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Varrio Nuevo Estrada. Varrio Nuevo Estrada, also known as VNEx3, [3] [4] [5] is a Chicano criminal street gang founded in Boyle Heights, California, in the Estrada Courts housing projects. VNE is one of 34 gangs in a 15-square-mile area east of downtown Los Angeles.
White Fence was the first gang in East Los Angeles to use firearms, chains and other dangerous weapons. [15] White Fence is an old established gang territory in Boyle Heights adjoined to East Los Angeles.
Fernandez grew up in Boyle Heights and joined a gang at 13, before turning his life around through education. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) Jessi Fernandez joined a street gang at 13.
Boyle Heights, historically known as Paredón Blanco (Spanish for "White Bluff"), is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, located east of the Los Angeles River.It is one of the city's most notable and historic Chicano/Mexican-American communities and is known as a bastion of Chicano culture, hosting cultural landmarks like Mariachi Plaza and events like the annual Día de los Muertos ...
Homeboy, started in 1988 in L.A., became the largest gang intervention, rehab and re-entry program in the world, according to its website. Stanislaus aims to copy Father Boyle’s Homeboy ...
Ramona Gardens is a public housing development in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is operated by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles. Currently and historically Latino, it is also the home of the Big Hazard street gang, connected to the Mexican Mafia, and has been the center of the illegal drug market ...
A 19-year-old woman was killed and another woman was wounded in a possible gang-related shooting Sunday night in Boyle Heights, according to the LAPD.
Homeboy Industries began in 1988 as a job training program (called Jobs for a Future) out of Dolores Mission Parish in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California, US.It was created by then-pastor Greg Boyle to offer an alternative to gang life for high-risk youth, who were living in a city (Los Angeles) with the highest concentration of gang activity in the country.