tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50787552012-01-26T00:22:12.614-08:00In The HatGangs, crime, cops and politics in Los Angeles. I welcome commentary by interested parties. Comments are moderated so don't waste my time net banging. All correspondence remains anonymous. Send to wallyfay@yahoo.com.Wallynoreply@blogger.comBlogger3111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-31005547553107555392011-04-16T10:24:00.000-07:002011-04-16T10:24:46.623-07:00GUEST LECTURER.
Every so often we get exchanges in the COMMENTS section that deserve a more prominent place on this blog. In the past, we've had priceless info from Tijuana Jailer and several others and I gave them the big platform. This is another one of those bits of info that cries out for a prominent place. The following is a response from Pepsi Man - don't ask, I don't know who he is - butWallynoreply@blogger.com55tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-54229382058426848172011-02-15T18:09:00.000-08:002011-02-15T18:09:35.445-08:00NEW BOOK FOR THE LIBRARY
Since dropping out of the Mexican Mafia, Rene Enriquez hasn't just quit the life. He's launched himself on a mission to help dismantle the organization to which he devoted his entire adult life. He's testified against his former brothers, collaborated on a book with LA TV journalist Chris Blatchford (The Black Hand), attended law enforcement conferences as a speaker and Wallynoreply@blogger.com89tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-65455601162123508702010-11-21T10:51:00.000-08:002010-11-21T10:51:38.766-08:00WHERE THE GUNS COME FROM.
The conventional wisdom is that the Mexican Cartels get their guns from the U.S. The usual culprits are gun shows, sleazy gun dealers who knowingly sell to "straw" buyers and, of course, guns stolen in the U.S. in the course of burglaries.
The usual number we hear is that 90% of the guns confiscated in Mexico can be traced back to the U.S. The truth is, that of all theWallynoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-23831532698363003152010-09-24T15:19:00.000-07:002010-09-24T15:19:17.750-07:00L.A. TIMES NOT SO SURE ON POT LEGALIZATION.
In an editorial yesterday, the L.A. Times came out against legalizing Cannabis - at least as the law is currently consituted in Prop. 19. The Times focused on two major points. One, is that Prop. 19 would leave regulation to individual counties and towns. The confusion that would follow is obvious; what's legal in L.A. County would not be legal in Wallynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-51169875187879728102010-09-23T18:24:00.000-07:002010-09-23T18:24:50.213-07:00L.A. SEES RECORD LOW HOMICIDE RATES.
According to the L.A. Times, the LAPD reports that Los Angeles is on track to record the lowest homicide rates in decades. Compared to 1992 when homicides reached 1,200 for the year, 2010 looks like it's on track to record somewhere around 300.
This is frankly astonishing. For one, it flies in the face of conventional wisdom that says a bad economic climate Wallynoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-28933556970356485112010-09-22T23:34:00.000-07:002010-09-22T23:34:30.066-07:00WHO WANTS POT LEGALIZED?
The issue legal pot seems to morph with every headline. Just when you think you've got a handle on it, something pops up from left field and forces the thinking person to re-evaluate his position or question the very premises on which that position was based.
When the issue first became public discourse, the players, advocates and opponents were fairly well established.Wallynoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-56826659533047661192010-09-11T13:31:00.000-07:002010-09-11T13:31:05.384-07:00AU CONTRAIRE, SAYS OBAMA.
She says "insurgency." He says "not so fast, Mrs. Secretary." Our last post articulated Hillary Clinton's position on the MEXTEL (our term for Mexican Drug Cartel) violence. She correctly called it an insurgency. Naturally, any accurate statement made with regard to anything in Mexico is met with a blowtorch of backlash and "how dare you?" posturing from the ruling Wallynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-12853452059264151082010-09-09T08:45:00.000-07:002010-09-09T08:45:06.052-07:00STATE DEPT. FINALLY GETS ON BOARD.
Today's LA TIMES delivers the earth shattering news that the criminal situation in Mexico is an "insurgency." This term comes from the lips of none other than the woman with her finger on the pulse of world affairs - Hilary Clinton. She finally came around to that startling conclusion almost four years after those words were uttered by this blog. I said as much Wallynoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-70266096440484500672009-11-17T10:18:00.000-08:002009-11-17T10:18:53.663-08:00ROLO FINDS U.S. JAIL SAFER THAN LIVING IN MEXICO.
After eleven years living and operating in Mexico, Rolando "Rolo" Ontiveros slipped back across the border in February and immediately started turning the heads of people who know him. It was only a matter of time before street intel would bring him to LE attention.
For those familiar with the Shady Detevis, Chuy Martinez, Stranger Turscak Wallynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-48020058407931259392009-11-17T09:43:00.000-08:002009-11-17T09:43:20.909-08:00CARTELS AND OTHER CRIMINAL ORGS SCORE A WIN.
The politicians in charge of our lives in Los Angeles handed every smuggler and dope dealer carte blanche to continue doing business. It's clear that the camel got his nose under the tent and slid his whole body into your sleeping bag.
What we heard yesterday was nothing that will impose any kind of control mechanism to determine where the cannabis Wallynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-62505956365731435822009-11-08T07:49:00.000-08:002009-11-10T16:08:13.923-08:00TWO MASSACRES. ONLY ONE MAKES THE NEWS.
The massacre at Fort Hood this week has made headlines around the world. As it should. Contrast this event, however, to the massacre of union leader Margarito Montes Parra and 14 family members and associates in Sonora, Mexico last week. The Parra event barely broke through the background news noise. The Times and some other big papers covered it but it Wallynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-64819633302019494942009-10-19T10:41:00.000-07:002009-10-19T20:21:42.191-07:00FEDS STIR THE MED POT.The USDOJ is releasing a three-page document that will clear up all the problems local governments are facing with the med pot clinics. The net result will be even more confusion and lack of specificity on exactly what constitutes legal and illegal production, transportation, distribution, possession, sales and use.And where there's confusion, there will be profit.Nobody Wallynoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-61173532139129496562009-10-15T08:52:00.000-07:002009-10-15T09:13:57.329-07:00AVENUES CAN'T STAY OUT OF THE NEWS.Yesterday ICE and the LAPD arrested nine members or associates of the Drew Street clique of Avenues on immigrant smuggling charges. The arrests took place on Avenue 34, in Holtville and Calexico. Clearly, the Guerrero faction of Drew Street doesn't limit its activities to dope and taxation. According to the ICE press release, this group was responsible for Wallynoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1633056795308404172009-10-09T21:34:00.000-07:002009-10-09T22:17:45.642-07:00I HATE TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO.It should be obvious by now to even my most rabid detractors that this blog does not shoot from the hip. Years ago when I reported that a campaign was afoot to drive blacks out of certain neighborhoods, I was blasted by all and sundry for being everything from an alarmist, to a nutbag, to (according to one former editor of a weekly rag) "having an agenda for inciting Wallynoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-5207759041745186802009-10-08T16:46:00.001-07:002009-10-08T18:27:58.936-07:00STEVE COOLEY'S BUZZ KILL.Well that didn't take long. According to the LA Times, LA District Attorney Steve Cooley just announced that every single medical marijuana store is breaking the law and is subject to prosecution. Obviously, this is going to drive Med Pot advocates insane. Just when they thought they'd won the fight, it turns out victory went to their head. They were a little too Wallynoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-69326178732288567522009-10-08T11:51:00.000-07:002009-10-08T12:28:08.628-07:00LINES BLURRING BETWEEN CARTELS, THE MEXICAN MAFIA AND STREET SOLDIERS.We might start calling them hybrids. Or maybe non-traditionals. Or maybe we can graft the two criminal orgs together and call the new entity a MEXTEL.What we're talking about here is a developing phenomenon that first showed up along the border and making its way into our local neighborhoods. Based on information from reliable Wallynoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-53758315194313690262009-10-05T07:05:00.000-07:002009-10-05T07:09:39.671-07:00LOS ANGELES GIVES DRUG GANGS HUNDREDS OF NEW OUTLETS.Now that the med pot experiment is well under way, it’s becoming clear that the current law has not done what it was intended to do. In some ways, it’s made the situation worse.For years we’ve been hearing from the pro-dopers that the key to reducing drug related violence and take the profit motive out of drug smuggling was – wait for it – Wallynoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-45282640610561899802009-09-24T09:45:00.000-07:002009-09-24T11:11:10.080-07:00AVENUES IN THE CROSS HAIRS. AGAIN.There's probably no other single neighborhood that's been hammered harder than Avenues. This week the US Attorney unsealed a 222-page indictment naming some 88 Avenues, Eme members, Associates and various camaradas for crimes ranging from drug dealing to murder.These are big time RICO charges that can put a lot of people away for a very long time. Avenues is no Wallynoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-49934679053238427602009-09-16T08:55:00.000-07:002009-09-16T09:23:37.580-07:00WHAT'S THE ROLLING STONE SMOKING?For those who keep up with such things, the recent issue of Rolling Stone Magazine has an article on the cartels written by Guy Lawson. He's listed on the masthead as a Contributing Editor.While there were some good things in the article, some of his assertions and conclusions were absolutely the product of bong hits.Here's a link to my rebuttal:http://Wallynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-21415765930978934252009-09-15T10:42:00.000-07:002009-09-15T11:19:04.923-07:00TONY V., THE MAYOR OF CHINATOWN.In a brilliantly researched piece for the LA Times, David Zahniser directed another blowtorch at Mayor Tony V's ethically challenged administration. This time the scandal involves a wind farm and a former aide to the mayor. Here's the link. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wind15-2009sep15,0,839175.storyThe usual suspects were named, the usual machinations Wallynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-13388132234865335152009-09-01T18:31:00.000-07:002009-09-01T19:30:27.751-07:00PROFILING WORKS.Based on past experience, you'd think that the administration and teaching staff at UC Berkeley would be blowing a gasket right about now. Two of their campus cops, both females, profiled the hell out of Philip Garrido and his two daughters when Garrido walked in to organize a lecture he wanted to inflict on the campus. The two cops said that the girls appeared "robotic" and Wallynoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-21427511434442761172009-08-11T11:26:00.000-07:002009-08-11T12:21:49.234-07:00THIS TIME WE'LL GET IT RIGHT. SERIOUSLY. WE MEAN IT.Once again politicians are reinforcing defeat. According to today's L.A. Daily News, Tony Cardenas and Maxine Waters announced a new bill (H.R. 3526) to "professionalize" gang intervention work and make an effort to make sure that taxpayer money isn't being skimmed, stolen or wasted. You can set your watch by these periodic announcements that "Wallynoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-50165621405259126082008-09-29T13:14:00.000-07:002008-09-29T13:24:29.931-07:00MENDOZA BOOK.Clearly there's interest out there for more information. I've gotten numerous emails inquiring on the availability of Mundo Mendoza's CD autobiography, "From Altar Boy to Hit Man." The only place I know for sure that has it is the following.Ken Whitley & AssociatesP.O. Box 2623 Corona, CA 92878-2623There's no phone number available but the cost is $22 per CD. That includes shipping. Wallynoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-12260212611509388712008-09-28T17:42:00.001-07:002008-09-28T20:13:12.529-07:00ENRIQUEZ BOOK A GREAT ADDITION.TV journalist Chris Blatchford's long awaited book on Rene Enriquez is finally out and it's an awesome read. Second only to Raymond Mendoza's CD autobiography, The Black Hand is the best look we've had so far into the workings of the mob, the vertical integration of the mob with street gangs, Eme and CDC politics and some insight on how the mob can play prison Wallynoreply@blogger.com90tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-17551170606159558502008-08-30T10:58:00.001-07:002008-08-30T13:01:49.588-07:00MEXICO OUT OF CONTROL.As if we needed any reminder that Mexico is about to achieve critical mass, here comes another story of multiple beheadings. Click on the link for the details.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4636533.eceThe Zs carved into the victims is the mark of the Zetas. Look it up if you're not familiar with that group. It's becoming clear that MexicoWallynoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-68225939169374404222008-08-17T10:55:00.000-07:002008-08-17T11:17:43.366-07:00KNOCK IT OFF, WHOEVER YOU ARE.I've been alerted that some assbite is trolling the web, leaving idiotic comments and linking back to this site in an effort to discredit me. Be advised it's not working. This person is laboring under the illusion that the rest of the world is as stupid and gullible as he or she is. I urge you to come out of that dark place where you reside, step into the light of Wallynoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-34401120399194119712008-08-06T19:15:00.000-07:002008-08-06T20:23:18.712-07:00ON THE RADIOIn case you missed it, yours truly was on the local air this afternoon on KPCC. The host was Patt Morrison and I was on with USA Tom O'Brien, head of the Central District of California. The ubiquitous Connie Rice joined in by phone for a short comment. The topic was the increasingly better lubricated cooperation between the DOJ and local coppers. It should be fairly obvious to even a Wallynoreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-69814089624300070132008-07-24T07:17:00.000-07:002008-07-24T08:16:28.831-07:00NORTENO DROPOUT KILLED IN TC.Robert "Huero" Gratton, the Norteno dropout at the center of a massive Federal RICO case against the NF was killed in a traffic collision on July 18, 2008. Diligent students of the subject will remember that the 44-year-old Gratton, a long time NF member, dropped out, flipped and testified against a legion of NF members and associates in what came to be known as Wallynoreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-4802550598422543992008-01-18T05:42:00.000-08:002008-01-18T05:57:00.852-08:00I NOW OFFICIALLY HAVE A STALKER.It appears someone using my names Wally Fay (screen) and Tony Rafael (print) is posting comments on the Mayor Sam website (possibly other places) and trying to make me look like a racist goon. I was just made aware of this and the person who runs that site has promised to delete all comments coming from anyone using those names. I guess you don't need to be as Wallynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-3024904000178528172007-12-06T10:05:00.000-08:002007-12-06T11:42:21.556-08:00YEAH, THIS IS TERRORISM.I've always been cautious about using the T word. And I'll still refrain from applying it to U.S. based street gangs and their associates in organized criminal enterprises. But what's happening south of the border absolutely qualifies as terrorism. The difference between us and them isn't subtle. Criminal gangs and organized groups in the U.S. generally speaking are not Wallynoreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-11314680221981628662007-11-28T08:32:00.000-08:002007-11-28T10:55:40.137-08:00YAGMAN GETS THREE YEARS.Stephen Yagman, the attorney who claimed he didn't know it was illegal to not pay taxes, got three years in a Federal prison and two years of supervised release once he serves the time. As his case proved, Yagman put his money and house in his girlfriend's name, claimed he was broke and then filed for bankruptcy. During the penalty phase, this paragon of morality and Wallynoreply@blogger.com71tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-43950505367751837222007-11-16T07:23:00.000-08:002007-11-16T08:07:12.408-08:00THE YEAR OF THE RICO.This year has to be some kind of record for Federal gang prosecutions. Following on the heels of the F13 and 18th Street indictments we now have a major MS-13 case dropping. The entity behind the MS-13 case is the Metropolitan Task on Violent Crime, a group we haven't seen officially credited with an investigation in a very long time. This was the same group, but clearly Wallynoreply@blogger.com88tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-38481103560064792782007-11-15T07:17:00.000-08:002007-11-15T08:03:28.640-08:00FRANKIE B. - 1947 - 2007.Legendary Emero Frankie "Chivo" Buelna, usually known simply as Frankie B has apparently died by the sword. It was all over Pomona from the minute it happened Tuesday night but we held off on posting it until it became official. He and another man, Enrique Sanchez were shot and killed in Characters Sports Bar on 1st Street in Pomona. Born on 9/29/1947, Buelna rose up Wallynoreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-78581344673659522352007-11-09T09:39:00.000-08:002007-11-09T09:52:24.928-08:00SOME F13 CONNECTIONS.If you've been reading the indictments filed on F13, the observant student will notice some interesting connections. The person named as AC, an unindicted co-conspirator turns out to be Arturo Castellanos, a Mero doing all day. Known variously as "Tablas" and sometimes "Spider," Castellanos is (was) a close associate of Tigger Salinas (Avenues), Salvador "Mon" Buenrostro (Wallynoreply@blogger.com59tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-55180937261545765932007-11-09T07:32:00.000-08:002007-11-09T08:38:34.721-08:00CAN YOU TRUST THE POLS WITH YOUR MONEY?It's ironic that former police chief and current council member Bernard Parks wants to divert that trash pickup tax money away from hiring more cops to providing other city services. When that tax was put before the citizens, we were told it was going directly to hire more cops for the most under-policed city in the country. Parks imperiously figures now Wallynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-73366874717151598822007-10-31T10:10:00.000-07:002007-10-31T10:23:54.914-07:00ORANGE COUNTY NEEDS SOME HOUSECLEANING.After reading all that's been released about Orange County's top law man, it appears that Sheriff Carona is well and truly busted. Even if half of what's been alleged turns out to be true Carona has no business being in charge of a police organization. The guy should resign immediately, take his lumps and turn the department over to someone less morally, Wallynoreply@blogger.com64tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-11530883212832263242007-10-29T01:20:00.000-07:002007-10-29T02:12:35.670-07:00DID HISTORY BEGIN THIS MORNING?The first documented gang in Los Angeles dates back to 1909 according to the people who keep track of these things. I'm not betting the farm on this, but I'm guessing the first gang intervention program followed not too long after that. So here we are almost 100 years later and the city is just now getting around to "defining" just what gang intervention is supposedWallynoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-17197111778956282472007-10-26T08:28:00.000-07:002007-10-26T08:38:10.786-07:00TVR GANGSTER CONVICTED.Timothy McGhee was convicted of homicide yesterday after years of sitting in County waiting for his trial. Variously know as "Huero" or "Eskimo," McGhee, a former Criminal Justice student at Cal Poly Pomona, was decribed as being something less than a traditional gangster and more of a spree or thrill killer. Unlike his former associate, the King of Drew Street who was all Wallynoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-34947694128485611802007-10-25T10:22:00.000-07:002007-10-25T11:44:42.769-07:00THEY'RE COMING THICK AND FAST.Last week, the US Attorney indicted a whole bunch of F13 operators. Today, a couple dozen CLCs got rolled up in another Federal beef.We haven't seen this level of local and Federal LE activity since the mid to late 1990s when three giant RICO cases blew through town like a freight train and rolled up dozens of Emeros, Associates, shot-callers, key holders, tax Wallynoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-3513654911979400052007-09-21T08:34:00.000-07:002007-09-21T09:59:35.810-07:00BACK FROM THE ROAD.Just to dispel some rumors, I haven't gone into PC, gotten whacked or retired to a Malibu mansion. I have, however, spent a lot of time doing radio, TV and print promotion for the book, most of it out of town. Believe it or not, this is my first full week back in the Fortress of Solitude since July 25 when the book hit the streets. Not that I'm complaining, but there's a Wallynoreply@blogger.com128tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-6909622937113468352007-07-26T08:03:00.000-07:002007-07-26T08:10:21.827-07:00RADIO ALERT.For those interested, Armstrong and Getty will have me on the air in about 15 minutes. Sorry for the late notice but that's life in the big city. I've been told they podcast so you can catch it online.At 12:40 Pacific time, WCCO in Minneapolis on The Jack Rice Show. I think they live stream and podcast as well.More to come.Wallynoreply@blogger.com54tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-81259860195047681542007-07-24T13:08:00.000-07:002007-07-24T13:33:49.966-07:00LONG TIME NO POST.As you can imagine, getting a book off the launch pad isn't something you can do on a part time basis. I've been going flat out for the three weeks and haven't had a minute to post.The book is hitting the stores as we speak while reviewers and media people have gotten early copies. For the most part, the response has been positive. More on that later on. The take from Wallynoreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-15103708176925837552007-06-22T08:47:00.000-07:002007-06-22T09:22:45.465-07:00HE'S FINALLY HERE.After decades of talking about it, the city finally has a gang -- what? Boss? Emperor? Overlord? Call him anything but Czar. According to Rev. Jeff Carr, a Czar is a guy who is forcibly retired in front of a firing squad. Can't fault him for the analogy. It'll be interesting to see how much horsepower he'll be given and what precisely will he do. At this point, nobody seems to Wallynoreply@blogger.com249tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-20080937810862009022007-06-08T08:18:00.000-07:002007-06-08T15:58:32.886-07:00OKAY SO WHAT IS IT?Tarso Luis Ramos, Director of Research of a group called Political Research Associates has recently taken me to task at newamericamedia.org for using the term "ethnic cleansing" to describe the scores of racially motivated attacks against Blacks committed by Hispanic gang members.The gist of Mr. Ramos' critique is that my analysis of the situation is colored by my "apparent Wallynoreply@blogger.com230tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-459825933077123692007-06-03T23:42:00.000-07:002007-06-03T23:46:13.792-07:00WORTH READINGHere's a link to one of the most revealing articles I've ever read about a dropout. It ran in today's Whittier Daily News and underscores few salient points about the generational nature of the gang culture and the seduction of false power. It's clear the writer, Sandy Mazza has been following this story for some time. Nice work.http://whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_6049497Wallynoreply@blogger.com94tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-84155737532627309402007-06-02T15:03:00.000-07:002007-06-02T16:14:26.253-07:00WEASEL WOBBLES AND FALLS.As a lot of cops have been warning for years, Hector "Weasel" Marroquin has finally been exposed as gaming the system and working both sides of the street. As LA Times and LA Weekly articles this week reported, Marroquin has been arrested in an ATF undercover buy operation. He allegedly sold full auto weapons and suppressors to an ATF agent at his Marrokings restaurant inWallynoreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-75172426510864496462007-05-16T08:27:00.000-07:002007-05-16T08:52:03.443-07:00BACK IN THE SADDLE.I know you've been wondering what hole swallowed me up. Contrary to speculation that I've been on a drunk or in WIT SEC, the truth is more prosaic. I've been hammering down the final details on the long-awaited book. Here's what the cover will look like. Look for it in bookstores around mid-July. If you absolutely can't wait, you can pre-order online at the usual places. But Wallynoreply@blogger.com207tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-76419543449655963002007-04-21T09:49:00.000-07:002007-04-21T10:23:10.800-07:00G-RIDE GOING UPSCALE.You know you're doing something right if your G-ride is a Mercedes. While going through some recent documents, we came across an incident in which a Reseda SS was busted in the act of tagging a wall by undercover West Valley cops. What surprised the cops was the twenty-something tagger's ride -- a three-year-old Mercedes 320 SUV. Very clean. Freshly detailed. And not stolen. Wallynoreply@blogger.com250tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-82609631265601664612007-04-17T07:33:00.000-07:002007-04-17T09:01:56.970-07:00TWO YEARS IN THE SHU AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT.If there's any doubt that the gangster mindset has become a bankable commodity, you don't need to look any further than the record business and the clothing industry. I won't mention the name, but there's a clothing line based in the greater LA area that markets what they call "authentic jailhouse street wear." The T-shirts, jackets and Wallynoreply@blogger.com67tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-62789367206093701532007-04-13T08:28:00.000-07:002007-04-13T09:42:34.851-07:00MAYBE WE NEED A CORRUPTION CZAR TOO.As if on cue, the LA WEEKLY and the LA TIMES published stories of local political corruption right after the issue was raised here in connection with gang cops and disclosing their personal finances. The Weekly story focuses on Bell Gardens Councilman Mario Beltran, his connection to the 740 Club's owner Ralph Verdugo and La Puente City Councilman John Solis. Wallynoreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-74451804848617515332007-04-11T09:00:00.000-07:002007-04-11T10:11:53.936-07:00WHO'S GOING TO BLINK FIRST?Gang cops are apparently showing no inclination to have their personal financial information open to public scrutiny. On the other side of the issue, the opposition also shows no indication that they'll abandon efforts to require that gang cops reveal their financial records. A number of veteran gang cops have already asked for and gotten reassignment and the rest are Wallynoreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-5245694463452981252007-03-30T19:38:00.000-07:002007-03-30T19:51:13.467-07:00PUBLIC SERVICE OPPORTUNITY.The message below is fairly typical of a lot of the comments that get bounced. It was always a policy to keep this blog from turning into a netbanging site and over time I rejected thousands of these. I thought I'd try an experiment and run this one.I'm assuming this commenter is genuine. If he isn't just yanking my crank, maybe somebody out there who's been there and Wallynoreply@blogger.com178tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-34695127697358160942007-03-30T09:40:00.000-07:002007-03-30T11:28:27.178-07:00ROCKY SHUTS DOWN ANOTHER ONE.Making good on his promise to dismantle local gang "headquarters" and dope emporiums, Rocky D. shut down a dope house in Pacoima yesterday and forced the owners to take down hardened and soft covers that were erected to prevent visual observation. The last one he took down on Drew Street seemed like a PR stunt and some of you wondered aloud if that take down was Wallynoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-75056237865719801702007-03-24T18:17:00.000-07:002007-03-24T19:27:06.761-07:00ANOTHER ONE FROM THE VAULT.In case anyone still has lingering illusions about the power projection out of the jails and into the streets, here's the first greenlight list ever uploaded to the web. It's quite old and most of the information is no longer valid, but you can get a sense of how these things sound. It's puzzling how after all the information made public and boatloads of evidence Wallynoreply@blogger.com148tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-89979678890021855352007-03-15T12:07:00.000-07:002007-03-15T22:15:56.815-07:00IT CUTS BOTH WAYS.So now it appears that gang cops have to produce their financial records if they want to stay on that assignment. The officers concerned are indignant because they feel it infringes on privacy rights and frankly makes them feel like the department and the city doesn't really trust them. On top of which, they're only allowed to stay on gang assignments for three years and then Wallynoreply@blogger.com255tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-61499597080866397672007-03-13T15:35:00.000-07:002007-03-13T15:44:57.487-07:00WELL, THAT WAS UGLY.As predicted, the freaks came out and demonstrated to the world how truly screwed we are. The language was bad enough, but the spelling was atrocious. It would be easy to blame the school system, but you can't educate a kid who doesn't even show up. And clearly a lot of the comments were from school dropouts and unfortunately, life dropouts. Apologies to all who had to endure Wallynoreply@blogger.com50tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-86237512735912470182007-03-09T10:53:00.000-08:002007-03-09T11:05:42.778-08:00COMMENT AMNESTY.Starting right now until the middle of next week, I'll be away from the computer. Therefore, I can't post or even moderate comments. But since I don't want to leave you voiceless or cause a spleen backup, I turned off the comment moderation. I know for sure this will turn the comments section into a freak show. So be prepared. Before I return next week, please put the funiture Wallynoreply@blogger.com265tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-86904944325518490812007-03-06T15:14:00.000-08:002007-03-06T17:07:13.971-08:00A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE LA MEDIA.Since I already had something in mind about this issue, I'll start off with a comment from one of our many anon. commenters. I wish you guys would invent some interesting handles so I can keep you straight in my head, but whatever. "To Wally,You used to tell us how the L.A. times did not cover gang news or racial motivated shootings but lately it seems they are Wallynoreply@blogger.com91tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-32249796490181771482007-03-05T14:37:00.000-08:002007-03-05T14:59:48.338-08:00SAM'S THE MAN.I have to publicly credit Sam Quinones at the LA Times for single-handedly re-orienting my attitude about the paper. In the previous post, I expressed some concern regarding Jill Leovy's take on the significance of the racial component to the homicide rate. While I agree that the racial aspect isn't "driving" the homicides to a huge degree, her opinion leaves one wondering what's Wallynoreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-44826559510505548222007-03-02T10:09:00.000-08:002007-03-02T11:43:57.827-08:00RACIAL KILLINGS NOT TOO BIG A DEAL.Jill Leovy, the LA Times crime reporter and homicide blogger, made what has to be one of the oddest observations I've ever read in our hometown paper of record. Her claim is that racial animosity is not driving the homicide rate up to any significant degree. Leovy made a calculation based on homicides in four LAPD Divisions - Shootin' Newton, Southwest, Wallynoreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-85455785604409698842007-02-28T12:05:00.000-08:002007-02-28T12:38:52.280-08:00CUDAHY IS NOT UNIQUE.Now that the cat's out of the bag on Cudahy, I guess it's time to elaborate on the dynamics as explained in the excellent article in the LA Weekly. We can thank the new editorial management at the Weekly for the straightforward delivery of facts without the usual navel gazing and spin. If you haven't read the piece, do it. To put it bluntly, Cudahy has been thoroughly Wallynoreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-9201921456897039012007-02-28T10:27:00.000-08:002007-02-28T11:22:23.001-08:00HIGHLAND PARK GETS AN INJUNCTION.The LA Times reports today that Highland Park (aka HLP) got slapped with a gang injunction. According to the article, this brings the total number of injunctions in the city to 50 and we can see how well that's been working. In its own way, Avenues has had an injunction against HLP (which stands for Helpless according to Avenues) for years. The difference is, Wallynoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-92169673806135239522007-02-22T15:43:00.000-08:002007-02-22T16:15:44.720-08:00ANOTHER ONE FROM THE VAULT.Due to popular demand for more pictures from the Fortress of Solitude here's one for your files. What we have here was taken in 1994, ancient history by some standards. The subject is Alex "Pee Wee" Aguirre standing on the balcony of a motel in La Mirada doing some counter-surveillance on the parking lot. In the background is the room where he and other carnales were Wallynoreply@blogger.com113tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-15903538434333091452007-02-18T08:47:00.000-08:002007-02-18T09:15:20.332-08:00FAIR WARNING.Some commenters are getting dangerously close to being banned. Healthy discusssion about ISSUES is always welcome, even if the opinion is over the top. I'm drawing the line at personal attacks. Some of you are walking the fine line and scrapping in the dirt. It's okay to disagree strongly with an opinion as long as you keep the comment above the personal level. Within those limits, Wallynoreply@blogger.com103tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-80605781172190568602007-02-16T09:47:00.000-08:002007-02-16T11:01:54.651-08:00HAZARD GRANDE BACK IN THE NEWS.Today's LA Times carries a story about the legendary Ramona Gardens Housing Project, also known historically as Big Hazard or Hazard Grande. It's your typical piece about the residents being stuck between a rock and a hard place - gangsters on one side and the cops on the other. What prompted the story was the recent death of Mauricio Cornejo, a resident of Ramona Wallynoreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-69788130037271391372007-02-15T09:44:00.000-08:002007-02-15T10:43:24.806-08:00THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG.It appears the LAPD is making good on its promise to bring down the hammer. Last week Chief Bratton and the Mayor released its list of the top eleven gangs targeted for suppression and a list of Most Wanted fugitives. Yesterday, they put teeth into the initiative by scooping up 110 suspects in the San Fernando Valley and arresting 64 of them on various charges. According to Wallynoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-15429663974169141382007-02-12T13:02:00.000-08:002007-02-12T12:45:02.807-08:00SHOULD WE BRING BACK THE CODE DUELLO?A round of interesting comments from some of the more thoughtful commenters set me off on a train of thought. The question bouncing back and forth addresses the issue of street shootings involving non-players and civilians. I was going to post some thoughts on the LA Times' recent addition of a Homicide Blog to its web page. This is a good idea that's been Wallynoreply@blogger.com59tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-87131955145578577422007-02-03T08:25:00.000-08:002007-02-03T08:58:21.503-08:00EXPORTING INMATES.It looks like nobody except the Governor wants to export CDC inmates to other states. Because of overcrowding and the threat of a Federal takeover of the State prison system, the quick solution seems to be sending inmates out of state to privately owned prisons. The activists like the Prison Law Office don't want it. And neither does the correction officer's union. It's rare Wallynoreply@blogger.com116tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1169856213281321672007-01-26T15:36:00.000-08:002007-01-30T14:25:44.030-08:00ROCKY KNOCKS ONE OUT.It looks like Rocky D. meant it. Today's LA Times carries a story about Rocky D. and the LAPD shutting down one of Drew Street's many dope retail and wholesale outlets. For years that particular street was a 24/7 open air drug bazaar. It's also a street that was a center of gravity for Avenues and a thorn in the side of Northeast. The station is just a few blocks away. The Wallynoreply@blogger.com162tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1169665312726112442007-01-24T10:45:00.000-08:002007-01-26T16:11:59.393-08:00HEADQUARTERS AND UNIFORMS?Sometimes, you just gotta wonder. In today's LA Times, Rocky Delgadillo says that the wants to put all students in LAUSD in uniforms and shut down the "headquarters" of the ten worst gangs in the city. I'm not sure how he defines the term "headquarters" but in the accepted definition of that word, neighborhoods don't have headquarters. Not sure where he gets his Wallynoreply@blogger.com51tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1169349995732914712007-01-20T19:22:00.000-08:002007-01-26T13:53:31.856-08:00NOT JUST NATIONAL NEWS.In answer to a comment, I'm assuming it's going to make national news because I already fielded several emails from the heartland as well as NYC media. The BBC and Swedish Broadcasting has contacted me as well. I can only surmise those people are interested as well and that means International news. That's all I know.Wallynoreply@blogger.com82tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1169257720138247902007-01-19T17:27:00.000-08:002007-01-23T13:16:29.150-08:00EASE UP.In reference to comments regarding eating cheese and walking that shadow line in the middle of the boulevard, the fact is I catch it from both sides. Two quick examples. I had a Detective 2 tell me I was figuratively performing an act on a guy from the other side of the street. Too friendly with the opposition, according to him. Then a week later, the older brother of a guy I was talking Wallynoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1169231507566913442007-01-19T08:37:00.000-08:002007-01-21T13:31:25.183-08:00HERE COMES THE BIG HAMMER.Oh boy, here it comes. In case you missed it, the suits and uniforms made their appearance on 204 yesterday after the "Truce" was signed by people who weren't fighting. The attendees included Mayor Tony V., Chief Bratton, Sheriff Baca, Janice Hahn and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller among others. When the head Fed shows up, you know the heat's on. The thrust of the press Wallynoreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1169167769282347602007-01-18T16:30:00.000-08:002007-01-30T00:50:31.973-08:00DUDE, WHERE'S MY TRUCE?The truce in Harbor Gateway is apparently a flop. The soldados from 204 who were supposed to show up this afternoon to sign a truce never made an appearance. Najee Ali never indicated who the other side to sign the truce was supposed to be. So the only people to sign the truce were people who weren't fighting to start with. In other words, civilians who weren't involved in Wallynoreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1169139689242976492007-01-18T08:46:00.000-08:002007-01-20T08:20:58.133-08:00DELGADILLO HAS DOUBTS.With all the concerned parties looking hard at Connie Rice's jumbo gang study and more or less mulling it over, Rocky Delgadillo apparently has some reservations. He doesn't want to create a new giant bureaucracy. It's a legitimate concern but it may be a premature concern until they figure out how to run it, where to put it, and how it will work. We wondered why Rocky Wallynoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1169010696823282552007-01-16T20:40:00.000-08:002007-01-19T23:33:18.603-08:00TRUCE ON 204th.There's been an interesting development in Harbor Gateway. After all the airtime and ink in the aftermath of the Cheryl Green homicide, Najee Ali has apparently brokered a truce between 204th Street and parties that to date have not been named. The representative from 204, according to the article in the Daily Breeze, is someone named Jonathan O'Gorman. The Breeze states he's a 16-Wallynoreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1168646621001209052007-01-12T15:29:00.000-08:002007-01-17T12:17:41.593-08:00THIS IS GETTING TO BE A HABIT.I've been asked this about a thousand times and I'll just get it over with so we can move on. Jim asks:Wallace, I have two questions, entirely out of genuine interest and not meant to critique my esteemed "pal". I thought that the inclusion of "Southern Soldiers" into your book's original title was sound on several fronts, but I amicably chided you on your decision Wallynoreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1168580959823326632007-01-11T20:37:00.000-08:002007-01-13T18:44:50.470-08:00YOU TALKIN' TO ME?When covering the topic of race violence, I don't use a bias filter. If it happens, or there's some news item related to it like the city's new "weighted matrix" gang strategy I'll talk about it. But as we all know, the race-biased violence in this city has, for the most part gone in one direction. When the three Hispanic civilians were machine gunned on Central by three male Wallynoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1168551299183825312007-01-11T13:27:00.000-08:002007-01-12T18:28:05.346-08:00COMMENT MONITORING WORKS!In response to a query from a commenter, I've only had to reject a handful of comments. It appears the loud mouths, bedwetters, cell soldiers and net bangers got the hint they're not welcome here. The quality of discourse and the level of thought you commenters have put into the effort has never been better. As a result, the hits have gone up, we're getting some old Wallynoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1168468934998291032007-01-10T13:14:00.000-08:002007-01-21T07:24:45.473-08:00WE GOT OUR ANSWER.As if making a direct response to our question in the previous post on how "targeted" versus "blanket" suppression would work, yesterday Chief Bratton and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo unveiled a new strategy for addressing gang violence. The plan is to create a matrix using weighted factors to identify the "worst" gangs in the city and then hit them with a brick. At first Wallynoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1167941198317434812007-01-04T10:34:00.000-08:002007-01-11T14:08:23.156-08:00TONY V. ASKS FOR FEDERAL MONEY.Today's LA TIMES has a report on LA Mayor Tony V's request to the US DOJ for Federal money and prosecutorial resources to fight LA's gang problem. Our mayor wants the DOJ to prosecute gangs on Federal crimes and focus harder on the Mara Salavatrucha, a gang that the Times calls, "a gang from El Salvador." This is all well and good but the MS (aka MS-13, dutiful Wallynoreply@blogger.com65tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1167710366334446822007-01-01T19:52:00.000-08:002007-01-04T13:32:31.503-08:00WE HAVE A WINNER!Actually we've got two winners. The first in with the correct answer was SOUTHERN GENT. He clocked in with his correct answer - Rafael Sanvodal, Jimmy Coppolla and Robert Salas - at 3:05 PM. But since MAD MEXICAN clocked in at 3:06 PM, it was close enough, and I was in a generous mood to give both of them a signed copy of the book. If you winners want to send me your mailing infoWallynoreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1167679915156366912007-01-01T10:50:00.000-08:002007-01-14T20:58:05.556-08:00NEW YEAR'S DAY PUZZLER.While going through the voluminous InTheHat secret vault deep in the Wally Fortress of Solitude, this ancient Polaroid popped up. Instead of revealing who the three individuals are, I'll turn this over to you all. First person to accurately name all three individuals gets a free autographed copy of the book when it hits the stores in July. All readers, including law Wallynoreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1167512338258961612006-12-30T11:36:00.000-08:002007-01-05T19:42:02.560-08:00ARE THE FEDS COMING TO THIS ONE?In today's LA TIMES, Sam Quinones has a follow up story on the murder of 14-year-old Cheryl Green, a black teenager shot by a 204 gangster a few weeks ago. It was apparent almost from the beginning that this was one of those murders that the media has, up to now, been reluctant to call by its rightful name -- ethnic cleansing. That seems to be changing as a result Wallynoreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1167346742484637092006-12-28T14:32:00.000-08:002007-01-15T03:01:27.850-08:00THE DANGER OF WEB RESEARCH.During a conversation with a curious civilian the other day he wondered if the membership of the Mexican Mafia was going up or down from the 30,000 members he read about. He was asked where he got this insanely inflated number since the actual membership numbers in the hundreds, not thousands or tens of thousands. He said he got it off Wikipedia on the net. A visit to Wallynoreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1167183525038992142006-12-26T17:31:00.000-08:002006-12-31T09:52:16.163-08:00COMMENTS ARE UP AGAIN.After consulting with people who know a lot more than I do about the net, the concensus of opinion seems to be that hands-on moderation is the only bulletproof solution to dealing with knuckleheads. So the comments are back up but the catch is I get to approve or reject them before they show up on the blog. That means a lot more work for me but there appears to be no easy Wallynoreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1166987573771766942006-12-24T09:35:00.000-08:002006-12-24T11:12:53.800-08:00NEWS OF THE WORLD.It's always interesting to see how other countries handle gangs and street violence. While going through some downloaded news stories this week, this interesting piece of information left me a little puzzled. Apparently Spain is starting to have a street gang problem as a result of immigration from Central and South America. This is their conclusion, not mine. Young people are Wallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1166652476587721892006-12-20T12:39:00.000-08:002006-12-20T14:07:56.606-08:00SANA GETS 14 YEARS.As a number of SOCAL papers reported this week, Peter "Sana" Ojeda was sentenced to 14 years on various RICO charges having to do with selling dope and collecting taxes. If he serves his entire sentence, he'll be 78 when he comes out. As a lifelong reputed Emero, Sana will no doubt be placed in the Pantheon of legendary brothers along with Huero Flores, Chy Cadena, Joe Morgan, Wallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1166245230954925892006-12-15T20:45:00.000-08:002006-12-15T21:00:30.966-08:00NO MORE COMMENTS.As you'll notice I've taken down the comments section. Frankly, I'm sick of the infantile nonsense that transpired there. I tried to create a forum for intelligent, or even semi-intelligent conversation. And for a long time it seemed to be working. Then the assholes showed up and drove out the smart ones. And the assholes just make everybody look bad. And I don't want to be Wallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1166212458833756142006-12-15T10:01:00.000-08:002006-12-15T11:54:18.996-08:00NEW FACES, SAME OLD STORY.The recent stories here and elsewhere about Hector Marroquin are a classic example of history repeating itself and our political leaders' inability, or maybe refusal, to learn from previous mistakes. Let's take the wayback machine to the year 1977. Then, as now, politicians were flush with cash and were looking for "novel" and "innovative" ways to curb gangsterism and Wallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1166068567233163312006-12-13T19:33:00.000-08:002006-12-13T20:21:49.803-08:00DON'T COMMENT UNDER MY NAME.Okay, it's time for a little housekeeping and some reminders of common courtesy and simple rules. First of all, don't sign Wally to any comments you post. Let me state this again. I never post comments in the Comments section. Ever. And I take great exception to anyone who signs my name. Veteranos who are regular readers already know this but new people that drop in Wallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1165691564706063222006-12-09T10:33:00.000-08:002006-12-09T11:17:20.976-08:00NO GUNS NO MORE?We've been holding off on this until we could develop some intel on the recent events involving Hector "NO GUNS" Marroquin. I'll quote Tom Hayden from his book "Street Wars" in describing Hector and some of his history. Hayden calls him, "An older veteran of gang wars who owned a roofing business and was deeply involved in a violence prevention group called NOGUNS." Hayden goes onWallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1161971135216308112006-10-27T09:53:00.000-07:002006-10-27T10:45:35.426-07:00FEDS CONVICT VINELAND BOYSWhen we first posted on the killing of officer Matt Pavelka and the ensuing GREENLIGHT that the Boys put on all cops, we knew there was going to be some serious fallout. Yesterday we saw the final result of that fallout in Federal court. Law enforcement sidestepped State prosecution and instead dropped the biggest bomb in the Federal arsenal -- RICO statutes. It looks Wallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1160768423639999982006-10-13T12:38:00.000-07:002006-10-13T13:18:30.470-07:00HE MEANT TO SHOOT HER.I wasn't going to post anything about this but with the new revelation regarding the man who shot 5-year-old Kaytlyn Avila goes right to an issue that needs to be addressed. I'm not going to mention this guy's name. According to what LAPD has determined after this guy shot up Cesar Avila, Kaytlyn's father, he turned around and was ready to leave. Then he changed his mind andWallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1158168909003261012006-09-13T09:59:00.000-07:002006-09-13T10:35:09.096-07:00CAN'T KEEP A GOOD EMERO DOWN.Here's a blast from the past. RUBEN "NITE OWL" CASTRO was one of the many Emeros rolled up in the three RICO cases that came out of the LOS ANGELES METROPOLITAN TASK FORCE ON VIOLENT CRIME. Students of history will remember that the Task Force, with the help of big time dropout ERNIE "CHUCO" CASTRO put away a lot of brothers and Associates in the mid and late 1990s. Wallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1154806077587213202006-08-05T10:43:00.000-07:002006-08-05T12:27:57.613-07:00MEET THE NEW CZAR, SAME AS THE OLD CZAR. AGAIN.Oh, boy. Here we go again. After a study by Connie Rice's nonprofit group, The Advancement Group, (yeah, she's cousin to the other Connie Rice that's running the State Department), our city leaders are once again dragging that tired old beast - a Gang Czar - out of the attic and hooking him (or her) up to Dr. Frankenstein's re-animation surgery tableWallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1154581929422227522006-08-02T22:06:00.000-07:002006-08-02T22:12:09.603-07:00CPA TAKES A HITLast week a CPA paid the ultimate price for his neighborhod. This could be payback for that Haskell who went down a month ago or it could be something even deeper. There's a persistent rumor that all of CPA has been greenlighted for failure to file their 1040s. More as things develop in the West SF Valley.Wallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1154368256053488952006-07-31T10:35:00.000-07:002006-07-31T10:51:03.663-07:00SCHOOL DISTRICT SMUTS UP VICTIMS.In the aftermath of the homicide and ADW on Avenue 40 last week, the LAUSD is smutting up the victims. The simple truth is that the victims were not gang members or associates. And they weren't a tagging crew. They were just casual high school kids. Word from the school they attended, however, tries to paint a somewhat darker picture of these kids. First, certain Wallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1153952624492569722006-07-26T15:19:00.000-07:002006-07-26T15:23:44.513-07:00BANS ARE NOW UP TO 12.A number of IPs have been banned but certain individuals keep popping up with the same log on name but different IPs. What's happening here is that some person (or maybe more than one person) continues to make the same idiotic comments from different machines. As the comments appear, they'll be deleted and the new IPs banned. Eventually, this knucklehead, or knuckleheads, Wallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078755.post-1153794400157108512006-07-24T18:57:00.000-07:002006-07-24T19:26:40.366-07:0043 STILL ACTIVE.More bad news coming out of Northeast. It hasn't made the papers or other media yet, as far as I know, but there was a shooting on Avenue 40 this weekend that resulted with one dead and one wounded. The way it pieces together is that a Lincoln High football team was having a party on Ave. 40. The team is composed of Blacks and Hispanics. While the party was in progress, it's Wallynoreply@blogger.com