Got motivation, kids? The Chivas USA pro soccer team and the Orange County Gang Reduction and Intervention Partnership (GRIP) are hoping the promise of free tickets to see a game is enough to keep a few school-aged kids out of ganglife. more ›

An 11-year-old boy was shot in the knee as he lay sleeping in his bed in Santa Fe Springs last night, reports City News Service. The boy was hurt when about five gunshots were fired into the house at about 11:00 p.m. An infant who also lives in the house wasn't hurt, nor were any of the other residents. more ›

A gang shooting near the Mayan in Downtown Los Angeles early Saturday morning leaves one man dead and three others wounded. Police arrived on the scene around 2:45am following a report of an argument outside the nightclub at 1038 South Hill Street. A gang member had shot one of his rivals, who later died at a local hospital, in the head and wounded a trio of others. more ›

16-year-old Wilson High honors student Melody Ross was the unintended victim of a drive-by shooting outside her Long Beach school in October 2009. Today, her killer, 18-year-old gang member Tom Love Vinson, was sentence to 155 years and six months to life in state prison for the teen's death. more ›

A man accused of shooting two men 12 years ago was caught and arrested at LAX after returning to Los Angeles on a flight from Korea. more ›

It's came down to one juror, specifically that one juror's dismissal; that's how Cleamon "Big Evil" Johnson, a South L.A. gang leader, managed to have his death sentence tossed out for two August 1991 murders. more ›

Suspected gang violence has shaken the Westside community recently, with one possible gang-related shooting in Venice on Thursday and another in Mar Vista on Saturday. Around 9pm on Saturday night, a father, his 15-year-old son and his son's 13-year-old girlfriend were shot and wounded outside a Mar Vista liquor store near Culver Boulevard and Slauson Avenue. more ›

The second phase of Operation "Supernova" - a task force investigation of Ventura County's largest street gang - yielded three arrests on Tuesday. The arrests were made during an undercover operation in Camarillo when a Colonia Chiques gang member - Luis Manuel Tapia - agreed to sell undercover operatives ten pounds of methamphetamine and four kilograms of cocaine. His asking price? $200,000. more ›

Shots were fired at an In-N-Out in Hollywood this morning, penetrating the front door of the restaurant, according to City News Service. more ›

An atypical act of gang violence occurred on August 30 in Riverside County, and the culprits - three gang members of Jurupa Vallery - were finally apprehended Friday night. Riverside County sheriff's deputies arrested Daniel Delshawn Green, 19, Dequan Matthew Green, 26, and Daymen Qionel Tolbert, 20. more ›

The Hells Angels are all over the news these days. First, they sued a Silver Lake clothing company for its quaint repurposing of their name, and now four members of the gang's San Diego chapter are being sought by law enforcement for their involvement in beatings that took place in 2007 and 2010 . The LA Times reports that the four men -- David Dabbs, 41; Dustin Harroun, 30; Stephen Sanders, 42, and Troy Scholder, 30 -- took part in assaults on a club member and a club associate in El Cajon. more ›

Court papers filed this week by attorneys for the Los Angeles Dodgers and team owner Frank McCourt indicate the baseball franchise is looking to have a request for punitive damages dismissed in the lawsuit filed by the family of beaten Giants fan Bryan Stow. more ›

Wednesday night's Riverside gang sweep, Operation Tampa Bay, apprehended 20 suspects, reports KABC. By mid-morning, members of the 1200 Blocc Crips, one of Riverside's most dangerous street gangs, were behind bars. more ›

Authorities in Pico Rivera are investigating the death of a young male, thought to be in his late teens or early 20s, whose body parts were found stuffed in a garbage bag and stashed in the back yard of a home. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide Bureau detectives were sent to the 8500 block of Pico Vista Road at around 8:30 Wednesday night, according to the LASD. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Department have announced an arrest made in last week's fatal shooting at a Venice park. 19-year-old Michael Mariscal was taken into custody Tuesday morning by Pacific Area Homicide Detectives, and booked for the murders of Salvador Diaz, 18, and Alan Mateo, 19. He is being held on $2 million bail. more ›

A 12-year-old boy was fatally stabbed outside an apartment building in Anaheim, reports KTLA. The boy, whose name hasn't been released, was found lying on the ground by police officers and was taken to a local trauma center where he later died. He's thought to be a student at nearby Sycamore Junior High. more ›

Three members of a rival gang are being blamed for a shooting in Watts that injured seven people, reports ABC 7. wThe gunmen opened fire on a party on Saturday, which was being held to raise funeral funds for a 22-year-old man who had been killed. more ›

An interesting tattoo can definitely be a conversation starter, but for one gang member, it proved to be the key to determining he was the perp in a cold case murder. The tattoo, seen in 2008 by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide Detective Sergeant Kevin Lloyd in a photograph of gang member Anthony Garcia, depicted a shooting outside a liquor store. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Department are investigating a shooting that took place last night on the Venice Boardwalk near 17th Street and Ocean Front Walk, according to Venice Patch. It is possible the shooting was gang-related, though the LAPD have not confirmed that. Following the shooting, the LAPD were also sent to a McDonald's nearby on Venice Boulevard, which may have also been gang-related. more ›

Authorities are looking for 19-year-old Michael Sykes, the seventh suspect in a Moreno Valley gang rape attack on an 11-year-old, according to the Press-Enterprise. Investigators believe at least seven people raped the girl in the restroom of Victoriano Park on March 10th. Six suspects have already been arrested in conjunction with the case. more ›

A total of four men, all Korean, have been arrested over a period of several days, for their involvement in an alleged hate crime that took place at a Korean restaurant in Rowland Heights. Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials say that a 25-year-old Chinese American man was the victim of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon following a violent confrontation outside the eatery on February 6th. more ›

Authorities a shooting that took place mid-morning today on a Metro bus in Glassell Park was gang-related, according to KTLA. The victim, a man thought to be in his 40s, was shot inside the bus following an argument with the gunman. At the time of the shooting, the bus was stopped in the 3700 Block of Eagle Rock Boulevard. more ›

74 members and associates of the Armenian Power organized crime group were taken in this morning as part of "Operation Power Outage,"--an ongoing effort by the Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force to take down the gang. Most of those arrested in Los Angeles today are named in two federal indictments that charge a total of 88 defendants linked to Armenian Power, which is commonly called AP, explains the Department of Justice. more ›

27 people affiliated with the Lennox 13 gang have been arrested in an operation employing nearly 500 law enforcement personnel. A raid was conducted this morning as the culmination of an 18-month probe by a joint federal-state team, according to the Department of Justice. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Department are investigating a likely gang-related shooting that claimed the life of a 14-year-old African American boy who was riding his bicycle in the Morningside Park area last night. more ›

Does the zip code influence how a crime is classified? City Councilman Tony Cardenas says yes, per the Daily News. He said recently: "If there is a dispute in Pacoima or Sylmar, they might call it gang-related. If the same things happens elsewhere in the city, it's just a dispute." This means gang crimes are inflated in certain areas, raising--or maintaining--the public's alarm about a given geographic region. Fellow Councilmember Greig Smith disagrees: "I can assure you, no [LAPD] watch commander wants to see an elevation in gang crimes if they can avoid it." more ›

The LAPD responded to a pair of shootings last night within miles, and minutes, of each other in the East Valley last night. The first incident took place at around 12:40 a.m. on Chiquita Street in Studio City, says Studio City Patch. The victim, a 50-year-old man, was shot multiple times in the torso and is in critical condition; it is not gang-related, says LAPD, and appears to have no motive. more ›

Authorities in North Long Beach are investigating the murder of a teenage boy who was shot and killed inside his home, according to the Press-Telegram. Neighbors report hearing multiple rounds fired on the 1600 block of East 53rd Street at around 9 p.m. last night. The shooter or shooters were outside, and the boy was inside, when the shots were fired. more ›

Two former Marines, and three other local men, have been arrested following a lengthy investigation for allegedly selling assault rifles to known Los Angeles gang members, according to LA Now. more ›