Police arrested two members of the Vice Lords street gang on charges alleging they kidnapped a 17-year-old and robbed him at gunpoint, Detective Craig Shows said. Police identified them as Deonta Levon Glover, 28, of Forrest Avenue, and Bill Dee Anderson, 28, of Lakewood Drive. Anderson also had been sought on drug and weapon charges in a drug roundup. Police said both admitted they are members of the Vice Lords gang. They are accused of forcing a teenager into a vehicle at gunpoint Sunday on Fountain Lane and robbing him of about $3,500.
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A man allegedly involved in the Hollywood criminal street gang was sentenced to serve five years in prison on Thursday in Cochise County Superior Court. Andrew Matthew Mears, 24, pleaded guilty in a plea deal in February to selling a sawed-off shotgun on June 23, 2009, conspiring to transport crack cocaine on June 4, 2009, and possessing a handgun as a prohibited possessor on July 9, 2009. The cases involved sales to the Drug Enforcement Administration at a shopping center in Sierra Vista. Mears was sentenced on Thursday, at the conclusion of a lengthy mitigation hearing in Division 3 court that started May 10 and continued on Thursday. Judge Wallace Hoggatt found both mitigating and aggravating factors, and he imposed presumptive terms for all three counts. Hoggatt imposed a term of 5 years for one offense and terms of 2 1/2 years each for two other offenses, but the terms will run concurrently, meaning he will serve a total of 5 years in prison. He also must pay a fine of $1,000, plus a surcharge of $840. During the sentencing hearing, the defense argued that Mears should not receive more than five years in prison because he has rehabilitated himself and he is a different person today than who he was in 2009. The prosecution asked the court to impose consecutive prison terms due to the fact that the offenses were committed on three separate dates. Judge Hoggatt said Mears was young at the time of the offenses and he has shown numerous positive lifestyle changes since his release on bail in January of 2010. He also pointed out the defendant has a felony conviction on his criminal record and he committed these offenses while on probation. Mears was originally charged with transporting crack cocaine for sale weighing more than 750 milligrams, aiding or agreeing to aid Durell Clifton to sell or transfer the crack, providing the means or opportunity to Clifton to sell or transfer the drug, conspiring to transport a narcotic drug for sale and driving the delivery car, and assisting the gang by committing any felony offense on June 4, 2009. Also, he was originally charged with selling and transporting the sawed-off shotgun, possessing it after having been convicted of a felony and assisting Hollywood by committing any felony offense on June 23, 2009. Mears was also originally charged with possessing crack for sale weighing more than 750 milligrams, possessing a deadly weapon after having been convicted of a felony, committing misconduct involving a weapon by using or possessing a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony drug offense and assisting the gang by committing any felony offense on July 9, 2009. According to the plea agreement, the remaining counts against Mears were dismissed. Co-defendants Durell and Darnell Clifton were convicted in July of 2010 as a result of an undercover drug purchase on May 29, 2009. Durell Clifton was found guilty of possessing crack for sale weighing more than 750 milligrams and assisting Hollywood. He was sentenced to 14 1/4 years in prison in September of 2010. Darnell Clifton was found guilty of transporting the crack for sale, aiding or agreeing to aid Durell Clifton to sell or transfer the drug, conspiring to transport it for sale and driving the delivery car, and assisting Hollywood. He was sentenced to 9 years in prison in September of 2010. The Cliftons were also sentenced to prison terms in January 2011 after pleading guilty in deals for related drug offenses occurring on June 4, 2009, and July 9, 2009, but those prison terms will run concurrently to the previously imposed terms. Co-defendant Scott Patrick Klein was sentenced to five years of supervised probation in April of 2010, after pleading guilty in February of 2010 in a plea deal to committing attempted possession of a dangerous drug for sale in February of 2009.
Three members of a Wilmington gang have been given lengthy prison sentences after a street war with a rival gang ended in at least 5 gun battles that left 2 dead in the spring of 2010. The 3 were charged with the crime of Gang Participation which allows prosecutors to present evidence demonstrating the overall scope of criminal activity that the gang is committing. Kevin Rasin was also charged with first degree murder and other offenses and sentenced to life without parole. Marc Taylor was sentenced to 15 ½ years in prison and Terrence Mills, who was also charged with manslaughter was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Twenty-seven alleged members of the United Blood Nation gang were arrested on Friday, May 18, 2012 and charged with racketeering and related charges. The 35-count indictment was unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Charlotte. Today’s announcement is made by Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina; and Chris Briese, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Charlotte Division. According to the indictment, which was returned by a grand jury on May 16, 2012, the defendants conspired to participate in a racketeering enterprise; that is, the United Blood Nation (“UBN” or “Bloods”) and several factions of the UBN. The indictment alleges that from 2007 to May 2012, in the Western District of North Carolina and elsewhere, the defendants conspired to operate as a gang. In doing so, the indictment alleges that the defendants engaged in criminal activities, including racketeering conspiracy, murder conspiracy, narcotics trafficking, armed robbery, and firearms related crimes. Charged in the indictment are: James Anderson, a/k/a “Stank,” 28, currently incarcerated; Alan Boyd Donta Barnett, a/k/a “Big Al,” 37, of Gastonia, North Carolina; Eric Eugene Brice, a/k/a “Bug,” 40, of Gastonia, North Carolina; Travis Lamar Brice, a/k/a “Trap,” 28, currently incarcerated; Quinton Lavar Brown, a/k/a “QP” or “QB,” 20, currently incarcerated; Rafas Gene Camp, a/k/a “Tick,” 32, of Shelby, North Carolina; Joston Jamal Clemmer, a/k/a “Ace,” 21, of Gastonia, North Carolina; Kemmey Nicole Cooke, a/k/a “ Gangsta Wu,” 29, of Chesapeake, Virginia; Jaimel Kenzie Davison, a/k/a “I-Shine,” 28, currently incarcerated; Wesley Tyler Floyd, a/k/a “West Coast,” 26, of Gastonia, North Carolina; Davon Yakeen Futrell, a/k/a “Smooth,” 24, of Gastonia, North Carolina; Tristan Daquane Goode, a/k/a “Buck,” 20, of Ranlo, North Carolina; Nathaniel Graham, a/k/a “Nasty,” 23, currently incarcerated; Joseph Dranell Gray, a/k/a “Killa,” 38, currently incarcerated; Dominque O’Neill Jackson, a/k/a “DJ,” 23, of Gastonia, North Carolina; Jimmy Lionell, Jones, a/k/a “Buddhist” or “Buddha,” 37, currently incarcerated; William Amir Knox, a/k/a “Poo Nuk,” 28, currently incarcerated; Kentrell Tyrone McIntyre, a/k/a “Mustafa,” 32, currently incarcerated; William Lewis Dontars Meeks, a/k/a “Willie” or “Rock,” 34, of Gastonia, North Carolina; Kevin Jerome Morris, a/k/a “Kato,” 34, of Shelby, North Carolina; Franklin Robbs, a/k/a “Frankie Boo,” 41, currently incarcerated; Maurice Terrell Robinson, a/k/a “Hell Rell,” 22, of Lincolton, North Carolina; Andrew Eugene Stowe, a/k/a “Coco,” 36, of Gastonia, North Carolina; Marquise Deshawn Watson, a/k/a “ Rambo,” 20, of Gastonia, North Carolina; Melinda Charmane Watson, 36, of Gastonia, North Carolina; Daryl Wilkinson, a/k/a “OG Powerful,” 47, currently incarcerated; Samatha Williams, a/k/a “Samantha Wilkinson” or “Lady Sam,” 43, of Bronx, New York; Perry Gorontent Williams, a/k/a “P-Flame” or “Flame,” 26, currentlyincarcerated. According to allegations contained in the indictment, as part of the conspiracy, the defendants engaged in drug trafficking and used the proceeds of their drug crimes to help finance the gang’s criminal activities. In addition to drug trafficking, the indictment alleges that the defendants committed armed robberies and armed home invasions in order to generate proceeds to support the enterprise. The indictment also alleges that as part of the conspiracy, the defendants committed acts of violence against rival gang members. Allegations contained in the indictment also state that the defendants concealed their criminal activities and obstructed justice, including threatening potential witnesses. The indictment further alleges that the defendants maintained and circulated a collection of firearms for the use in criminal activity by UBN members. The indictment alleges that the defendants and other UBN gang members in North Carolina and elsewhere identified gang members belonging to other UBN or Bloods factions by their gang names and phone numbers, including telephone area codes. For example, the indictment alleges, area code “704” represented gang factions within Mecklenburg and Gaston Counties. The indictment also alleges that gang members identified other gang members who were incarcerated by their street gang names and by their inmate identification numbers, in lieu of their telephone numbers. The members incarcerated were referred to as “behind the G wall,” the indictment alleges. According to the indictment, as gang members of the UBN enterprise, the defendants met regularly with other UBN members. The indictment alleges that during those meetings, gang members talked about past acts of violence and other crimes against rival gang members, about UBN gang members who had been arrested or incarcerated, about police interactions with gang members, and discussed internal disciplinary action of other UBN members. The indictment further alleges that during these meetings, gang members also shared identities of individuals whom they suspected to be cooperating with law enforcement and discussed the types of action that ought to be taken against those individuals. The indictment further alleges that during these meetings, UBN members also planned and agreed to carry out future crimes, including murder, robbery, and drug trafficking. “Street gangs spread violence in our cities and fear in our neighborhoods. Gang members engage in a range of illegal activities, from drug trafficking to armed robbery to conspiracy to commit murders. Through coordinated enforcement actions, we will pursue relentlessly dangerous gangs and dismantle their illegal activities that bring violent crimes to our streets and erode the stability of our communities,” said U.S. Attorney Tompkins. “The FBI is committed to dismantling the gangs that threaten the safety and stability of our neighborhoods. This two-year investigation is an outstanding example of what federal, state, and local law enforcement can accomplish when we attack the gangs that operate in our communities,” said FBI’s Special Agent in Charge Chris Briese. The charges contained in the indictment are allegations. The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. The case is being investigated by the FBI in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation; the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department; the Gastonia Police Department; the Gaston County Police Department; the Gaston County Sheriff’s Office; the Shelby Police Department; and North Carolina Department of Probation and Parole.
Dog "The Bounty Hunter" Chapman will have more time on his hands to catch criminals, because his show on A&E is being canceled ... TMZ has learned. Multiple sources connected with the show tell us ... Dog's people and A&E have been negotiating, but the network has now decided to pull the plug and not do season 9. One source connected with Dog tells us the cancellation is based on "creative differences." But here's the reality ... saying "creative differences" is like breaking up with a girl and saying, "It's not you, it's me."
The US treasury department has put two sons of Mexico's most wanted man Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on its drugs kingpin blacklist. The move bars all people in the US from doing business with Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar and Ovidio Guzman Lopez, and freezes any US assets they have. Joaquin Guzman, on the list since 2001, runs the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel. Mexico has seen an explosion of violence in recent years as gangs fight for control of trafficking routes. The US administration "will aggressively target those individuals who facilitate Chapo Guzman's drug trafficking operations, including family members," said Adam Szubin, director of the department's Office of Foreign Assets Control . "With the Mexican government, we are firm in our resolve to dismantle Chapo Guzman's drug trafficking organisation." Ovidio Guzman plays a significant role in his father's drug-trafficking activities, the treasury department said. Ivan Archivaldo Guzman was arrested in 2005 in Mexico on money-laundering charges but subsequently released. As well as the Guzman brothers, two other alleged key cartel members, Noel Salgueiro Nevarez and Ovidio Limon Sanchez, were listed under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. They were both arrested in Mexico in 2011 and are still in custody. Under the Kingpin Act, US firms, banks and individuals are prevented from doing business with them and any assets the men may have under US jurisdiction are frozen. More than 1,000 companies and individuals linked to 94 drug kingpins have been placed on the blacklist since 2000. Penalties for violating the act range include up to 30 years in prison and fines up to $10m (£6m). The US has offered a reward of up to $5m a for information leading to the arrest of Joaquin Guzman, who escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001.
Eduardo Ravelo, born on October 13, 1968 was added as the 493rd fugitive to the FBI 10 most wanted list on October 20, 2009. He is originally from Mexico, however he holds permanent residency status in the United States which gives him free movement across the border. An FBI informant and former lieutenant in the Barrio Azteca, a prison gang active in the U.S. and Mexico, testified that Ravelo told him to help find fellow gang members who had stolen from the cartel. In March 2008, he became the leader of the gang shortly after betraying his predecessor, stabbing him several times and shooting him in the neck. (Eduardo Ravelo: Wikipedia) Eduardo Ravelo was indicted in Texas in 2008 for his involvement in racketeering activities, conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, and conspiracy to possess heroin, cocaine and marijuana with the intent to distribute. His alleged criminal activities began in 2003. He is believed to be living in an area of Cuidad Juarez controlled by the Barrio Ravelo, with his wife and children just across the border from El Paso, Texas. He is also said to have bodyguards and armored vehicles to protect him from rival gangs as well as rival cartels.
San Jose gang leader whose street name is "Capone" was sentenced Friday to 223 years to life in prison, plus another 112 years, for the violent kidnapping of a man who failed to pay for a delivery of methamphetamine. Saragoza Santos Sanchez, 33, wasn't present during the Jan. 15, 2009, kidnapping, which began in East San Jose, said deputy district attorney David Pandori. But as the leader of a Nuestra Familia street gang regiment, Sanchez ordered it to make an example of the victim for not paying for drugs that had been advanced to him, the prosecutor said. Nuestra Familia (NF) is a violent prison gang with criminal operations that reach far outside prison walls. Facing life behind bars, the actual kidnappers testified against Sanchez. Pandori said they now face sentences of 15 to 24 years in state prison, NF's stronghold. The victim escaped from a moving minivan on Capitol Expressway. Passing motorists called 911 when they saw the victim tumble out. The van fled the scene before police and paramedics arrived. Even before his latest arrest, Sanchez was a three-striker. The court set aside two of his strikes in 2004, allowing him to elude a life sentence. He had been charged with being a felon in possession of a gun and ammunition, plus gang enhancements. Sanchez also was convicted in 1999 of assault with a firearm for shooting at a neighbor.
South Asian gangster ad an accomplice, both prohibited from possessing firearms, have been charged with possessing guns. Christopher William Chand, 39, of Vancouver and Gordon John Mojzes, 36, of Vancouver were arrested after being stopped by police on April 13. Members of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia stopped a Pontiac Montana van with Chand and Mojzes in New Westminster. Officers noted a strong odor of fresh marijuana and arrested the occupants for possession of a controlled substance. A further search revealed a hidden compartment inside the vehicle. Two loaded hand guns, a 9 mm Glock and Sterling .25 mm were located inside a secret compartment and were seized by police. Both Chand and Mojzes are facing seven counts each of firearms-related charges including possession of a firearm while prohibited. CFSEU-BC arrested Chand in December 2010, in Vancouver on three charges including assault, theft of a motor vehicle and breach of recognizance after a firearm was seized by Burnaby RCMP from Chand’s residence on November 29, 2010. Chand was on bail at the time he was arrested by CFSEU-BC. He is well-known to investigators having been previously arrested in possession of firearms in another case.
Gangster Jarrod Bacon was sentenced to 12 years in jail for conspiring to traffic up to 100 kilograms of cocaine worth $3 million back in 2009. Bacon, 29, was also given almost five years credit for the time he has been in jail awaiting trial, meaning his net sentence will be seven years and two months. B.C. Supreme Court Associate Justice Austin Cullen said the sentence was on the high end of the range because Bacon lacked remorse and was on bail when he committed the crime. And he said Bacon's enabling family circumstances meant there was little hope for rehabilitation. Jarrod Bacon declined to address the court before Cullen read out his reasons for judgment. The Vancouver court room was packed with media and a few spectators, but only two Bacon supporters who were from his mother's church. Bacon and his co-accused and former father-in-law Wayne Scott were arrested in November 2009 by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit after a reverse sting using an agent identified only as GL. GL, an acquaintance of Scott's, approached the CFSEU about becoming an agent and said he believed he could get at Bacon, whose Red Scorpion gang at the time was locked in a bloody street war against rivals from the United Nations gang. Both Bacon and Scott, 56, were convicted on Feb. 3, based on incriminating statements surreptitiously recorded in the summer of 2009 by GL. Scott's sentencing has been delayed until June 7 because of health issues. Crown prosecutor Peter LaPrairie had asked for a sentence of 21 years for Bacon, minus pre-trial credit, while defence lawyer Jeffrey Ray said a more fitting term for the offence was eight years given that no cocaine ever existed in the conspiracy. Cullen disagreed with the Crown's submission on sentencing, saying most of the cases cited were for importation of cocaine - a more serious crime. But he said Bacon deserved the high end of the scale for trafficking, especially since he got involved in the conspiracy while out on bail on gun charges. "The accused's record and apparent lack of remorse reduces the likelihood of rehabilitation and the circumstances taken as a whole warrant a sentence that firmly repudiates the evil of people trafficking," Cullen said. He said there was evidence at trial that Bacon's parents David and Susan were aware of their son's involvement in the cocaine deal. And he said the fact Bacon has no work history and described himself in court as a "criminal" and an "enforcer" demonstrates that he has chosen a criminal career path. Cullen mentioned the gangland execution of Bacon's elder brother Jonathan last August in Kelowna and his younger brother Jamie facing murder charges as more evidence of Bacon's negative family environment. He said Bacon took the necessary steps to participate in the cocaine conspiracy, including finding a funder who could put up millions for the drugs. Cullen earlier described Bacon's testimony at trial as evasive "and at times confrontational and argumentative." Bacon had claimed on the stand that he was only humouring GL about participating in the cocaine deal so that he could get access to five-kilo sample that he planned to rob. The cash for cocaine exchange had been scheduled for Aug. 28, 2009, but was called off after Scott saw police activity outside of a warehouse where GL purported to be holding the cocaine.
Gangster Jarrod Bacon was sentenced to 12 years in jail for conspiring to traffic up to 100 kilograms of cocaine worth $3 million back in 2009. Bacon, 29, was also given almost five years credit for the time he has been in jail awaiting trial, meaning his net sentence will be seven years and two months. B.C. Supreme Court Associate Justice Austin Cullen said the sentence was on the high end of the range because Bacon lacked remorse and was on bail when he committed the crime. And he said Bacon's enabling family circumstances meant there was little hope for rehabilitation. Jarrod Bacon declined to address the court before Cullen read out his reasons for judgment. The Vancouver court room was packed with media and a few spectators, but only two Bacon supporters who were from his mother's church. Bacon and his co-accused and former father-in-law Wayne Scott were arrested in November 2009 by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit after a reverse sting using an agent identified only as GL. GL, an acquaintance of Scott's, approached the CFSEU about becoming an agent and said he believed he could get at Bacon, whose Red Scorpion gang at the time was locked in a bloody street war against rivals from the United Nations gang. Both Bacon and Scott, 56, were convicted on Feb. 3, based on incriminating statements surreptitiously recorded in the summer of 2009 by GL. Scott's sentencing has been delayed until June 7 because of health issues. Crown prosecutor Peter LaPrairie had asked for a sentence of 21 years for Bacon, minus pre-trial credit, while defence lawyer Jeffrey Ray said a more fitting term for the offence was eight years given that no cocaine ever existed in the conspiracy. Cullen disagreed with the Crown's submission on sentencing, saying most of the cases cited were for importation of cocaine - a more serious crime. But he said Bacon deserved the high end of the scale for trafficking, especially since he got involved in the conspiracy while out on bail on gun charges. "The accused's record and apparent lack of remorse reduces the likelihood of rehabilitation and the circumstances taken as a whole warrant a sentence that firmly repudiates the evil of people trafficking," Cullen said. He said there was evidence at trial that Bacon's parents David and Susan were aware of their son's involvement in the cocaine deal. And he said the fact Bacon has no work history and described himself in court as a "criminal" and an "enforcer" demonstrates that he has chosen a criminal career path. Cullen mentioned the gangland execution of Bacon's elder brother Jonathan last August in Kelowna and his younger brother Jamie facing murder charges as more evidence of Bacon's negative family environment. He said Bacon took the necessary steps to participate in the cocaine conspiracy, including finding a funder who could put up millions for the drugs. Cullen earlier described Bacon's testimony at trial as evasive "and at times confrontational and argumentative." Bacon had claimed on the stand that he was only humouring GL about participating in the cocaine deal so that he could get access to five-kilo sample that he planned to rob. The cash for cocaine exchange had been scheduled for Aug. 28, 2009, but was called off after Scott saw police activity outside of a warehouse where GL purported to be holding the cocaine.
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