“In an effort to combat criminal street gang activity, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department formed the Operation Safe Streets (OSS) Bureau in 1979,” officials said. “There are OSS ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Alleged Los Angeles gang leader and so-called rap "godfather'' Eugene Henley Jr., known as "Big U,'' was ordered to remain behind bars Thursday pending a detention hearing in ...

The department's Operation Safe Streets Bureau started in 1979 to crack down on gang activity throughout the county. Matthew Rodriguez is a digital producer for CBS Los Angeles. He's previously ...

LOS ANGELES, California — A prominent figure in the South Los Angeles-based Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips street gang has been charged with running a criminal enterprise involved in ...

A new documentary produced by her family now delves ... with big career aspirations and a deep love for her inner circle. Selena y Los Dinos, which premiered at South by Southwest (SXSW) in ...

The teenager didn’t always have to eat the drab grits and sausage at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall ... organize fights between kids with different gang affiliations, he said.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A doctor, using a laser, removes tattoos from an ex-gang member deported from Los Angeles at a clinic in San ...

The declarations also allege that many of the migrants do not have ties to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua or have any criminal records. An official with the U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

US authorities have taken a longtime leader of a Los Angeles street gang who investigators say ran a “mafia-like” criminal enterprise that included murder, human trafficking and extortion ...

a.k.a. “Big U”. (U.S. Attorney’s Office Los Angeles via AP) LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. authorities have taken a longtime leader of a Los Angeles street gang who investigators say ran a “mafia-like” ...

As part of Henley’s purported grip on Los Angeles, his alleged victims “were required to ‘check in’” with Henley before arriving in the city in order to obtain “protection ...

Developing Options is primarily funded through the City of Los Angeles’s Mayor’s Office through the Gang Reduction Youth Development (GRYD) Foundation, portions of which receive federal ...