Virginia SUR-13 gang member sentenced to prison for teen sex trafficking : AdvertisementToday, United States District Judge T.S. Ellis, III sentenced SUR-13 gang member Ramiro Espinoza Jamaica, 21, aka “Criminal” of Manassas, Virginia, to 10 years and four months in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for the sex trafficking of a juvenile female in Northern Virginia. Jamaica plead guilty to the sex trafficking of a child on April 12, 2012.

 Va. man sentenced in gang's prostitution ring; teen girls had been trafficked: ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Manassas man has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for his role in a gang-led prostitution ring that recruited high school girls who were threatened if they refused to participate. Twenty-eight-year-old Donyel Pier Dove pleaded ...

 Virginia court affirms motorcycle gang convictions:  federal appeals court in Virginia has affirmed the convictions and prison sentences of five members of a violent motorcycle gang.

 Bounty Hunter Bloods gang member faces life sentence : Draindell Domonta Bassett Jr. pled guilty yesterday in a Norfolk, Virginia, federal courtroom to RICO charges including conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, and conspiring to distribute controlled substances. Bassett is a member of the Bounty Hunter Bloods/Nine Tech Gangsters, a clique of the Los Angeles-based Bloods.

 Regional Gang Task Force in Major Eden Center Bust Here : A major gang bust went down in Falls Church's Eden Center last week. Over 60 law enforcement officers from jurisdictions throughout Northern Virginia, members of the Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force and including 20 from the City of Falls Church, swept into the center with 13 search warrants to confiscate over $1 million in cash and $250,000 in illegal gambling machines.

 Regional Gang Task Force in Major Eden Center Bust Here : A major gang bust went down in Falls Church's Eden Center last week. Over 60 law enforcement officers from jurisdictions throughout Northern Virginia, members of the Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force and including 20 from the City of Falls Church, swept into the center with 13 search warrants to confiscate over $1 million in cash and $250,000 in illegal gambling machines.

 Attorney General talks about gangs, guns and the governorship: A favorite of conservatives and frequent target of liberals, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is a remarkably soft-spoken man with many “opinions.”

 Suffolk police arrest 2 teens in effort to target gangs : SUFFOLK --18-year old Aaron Green and 18-year old Quashawn House were arrest for assault, drugs, guns and gang paraphernalia.

 Virginia Man Sentenced In Gang Slayings: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - A Newport News man has been sentenced to six life sentences plus 60 years in prison for killing two people as part of gang activities.

 Regional Gang Task Force Announces Success Thwarting Eden Center Gang : A major gang bust went down in Falls Church's Eden Center last night. Over 60 law enforcement officers from jurisdictions throughout Northern Virginia, members of the Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force including 20 from the City of Falls Church, swept into the center with 13 search warrants to confiscate over $1 million in cash and $250,000 in illegal gambling machines

 Greetings from Ocean View - Gang squad: In the 1980s they started to notice alignments, groups of boys in Norfolk calling themselves the "Coca-Cola kids" or the "Pepsi kids." Sgt. Randy Crank would later become the head of a unit. At the beginning, he wasn't allowed to use the word "gang," he said. "The more I got into it, the more I liked it."

 Bounty Hunter Bloods gang member pleads guilty to homicide, racketeering : Twenty-two year old James Martin Harris, a/k/a “Bloody 45,” of Portsmouth, Virginia, pled guilty yesterday in Norfolk federal court to one count of racketeering and one count of possession of a firearm in a homicide. Harris entered his guilty plea before United States District Judge Jerome B. Friedman. Harris will be sentenced on November 9, 2010 and faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.

 ‘Gang-type’ graffiti vandalism reported in Virginia: VIRGINIA ��” Several garages were vandalized with what Virginia Police officials are calling “gang-type” graffiti late Monday night into early Tuesday morning. A spokesperson for the police department said 10 or more garages were “tagged” or spray-painted with graffiti in alley ways in the following areas: The 800 and 1000 blocks of 15th Street North; the 600 block of 13th Street North; and the 1000 block of 16th Street North.