avenues gang
Known as the Satellite House, for the enormous black satellite dish that once stood in the driveway, the home “was a terrifying monument to the power of the Avenues gang” that dominated the two blocks of Drew Street, said City Atty. [1]
The two suspects — Guillermo Hernandez, 20, and Carlos Velasquez, 24 — were described by Los Angeles Police Department sources as well-known members of the notorious Avenues gang, which has long feuded with the Cypress Park gang whose territory includes the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood where Escalante lived. [2]
IR: The Avenues killings and the Avenues gang have been getting all the media attention recently, but there are a lot of other street gangs loyal to the Mexican Mafia. [3]
The Avenues gang has been the target of a series of landmark prosecutions by the Federal government of the United States and by Los Angeles Assistant District Attorney Anthony Manzella. [4]
Federal prosecutors, who launched their case last week, contend that the Avenues gang between 1994 and 2000 conspired to kill African Americans on their turf. [5]
One of my more popular posts is my April post on how the Times covered the Avenues gang: The LA Times has a secret crush on the Avenues gang! [6]
Federal and local law enforcement officers served 25 federal search warrants, and picked up 32 avenues gang members and associates in the pre-dawn raid. [7]
His street gang goes back five generations in Highland Park, which for Cruz is five miles and several lifetimes from the downtown courtroom where he is scheduled to testify as the star witness for the prosecution in the trial of a group of childhood friends. [5]
The operation, which began at 4 a.m., stemmed from a massive 157-page federal racketeering indictment targeting 70 members of the gang who lived on Drew Street in northeast Los Angeles. [7]
For example, the 18th Street gang, this was a [MacArthur Park neighborhood] gang that had blacks and Hispanics in it for a long time, up until about 10 years ago, when the Mexican Mafia leaders told the 18th Street, “If you don’t want to get green-lighted, get all the blacks out of your gang.” [3]
The Avenues, also known as Avenidas or AVE’s, is a Mexican street gang from North East Los Angeles that formed in the 1930s. [4]
Prosecutors allege that the gang committed three murders, shot at police, extorted businesses, conducted home invasion robberies, taxed drug dealers for the Mexican Mafia and threatened potential witnesses – all as part of an enterprise to distribute methamphetamine and rock cocaine in the area. [8]
The quotes they included from the Avenue homeboys and girls were understandable, but so darn negative: they described the police as “gestapo,” and they were frustrated by the show of force by the police and FBI, and doubted those pig bullies could change anything. [6]
City officials tear down the Satellite House on Drew Street, from which Maria Leon’s family allegedly controlled gang and drug activity in Glassell Park. [1]
It started with the Mexican Mafia ordering street gangs to cleanse themselves of black members, before they moved on to cleansing neighborhoods. [3]
Sources:
[1] Avenues gang bastion is demolished - Los Angeles Times
[2] Avenues gang members arrested in slaying of L.A. sheriff’s deputy - Los …
[3] SPLCenter.org: Gauging the Gangs
[4] The Avenues (gang) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] Gang War: Bangin’ In Little Rock: Latino Gang Targets Blacks in L.A.
[6] The LA Times writes the Avenues gang is flawed, but basically good …
[7] Los Angeles - Avenues Gang Indicted; Many Members Still-at-large - LA …
[8] Huge raid targets gang - Los Angeles Times