Eight charged in targeted shootings during Metro's deadly drug war

Eight charged in targeted shootings during Metro's deadly drug war: "Police have issued Canadawide warrants for United Nations gang boss Conor D' Monte and purported hitman Cory Vallee after a major development Monday in one of the biggest gang investigations in B.C. history.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team announced that eight men linked to the notorious UN gang -- including D'Monte and Vallee -- have now been charged in connection with targeted gangland slayings in 2008 and 2009, one involving an innocent stereo installer.

The murders of Jonathan Barber on May 9, 2008, and Kevin LeClair on Feb. 6, 2009, were two of more than a dozen slayings of gangsters, associates, or innocents caught in the crossfire of a bloody gang war between the UN gang, led by Clay Roueche, and the rival Red Scorpions, led by the Bacon brothers of Abbotsford.

And now after two years of investigation by IHIT and other law enforcement agencies, 14 members of both the UN and RS are before the courts in separate, unprecedented murder prosecutions."

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Ottawa bomb suspect denies Hells link | Canada | News | Toronto Sun

Ottawa bomb suspect denies Hells link | Canada | News | Toronto Sun: "The man stopped by police in downtown Ottawa with a bomb in the car says he's no Hells Angel.

Chad Baillargeon said from jail Friday his life - and the lives of his ex-wife and sons - are in jeopardy because of published reports tying him to the notorious Hells Angels motorcycle crime organization.

Friday night, Baillargeon called QMI Agency to flatly deny he was a member, saying while he's made mistakes in his life, one of them wasn't joining the Angels.

Baillargeon, 35, was arrested Jan. 4 after being pulled over in a Glebe traffic stop in downtown Ottawa. He was brought up on five weapons charges Thursday after a brief court appearance on two unrelated weapons charges.

Baillargeon said he's being kept in segregation from the rest of the inmates at the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre for his safety because of the Hells claims that have appeared in the media.

'I'm the guy sitting in here right now and I just want to know who's saying this about me,' Baillargeon demanded."

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P.G. police investigate disputes between crews in homicides | Washington Examiner

P.G. police investigate disputes between crews in homicides | Washington Examiner: "Prince George's County police are investigating whether disputes between neighborhood crews have caused the spike in homicides this year.
Drugs have been a common theme in most of the nine killings in the first nine days of the year, Prince George's police spokesman Maj. Andy Ellis said, and police are investigating whether 'ongoing disputes between different crews in the county that occasionally flare up' could be contributing to the deaths. But Ellis added there have been no 'strong indications' that gang violence or turf wars are to blame for the spike.

Most victims in the nine incidents have been black males. Most include a 'drug nexus' or personal dispute between the suspect and victim, and most have occurred inside the Capital Beltway. Most of the killings do not appear related."

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6 teens on trial for gang killing - UPI.com

6 teens on trial for gang killing - UPI.com: "Six teenagers attacked a 16-year-old boy in a London park and then left him to bleed to death as they escaped by bus, a prosecutor said Thursday.

The teens are on trial in London's Old Bailey, charged with killing Nicholas Pearton, the Daily Mail reported.

Pearton was seen 'running for his life' before one of his attackers stabbed him in the back, reaching his heart, the prosecuting lawyer, Edward Brown, told the jury. Brown said security cameras on a bus captured the defendants shaking hands and counting heads.

One of the alleged attackers was only 14 at the time. Several of them were wearing their school blazers and ties.

Brown said Pearton went to Home Park in southwest London because he had heard his friends were having a fight with members of a rival gang. Brown said the victim's friends disappeared, leaving him to face the other boys lone."

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Three men sentenced for 2006 gang-related killing - NorthJersey.com

Three men sentenced for 2006 gang-related killing - NorthJersey.com: "Three reputed Bloods gang members were sentenced Friday for their admitted roles in the 2006 beating and stabbing death of a Paterson man who they believed had ties to the rival Crips gang.Paterson resident Nigel Everett, 23, being sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for his admitted role in the 2006 beating and stabbing death of 16-year-old Keith Moody.
Paterson residents Nigel Everett, 23, Devon Parker, 27, and James Shiver, 27 all pleaded guilty last year to aggravated manslaughter in the killing of 16-year-old Keith Moody on June 8, 2006. The Paterson resident’s badly beaten body was found by police along train tracks in the Paterson’s 4th Ward near Warren Street."

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Gang member sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms for Tracy nightclub shooting - San Jose Mercury News

Gang member sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms for Tracy nightclub shooting - San Jose Mercury News: "25-year-old gang member was sentenced Monday to 10 consecutive life sentences, of which he would have to serve more than 200 years, for killing one man and injuring six others in a 2009 nightclub shooting in Tracy.
In November, a San Joaquin County jury convicted Michael Mau of Tracy of 13 charges, including the second-degree murder of Naim Bey, 41, in the early hours of Oct. 10, 2009.
The jury also convicted Mau of six counts of premeditated attempted murder -- one for each person injured -- as well as gang and gun charges. The murder and attempted murder charges carried enhancements which tacked on additional time to each of those charges.
Bey, of Tracy, was shot in the head by a bullet that was fired into the Amore's Italian Restaurant, which was operating as a nightclub at the time. Family and friends told Judge George Abdallah that Bey was a loving husband and a father of two daughters, a kind man who helped those he could."

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Trial for Lynn gang murder proceeds

Trial for Lynn gang murder proceeds: "prosecutor in the murder case against gang member Jose Cabrera said the 20-year-old Lynn man ruthlessly gunned down another city man who was trying to get away from the gang life.

'Tony Pich was a young man who had begun to turn his life around. He was no longer a street kid. He had a job, a car and a wife. Later that night he would be gunned down in front of his home by a single bullet, killing him at age 22. We will prove without certainty that this defendant (Jose Cabrera) killed Tony Pich,' Assistant District Attorney Kristen R. Buxton told the jury in her opening statement Monday at Salem Superior Court.

Buxton told the jury 'what you won't hear ... is a motive for the murder of Tony Pich that will make any sense to you. That is because Tony Pich's murder was a senseless crime, fueled by hostility and hatred between rival gangs and their members and carried out by Jose Cabrera.'

'You will learn that the different groups involved were all on a type of high alert,' Buxton stressed to the jury."

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18-year-old man was shot as he walked a female friend to a Harlem subway station

18-year-old man was shot as he walked a female friend to a Harlem subway station, police said. It is believed his death was related to his involvement in the Bloods gang, the law-enforcement official said.

The victim, Jonathan Bells, was walking with his companion on Lenox Avenue towards the 135th Street subway station when he was passed by two men walking in the opposite direction who said "40th ain't got nothing on us," the official said. The statement was an apparent reference to a gang that hails from 140th Street, the official said. Upon hearing that, Mr. Bells apparently ran south on Lenox Avenue and was shot by the unknown assailant and collapsed in the cross walk near West 136th Street, the official said.

He was taken to Harlem Hospital, which is one block from the shooting scene, where he died at about 3:20 a.m., police said. His female companion was uninjured, police said.

No arrests have been made in the case, police said. The law enforcement official said Mr. Bell was a known member of the Bloods and had previously been shot in the stomach in October of 2009 and survived. Details of that shooting were not immediately available.

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Gang Violence Blamed for Killings - WSJ.com

Gang Violence Blamed for Two Separate Killings - WSJ.com: "16-year-old boy was stabbed to death by an unknown assailant following a confrontation that started at the party for a female friend who was turning 18, police said. Adonis Santana was an invited guest at the party in a Washington Heights apartment where a group of men, described by a law-enforcement official as members of a gang called the Trinatarios, attempted to enter but were asked to leave, the official said.

One of the men in the uninvited group responded by throwing a drink in the face of the teenager whose birthday it was, prompting Mr. Santana and others to chase them out the apartment building and onto Audubon Avenue, the official said. Once outside, the confrontation turned violent and Mr. Santana was found stabbed three times to the right side of his body near the corner of West 186th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue at about 12:45 a.m., the official said. He was taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital but couldn't be saved, police said.

No arrests have been made and police are trying to identify the suspect or suspects who stabbed him, the official said."

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