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...judge sent Ovando to prison for 23 years after two anti-gang squad members, who had allegedly shot him multiple times, claimed he had threatened them with a rifle. L.A.P.D. partners Rafael Perez and Nino Durden had been working undercover in a vacant apartment in a building known as a gang hangout. They said they were forced to shoot Ovando when he burst in. Their story seemed a bit iffy--"He has a semiautomatic with a banana clip, yet they both manage to pull out their pistols and shoot?" asks Tamar Toister, who defended Ovando--but the testimony seemed persuasive...
...sure, Ovando was no angel. Though he had no convictions prior to the one in 1997, he was said to be a member of the 18th Street Gang. He also came to the U.S. illegally (and could be deported). As for Perez, the officer turning on his mates, his testimony will earn him a lighter sentence for stealing cocaine...
...worst disclosures may be to come. The Los Angeles Times reported last week that in 1996 nine Rampart officers took part in a shoot-out that left one suspected gang member dead and two people wounded. A review board said those shootings were justified, but now Perez says they were "dirty"; cops may have planted guns on those suspects as well. Federal authorities have joined the investigation, which could stretch to Las Vegas, where some Rampart officers may have partied with a fellow cop after he committed a bank robbery. "Sooner or later, the truth will come out," says Gloria...
...June 1, 28 fifth- through ninth-graders in nine Cambridge public schools were searched and interviewed, part of an effort to decrease perceived gang activity, according to Superintendent of Schools Bobbie D'Alessandro. Two weapons (a knife and a meat tenderizer) and graffiti tags thought to be gang symbols were found, and all 28 students said they had some knowledge of gang activity, according to school officials...
...sweeping the political elite, ordinary Russians remain depressed and indifferent. And that?s hardly surprising. A fourth bomb exploded in a St. Petersburg apartment building Thursday night, killing two people and wounding three others. But that attack wasn?t linked to the others, authorities said. That one was probably gang-related, they opined ?- simply business as usual in Boris Yeltsin?s Russia...