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L.A. Sheriff's Office: Suspected ecstacy found in T.I.'s car - Atlanta Journal Constitution

and his new wife after they were stopped on a Hollywood Street when they made an illegal U-turn ... supposed to return to Atlanta to meet his federal probation officer and possibly the judge who agreed to his unusual ...

Counterfeit check rings rampant, police say - msnbc.com

... Atlanta office. MS-13 originated in Los Angeles in the 1980s and now is an international operation, considered by law enforcement officials to be one of the most violent and deadly gangs ... across the street ...

Escaped murder suspect trades gun for NASCAR tickets - Valdosta Daily Times

... Atlanta ... gangs to top cop: You’re not playing fair Calling the Chicago police chief’s ultimatum to stop resorting to violence a waste of time, current and former members of some of the city’s most ...

Reputed Mexican drug lord was once a Texan - St. Petersburg Times

the earliest dating back to 1998 and the most recent announced in June in Atlanta, for trucking in tons of cocaine ... said Valdez maintained ties to drug gangs operating in the United States and Central and South ...

AP News in Brief - AP - msnbc.com

testified that the Wall Street titan could have been rescued in the fall ... that the department should instead be adding more officers on the streets and that gangs won't take the message seriously. "What are we ...

Brazil's Rio Wants Tourists Visiting Slums - WGCL

... Santa Marta that have been cleared of the violent drug gangs that have long made Rio's crowded hillsides famously dangerous. Slum residents will be trained to work as tourist guides, and street signs in English ...

72 Bodies Found on Ranch in Rural Mexico - MyFox Atlanta

Wall Street Journal) - Mexico's increasingly violent war on organized ... 2006 and declared an all-out battle against powerful drug trafficking gangs.

Gunmen Invade Luxury Hotel In Rio De Janeiro - WGCL

which lay on the street partially covered by black plastic sheeting ... and in the past year started an aggressive program of invading slums where heavily armed drug gangs hold sway, driving them out and creating ...

Lowry: Gun culture and those it leaves behind - NorthJersey.com

that I had to buy a gun in order to survive on the street. Certainly, there are many salient points to be taken from the two ... from gangs to drugs. Still, the prevalence of guns is the game-changer, the difference,

Mexico captures reported drug lord 'The Barbie' - Star News Online

District Court in Atlanta with distributing thousands of pounds of cocaine from Mexico ... one of the world's most powerful drug trafficking gangs. Valdez was born in the border city of Laredo, Texas, and belonged to ...

Resolved Question: Visiting Compton California?

Does anyone here currently reside in or has visited Compton, California? I ask this because I have a few relatives that live out there and I have an airline flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles this upcoming Monday. And from what I have been hearing of that area, I'm more than nervous as the date of my departure comes nearer. Is Compton really as bad as the media portrays it? I have never been there but from what I have seen of various pictures and such, it looks like an ordinary suburb, much like where I come from so should I have anything to worry about? Is there a good chance I might become another statistic of violence out there or not? It also seems like most of my clothes I have packed are blue, red, and black in color and those are gang colors which has me a little on edge. Will I be safe if I go out at night or should I just stay in at all times during the night? Would I be better off just cancelling my trip altogether or just get a backbone and go out there? Coming from Georgia, I don't think I have that much street smarts so what do you think I should do?Thanks so much DJ and Obvious for the fantastic answers and quick responses to my question. I can all but tell you that the butterflies in my stomach and the queasy feeling I had are all but gone now. The particular area in Compton I will be staying at is off West Raymond Street and where they live is east of the Compton/Woodley airport. It definitely doesnt look like the worst neighborhood I have been to, according to Google Maps and I'm not a big fan of bandanas anyways (never wore one in my lifetime, lol) I was kind of disappointed I can't wear all of the same color at once, I guess dressing up in all blue and looking like a smurf is out. But, thanks again, I'm much obligied and if you could shed anymore light on the topic, I'm truly grateful. I wish you best of luck to you and yours. more

Resolved Question: Is it legal for me to carry a concealed knife strapped to my leg?

I live in Atlanta, Georgia. I have to take the MARTA train/bus system to get to and from work, and my job is in a really bad area of town. I'm also in an area where there aren't exactly a lot of people of my same "race." That shouldn't matter, but they use that as a reason to pick at people, since it's basically a ghetto. Is it illegal for me to wear a knife (in one of those sheath straps, of course) strapped to my leg? It would be about 4-5 inches in length and a fix straight blade. For personal protection of course. I don't go looking for trouble, but I sure live in an area where it brews every day and I like to get back home safely. A while back, for instance, a neighbor that used to live right next door to us got the utter crap beat out of him by what was apparently about 5 people that jumped on him when he was walking back home from work (apparently after having gotten off from the bus and just walked down the street the rest of the way). We have a lot of "packs" that run around...teenagers and guys in their 20's who think they are a "gang" and basically try to hurt anyone they can, steal anything they can, etc. If it is illegal, is there a way to make it legal? I've never heard of a "concealed carry permit" for a large knife. Does such a thing exist? Note that I do not own the said knife at the time, either. I was thinking of ordering it from a place like Brigade Quartermasters.Also, just as a scenario... If it is illegal and I had it anyway, what kind of problems would I have if I had to use it in a situation where it was plainly self-defense? How would that turn out?Note also that I have a completely clean record, so that's not an issue...and hopefully I'd never have to use it anyway. more

Resolved Question: Why are cops and judges in the south so soft on crime?

In Mississippi, I literally saw groups of teenagers "grinding" (selling drugs) only a few blocks from courthouses or police stations. In Atlanta, Mexican gangs are able to run a whole network of safehouses for their meth distribution systems. Child whores are openly pimped by people who do not fear the cops at all. In Birmingham, Alabama, there is a huge amount of grinding AND prostitution being openly done on well-known streetcorners. Louisiana has the highest murder rate of any state in America, and you can get away with murder there very easily. You can openly walk down the street in New Orleans or Baton Rouge selling drugs, with your illegally-carried firearm hanging off your pants, and the cops just let it happen. Why is the south, in general, so incredibly soft on crime? Why don't the police just swoop down and round up everyone who is "grinding" or carrying illegally or pimping children? Why is so much illegality allowed to go unpunished all across the south?Actually, Chicago's murder rate is much lower than many cities in the south like Birmingham or Jackson, and New Orleans is much higher than Detroit. more

Resolved Question: A question for the English- gangs in the UK?

A friend of mine recently returned from a two year long stay in England, where under a work permit she held down a job. She said that she would hear co-workers and neighbors constantly complain about their fear and annoyance with young gangs in the streets and their violence. And personally, she said she would laugh to herself. She was born in Atlanta and lived in places like South Central growing up and said that these kids in the UK who thought that they were so bad ass, she just wanted to dump them in Atlanta or South Central and watch them be eaten alive. So my question, are the gangs in the UK kind of a joke really and pose no real threat?? She said she was followed once by a young man who demanded her purse but the second he opened his mouth she couldn't take him seriously. She said the english are docile tea drinkers and should be thought of as so. She really is very intelligent and worldly, but maybe slightly disliking of the english so I didn't know if her opinion was the best I should take. I want to visit england, but don't if gang violence is that bad. more

Resolved Question: Waht do you think of latest Immigration raids result in arrests of Rome?

Several people living in Dalton, Chatsworth and Rome have been arrested and put on Immigration and Customs Enforcement holds for deportation, officials said. The arrests were made with the help of the Conasauga Safe Streets Task Force, said Maj. John Gibson with the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office, and all are in the Whitfield County Jail awaiting deportation. “This was actually a federal operation, the rounding up of illegals here and then shipping them back out,” said Gibson. Steve Peluso of the Dalton ICE office said a Detention Removal Unit that deals with fugitives out of the Atlanta ICE office made the arrests. “We’ve had a fugitive operations team in the area, arresting folks with final orders of removal,” said Temple Black, a spokesman for the Detention Removal Unit. Those arrested by the team have been ordered to leave the country by an immigration judge but have failed to comply, according to a news release Black sent out. Black would not give specifics as to why each of the 10 were arrested in northwest Georgia. The release said fugitive operations teams “give top priority to cases involving aliens who pose a threat to national security and community safety, including members of transnational street gangs, child sex offenders and aliens with prior convictions for violent crimes.” Arrested were: Pedro Francisco Alonzo, 55, 1104 Walston St., Apt. 106, Dalton, a native of Guatemala Aracely Canales, 36, 703 Hampton Court, Apt. 16, Dalton (El Salvador) Francisco Javier Hurtado-Lazarin, 31, 207 W. Long St., Dalton (Mexico) Miguel Monzon, 514 Burnett Ferry Road, Rome (Guatemala) Eliseo Perez Ramirez, 2190 Leonard Bridge Road, Chatsworth (Guatemala) Alfonso Torres, 505 Willowdale Road, Dalton (original country unknown) David Rey Sanchez Torres, 1116 Willowdale Road, Dalton (Mexico) Maximiliano Hernandez Alvarado, 47, of Old Grade Road, Apt. 1, in Dalton, formerly of El Salvador Angel Santizo-Perez, 22, of 2048 Mimosa St. in Dalton (El Salvador) Mauricio Perez-Vincentes, 32, of 514 Burnett Ferry Road in Rome (Guatemala) The Conasauga Safe Streets Task Force consists of agents from the FBI and ICE and officers from the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office, Dalton Police Department and Calhoun Police Department. http://rn-t.com/bookmark/2777023 In other news The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors likely will vote late Wednesday to give Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio $1.4 million in state money to use for illegal immigration cases.http://phoenix.newstwit.me/?p=831 Hows that investigation against Sheriff Joe Arpaio going the FEDS _LOL give him money LOL JOE Must be doing it alright more

Resolved Question: California has foodlines operating for unemployed, why doesn't other states have foodlines?

The metro areas of many states need foodlines. I live in a cheap apartment complex in DFW metro and see some people hunting squirrels and pigeons to feed their kids. My cousin in Atlanta says it is terrible in HotLanta, large gangs of people have staked out certain dumpsters behind food stores and other food-related institutions. You would never know what was going on by viewing mainstream media. The truth becomes clear at night in the streets and allys of the metro areas. There is a web blog that shows which states are running out of unemployment funds. All the unemployment money distributed in California is borrowed, Texas will not be able to hold out for much longer. South Carolina and California seem to have the most unemployment and don't have anything but federal bailout money for the unemployed. Mainstream media is lying propaganda industry. It is later than you think. No single-payer health insurance means millions will beginning dying next year. Max Bauchus and his ilk may not deliver the final solution for the elderly and poor, but they are the root cause. The AMA is the modern equivalent of Dr. Joseph Mengeles, a great physician and scientists to some, a demon from hell to others. more

Resolved Question: Why are Latino gangs allowed to run rampant in Houston how do Latino's draw strength from illegals what gives?

WASHINGTON — The federal government's top immigration enforcement officer on Wednesday released a report that showed Houston has fallen short in a nationwide crackdown on violent, predominantly Latino street gangs that draw strength from undocumented immigrants. Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city, accounted for just 71 of the 1,759 arrests in the roundup in 53 cities over the past four months, according to the report provided by Julie L. Myers, the assistant secretary of homeland security in charge of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE. Myers said the reluctance of police departments in cities such as Houston and Phoenix to fully cooperate had forced federal immigration authorities to negotiate narrow, targeted enforcement efforts. "We have had certain instances where the cooperation has not been as full as we'd like," Myers told a news conference where she unveiled the latest results of the Bush administration's long-running campaign against transnational street gangs such as MS-13, which operates in the United States, Mexico and Central America. "It's definitely a problem for us if local law enforcement are encouraged not to cooperate with ICE or not to work with ICE even when we're talking about known gang members who may have committed very, very serious crimes," Myers said. Myers declined to specify cases where Houston law officers failed to cooperate fully with federal immigration agents in the hard-hitting, federal-state-local enforcement operation dubbed Operation Community Shield. Houston's arrest count trailed seven other cities nationwide that participated in the gang crackdown, including cities with smaller populations such as Boston, Atlanta, San Diego and Dallas. The number of arrests in Houston rivaled the 70 tallied in Tampa, Fla., the nation's 56th most-populous city. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6035002.html more

Resolved Question: The young and the restless soap tv. back stage drama with victoria rowell.?

What do you think about ex-Dru interview her the article and tell me what do you think about michelle stafford spitting in dru face to me that was disgusting. From her unforgettable debut in 1990 as Drucilla Barber, the street smart niece of Mamie the Abbott maid on The Young and the Restless, through today as a world-recognized advocate for foster children and a New York Times Best Selling author, few actresses in the history of daytime television have made the kind of impact of Victoria Rowell. Who better then than Rowell to help Daytime Confidential celebrate our 300th episode? Rowell speaks to Luke and Jamey from Atlanta, GA, where she is busy doing press for her hugely successful memoir The Women Who Raised Me, as well as writing her juicy first novel–Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva. Rowell talks about the experience of being out on the road for the past 17 months "pressing flesh" with the droves of fans who have adored watching her on the big (Distinguished Gentlemen, Eve's Bayou) and small screen (Y&R, Diagnosis Murder) for the past 25 years. She talks passionately about her work with foster children via the foundation she started almost 20 years ago, the Rowell Foster Children's Positive Plan (RFCPP). She elaborates on how her other passion, ballet, helped her carve a niche for herself in the world as a 17-year-old girl, fresh from the foster care system and why the RFCPP strongly utilizes the arts to teach its students discipline. Rowell then provides a revealing and sometimes shocking glimpse into her time on The Young and the Restless, where she rose to fame as the insurmountable Dru. She remembers how it felt to work with the legendary Bill Bell, whom she shares she was as "thick as thieves" with. She tells how the daytime pioneer allowed her to help shape many storylines for the Barber-Winters family over the years, including Dru's ballet storyline, the Congressionally-recognized foster care storyline which helped win Bryton McClure (Devon) the Emmy, and how that spirit of collaboration and trust died with Bell. She reveals how it feels to have never won the Emmy herself (she was nominated twice and boasts 11 NAACP Image Awards) and why she feels a "gang mentality" exists among much of the cast of daytime's number one show in terms of Emmy voting. She tells how on set popularity is measured above actual talent when it comes to making the all-important list of pre-nominees. Rowell goes on to respond to remarks made by former Y&R costar Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott) in an interview with TV Guide Canada's Nelson Branco. Rowell reveals just why she feels Bergman is absolutely right, she wasn't "playing with a full deck", but, not in terms of her sanity, in terms of onset equality. She talks about what it was like working opposite Michelle Stafford (Phyllis Newman) and why an onset violation resulted in Sony Pictures Studios (which co-owns the CBS soap with Bell Dramatic Serial Company) having to get involved to facilitate an apology. She answers a Daytime Confidential reader's question about why Lily (Christel Khalil) doesn't seem to have her mother's spirit and responds to questions about when and if she will ever return to Y&R. It's only fitting that this, our 300th episode, is Daytime Confidential's most revealing, poignant, jaw-dropping, interview ever. go to this site to listen to victoria rowell interview. http://www.pupuplatters.com/pupuplayer/pro/pupuplayer_pro.php?id=289 more

Resolved Question: NFL steps up monitoring of players for gang signs. Why would an NFL player use gang signs in the first place?

7 hours, 59 minutes ago Buzz Up PrintNEW YORK (AP)—The NFL is stepping up its monitoring of on-field player activities to ensure that no one is flashing the hand signals of street gangs. The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that the league had hired experts to look at game tapes and identify players or team officials who might be using suspected gang signals. Violators would be warned and disciplined if the episodes recurred. League officials said Tuesday that avoiding gang-related activities has long been stressed. They said the scrutiny was intensified after the shooting death of Denver cornerback Darrent Williams in 2007 after Williams was involved in a dispute with known gang members. Anti-gang information is included in orientation literature and stressed in the annual mandatory league meeting for rookies. The NFL took further notice after Paul Pierce of the NBA’s Boston Celtics was fined $25,000 in April for what the league said was a “menacing gesture” toward the Atlanta Hawks’ bench. “I 100 percent do not in any way promote gang violence or anything close to it.” Pierce said in a statement. “I am sorry if it was misinterpreted that way at Saturday’s game.” The Times said that was the precipitating incident for the NFL. “We were always suspicious that might be happening,” it quoted Mike Pereira, the NFL’s vice president of officiating, as saying of gang-related signals. “But the Paul Pierce thing is what brought it to light. When he was fined … that’s when we said we need to take a look at it and see if we need to be aware of it.” Most senior NFL officials were at a league outing Tuesday and could not immediately be reached for comment. more

Resolved Question: What do you think As immigration enforcement takes hold, jobs begin to open up to less-skilled Americans ?

If this is to long skip it. Immigration hawks have been on a winning streak lately. An unprecedented surge of public outrage at the prospect of amnesty for illegal immigrants led to the defeat in June of the Senate immigration bill and the probable end of President Bush's dream for comprehensive immigration reform. And that was merely the latest in a series of victories for supporters of tighter controls, including the Real ID Act of 2005, the Secure Fence Act of 2006, proliferating enforcement efforts at the state and local levels and a new package of modest but meaningful enforcement measures announced last month by the Department of Homeland Security. What of the results? Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told The Times that "there will be some unhappy consequences for the economy out of doing this." While the enforcement climate is still too new to show results in government data one way or the other, Chertoff's prediction doesn't appear to be playing out. On the contrary, there is extensive anecdotal evidence that enforcement is actually having its desired effects: More illegal aliens are going home, leading to improved conditions for American workers and communities. The first consequence of stepped-up enforcement is attrition of the illegal population -- a steady decrease in the total number of illegal aliens as more people give up and go home. Attrition is the real alternative to amnesty, and we're seeing it work. The Arizona Republic ran a story last month explaining how migrants were leaving the state in anticipation of tough new immigration rules. Public radio station WBUR in Boston reported that "in the midst of the debate about immigrants coming to America, something unusual is happening in Massachusetts: Brazilian immigrants are quietly packing up and leaving." And the Chicago Tribune, reporting on the Pennsylvania town at the forefront of the resistance to illegal immigration, has written that "over the summer, when Hazleton officials created the nation's first ordinance aimed at driving away undocumented residents, thousands of people apparently packed up and left." Far from having "unhappy consequences," these developments are improving the economic bargaining power of less-skilled American workers. The Rocky Mountain News reported that in Greeley, Colo., "the line of applicants hoping to fill jobs vacated by undocumented workers taken away by immigration agents at the Swift & Co. meat-processing plant . . . was out the door." New England Cable News reported that only after a raid on a plant making leather goods for the military in New Bedford, Mass., were Americans and legal immigrants able to get hired. As one new employee said of the raid: "In a way, you know, it's sad, and then in a way it's good because at least it gives people that were not employed for so many years . . . a break to be able to work and support their families." When illegal aliens were removed from a Crider Poultry plant in Stillmore, Ga., the Atlanta Journal Constitution and the Wall Street Journal documented the benefits to local workers. The plant raised wages significantly, began offering free shuttles from nearby towns and provided free rooms in a company-owned dormitory. For the first time, Crider sought applicants from the state unemployment office and began hiring probationers and men from a local homeless mission. And, as the Journal noted, "for the first time since significant numbers of Latinos began arriving in Stillmore in the late 1990s, the plant's processing lines were made up predominantly of African Americans." Better enforcement doesn't result only in economic improvements. While there is an ongoing scholarly debate about the overall crime rates of immigrants versus the native-born, there's no doubt that tougher enforcement has had a notable effect on gang activity. In an upcoming study, my Center for Immigration Studies reports that using immigration law against gangs has helped bring about a 39% drop in gang activity in the Washington suburb of Fairfax County, and Dallas police report a 20% drop in the murder rate as a result of the same initiative. Of course, the consequence of uncontrolled immigration that most ordinary Americans see is what political scientist Peter Skerry calls "social disorder." Hazleton offers a good example: While cleaning graffiti from her building, a local locksmith told the Tribune that "about the same time the ordinance passed, the whole tone of the street changed. Virtually overnight, it was a totally different place." As recent enforcement victories are sustained and expanded, we can begin to document the benefits in other areas: less stress on hospital emergency rooms, less-crowded classrooms, slower growth in government social spending. But the results we've seen so far are clear: We can get illegal aliens to return home, and doing so will improve conditions in American communities. Why didn't we start doing this a long time ago? Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that supports tighter controls on immigration. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-krikorian24sep24,0,6872271.story?coll=la-opinion-center more

Resolved Question: Can anyone give me information on the "Brown Side Locos" street gang operating in greater Atlanta?

Resolved Question: What Atlanta area street gang leaves the mark: "A.B.M. 220"?

Punks around here have been spray-painting it on walls and street signs. more

Resolved Question: Yes there are vampires. Atlanta Georgia is the most vampire infested city in America. Maybe in the world?

Except for London of course. The vampires of Atlanta almost have the streets clean of the homeless and vagrant's easy pray. They are starting on the street gangs now. It's about time something was done about those vicious little punks, Well the Vampires are taking care of them now. You know you can't kill a vampire with a bullet? Vampires just laugh at them little street punks with their guns. Hisssszzzzzzz more

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