Four San Diego Westcoast Crips convicted in RICO trial

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I have been following this case since the major indictment in 2014, like 60 WCC and associates were arrested in a major RICO case, with the OCETF task force, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. The case got picked up in some media outlets, because of a picture published, in which the suspects posed in front of a murder scene

Gang Did Revenge Killings, "Murder Selfies": Complaints

Federal Jury Convicts Four West Coast Crips Street Gang Members of Racketeering Conspiracy Involving Murders, Sex Trafficking and Robbery | USAO-SDCA | Department of Justice

Conspiracy to Conduct Enterprise Affairs Through a Pattern of Racketeering Activity, in violation of Title 18, U.S.C. Section 1962 (d)

Maximum Penalty, based on the underlying racketeering crimes: Up to life in prison.

Defendant Ross:

Sex Trafficking of a Minor, in violation of 18 USC 1591

Maximum Penalty: Life in prison

Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud or Coercion, in violation of 18 USC 1591

Maximum Penalty: Life in prison


  • Defendant Cook fatally shot Joseph Hutchins, a 19-year-old who was fatally shot while riding his bicycle down Orange Avenue for wearing a red shirt, the color of a rival gang.

  • Defendant Foreman approached the victim, Andres Caldera, asked for a cigarette then issued a gang challenge to him: “Where are you from?” When Caldera answered by asking where Foreman was from, Foreman yelled, “I am from West Coast 30s!” and pulled out a .40-caliber handgun, firing a single shot at Caldera’s face.

  • Foreman, Ross and Hollins robbed a Logan Heights business in takeover style, forcing employees onto the floor and holding guns to their heads. During a police chase, the trio ditched their getaway car and the gun, but officers arrested all three and recovered the gun - which was the same gun used in the murder of Caldera.

  • West Coast Crip member Meashal Fairley was murdered in front of a San Diego nightclub because of Fairley’s suspected cooperation with law enforcement. Hollins and Cook were connected to the scene of the crime through DNA evidence.

  • Another killing occurred in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant. Defendant Ross had a dispute with a man over a rental car. They set up a meeting at the restaurant, supposedly to resolve the dispute. But upon arrival, the man was attacked by a group of West Coast Crips led by Ross. In self-defense, the man fatally stabbed one of his attackers, Jeffrey “JJ” Rees.

  • West Coast Crips member Paris Hill was murdered by fellow Crips for giving a statement to police about the Rees murder. In one recording, Hollins told his cellmates: “That's how we did the boy…When it was time . . . I seen it all in his face . . . but cuz blue, he was a gangster though. And he knew that . . . it was his doing.” Prosecutors argued before the jury that this was an admission that he participated in Hill’s murder.

  • Chyrene Borgen, a West Coast Crip associate, was gunned down at a Halloween party after she had criticized the defendants for murdering Meashal Fairley. Following this murder, several defendants posted photos of themselves on Facebook from the murder scene. Defendant Hollins is wearing a T-shirt that said: “3 BABIEZ, YELLOW TAPE GANG, ANYBODY KILLA.” The defendants appeared on cell phone videos boasting about their crimes.
*During this trial, prosecutors set out to show the jury how the defendants worked together as a criminal enterprise to commit six murders, to use a 15-year-old girl and another female as prostitutes, and to commit robbery on behalf of the West Coast Crips.
 
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Anyone who wants an understanding of how federal (RICO, and others) investigations work, the affidavit is an insightful look into the process.....detailed are numerous killings, and how they were committed and why, as well as a portion of the evidence against them, undercover ops and wiretap/text messa intercepts.....One interesting one is the conspiracy to import 5,000 pounds from a panga, (their plug hired them as extras)

And no, this is not a case of 'facebook pics' proving gang conspiracy, for better or worse, these guys were really sloppy, and their is substantial DNA, surveillance, and testimony linking them to the killings.

http://cdn.sandiegouniontrib.com/news/documents/2014/04/24/Complaint_Graves_et_al.pdf
 

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this stuff really is interesting to read up on, really it is. i just find it interesting they don't show half the effort to bring down klan and white militia groups the same way.
 

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Posing in front of a murder scene....

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@ORDER_66, to be fair, that pic was posted on facebook to intimidate another female gang member, and it was taken after her death, weeks after the killing, as others attended her funeral. They actually shot the women, who was pregnant, and both she and her baby survived. Still made for a very convincing case, when taken with all the other overwhelming evidence.

I've read a major indictment for the Aryan Brotherhood in So Cal, basic prison gang shyt, and some small time drug running.......Also, the Hells Angels and Mongols (mixed race gang) got indicted for crystal trafficking and racketeering a few years back in San Diego....

The truth is, as I was detailing to someone a few weeks ago, is that white 'gangs' in San Diego, are mostly trailer trash junkies and low level meth dealers, they simply aren't worth the trouble. The ones that are prosecuted, are usually at a state level for violent crimes, often murder. They don't have the connections, structure, or stature of gangs like WCC or La Eme, or Mexican drug trafficking groups.....or even the sex trafficking, repulsive as it is. They basically have nothing but the trailer parks.....The meth game was taken away, as the prices for cheap clean 'Breaking Bad' shyt started to come across in bulk....
 
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