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18th Street gang [ 7] Satanas [ 8] The Avenues, also known as Avenidas or AVE's, is a Mexican/Mexican American criminal street gang mostly in Los Angeles County, California. They originally started as a social club for local Latino youths to protect themselves from other violent youths. The Avenues, like most Mexican gangs in Los Angeles, are ...
Armenian Power graffiti in Little Armenia, Los Angeles MS-13 graffiti. This is a list of notable criminal gangs in Los Angeles, California.. The County and the City of Los Angeles has been nicknamed the "Gang Capital of America," with an estimated 450 active gangs with a combined membership of more than 45,000.
38th Street gang. The 38th Street Gang is an American criminal street gang in Los Angeles, California, composed mainly of Hispanic-Americans. The 38th Street Gang is one of the oldest street gangs in Los Angeles and has been occupying its territory since the 1920s. [ 6] They engage in many criminal activities.
The gang has cliques in approximately ten U.S. states, with activity in at least 42 states and the District of Columbia. [2] [6] Mara Salvatrucha has around 15 to 20 cliques active in Los Angeles, with the gang claiming parts of Westlake, Pico-Union, Koreatown, East Hollywood, North Hollywood, Panorama City and Van Nuys as its territory.
FBI agents and Los Angeles County deputies fanned out across the city early Tuesday, raiding 30 homes linked to the South L.A. gang Florencia 13, which was responsible for the 2022 killing of a ...
Varrio Nuevo Estrada. Varrio Nuevo Estrada, also known as VNE13, [ 3][ 4][ 5] is a Chicano criminal street gang founded in Boyle Heights, California, in the Estrada Courts housing projects. VNE is one of 34 gangs in a 15-square-mile area east of downtown Los Angeles.
Keri Blakinger. March 8, 2024 at 6:00 AM. L.A. County then-Sheriff Alex Villanueva, left, and then-Undersheriff Tim Murakami at a Board of Supervisors meeting in 2019. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times ...
A court ruling has at least temporarily put a roadblock in front of an investigation of alleged gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department that seeks to have deputies answer ...