Barriox13, Barrio13, B13 in short, is a street gang in South Los Angeles consisting of over 5000 members, many of which are active. It is divided into West Side Barriox13 and East Side Barriox13 gang with all members loyal to the Barriox13 gang. It was established in the early 1970s near El Segundo Boulevard and Main St in South Los Angeles, California. The Original group of Barriox13 gang members began the gang for self-protection. It is a South Side (Sureno) gang loyal to the Mexican Mafiaprison gang.
It has been targeted by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles D.A. department with a Gang injunction in 2009. Sheriffs department have shot and killed 1 known Barriox13 gang members in the last 10 years, most times guns have been recovered near or on the slain gang members body. The Orange County Sheriff department has strangled one known Barriox13 gang member for domestic violence.
Barriox13 is an active street gang that is located within the original borders where the gang was started in the early 1970s. Barriox13 has an out going battle with all Hispanic gangs in Compton: CV 155, CV 70, CV Largo36, CV Tortilla Flats gangs etc. According to rumours around South Central, Tortilla Flats have been hiding for the past 2 years and are avoiding conflict at all costs. And from South Central, South Los 13 gang. From Gardena, Cycos 13 gang that is inactive, practically has disappeared. Back in 2009 Bx13 and the Athens park bloods made a treaty peace alliance. But they have an out going battle with black gangs such as the Campanella Park Piru Bloods 135st. Piru Bloods and the Fruit Town Piru Bloods. They have a racial battle with of all crip gangs and some blood gangs. There allies are the Mexican Mafia, Gardena 13. Members of the gang are being targeted throughout all of Los Angeles. Barriox13 are more due to the younger teens known as (youngsters) of the gang to commit violent and brutal acts. Homicide detectives are still on the hunt for two men believed to be affiliated with the gang who are connected to recent vicious acts around the Compton area. Two members of the gang (Duck)20, and (Hands)20, recently have been murdered being involved with the South Central gang.
The gang is known for most of their narcotics and homicide work. They have spread over the past few years around Southern California of the residence of (Norwalk, Long Beach, San Bernardino, Riverside, Victorville, Orange County, Tijuana Mexico, Rosarito Mexico, Tecate Mexico, Ontario Canada, etc.) the gang has a history of many criminal acts and is believed to be involved in human and drug trafficking.
Compton is a city in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, situated south of downtown Los Angeles. Compton is one of the oldest cities in the county and, on May 11, 1888, was the eighth city in Los Angeles County to incorporate. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 96,456. It is known as the "Hub City" due to its geographic centrality in Los Angeles County. Neighborhoods in Compton include Sunny Cove, Leland, downtown Compton, and Richland Farms. The city has a high poverty rate and is generally a working-class community. Furthermore, Compton is known for its high crime rate, but strong culture. It is also well known for its hip hop scene.
The Bloods are a primarily African-American street gang founded in Los Angeles, California. The gang is widely known for its rivalry with the Crips. It is identified by the red color worn by its members and by particular gang symbols, including distinctive hand signs.
18th Street, also known as Calle 18, Barrio 18, Mara 18, or simply La 18 in Central America, is a multi-ethnic transnational criminal organization that started as a street gang in Los Angeles. It is one of the largest transnational criminal gangs in Los Angeles, with 65,000 members between the United States, Mexico, and Central America and is also allied with the Mexican Mafia, another US-based crime organization. A United States Department of Justice report featured the following statement regarding 18th Street and rival gang MS-13, "These two gangs have turned the Central American northern triangle into the area with the highest homicide rate in the world."
The Mexican Mafia, also known as La eMe, is a Mexican American criminal organization in the United States. Despite its name, the Mexican Mafia did not originate in Mexico, and is entirely a U.S. criminal prison organization. Law enforcement officials report that the Mexican Mafia is the deadliest and most powerful gang within the California prison system.
Athens is an unincorporated community in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles County, California, numbering 9,101 people in the 2000 census. It is the home site of Los Angeles Southwest College.
The Crips is an alliance of street gangs that is based in the coastal regions of Southern California. Founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1969, mainly by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams, the Crips were initially a single alliance between two autonomous gangs; it is now a loosely-connected network of individual "sets", often engaged in open warfare with one another. Traditionally, since around 1973, its members have worn blue clothing.
Culver City Boys or Culver City 13 (CCB13) is a Mexican-American street gang from Mar Vista, California.
The Pirus are an alliance of street gangs, under the larger Bloods alliance.
Crime in Los Angeles has varied throughout time, reaching peaks between the 1970s and 1990s. Since the early 2020s, crime has increased in Los Angeles as well as elsewhere in the United States.
Bloods & Crips was an American gangsta rap group from Los Angeles County mostly known for their record selling song "Piru Love".
Sureños , also known as Southern United Raza, Sur 13 or Sureños X3, are groups of loosely affiliated gangs that pay tribute to the Mexican Mafia while in U.S. state and federal correctional facilities. Many Sureño gangs have rivalries with one another, and the only time this rivalry is set aside is when they enter the prison system. Thus, fighting is common among different Sureño gangs even though they share the same common identity. Sureños have emerged as a national gang in the United States.
Playboys 13 Gang, also known by the acronym PBS13, is a predominantly Mexican-American street gang founded in the Los Angeles County, California and extends to areas in South Central Los Angeles and Orange County, California. The gang also goes by the Spanish term "Conejo" which means "rabbit" or Rabbit gang to identify itself. They align themselves with the prison gang known as La EME or the Mexican Mafia, Because of their affiliation with La EME, while in prison, they set aside their rivalry with other Southern California gang members known as Sureño.
The Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods, also known as the Bounty Hunter Bloods, is a predominantly African American street gang situated in the Nickerson Gardens public housing projects in Watts, Los Angeles.
Westside Locos 13 or simply Westside Locos is a predominantly Latino-American street gang based in West Los Angeles with history dating back to the 1970s. They reside mainly in the Reynier Village neighborhood, and their main subset or "clique" is Halm Avenue Gangsters or "Halm Ave", which street name represents the center of the gang's territory. The gang is most known for their tagging.
Timothy M. Brennan and Robert Ladd joined the Compton Police Department as officers in 1982 and 1983, respectively. In 1988, they were promoted to become Compton's two-man gang unit. The police department could only afford to have two people at the time, even though many smaller cities typically had up to four times as many. As the gang unit, Brennan and Ladd were responsible for dealing with and investigating over fifty-five gangs in the 10.1 square mile area that make up the City of Compton. They have served as the primary or assisting investigating officers on hundreds of gang-related murders and thousands of gang-related shootings, and witnessed instances of gang-related rapes, robberies, drive-by shootings, and shootings at police officers.
The Florencia 13, South Side Florencia 13 or Florence Gang is an American criminal street gang based in Los Angeles, California, composed mainly of Mexican-Americans. The gang is named after the Florence area of Los Angeles County, controlled by the Mexican Mafia. They are involved in drug smuggling, murder, assault and robbery.
Andres Guardado was an 18-year-old Salvadoran-American man shot in the back and was killed by a Deputy Sheriff from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department near Gardena and West Compton on June 18, 2020. Guardado ran from two uniformed police officers into an alley, where he died after being shot by deputies. Seven shots were fired and Guardado was hit in the upper torso. Police say that Guardado produced a handgun during the chase. Investigators do not believe it was fired. Accounts of the incident are disputed between police and witnesses. Police stated they were searching for footage of the incident. Store-owner Andrew Heney reported that several cameras at the scene, including a digital video recorder that stored surveillance footage, were taken and destroyed by police.
The Mob Piru are a "set" of the Piru gang alliance, which is itself part of the larger Bloods alliance. This Piru set is notable for its connection with Suge Knight, the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records.
The Crenshaw Mafia Gangster Bloods are a "set" of the Bloods gang alliance. The gang gained notability after being referenced in several movies including Boyz n the Hood and Straight Outta Compton.
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