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The 18th Street Gang, also known as Eighteen St, Barrio 18, Mara 18, or simply 18 in North America, [1][12][13][14] is a multi-ethnic (largely Central American and Mexican) transnational criminal organization that started as a street gang in Los Angeles. It is one of the largest transnational criminal gangs in Los Angeles, with 30,000-50,000 ...
On February 2, 2019, an MS-13 member fatally shot a member of the rival 18th Street Gang on the New York City Subway's 90th Street–Elmhurst Avenue station in Queens. [185] [186] On the same day graffiti with the gang's name was scrawled on the wall outside the district office of local city council member Francisco Moya. [187]
Chosen Few MC. Crips. Asian Boyz. Grape Street Watts Crips. Rollin' 30s Harlem Crips. Rollin 60's Neighborhood Crips. Sons of Samoa. Tongan Crip Gang. Venice Shoreline Crips.
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.
The gang's primary symbol, which is often used in tattoos by members, is the national symbol of Mexico (eagle and a snake) atop a flaming circle over crossed knives. Street gangs that are aligned with the Mexican Mafia often use the number 13 as a gang identifier, as the letter "M" is the 13th letter of the modern Latin-derived alphabet.
The Crips are a primarily African-American alliance of street gangs that are based in the coastal regions of Southern California.Founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1969, mainly by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams, the Crips began as an alliance between two autonomous gangs, and developed into a loosely connected network of individual "sets", often engaged in open warfare with one ...
Westside Locos 13 or simply Westside Locos is a predominantly Latino-American street gang based in West Los Angeles with history dating back to the 1970s. [1] They reside mainly in the Odessa neighborhood, and their main subset or "clique" is Halm Avenue Gangsters or "Halm Ave", which street name represents the center of the gang's territory.
A 19-year-old man was sentenced this week for his role in the 2022 fatal shooting of a Kansas City teenager. Alexis Menjivar was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the shooting death of 17-year ...