Virginia Gang Articles

The 21-year-old man who pleaded guilty in a November 2015 machete attack on a Leesburg man was sentenced today to serve 10 years in prison.

Three Manassas teens have been charged with gang recruitment at Osbourn Park High School. The investigation began last week after the school resource officer was tipped about recruitment activity involving the criminal street gang Mara Salvatrucha, c

gangster was convicted Monday by a federal jury on charges of racketeering conspiracy, including acts of murder, attempted murder, robbery, obstruction of justice, murder in aid of racketeering, conspiracy and attempted murder in aid of racketeering

Melik Zydarius Smith, 17, is wanted by the Danville Police for robbery and gang participation charges. Police have warrants for Smith for two counts of robbery, two counts of criminal street gang participation, violation of probation and violation of

A suspected gang member already in jail after being charged with murder a week ago was charged Tuesday for allegedly shooting into a dwelling Oct. 12 in the 7900 block of Community Drive, according to Prince William County Police

Danville Police Chief Philip Broadfoot linked two homicides this week to a pattern of young men involved with drug and gang activity and said local police will increase their presence on the streets after recent shootings

Police today announced the arrest of five people in the October 29 shooting death of Edwin Chicas, 22, who was killed outside a home near Manassas.

A jury recommended a 30 year prison sentence for a young Parksley man who has been in trouble with the law since he was 15 years old.

Federal officials announced a major crackdown on gang activity at the federal courthouse in Charlottesville on Friday. Multiple people have been arrested, including four Virginia prison guards.

Federal authorities say they’ve arrested former prison guards connected to a gang that sells drugs inside Virginia state prisons to help finance its activities.

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Four members of a Portsmouth street gang were responsible for at least five homicides in Dece

Gang members convicted for the 2014 murder of Waynesboro Police Department reservist Cpt. Kevin Quick were sentenced in Charlottesville court Monday.

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Three suspects have been arrested in gang-related melee in which a 14-year-old victim was punched and kicked near Ashton Avenue and Rixlew Lane last Wednesday, according to Prince William County Police.

A Fairfax man has been arrested on suspicion of robbing another man of money at knife-point, and Fairfax Police believe the suspect is a gang member.

 Jose Lopez Torres laughed when he recalled brutally stabbing to death a fellow gang member who begged for his life. “Spare my life, I’ll go very far away,” Torres recalled Nelson Omar Quintanilla Trujillo saying as a group of MS-13 members surrounde

 Virginia Beach man and member of the Bloods street gang pleaded guilty to charges of sex trafficking a child Wednesday. Court documents say that in the fall of 2015, 23-year-old Keiawn Demarco McDonald recruited a juvenile girl to engage in prostitu

The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office's Tactical Enforcement Unit is investigating an underage prostitution ring spanning Virginia, Maryland and D.C. ran by MS-13 members for the profit of the gang's leadership in El Salvador.
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Ismael Mendez owed his friend Derek Mantilla $1,800, and Mantilla wanted his money. “I don’t care if you have to put your broad on the block to pay me back,” Mantilla texted Mendez in the fall of 2014. So Mendez, a 20-year-old living in Annandale, pe

 A Sterling member of MS-13 recently pleaded guilty to arranging a mob assault with students from Dominion High School.

Jonatan Escobar-Escobar,18, pleaded guilty July 11 to a felony count of gang participation. He was arrested in February after pol