California Youth Authority

Orange County Killer, 14, Calls His 40-Year Punishment Cruel & Unusual

In June 2010, Buena Park mobile home resident Andrew Cervantes (AKA "Tank") aged four years in an instant when--at the age of 14 and in the eighth grade--he paused a Santa Ana bicycle ride to buy candy to ask another teenage hoodlum, Manual Orozco, a gang-world question: "Where you from?" Cerva ... More >>

Citizen of the Week!

​Isaake Lelenoa had been 16 years old for just 24 days when in October 2006 he left a party in Orange, spotted four teenage girls getting in another vehicle, approached, fired a handgun into the air twice and demanded iPods and purses before fleeing with the loot.

Killing for the Cartel

Police believe East LA high-school dropout Jose Saenz has killed a good friend and the mother of his daughter

Citizen of the Week!

While Angela May King liked to make people laugh, Edgar Omar Osorio loved to hurt people, and one night, less than 10 minutes from the Happiest Place on Earth, these two came face to face. It hadn't been a mutually agreed-upon meeting. Looking for guns and money and to enhance his reputation in the ... More >>

[Moxley Confidential] Jose Avina Gets Adult Punishment for Sex-Crime Spree He Committed at 14

OC Jury Finds Rapist, 14, Guilty

An Anaheim teenager tried as an adult for a shocking kidnapping-robbery-forced-sodomy crime spree that victimized four 12 and 13-year-old boys in 2004 was convicted this afternoon of committing 11 felonies. Jose Ignacio Avina, just 14 years old at the time of the crimes near Ball Middle School, sto ... More >>

Baby-faced Hoodlums

Getting big in Vietnamese gangs doesnt mean you cant snitch

Slammer Time

No More Juvy Dreams for the Haidl 3

NOW Hes Sorry!

WEB EXCLUSIVE! Gang-rapist Greg Haidl suddenly remorseful as sentencing judge considers such expressions a reason for leniency

Gang-Rape Trio to Walk?

WEB EXCLUSIVE! Haidl defendants may spend mere weeks in juvenile detention

Post-Industrial Grease Monkey

Jesse James and the gradual degreasing of the West Coast Chopper