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...Pirus. (Black Crips and Bloods gangs, now nationwide, got their start in Los Angeles in the early '70s.) The bonding ritual was a subadolescent mumbo jumbo of slogans and hand signs, like those used by adult fraternal groups. Car theft, drug selling and smash-and-grab robbery (smash a storefront with a car, wait for the glass to settle, and grab the goods) were agreeable moneymakers, but what gave the Crips their legends and their heroes were drive-by shootings in Bloods territory, to avenge real or fancied dissing -- slights to the gang's code of honor...
...Carvalho and Trinity Property Management, the landlord of the storefront, are appealing the board's decision in court...
...landlord of the storefront wedged between Bruegger's Bagels and Christy's alleges that the defense fund is being selective in trying to block the opening of the fast food bake shop...
Barron complains of widespread sanitation and aesthetic problems from the homeless using his storefront as a bathroom...
...first time, Italian, Spanish and British police joined their counterparts in the Drug Enforcement Administration in undercover storefront stings that penetrated the cartel's money-moving operations in Europe. In Rome, authorities arrested 30 people, including one member apiece from each of Italy's most legendary -- and lethal -- organized crime groups: the Mafia, Camorra and 'Ndrangheta. The arrests underscored the existence of a dangerous alliance between the Cali cartel, which controls 80% to 90% of the world cocaine production, and Italy's formidable organized crime groups. "Money is the life blood of a drug organization, and our efforts to dismantle...