Toonerville Rifa 13

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Toonerville Rifa 13
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Toonerville Rifa (TVR) depicted in green among other North-East Los Angeles gangs. the Avenues (AVES) is blue, Thee Rascals is black, Frogtown is red and Cypress Park in yellow.
Founded1930s
Founding location Atwater Village, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Years active1930s–present
Territory Atwater Village, Glendale,Gwinnett County, Georgia Bremen, Georgia
Ethnicity Chicano
Membership (est.)450 [1]
Activities Murder, assault, drug trafficking, racketeering, witness intimidation, robbery, extortion, auto theft
Allies Mexican Mafia [2]
Sureños [3]
Rivals Armenian Power [4]
The Avenues [5]
Westside Locos [6] The Rascals, Frogtown Rifa, Vineland Boys, MS-13, Russian mafia, Norte-14
Notable members Timothy Joseph McGhee

Toonerville Rifa 13, also known as The Ville, is a Mexican-American street gang located in Los Angeles county. [7]

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History

The name Toonerville was created in 1902 by a cartooner in Louisville Kentucky, he merge his profession and the city he lived to create the toonervile folks cartoon and sold it to the newspapers, a group of friends in 1926 in Los Angeles started calling the area they lived toonerville due to the red line trolley going through their small mix race community and an area adjacent called Tropico and South Glendale, California. As they traveled to parties and got into fights it became a gang. In the late 1940s a group of them form the clique Callejeros and another called the Aztecas until late 1950's. By this time most were older, so a new clique surfaced called the Latin Souls, and a smaller one called the Cut Downs but they did not take. In the early 1960's another clique was created called the Midgets late in the 1970s another one was created from the Glendale side called the gangsters. Toonerville was divided in two sides north and south, by one of the members of the midgets that lived in Glendale. In the early 1990s a Tujunga chapter of the gang was formed. All the cliques were and had been part of Toonerville and their creation was due to difference in age and different activities .

One of the members, Timothy Joseph McGhee, was sentenced to death in 2009 for his role in three separate homicides. Additionally, he is suspected of taking part in as many as twelve murders in the Los Angeles area. [8] TVR 13 claims Atwater Village as its turf.

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References

  1. ↑ "L.A., Glendale seek injunction against Toonerville gang". Los Angeles Times . 18 November 2008.
  2. ↑ People v. Clayborn casetext.com (January 24, 2017)
  3. ↑ The monster of Atwater Village Andrew Eways, police1.com (February 8, 2013)
  4. ↑ The Bowtie Parcel’s Next-Door Neighbors Ruxandra Guidi and Bear Guerra, KCET (October 9, 2018)
  5. ↑ People v. Montes Court Listener (May 21, 2015)
  6. ↑ People v. Gudiel fearnotlaw.com (July 10, 2009)
  7. ↑ "Gangs 101: Chapter 2". www.glendalepolicefoundation.org. Archived from the original on February 16, 2009.
  8. ↑ U.S. Department of Justice
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