"LA police take on Avenues street gang" by Associated Press | September 23, 2009
LOS ANGELES - A notorious street gang accused of terrorizing a neighborhood for years, killing a sheriff’s deputy, and murdering residents, was the target of a coordinated assault by hundreds of law enforcement officials yesterday.
About 1,100 local police working with nearly 300 federal agents carried out a string of predawn raids seeking key members of the Avenues street gang, a longstanding group that claims as its territory a swath of northeast Los Angeles.
A federal indictment detailing criminal activity spanning more than a decade named 88 suspects. Forty-six were arrested, 33 were already in custody, and nine remained at large, authorities said. The indictment reads like a laundry list of gang crime: the murder of rivals, prolific drug dealing, weapons violations, and money laundering....
I guess I would feel better about this if the government wasn't up to its neck in the drug trade.
