GUILTY LA - Five teens, 16-19, die in New Orleans shooting, 17 June 2006

[txsvicki]

Hey DK,

Mark my words,MS-13 is behind this.
Also authorities should look into this gang when there are unsolved assaults,rapes or killings of Afro-American women.That is one of the criteria that a prospective gang member needs to do to become a part of this gang.When they are jumped in,they are beaten while members count to 13.
They are also "coyotes" that bring illegal immigrants to the US.

Do you mean that an African American female is their target for initiation and not other races? I thought that MS-13 was a gang out of Mexico. Do they only accept Hispanic members? tks

 

[kato]

The youths congregating is a fact that has been going on for years. Nothing but nothing and then there is trouble. The entitlement issues are inbred in a lot of areas in Louisiana. Notice the amount of violent criminals that hail from these parts and continue on in other areas. John Mohammed is only one.

Well, let me tell you alot of the violent ones are causing havoc in this city. Not a day goes by that you don't hear of a violent incident involving evacuees. We already had a high crime rate but now it has soared.

My aunt is moving because the apt. complex she lives in has a huge population of evacuees. They also had to set a curfew of 10 p.m.. Here is an example:

There was this one lady evacuee who was causing problems and one of the managers wanted to evict her but the other manager said she's not too bad so let's give her another chance. Well, one day there was an altercation in her apt. and a window was broken. Well, when the manager came over she pulled a piece of broken glass on her. According to my aunt the manager then says, "My God is bigger than your God" and the woman backed down. The manager quit and the woman was evicted.

Also, another thing. Some of the complexes where alot of evacuees live are going to be changed to Section 8 housing such as is the case in my aunt's complex and my cousin's (her daughter) across the street.

 

[BillyGoatGruff]

Hey BillyGoatGruff,
I want you to know that I really appreciate your help.Thank-you so much.
Respectfully,
dark_shadows

You're welcome.

Also, my apartment complex in Atlanta is experiencing a crime wave over the last 6 weeks, thanks largely to evacuees who have been relocated to the facility. I'll be moving as soon as my lease is up. At least 3 vehicles have been broken into and one stolen, plus my garagee/storage area. Yesterday the cops chased two "youths" through the complex in broad daylight. And this is in an otherwise nice, fairly upscale neighborhood.

 

[Toby]

You're welcome.

Also, my apartment complex in Atlanta is experiencing a crime wave over the last 6 weeks, thanks largely to evacuees who have been relocated to the facility. I'll be moving as soon as my lease is up. At least 3 vehicles have been broken into and one stolen, plus my garagee/storage area. Yesterday the cops chased two "youths" through the complex in broad daylight. And this is in an otherwise nice, fairly upscale neighborhood.

Under the circumstances, your apartment complex may allow you to exit your contract. It may not be an easy sell, but it might be possible.

 

[kato]

You're welcome.

Also, my apartment complex in Atlanta is experiencing a crime wave over the last 6 weeks, thanks largely to evacuees who have been relocated to the facility. I'll be moving as soon as my lease is up. At least 3 vehicles have been broken into and one stolen, plus my garagee/storage area. Yesterday the cops chased two "youths" through the complex in broad daylight. And this is in an otherwise nice, fairly upscale neighborhood.

Isn't it a damn shame how we get paid back trying to help others. Not saying they are all bad apples but......

 

[dark_shadows]

Do you mean that an African American female is their target for initiation and not other races? I thought that MS-13 was a gang out of Mexico. Do they only accept Hispanic members? tks

Hey there Txsvicki ,
Here is a link for you.
MS-13
Named for La Mara, a street in San Salvador, and the Salvatrucha guerillas who fought in El Salvador’s bloody civil war, Mara Salvatrucha 13 was organized in Los Angeles in the late ’80s. At first, the gang’s primary purpose was to defend Salvadoran immigrants from being preyed upon by other L.A. street gangs.




El Salvador has also launched a crackdown on MS-13. A police offensive called “Operation Strong-arm” has resulted in the arrest of more than 4,000 gang members.

For MS-13, these are small losses. The gang is nothing if not mobile. When it feels heat in the U.S., it moves to another state. When it feels heat in El Salvador and Honduras, it sets up operations in Mexico.

The Maldon Institute report indicates that MS-13 “appears to be in control of much of the Mexican border and, in addition to its smuggling and contraband rackets, the gang collects money from illegal immigrants that it helps [move] across the border into the United States.”

 

[BillyGoatGruff]

Under the circumstances, your apartment complex may allow you to exit your contract. It may not be an easy sell, but it might be possible.

Not these a-holes. They're lying to everyone's face about the problems and are renting to what are very clearly drug dealers and the like.

 

[BillyGoatGruff]

Isn't it a damn shame how we get paid back trying to help others. Not saying they are all bad apples but......

I've already lived in NO. I know what its like. I don't need a reminder.

 

[BillyGoatGruff]

From the current issue of New Orleans CityBusiness

Transvestite crime gangs pester Magazine Street owners
Robyn Lewis, owner of Dark Charm fashion and accessories for women, represents the first line of defense for the Magazine Street shop owners. She is the first to see them come strutting in their pumps down St. Andrew Street, the bewigged pack of thieves who have plagued the Lower Garden District since May.

Like an SOS flare, Lewis grabs her emergency phone list and starts calling.

"They’re coming," she warns Eric Ogle a salesman at Vegas, a block down Magazine Street. Ogle, who was terrorized by the brazen crew two months earlier, alerts neighboring Winky’s where manager Kendra Bonga braces for the onslaught.

Soon every shop owner in the 2000 block of Magazine Street has been alerted.

Sarah Celino at Trashy Diva eyes the door, ready to flip the lock at the first sight of the ringleader’s pink jumpsuit and fluorescent red wig.

Down at Turncoats, where the fashion-happy gang once made off with more than $2,000 in merchandise, store manager Wes Davis stands ready.

Davis said it wasn’t supposed to be like this. They survived Hurricane Katrina’s Category 3 winds and the ensuing looters. They reopened despite the long odds of doing business in a devastated city. The last thing the Magazine Street shop owners expected to threaten their survival was a crime ring of transvestites.

"They’re fearless," said Ogle. "Once they see something they like they won’t stop until they have it. They don’t care, they’ll go to jail. It’s really gotten bad. You know it’s ridiculous when everyone on the block knows who they are."

Expensive tastes

The transvestites first appeared in March when they raided Magazine Street like a marauding army of kleptomaniacal showgirls, said Davis, using clockwork precision and brute force to satisfy high-end boutique needs.

They first hit Vegas March 31 while Ogle was working.

"They come in groups of three or four. One tries to distract you while the others get the stuff and run out the door. It’s very simple," Ogle said.

Next door at Winky’s, Bonga heard people screaming inside Vegas, then saw a blur of cheap wigs and masculine legs in designer shoes streak past her door.

"All of a sudden our UPS guy dove out of the store and tried to tackle them and there’s little Eric from next door on the sidewalk with a bunch of stuff he managed to grab from one of the guys," Bonga said. "The other two guys took off down the street and jumped into a car driven by a real girl."

Ogle gave police a description of the perpetrators — African-American males ranging in height from 6 feet to 6-5. They all wore the same midriff shirts and wigs with twisted, dreadnaught hair.

"They’re all very skinny and very flamboyant," Ogle said.

Two hours after the police left, the transvestites returned to Magazine Street to storm Turncoats just a block away from Vegas, and made off with more than $2,000 in merchandise.

"They move like clockwork," Davis said. "Two thousand dollars is a lot for our store to lose, especially being in the slow summer season. It makes it so I can’t even mark my stuff down as much as I want to because I’m trying to make up for what I lost."

In the ensuing weeks, the gang of transvestites continued their reign of terror. Sometimes they come dressed as men, though Bonga said it is obvious who they are based on their delicately plucked eyebrows. Sometimes they bring 2-year-old children to add to the level of distraction. They once returned to Vegas holding an "infant" that really was a Cabbage Patch doll wrapped in a blanket.

"They’ll make themselves scarce for a few weeks and then one day you’ll be busy with a customer and all of a sudden there’s a whole slew of them in your store and there’s nothing you can do because you’re there by yourself," Lewis said.

Scarce evidence

The New Orleans Police Department investigated the Turncoats robbery but unless police catch a shoplifter in the act or in possession of stolen property there is little they can do besides take a report, said NOPD spokeswoman Bambi Hall.

"If store security states that someone took something, and then by the time we apprehend them they don’t have the property, then there’s really nothing we can do because it’s their word against the (suspect)," Hall said.

Lewis said she understands the understaffed NOPD has bigger priorities than to "catch a drag queen running down the street with an armful of clothing." So the store owners created their own watchdog system unofficially known as the "Drag Queen Alert List," a comprehensive phone roster of every business on the block with stars next to those who carry guns.

When one shop owner spots a gang member, they immediately warn everyone on the block and raise their defenses in unison.

When they enter Turncoats, Davis said he locks them inside the store, which "freaks them out," and they leave.

Celino said she doesn’t even wait for them to enter the store.

"A couple weeks ago, a group of them was outside and one looked like the guy who came in here and ripped us off so I locked the door on them," Celino said. "I know maybe that’s rude, if they really were innocent people, but there’s nothing else we can do. You look like the queens who ripped us off so I’m sorry but I have to lock the door."

Ogle and Bonga say they regret being forced to resort to such profiling but they feel they have no other choice. The transvestites, Ogle said, appear to be drug-addicted and fearless in their lust for designer shoes, jackets and jewelry.

"The city’s not functioning the way it was and I’m sure a lot of them were getting some kind of government aid, which they probably aren’t getting any more so they’re incredibly desperate," Ogle said.

And sometimes violent.

When Lewis co-owned Trashy Diva, they attacked one of her partners in the French Quarter location, throwing her to the ground and tossing a heavy mannequin on top of her.

"They’re kind of confused because they think they’re women so they don’t mind hitting women, but they’re dudes. If you get hit by one it’s like getting hit by a dude. ... Because the police are so poorly staffed, we’re kind of on our own but the system we have seems to be working. I haven’t seen them in at least a week but they’ll be back. They’re never gone for long."•

 

[dark_shadows]

news link

NEW ORLEANS A 19-year-old man with a lengthy juvenile record has been arrested in the shooting deaths of five New Orleans teen-agers last month.



New orleans news

 

[cathieq]

I am so very glad he was caught! I can only imagine how difficult it was for the witnesses to come forward to ID the shooter.

 

[OkieGranny]

From April 2012:

http://www.wwltv.com/story/news/2014/09/02/14457482/

After hearing tearful and angry words from family members of his five teen-aged victims, quintuple killer Michael Anderson was sentenced today to 80 years in prison for the 2006 'Central City Massacre.'

The sentence was largely a formality as Anderson, known on the street at Mike-Mike, is already serving a federal life sentence for leading the murderous drug gang known as the Josephine Dog Pound...

In the state case, Anderson pleaded no contest to five counts of manslaughter last March after an earlier conviction and death sentence were thrown out.