swapping out their shoes — and then "mocked the police for being slow to catch on" to the fact that they weren't wearing their "characteristic" gang attire.
Screenshot: Injustice Today"If someone from ICE HSI searched for gang members in Massachusetts, that person doesn't necessarily know if someone has been identified as a gang member by a Somerville police official just because they had a hunch or by a Waltham officer because they killed three people," Kade Crockford, head of the ACLU of Massachusetts's Technology for Liberty Program, told Injustice.
As part of his plea, Tekashi — known for his album Day69: Graduation Day and hit "Fefe" with Nicki Minaj — admitted to joining the gang in the fall 2017, and hiring a fellow gang member to "shoot at" rap rival Chief Keef in June 2018, in order to "maintain or increase my own standing in Nine Trey," according to documents cited by TMZ.
And while suspects, including a known gang member have been later arrested in at least one of the incidents, it is difficult not to worry that copycat assaults in other cities may follow; that and a "harmless" water-dousing of law enforcement officers in 22016 will lead to further breakdown of order and potential reemergence of more violence and criminality.
When Roland gets cold feet on his wedding day, they reflect on how their brotherhood might change because of Roland's marriage, and the friends travel down memory lane to explore their various misadventures as teens growing up in the 80s which include silly middle school bets; run-ins with a local gang member; and, of course, their early experiences with girls.
Turf wars between two Salvadoran gangs have displaced some 300,000 people, per the AP. What it looks like: A Salvadoran woman waiting in Tijuana with her husband and three children, one of whom is just ten months old, told El Pais that the family fled after she was repeatedly threatened by a gang member who had become obsessed with her.
Either way, it sends a clear message to Latinos in America — both unauthorized immigrants who are liable to be arrested by ICE at any time and might be falsely accused of gang membership in the process, and legal immigrants and citizens who nonetheless might "look like a gang member" to the wrong person based on the color of their skin.
"Given Shkreli's inexperience as an inmate, the fact that it's public knowledge that he still has a lot of money, and his overall spoiled-brat, rich-boy attitude, he'll make a nice target for the press game," Robert Rosso, a former prison gang member doing life for drugs at FCI Terre Haute in Indiana and has written for VICE, told me in an email.
But, according to one expert contacted by Motherboard, this technology has serious shortcomings that might end up doing more harm than good, especially if a computer pegs someone as a gang member just because they use certain words, enjoy rap, or frequently use certain emojis—all criteria employed by this experimental AI. Read More: It's Our Fault That AI Thinks White Names Are More 'Pleasant' Than Black Names The Kno.e.
In a 2900 case, then-District Attorney Harris declined to seek the death penalty for a gang member in the killing of a police officer, putting her at odds with her eventual fellow senator, Dianne FeinsteinDianne Emiel FeinsteinTrump administration urges Congress to reauthorize NSA surveillance program The Hill's Morning Report - More talk on guns; many questions on Epstein's death Juan Williams: We need a backlash against Big Tech MORE (D-Calif.).
Comey has also worked on: an ongoing case of a security guard accused of killing four others in White Plains, New York, where prosecutors are seeking the death penalty; a case against the treasurer of a volunteer fire department who embezzled over $5 million and was sentenced to over 6 years in prison; the successful conviction of a gang-member who opened fire on a Valentine's Day party, killing one; and other gang-related cases.

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