From armed robberies to high-speed chases, these are the stories of 6 couples who left a trail of terror across California.
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In November 2011, federal agents descended upon a warehouse in San Diego, California’s industrial district. What they discovered beneath the...
In May 2018, FBI agents surrounded a luxury home in Seal Beach, California. But their target wasn’t a drug kingpin or a gang leader, it was...
10 of the most vicious gangsters to ever walk the streets of California.
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Melanie Williams became involved in prostitution while she was still a teenager, but unlike many in the profession, Melanie never tried to hide it...
Like many stories that unfold in South Los Angeles, this one involves two men from the same gang. Both members of the Rollin 60s, Eric Holder and...
Lev Dermen, also known as The Lion, was a self-made billionaire who came to California from Armenia and built a fortune out of nothing. He lived a...
It’s almost impossible to measure the full extent of influence that Los Angeles gang culture has had on the world. But for one 16-year-old in the...
Darrell Dent was a young athlete with a bright future in Major League Baseball. Chosen 3rd round in the draft, he had the path to success laid out in...
In the 1990s, California saw a disturbing increase in the number of kids committing murder. In 1994, 250 juveniles under the age of fifteen were in...
Are you a Crip or a Blood? That was the first question Officer Donovan Jacobs asked when he pulled over Sagon Penn. Minutes later, a police officer...
During the 1960s and 70s, women would wait in line to be with Frank Ward. He was a hustler and a pimp with money and power, and with his brothers, he...
Chad MacDonald was 17 years old when police detectives fit him with a hidden wire tap and sent him into a drug dealer’s meth house to buy drugs...
In 2013, alleged gang leader Todd Ashker, was sitting in a windowless prison cell in solitary confinement – and he had been there for 25 years...
Suge Knight and Terry Carter both grew up in Compton, California. Both became successful business men and both were well-known and respected in their...
When talking about the history of lowriders, there are so many names who could be mentioned. So many people who, over the years, have contributed to...
In 2012, Barry Gilton and his wife found out that their 17-year-old daughter was working for a pimp in Los Angeles, California. The couple did...
California 200 years ago, looked a lot different than it does today. Back then there were no cars, no tv’s or phones, houses didn’t even...
In 2010, a California FBI office received a letter from an inmate inside the Men’s Central Jail in Los Angeles. The letter, stated that there...
Every day, people turn to their televisions, newspapers, computers and phones to get their daily news. All of this information, comes from the...
Reports of police corruption in California have existed ever since the first police department was formed in 1849 in Sacramento. In the past 30 years...
In the late 1990s, newspapers were filled with stories of men and women in California who were sentenced to life in prison for misdemeanor offenses...
Skid Row in Los Angeles, California is one of the largest and most dangerous homeless encampments in the country and it’s one of the places...
In 1991, Tony Young looked like a regular business man. You would never have believed that he was a leader of the Wah Ching, one of the biggest Asian...
In the 1990’s, there were over sixty thousand gang members in Los Angeles. One of those gang members was Raul Ramos. But he wasn’t like...
Watani Stiner was once one of the most wanted men in America. Accused of the shooting deaths of The Black Panther Party leaders Bunchy Carter and...
In 1996, investigative journalist Gary Webb wrote a series of stories exposing the connection between the CIA and the crack cocaine that was being...
T. Rodgers has been linked to the West Coast Black P. Stones for over 50 years. Known as the man who founded the Los Angeles blood gang. But what...
In 1942, Ralph Lazo was one of over 10,000 men and women living in California’s Manzanar concentration camp. The camp was built to house...
Flores A. Forbes first joined The Black Panther Party at 16 years old. He later became the man who controlled all the guns and weapons for the Party...
It was 1987 when DJ Yella got together with friends from his Compton California neighborhood to form the rap group N.W.A. At the time, none of them...
Felix Mitchell is known as being the Godfather of Oakland California’s drug game. As the leader of a heroin empire he was Oakland’s first...
Only one photo was ever taken of José Díaz. It was in 1942 and he was 22 years old. A week later he was killed. The Los Angeles police department...
Basketball player Demetrius “Hook” Mitchell was all but guaranteed to go to the NBA straight out of highschool. Coaches, players, scouts...
The Crip King, the King of the Crips and the Crip Godfather are just a few of the names that have been used to describe Stanley Tookie Williams, the...
Edward “Big Ed” Sanders might not be a name you often hear in discussions about the greatest boxers in history but it should be. He made boxing...
Scott “Junior” Ereckson joined the Mongols Motorcycle Club in 1980. He watched the club grow from just a few hundred members in...
In the 1960s, The Wolf Pack was the strongest and most rebellious black prison group in California and James Carr was one of it’s most...
In 1992, the LA riots tore through the city, bringing complete destruction to the community and it’s businesses. As the world watched, news...
Kev Mac grew up around one of the biggest gangs in Los Angeles, the Rollin 60s and he followed in the footsteps of generations before him becoming a...
In the 1980’s, a new wave of Asian gangs started popping up around Southern California and Tin Nguyen was there from the very beginning.
It’s almost impossible to be in Southern California and not know who Big Boy is. He’s been a Hip Hop radio DJ for over 25 years and...
They call him Fillmore Slim, the Pope of Pimpin and the best to ever do it. Fillmore Slim has lived a life most couldn’t even imagine. He went...
In 1999, 70 police officers were accused of police misconduct during the LAPD’s infamous Rampart Scandal and the man behind it all was Rafael...
Kermit Alexander was a neighborhood success story. Raised in the Watts area of South Central LA he made it out of the projects and into the NFL...
Phil Ivey is widely considered the best poker player ever. He went from playing in family poker games to playing in some of the most exclusive poker...
In 1993, Monster Kody wrote an autobiography that shocked the world, forever changing the way people looked at gangs in Los Angeles. His book also...
There are only a few rappers today who can say they’ve actually changed the course of Hip Hop and Too Short is one of them. From selling tapes...
