Gangs are a serious problem that are moving many of their criminal activities into cyberspace. Combatting them effectively involves not just law enforcement after people have turned to gangs, but ...

CALIFORNIA (KOVR) — Authorities in California’s Central Valley said they arrested eight people in connection with an alleged gang-related kidnapping and torture case. On Friday, the San Joaquin County ...

Under Newsom, California has made it more difficult to jail gang members, chiefly through 2021’s Assembly Bill 333. The STEP Forward Act, as it was called, made it harder for prosecutors to use gang ...

Orange County’s top prosecutor moved to dismiss all active gang injunctions Tuesday, making it the latest California jurisdiction to move away from the controversial court orders in recent years. Dist ...

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The California Supreme Court handed down two decisions last week that could impact decades of sentencing for gang-related offenses and allow thousands of people to petition courts to reexamine their ...

Bobby Salazar, the owner of the “Bobby Salazar’s” restaurants located in California, has been accused by federal prosecutors of hiring a gang member to set fire to one of his restaurants in Fresno.

According to his attorneys, Abrego Garcia left El Salvador as a teen to escape the gangs that threatened to kidnap and ransom him. The evidence that he belonged to one of them came down to who he was ...