Matthew Ormseth
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- Sep 1, 2026
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Reputed Latino gang member charged with killing Black man amid racially charged turf war (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred At 1 a.m. one Friday morning two years ago, Clyde Moore idled in his red Jaguar sedan outside a Panorama City apartment building known as a hotbed of drug dealing. Moore, 70, sat next to his wife, who testified at a recent hearing that a Latino man approached their car before demanding, “What y’all n— doing out here?” It’s unclear whether Moore
The fall of ‘Wicked’: How an L.A. crime boss went down — and took his gang out with him (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Ezequiel Romo’s gang had plagued Panorama City for decades. Named after Blythe Street — a short thoroughfare flanked by overcrowded apartments — the crew had robbed, stolen, peddled drugs and shot up rivals since the 1980s, seemingly untroubled by the city of Los Angeles’ attempts to defeat it. The city poured millions into fixing blight, lining
A 15-year-old killed Pop Smoke — then got caught smuggling fentanyl into juvenile hall (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred A man who was previously convicted of murdering the rapper Pop Smoke was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for smuggling fentanyl into a Los Angeles County juvenile facility. Deijae Jester, 21, pleaded no contest to possessing 25 fentanyl-laced pills that his mother smuggled into Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall during a visit on Dec. 14,
Their friendship spanned two decades. It ended in a kidnapping and killing (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred The two men met decades ago in China’s far northwestern Xinjiang region. In Southern California, Shukur Aikebaer and Zhengfeng Bo built quiet suburban lives. Aikebaer raised his three daughters in Chino Hills. Bo settled in Irvine. Bo, 67, who had amassed a fortune doing public construction projects in China, hired Aikebaer as an assistant, and
Reputed Mexican Mafia figure 'Snuffy' convicted in home invasion killing of club owner (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred One night nearly 16 years ago, two men broke into the Downey home of Hermilio Franco. Franco, who owned a popular nightclub called El Farallon and acted in low-budget Mexican films, awoke when one of the intruders pressed a taser to his neck. He drew a chrome-plated .45 from under his pillow and opened fire. One of the prowlers was shot in the n
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