Police say Shauntay Henderson lead the 12th Street Gang and could have possibly been involved in at least four other murders, in addition to Parker’s death.

Alleged gang leader Shauntay Henderson sentenced to three years in prison for killing a man at a south Kansas City convenience store in 2006.Circuit Judge Robert M. Schieber convicted Henderson, 26, at a bench trial in November of voluntary manslaughter and armed criminal action. Prosecutors originally had sought a second-degree murder conviction.Schieber sentenced her to three years on the armed criminal action count. He gave her 10 years for manslaughter, but suspended the imposition of the sentence and put her on probation for five years.Henderson briefly made the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list before her capture in 2007.The trial did not address allegations by police and federal officials that Henderson was a violent street gang member. In testimony, Henderson denied any ties to local street gangs.
She is guilty of fatally shooting DeAndre M. Parker, 20, as he sat in a pickup truck outside a convenience store in the 3400 block of Red Bridge Road on Sept. 2, 2006sentenced Shauntay Henderson Wednesday afternoon to three years for armed criminal action and ten years for voluntary manslaughter. But the judge says Henderson will not have to serve time for the manslaughter conviction and instead will spend five years on probation once she gets out of jail on the first charge, as long as she does not commit any other crimes.Henderson was convicted in the 2006 death of Deandre Parker.She said Parker tried to run her over with a pick-up truck, and that is when she said she opened fire.

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Giuseppe Setola, the Naples Mafia boss who eluded a police raid earlier this week by escaping through a trapdoor in his hideout into the sewers, has been arrested after two days on the run. Setola, 38, one of Italy’s 30 most wanted men, was captured at Mignano Monte Lungo, not far from his home at Caserta near Naples. Police said that he was about to leave a Mafia safe house where he had taken refuge to go to a clinic for treatment to a fractured wrist, an injury apparently sustained during his flight through the sewers. When police arrived to arrest him he tried to flee across the rooftops but was caught. “You have won,” he is said to have told police as he surrendered. Setola is wanted for a number of murders, police said, including the killing of African immigrants at Castelvolturno last year in a gangland turf war over drugs trafficking. Roberto Maroni, the Interior Minister, said that the capture of Setola was a severe blow to the Camorra, the Naples Mafia. Setola’s two bodyguards were also arrested.

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Ten members of a southern California gang that indiscriminately shot at African Americans who ventured into areas included in its criminal empire were convicted Monday of a multitude of federal charges, ranging from drug trafficking to attempted murder. The verdicts issued to the members and associates of the Florencia 13 Mexican street gang followed a 3½-month trial in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, in which prosecutors painted a portrait of a racist, violent mob that ran its gangster enterprise without any regard for the law – both on the street and inside the prison. In addition to controlling drug distribution in the unincorporated areas of L.A., it forced other miscreants to pay a fee to indulge in criminal activities in their zone, prosecutors argued. But the gang’s most notorious publicity came from its penchant for targeting Blacks who entered neighborhoods where it operated. The latest group convicted was among 102 gang members charged in four related indictments. To date, 76 of them have either pleaded guilty or have been convicted at trial. Those convicted Monday will be sentenced on Sept. 9.

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The fight escalated when several members of both gangs became involved, Rodriguez said.Before the police arrived the suspected sureño gang members left the scene in a white four-door vehicle, a police report stated.One of the vehicle’s occupants was overheard telling another occupant to shoot somebody, the report stated. A police officer stationed in the area spotted the vehicle as it drove past him and the vehicle was stopped and all five occupants were detained, the report stated. Officers searched the vehicle and found a loaded 12-gauge shotgun with a serial number that had been painted over and a small amount of marijuana, the report stated. Max Martinez, 18, plus two 15-year-olds and two 17-year-olds, were arrested on suspicion of participation in a criminal street gang, possession of a loaded firearm with an altered serial number, transportation of marijuana and conspiracy.
The group of suspected norteño gang members had fled the scene of the fight by the time officers had finished with the traffic stop and returned to the 1700 block of Mulberry, Rodriguez said.

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Highway shooting during Friday's rush hour commute was likely gang-related not a road-rage incident as Utah Highway Patrol troopers had originally thought. Troopers closed off a southbound Interstate 15 collector road in Salt Lake City for five hours on Friday evening at 5:40 p.m. after an 18-year-old man was shot under his left arm while driving a gray Jeep Cherokee near 1600 South. At the time, troopers said the driver, Cesar Ramirez, might have been texting on his phone while weaving in and out of his lane, spurring a dark sports car to pull up next to him and fire at least one shot. But now troopers believe the shooting might have been part of a gang dispute. Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Jeff Nigbur said people in the Jeep and the dark sports car got into an argument and exchanged gang signs near 900 South and West Temple just 10 minutes prior to the I-15 shooting. During that argument, someone in one of the two cars threw a bottle at the other vehicle, Nigbur said. There also was a red car stopped between the two vehicles during the argument, and Nigbur said authorities believe it was driven by an innocent bystander stuck between the gang dispute. Nigbur did not know which gangs might be involved. He also said it was unclear how many people were in the dark sports car, and he was not sure whether people in the two vehicles knew each other before they began to argue on the city road Friday. "The question still remains: Did they just bump into each other and have this altercation?" Nigbur said. "Or was the shooting a result of something building over weeks or months? That's something we still haven't determined."
The driver who was shot managed to pull over to the roadside and was taken to a Intermountain Medical Center, where he remains in critical condition. A passenger in the Jeep was not injured. Authorities are still looking for the gunman and anyone who was in the dark sports car. Nigbur said the car continued southbound on the collector road and transferred onto westbound State Road 201

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Reputed gang member has pleaded guilty in the fatal stabbing of a student outside a Prince George's County high school.Rony Izaguirre-Henriquez, 18, pleaded guilty yesterday to second-degree murder and participating in a gang crime that resulted in death. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.State's Attorney Glenn Ivey says the case marks the first conviction in the county under an anti-gang law adopted last year.The victim, Guillermo Enrique Medina, 15, was killed April 2 as he walked home from Parkdale High School in Riverdale.Prosecutors say Izaguirre-Henriquez is a member of the MS-13 street gang and could face deportation.

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Salinas police are battling a recent spate of violence that's killed at least five people in separate incidents over three days. Investigators suspect all of the shootings are gang-related. Sgt. Chris Lane says each victim was either connected to the Nortenos gang or its rival, the Surenos. Among those killed are two Alisal High School students, including a 15-year-old boy who was fatally shot behind the school Monday. No arrests have been made in the five slayings. Police say gang violence is an ongoing problem in the city. Gangs were blamed for 23 of the 25 homicides in Salinas last year, which broke the previous record high of 24 killings in 1994. In October, authorities launched an anti-gang effort called Operation Impact that involves the Monterey County Sheriff's Office and California Highway Patrol.

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Francisco Hernandez, 19, was charged with murder and attempted murder in the Sept. 19 shooting that killed Marco Casillas, 19, and wounded his 19-year-old girlfriend.suspected gang member has been arrested and charged in a shooting that killed a man and injured his girlfriend as the couple walked their dog in Oakland, authorities said today.The two were walking a dog on the 4000 block of Santa Rita Street when someone opened fire on them at about 10:45 p.m.The woman's mother realized that something was wrong when the dog came back to the house alone with blood on its fur, according to Casillas' family.Casillas and his girlfriend were found lying on the sidewalk. Casillas was pronounced dead at Highland Hospital in Oakland.Casillas had hoped to be a dental assistant and was working at an Alameda pizzeria, relatives said.A motive for the shooting was not known. Authorities said Hernandez is a gang member but that the victims were not.Hernandez was arrested Dec. 29 at an Oakland home and is scheduled to appear in Alameda County Superior Court on Feb. 2. He is being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin.

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Bone Thugs-n-Harmony rapper Bizzy Bone was reportedly robbed last week in California.
The Los Angeles Times blog reports that the Midwest MC was assaulted and choked by several men in his Universal Hilton hotel room before getting his jewelry stolen. Authorities believe an anti-gang worker is responsible for the crime that occurred on January 5, and have already the man, identified as Marlo “Bow Wow” Jones.
Jones works for Unity One – an anti-gang organization hired by the city to help keep the peace in the community. He is currently being held at the Parker Center Jail and his bail has been set at $1.1 million.

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Gang investigators arrested five people suspected of possessing weapons or illegal drugs, and contacted numerous suspected gang members during a special enforcement Friday, Santa Cruz police reported.The operation was in response to the recent increase in gang activity in the city, police said. In the most serious incident, a 22-year-old man was killed in a gang-related stabbing Jan. 2 on Soquel Avenue. Two teenagers, both suspected gang members, have been arrested and charged with murder.
Friday, police and county probation officers conducted probation searches, served arrest warrants and searched for suspected gang members downtown, in the beach area and in the lower Ocean Street area, according to police.On Pacific Avenue and Laurel Street, police arrested Ivan Quiroz Bastidas, 29, a documented gang member from Santa Cruz. Bastidas allegedly had a 22-caliber handgun, methamphetamine, a knife and drug paraphernalia in his vehicle, according to police. He was arrested on drug and weapons charges, and booked into County Jail on $25,000 bail.
Esteban Lopez, 18, of Santa Cruz was arrested on Chestnut Street on several drug charges. On lower Ocean Street, police arrested Todd Jones, 52, of Santa Cruz for an alleged probation violation and extensive narcotics violations.
Monica Victoria Mendoza of Cambell was also arrested on Ocean Street. Mendoza, 19, was arrested for a felony drug warrant and booked into County Jail on $60,000 bail,

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Giuseppe Setola, 38, who is accused of involvement in the shooting of six African immigrants and an Italian man in September, escaped via a tunnel beneath his home as the police stormed into his residence near the southern city of Naples. According to Sky-TG 24 news channel, the police arrested Setola's wife and seized computers, electronics material, and surveillance cameras at his home. This is not the first time that Setola has managed to evade justice. The police have been after Setola to carry out an investigation into the September shooting which has been blamed on the powerful Casalesi clan of the Camorra. Setola is believed to have close links to the group, which has been accused of murder, criminal association and extortion. The Casalesi clan, which in involved in drug trafficking and prostitution in the Caserta area, has also been accused of killing dozens over the past three decades.

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Police suspect there are a number of people living within the county who have links to Italian organised crime groups, some of which are currently under investigation for serious criminality including witness intimidation and money laundering. Detectives said the investigations led to the arrest of Chorley man Giuseppe Persico, 34 at Faro Airport, Portugal, on behalf of the Italian authorities for drug trafficking in October 2008. A police spokesperson said: “We are convinced that there are people in Lancashire who have knowledge about individuals that are linked to the Italian mafia. “These people could be involved in serious and organised crime at the highest level and I would ask anyone who knows who these people are, or has any information that could help with our inquires to contact us.

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Man was stabbed to death yesterday in an apparent gang attack, San Diego police said. Police identified the man as Francisco Nava, 24. The stabbing initially was reported as a shooting at 2:45 p.m. on Olivewood Terrace near Logan Avenue in Mountain View, said Sgt. David Jennings. Officers arrived a minute later and found a man with a stab wound lying near a sidewalk, homicide Lt. Kevin Rooney said.
Paramedics took Nava to a hospital. He was pronounced dead at 3:15 p.m.
Detectives determined that Nava and several friends were on Olivewood Terrace when suspected gang members yelled gang challenges at them. One in the group confronted Nava and stabbed him, witnesses told police. Police did not release a description of the assailant and said it was unclear whether he had run off, or had driven away.

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Twenty-one-year-old Joey Salazar was arrested last week on felony charges of willful injury, criminal gang participation and misdemeanor assault causing injury.Salazar and seven other alleged members of the Latin Kings street gang assaulted a man outside a Circle K gas station on Sept. 21. They allegedly told the victim he was in Latin King territory.Miguel Zamora and Steven Sterner are still being sought in connection with the assault.One man pleaded guilty last month to the same charges Salazar is facing. Three men in their twenties and a teenager are awaiting trial for the assault.

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Shortly after midnight last Saturday, gunfire erupted backstage during a hip-hop show at Chop Suey on Capitol Hill, leaving Joseph Ryan, aka 29-E, dead and two others hospitalized. According to eyewitness accounts, the gunman gained access to the backstage hallway when a performer responded to a knock at the outside door. At press time, two suspects were in police custody.Renee McMahon "Like a lot of my friends and family, I've stood in that hallway and opened [that door] dozens upon dozens of times," explains Larry Mizell Jr., MC for local hip-hop acts Cancer Rising, They Live, and Night Owls. "It's how the artists get in the venue, and rappers are always running late, so you gotta listen for that knock. It could've been any of us."Predictably, local news and culture message boards (including 206Proof, the one founded by Mizell himself) lit up instantly with fingers pointing in every direction. Whether blame was being aimed at Chop Suey, Big Kountry Entertainment (the show's outside promoter), the city's lack of attention to a purportedly growing gang-activity problem, or the music itself, grief quickly manifested itself as cries for culpability. Few viewed it as a failure of club security, but many theories abound when looking closer at the root of the tragedy.
"There's nothing else you could really do in that situation regarding the actual security setup," notes Neumos owner and talent buyer Steven Severin, a former employee of Chop Suey under different ownership."I worked at Chop Suey for four-plus years letting artists and promoters into that back door.That's where they need to be able to go in order to not have to walk through the crowds.I have opened that door hundreds of times, and there's never been one issue. It is a very unfortunate situation, to say the least, but I don't think security could have done much, as the gun didn't make it inside the venue." Funhouse owner and booking agent Brian Foss echoes Severin's assessment. "If someone banged on the back door and charged in my bar with guns blazing, there would be nothing I could do except duck," he says."From what I understand, recently there has been a rash of gang-related shootings in the [area near Chop Suey], and I think this was just part of that," says Glen Rinzler, production manager for Showbox at the Market. "I don't think the venue could have done anything different to prevent it." Rinzler was not the only member of the music community to express fears about a gang-violence connection, though many declined to go on the record about their concerns. When asked about the possibility of gang involvement in the shooting, Seattle Police Department spokesperson Mark Jamieson said, "It's far too early to draw any sort of conclusion without knowing what the motivation was...the good news is that we have several people in custody for this. We believe that they were targeting somebody, but it's way too soon to say that it was gang-related."

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Troy Coleman, 22,in custody on narcotics and firearms charges, was arraigned Wednesday on several charges, including conspiracy to commit murder, criminal attempt to commit murder and criminal use of a firearm.His brother, Tyshawn Coleman, 19, was arraigned on similar charges Monday in the same shooting. Tyshawn Coleman was already in prison awaiting trial on charges in a different shooting in May.
The Coleman brothers, both of whom police identified as leaders of the "AVE" gang, shot two members of rival gang Money Green/Bedrock on Albany Avenue on July 4, court records say.James Brown, 18, and Jakeem Tully, 15, were shot in retaliation for the fatal shooting of fellow AVE member Anthony Alexander, 21, that same night. Brown suffered several life-threatening wounds and is now confined to a wheelchair for life, court records say. Although Tully escaped with a minor wound, he was shot and killed about two weeks later not far away on Albany Avenue.Police have not identified the shooters in the deaths of Alexander and Tully.Alexander was killed on his 21st birthday while sitting in his car on Edgewood Street. Tully, a home-schooled student who was excited about turning 16 and getting his driver's license, was shot blocks from his home on Green Street.

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Police say it would be naiive to say there is are no MS-13 members in the upstate, but they have not heard of anyone other than a recent kidnapping suspect, Ielsin Fuentes Lemus claim affiliation. They say they have not seen any violent crimes directly related to that particular gang. Police say the public should not be scared and they do not believe there is a public threat in relation to this gang. In Spartanburg, there are three gangs that use the number 13, so investigators say it is often hard to tell which is which.Fuentes Lemus is the suspect in the kidnapping of a teenager who was held for ransom and then tossed from a car during a chase. He is wanted for kidnapping and armed robbery. The incident happened Tuesday at the El Mariachi Restaurant. The victim says a man put a gun up to him while he was getting into his Escalade.

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Split in the 'Moscow' gang operating in Olympic Gardens, St Andrew, has caused a deadly feud in the community. At least five persons have been killed in what police sources theorise are reprisal killings, as thugs associated with the 'Backroad' and 'Checkers' gangs have clashed. "It's killings and reprisals. the war is a result of a split in the Moscow Gang which is associated with Varma Road," Crime Chief for the St Andrew South police, Deputy Superintendent Michael Phipps In the latest bloodletting incident, three persons, including a pregnant woman and an 18-year-old man, were slain by gunmen on Varma road in the community. Dead are 25-year-old Antoinette Gooden, Romeo Worges, 32, both of Varma road and Peter Francis, 18, of Wellworth Avenue in Olympic Gardens. Investigators say about 2 a.m., armed thugs kicked open the door to a house and murdered the three. Investigators also say based on police intelligence, the thugs were in search of rivals whom they did not find, so they turned their wrath elsewhere. While the police say residents are tight-lipped about the situation, "Backroad man dem seh di Checkers man dem nuh waan help dem defend Moscow...A dat cause di split and di war," said one resident DSP Phipps said the police have heard of such reports but they are unable to confirm them as their investigations have not found such evidence. "Haggart, Reechie, Finey and Jeffery - our investigations have found these men to be ... of major interest to us," DSP Phipps noted. It is obvious that residents have feared for their safety since the clashes began. "See it deh, dem kill off di woman and she pregnant. Dem man ya nuh have no heart...Dem a war ova foolishness and dem nuh business who dem kill. Mi naw lie mi fraid," Deserine, a 25-year-old resident said. "Dem need fi stop it man, a new year now and people waan go bout dem business in peace. Wi haffi a lock up inna house early cause a dem. Wi want peace,"another resident said.
The police say they have increased their presence in the area in an effort to restore normalcy to the community.

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The four defendants, who range in age from 16 to 20 years old, were convicted in November of several charges in the attack. On April 16, 2007, one of them allegedly stood on the railroad tracks to slow an eastbound Amtrak Capital Corridor train in West Sacramento just before the tracks cross the Sacramento River. When the train slowed, two defendants starting pelting an engineer with rocks as he got off the train to clear the tracks, according to the Yolo County district attorney.Four alleged members of the Broderick Boys street gang face 13 to 15 years in prison at Friday afternoon's sentencing for the 2007 West Sacramento beating of an Amtrak engineer and conducto.The engineer and the men began fighting. The conductor then got involved by spraying a fire extinguisher to chase away the assailants. Before it was over, both the engineer and conductor were injured. The engineer was hurt most severely hurt, hit in the head with rocks, the fire extinguisher and a bottle of alcohol, according to prosecutors.Prosecutors say the fight was the culmination of a day of drinking and partying by the men. They say the group stole five cases of beer from the nearby Lighthouse Market and were drinking that beer near the tracks across the street when the train came along at 10:30 that night.
Paliton Nunes, 20; Austen Nunes, 19; and Orlando Ramos, 16, were all convicted on 11 felony counts, including attempted manslaughter, assault with deadly weapons and throwing objects at a train. Daniel Bonge, 19, was convicted of the same charges except for the attempted manslaughter charge.The four men were also convicted on a charge of belonging to a street gang. All are from West Sacramento and prosecutors say they belong to the Broderick Boys. A fifth defendant, Robert Reynolds, was acquitted on all charges.The Broderick Boys have sparked controversy for several years, with police and prosecutors attempting to impose a gang injunction limiting their activity in a zone of West Sacramento. Many residents dispute the Broderick Boys label, protesting the gang injunction as a civil rights violation. They say the term "Broderick Boys" no longer relates to a gang but rather is a long-established identity for people growing up in that section of the city.The four defendants have been in custody on no bail since their conviction. Sentencing is set for Friday afternoon at Yolo County Court in Woodland.

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Robert Mayberry, also known as "One-Eyed Kenny" was arrested near his girlfriend's house in Atlanta around 7 p.m. Wednesday night. Mayberry is the alleged leader of thee "Grimmie Gang,: which controlled the drug trade around Avondale for years. He is wanted by the ATF on federal charges of Distribution of Heroin. After following numerous leads, the U.S. Marshals had information that Mayberry was staying with a girlfriend on Marietta Drive. When deputies arrived they noticed Mayberry standing at an intersection and attempted to stop him. Mayberry ran off but was caught about a block away.Cincinnati Police have been cracking down on the "Grimmie Gang" over the past year. Eight members were convicted and sentenced last May for their gang activities after former members started breaking the code of silence and talking to police.There is no word yet on when, or if, Mayberry will be brought back to the Tri-State to face charges.

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