THE LATEST IN GANG NEWS

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to Understanding Gangs. This podcastexamined street and prison gang structure and activity
in the United States from the perspectiveof law enforcement academics and former gang members.
Let's get start in three tests ofdefense. If you in a past

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test, you could keep it says, I don't want to be another tongue
on a head. A gang memberfrom Riverside has been convicted of a twenty
twenty murder that took place in thepark. Atkins, whose name is a
what is his name? Lawrence ArthurAikins, who was convicted on his fifty
third birthday, shod killed Cedric Dempsey, who is a father of nine,

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behind Bordwell Park. Aikins was arrestedon May twenty first, twenty twenty two,
nearly a half a year and ahalf after the killing. Akin is
scheduled to be sentenced in August ninth. He is currently being held without bail.
Akins is not at the only personassociated with the murder, nor is
this the only murderer Akins has beenaccused of. Akins was also charged in
twenty twenty of June murder of KevinHenderson, a fifth forty three year old,

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that killing he was consolidated into thetrial that led to this conviction.
The status of the charges in theMomento Valley case is still unclear. Darnell
Tait, a thirty four year oldfrom Moreno, is also accused of both
killings. He has not pleaded guiltyand as being he has pleaded guilty,
I'm sorry, it's plead not guilty, and is being held without bail ahead
of his August ninth trial. Sothey did not they didn't name the gang,

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so we don't know who's associated withor anything of that sort. Over
in Minneapolis, new federal charges haltre emergence of South Minneapolis street gang over
there, the US Attorney General AndrewLuger or US Attorney Andrew Lucris a Tuesday,
a recent batch of drunk and gunand indictments have interrupted the attempted restarch

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of a South Minneapolis streat gang.A joint federal and state initiatives targeting violent
crime in the Twin cities so faryielded charges against more than seventy alleged gang
members over there in a Manipa,Minneapolis. In addition to Minneapolis, ten
alleged gang members of a Minneapolis gangaccused of terrorizing a city neighborhood have been

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charged with a range of federal crimes. The charges of the latest mood and
ongoing federal initiative that began two yearsago to crack down a violent crime.
Federal resources are focused on holding accountablethose who threatened the safety of the communities.
So Minneapolis cracking down. They havea large gang problem over there,
so hopefully they'll get that six MSthirteen gang members associate sentenced for murder,

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racketeering, and narcotic conspiracies. That'sover and let's find out where that one
was out And I'm kind of goingthrough a lot of these. Virginia is
the last defendant of the six MSthirteen gang members were convicted in two separate
federal trials. There were sentencing sentencedfor racketeering, conspiracy, contics, conspiracy,
and offences. The core documents presentedin the two trials determined that the

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six defendants where the MS thirteen Citio'slocal Savatrucha Click, which operated in northern
Virginia the STLs. The DOJ said, from at least twenty seventeen through two
twenty twenty, the MS thirteen membersand associates travel regularly to and from Long
Island. From there, the MSthirt team members would take the cocaine to
Washington, d c. Metro areato be sold in nightclubs and bars.

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The group used the proceeds of theircocaine sales to purchase more cocaine to sell,
buy weapons, and support other MSthirteen members in the US and El Salvador