The LAPD has revealed it can’t properly track street gang crime because the department been banned from using an internal ...

A California gang member was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the shooting death of a man in Santa Maria. Alfredo Junior Alaniz, 25, of Santa Maria, was sentenced for the murder of Mario Merino ...

Federal law and order operation targets LA's largest street gang as authorities arrest alleged 18th Street members using ...

Twelve alleged 18th Street gang members were arrested in Los Angeles as part of “Operation Dead Horse," a federal case alleging racketeering, extortion, drug trafficking and a 2022 murder connected to ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Federal agents arrested 16 alleged members of Puente-13, a San Gabriel Valley-based gang affiliated with the ...

Under Newsom, California has made it more difficult to jail gang members, chiefly through 2021’s Assembly Bill 333. The STEP Forward Act, as it was called, made it harder for prosecutors to use gang ...

18th Street or “Barrio 18,” is one of the most notorious and violent gangs in the Western Hemisphere. The group started back ...

Five MS-13 members were all found guilty Tuesday of participating in a string of gangland killings to advance their standing in the gang in which the victims were beaten, strangled and sometimes had ...

Aaron Harvey was living outside Las Vegas in 2014 when California authorities swept in and arrested him for conspiracy in a series of gang murders that had occurred in his absence. They knew Harvey ...

An unholy alliance is reshaping Los Angeles’ criminal underworld. Police have told The California Post once-sworn enemies MS-13 and 18th Street have set aside differences and decades of violence to ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A system designed to protect state inmates has led to increased violence involving so-called ‘dropout’ gangs of ...