Subject: Gang Violence

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  June 4, 2009

• Court Strikes Blow Against Prosecutors in Gang War

  In an opinion issued today, a California Court of Appeal ruled that Orange County prosecutors overstepped their authority to seek tough penalties against hoodlums who violate court-imposed anti-gang injunctions. In January 2007, Sixto Moreno and Anthony Lopez—two Santa Nita gang members—drank beer in a vehicle parked in a residential driveway after 10 p.m. and in an area of Santa Ana supposedly controlled by a court order that limits gang activity. Police arrested the men for violating the

  March 3, 2008

• The Convenient Racialist

  It seems a week doesn't go by that David Duke's favorite local writer, Martin H. Millard, doesn't rail about Latino criminals in Costa Mesa on his blog. "The real and present danger in Costa Mesa is from Latino gangs who have a strong connection with illegal aliens, the slums and some non-profits," Millard wrote just yesterday. "That's the reality folks, no matter how many neurotic lefties try to deny it." Oh, really? What are the two gangs the federal government has vigorously prosecuted in th

  July 10, 2008

• The Computer Wore Colors

  July 22, 1999

• We Already Hate Kids Here

  April 27, 2000

• Excerpts: Part 2

  September 14, 2000

• Rumblefished!

  May 23, 2002

• Barbara Coe Ties National Council of La Raza To Notorious Salvadoran Gang

  California Coalition for Immigration Reform head witch Barbara Coe keeps getting wackier and wackier. This week, she forwarded a press release to her Know Nothing nation about how National Council of La Raza presidents Janet Murguia was scheduled to testify before the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee about including homeowners as part of any bailout plan. Any reasonable person can disagree with Murguia, but Babs went balistic as usual. "Isn't it enough that La Raza has

  January 9, 2009

• Law-Enforcement Claims Historic Chicano Mural in Orange Sensationalizes Gangs-30 Years Later

  April 9, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  February 5, 2009

• Is a Popular Legal Weapon Ending a South County Gang Rivalry, or Catching Bystanders in Its Net?

  January 29, 2009

• News

  August 31, 2006

• First Arrest For Standing In Front of Renowned Chicano Mural in Orange

  Easter Sunday. A kid from the Cypress neighborhood in Orange lounges just outside his apartment building where a huge, sprawling mural by influential Chicano artist Emigdio Vasquez is painted on the exterior walls. Bring in the sirens and the Orange PD. Minutes later, you have an arrest. The crime? The teen was standing in front of artwork that the Orange PD and DA's office claim promotes, glamorizes and inspires gang violence. And because the teen was recently added to a preliminary gang injunc

  April 15, 2009

• The Gang's Not Here

  August 9, 2007

• White Power With a Lisp

  In a sensational gang murder trial, Billy Joe Johnson talks about sex, drugs, guns, dirty cops and Jews but not his homeboys

  June 14, 2007

• Tony's Bizarro World

  July 27, 2006

• A Tale of Two Shootings

  August 7, 2003

• Badfella

  Buddhist temple role model led double life as a gangster

  April 19, 2007

• A Day in the Park With Hitler

  July 27, 2006

• Phu Fighter

  Gangster beats girl over sexual equipment quip

  February 1, 2007

• Santa Ana Showdown

  After Oscar Gallegos shot two Long Beach cops, he swore hed never be takenalive. His run for the border ended with a trip to a Santa Ana strip mall.

  January 18, 2007

• Baby-faced Hoodlums

  August 3, 2006

• Diary of Mad County

  July 20, 2006

• Just Another Roadside Distraction

  February 23, 2006

• the Redeemer Speaks

  December 1, 2005

• The Incredible Shrinking Shooting Case

  June 16, 2005

• Shaggy But Sophisticated

  April 14, 2005

• This Case Doesn't Gyve

  An open letter to DA Tony Rackauckas

  February 17, 2005

• Eddie Ready

  January 1, 2004

• Star Chambered

  December 18, 2003

• Gang Banged

  December 4, 2003

• No Gun, No Witnesses, No Problem

  November 27, 2003

• The Thin Boo Line!

  Orange Countys 31 scariest cops!

  November 6, 2003

• Brown Peril, Part Dos

  August 14, 2003

• I Aint From Nowhere

  July 3, 2003

• Shot in the Back

  May 15, 2003

• The Second-Chance Motel

  April 11, 2002

• Internal Combustion

  August 30, 2001

• Whistleblower Blues

  March 23, 2000

• Eric DeSoto, 1976-1999

  September 9, 1999

• Slick Injustice

  May 13, 1999

• DWUS

  April 29, 1999

• Is the DA's Office Losing the Battle for an Orange Gang Injunction?

  Agapito MoralesSantiago Orange Growers Association, North Cypress Street, Orange, ca. 1950Senior Assistant DA John Anderson sat in the juror section of Superior Court Judge Kazuharo Makino's courtroom this morning with pursed lips. He listened closely to what Makino was going to say -- and how he would rule -- with regard to the preliminary gang injunction set to be imposed on some 20 alleged members of the Orange Varrio Cypress gang in Orange whose cases were being considered today. The last ti

  May 7, 2009

• Orange's Barrio Cypress Residents Fought the DA's Gang Injunction—and Won (Sort Of)

  May 28, 2009

• Anti-Gang-Injunction Activist Says Orange P.D. Ganged Up On Her Kids

  August 13, 2009

• Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Week: Bullets for Bangers!

  Nothing like a good old gang-related murder in Santa Ana to set off all the Register readers who would like nothing more than to see the city cordoned off by immigration cops and the entire non-English speaking population rolled into Tijuana-bound paddy wagons. The latest example? This story from Wednesday about an 18-year-old Latino gangbanger who shot another man during an armed robbery. "Eduardo Valencia, 18, is expected to appear in court today to face charges that he killed Jaime Anica Olve

  August 7, 2009

• FBI Boasts More Arrests in Largest Gang Case Ever

  The FBI announced it made 11 additional arrests this morning tied to a Hawaiian Gardens gang, upping the number of defendants to 24 in the final phase of the nation's largest-ever gang investigation and prosecution that included the participation of Orange County law enforcement agencies and is credited with taking more than 300 gang-bangers off Southern California streets. Dubbed "Operation Knock Out" and involving agencies in four Southern California counties, the sweep

  July 8, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  August 27, 2009

• Just Another Orange County Murder: George Springer

  View Larger Map Police responding to a shots fired call around 12:20 a.m. Sunday in the 8500 block of Bel Air Street in Buena Park arrived to find 42-year-old George Stringer lying face down in front of a home. He'd been blasted with a shotgun.

  September 14, 2009

• Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Week: ACFU Edition

  Maybe all the hot weather of late has made the haters sluggish, but this was a particularly slow week for racist commentary in the OC Register's reader comments. For a while, it appeared that the bulk of stereotyping was directed at pitbulls, i.e., whether the breed has jaws that, unlike all other dogs, actually lock when they bite. But on Wednesday morning, the Southern California chapter of the ACLU--known among Register readers as the "American Communist Liberation Union"--had the temerity t

  September 25, 2009