Charges filed against West Side gang

In the second major gang sweep in two weeks, federal and local authorities announced Wednesday a crackdown on the Imperial Insane Vice Lords, a violent West Side gang, with the arrests of nearly three dozen leaders and members for a murder, an attempted murder and almost two decades of drug trafficking.
Among those charged was the gang's reputed "king," Nathaniel Hoskins, 45, who was accused of ordering the April 2011 murder of drug rival Marcus Hurley in West Humboldt Park. The gang henchman who allegedly carried out the killing, Andre Brown, was himself fatally shot in June 2012.
Hoskins was arrested at O'Hare International Airport on Tuesday as he was boarding a flight to Las Vegas, where he has a second home.  Prosecutors will seek to continue to detain him and a number of his co-defendants at hearings next week.
Hoskins and nine other defendants were charged with federal racketeering conspiracy. Hoskins and 23 other members of the gang were also charged with drug conspiracy for allegedly running an open-air market on the West Side that peddled heroin, cocaine and marijuana. Nine others face state charges in Cook County.
According to the indictment, the gang used violence to control its drug markets. Authorities alleged three high-ranking gang members — Torrie King, 37; Julian Martin, 28, and Raymond Myles, 39 — plotted the murder of an individual in May 2011, but the killing was not carried out. Another gang leader, Joseph Faulkner, 40, was charged with ordering the January 2010 shooting of an unnamed victim who was wounded but survived the attack.
Court records show that two decades ago, Hoskins and Faulkner were charged in the 1993 murder of Jerome Lucious on the West Side. Hoskins fled to Las Vegas, where he was arrested in 2005 living under an alias, records show. The murder charges were eventually dropped against Hoskins, while Faulkner was found not guilty by a Cook County judge.
Late last month, the leader and several other members of the Hobos street gang were charged in connection with several homicides, including the 2006 killing of a police informant.

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9 charged in gang conspiracy, including 5 murders

Nine members of a violent street gang known as the Hobos were charged today in a federal racketeering case that involves narcotics trafficking, robberies and murders, including the 2006 slaying of a federal informant in the case.
The five-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury alleges five murders, solicitation of a sixth murder, four attempted murders, three robberies and the operation of “drug spots” and “drug lines” on the city’s South Side among a pattern of criminal activity between 2004 and 2009.  Four of the defendants are charged with personally shooting to death five victims between 2006 and 2009, including one victim, Wilbert Moore, who authorities said was killed because he was cooperating with law enforcement.
Among those charged with racketeering conspiracy was the alleged leader of the Hobos, Gregory “Bowlegs” Chester, 36, of Richton Park. The two defendants charged in the murder of the informant were identified as Paris “Poleroski” Poe, 33, and Arnold “Armstrong” Council, 37.
Poe is suspected in a second slaying of a gang informant in April, according to court records, but he was not charged today in connection with that slaying.

man charged with murder in gang fight that left 1 dead

A Hobart, Ind., man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of one man and the injury of as he tried to drive away from a gang fight in the Gage Park neighborhood early Sunday.
Wenceslao Arriaga, 25, is charged with murder and aggravated battery after running down two men with his car about 3:20 a.m. in the 5700 block of South Central Park Avenue, killing a man identifed by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as Jose Ibarra, 20, and injuring a 23-year-old man, police said in a release this afternoon. Arriaga was trying to flee the scene at the time.
A 23-year-old man also was struck by the car and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital for treatment of injuries to his arms and legs. The Ibarra was declared dead on the scene. Arriage suffered stab wounds and was being treated at Advocate Christ Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized.
The fight happened along Central Park Avenue, which is a single-car-width alley with a raised rail bed on one side and homes on the other along the viaduct.
The fight began when a vehicle drove past a party going on in a garage, and someone at the party, thinking those in the car might be members of a rival gang, threw a brick at the vehicle. Those in the car got out, and the two groups began fighting, ending with the stabbing and the vehicle trying to flee the scene and running over the two men.
It was not until the dust settled that those involved realized that they all were part of the same street gang.

Black Souls gang leaders ordered held without bail

Amid heavy courthouse security, the alleged top leaders of one of Chicago’s most violent street gangs were ordered held without bail today on sweeping racketeering charges that allege they controlled their West Side drug empire through intimidation, kidnappings, shootings and murder dating back to the 1990s.
Prosecutors alleged in charges unsealed Thursday that Cornel Dawson, 38, the reputed chief of the Black Souls gang, and Teron Odum, 34, described by prosecutors as Dawson’s second in command, protected an $11 million-a-year drug operation with violence. In all, 23 members of the gang have been charged with racketeering conspiracy, while 18 more face state drug or weapons charges
 Judge Israel Desierto ordered both held without bail, citing the evidence contained in the 78-page affidavit unsealed Thursday by prosecutors. Both face up to mandatory life in prison if convicted of the most serious charges.
 Several other alleged high-ranking members of the gang who appeared for bond hearings claimed to support themselves through jobs ranging from shining shoes to stocking soft drinks for a beverage company.
 The arrests mark the first prosecution by the Cook County state’s attorney’s office under the state RICO law that took effect last June and was modeled after the 1970 federal racketeering statute originally designed to go after mobsters. By classifying a gang as a criminal enterprise, the law allows authorities to hold leaders responsible for the gang’s actions even if they are insulated from a particular crime such as a murder or drug deal.
The law carries stiff penalties for those convicted of participating in a criminal enterprise -- from a mandatory 7- to 30-year prison term for racketeering conspiracy up to life in prison without parole for those convicted of murder under the statute.

Bail denied for man charged in Chicago Lawn slaying

A judge denied bail today for a 21-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a rival gang member who didn’t “throw down the fork’’ upon demand this week in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Abel Ruiz was in court today before Judge James Brown, who denied bail. Prosecutors said Ruiz has a prior armed robbery conviction from 2007.
Ruiz, of the 3600 block of West 57th Street, was charged with one count of first-degree murder in the slaying early Wednesday of Brandon Cage
An autopsy Thursday determined Cage, who was in his 30s and of an unknown home address, died of multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide.
Cage was shot about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday in 3300 block of West 60th Street and pronounced dead at 3 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
 A man and his girlfriend were standing outside at the 60th Street address waiting for Cage when Ruiz, another man, and a female motorist pulled up in a black 4-door Ford Taurus and stopped near them.
 Ruiz exited a rear passenger door of the Taurus carrying a gun. He put it to the man’s head and told him to "throw down the fork’’ and the man did. Ruiz then turned to Cage, who had arrived and was standing on the sidewalk, and demanded he also “throw down the fork,’’ .
 When Cage refused, saying “I’m a G.D.,’’ Ruiz shot him multiple times, the report said. Ruiz is affiliated with a rival gang.
 The woman behind the wheel of the Taurus began yelling ”hurry up, let’s go’’ and Ruiz jumped in and they fled southbound on Homan Avenue.
 A flash message was broadcast on police radio. Officers saw a black Taurus in the 5300 block of South Sawyer Avenue, pulled it over and arrested Ruiz after he was identified as the gunman

Immigration sweep ends with 18 arrests

Immigration officials arrested 18 gang members or associates during a three-day sweep this week in the Chicago area.
The arrests were made by agents with the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in Chicago, Cicero and Berwyn.
The ICE said those arrested -- age 18 to 42 -- all are documented members or associates of one of the following gangs: Latin Kings, Two-Six Boys, Two-Two Boys, Ambrose, Surenos 13 or the Bishops.
All but one of those being held have criminal histories involving various felony convictions and three previously had been deported.
One of those arrested is from El Salvador and the others are from Mexico and all are in ICE custody on administrative immigration charges pending deportation.

Suburban man held in Sept. slaying

A suburban man was ordered held in lieu of $2 million bail Sunday in connection with a September shooting at a hot dog stand that left one man dead and another paralyzed.
Randy Edmondson, 27, of Midlothian, is facing charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery in connection to the shooting.
Edmondson allegedly got into an argument with someone about 5:20 a.m. Sept. 30 at Johnny O’s Hot Dogs on the 900 block of West 35th Street.
He then allegedly pulled out a handgun and shot Jose Escobar, 25, in the face.
He also shot a 36-year-old man four times, striking him in the back and shoulder.
Escobar died shortly after the shooting, while the other victim is now paralyzed.
One witness ran across the street to his house after the shooting.
Edmondson followed him and got a ride to West 47th Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway.
He allegedly told the witness and the witness's girlfriend that “...she needed to get him out of here and that he was not going back to the county jail” .
Witnesses at the shooting scene identified Edmondson as the gunman.
He is an admitted member of the Satan’s Disciples gang.
The altercation that occurred shortly before the shooting was also captured on the building’s surveillance camera.
Multiple witnesses also identified Edmondson as the shooter.
Edmondson has one 2009 felony conviction for aggravated discharge of a firearm

Man charged with murder 4 years after teen killed in SUV wreck

A Southwest Side man has been charged in the 2009 death of a 16-year-old boy ejected from an SUV when it was rammed by a van during a chase.
Hugo “Juicy” Ocon, 30, has been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying June 18, 2009, of Andres Yanez. .
Yanez was driving in the 6100 block of South Cicero Avenue about 7:30 p.m. that day when he passed a gas station where Ocon had parked his van. Ocon and his friends were flashing gang signs as Yanez passed, and when Yanez’s SUV passed, Ocon got into the driver’s seat and his friends got into the passenger seats of the van and started to chase the SUV.
Yanez was in a black Oldsmobile Bravada SUV when it was rammed by a black Chevrolet van that had been chasing it north on Cicero. The van hit the SUV from behind, the vehicles separated, and the van rammed the SUV again on the driver’s side, causing it to flip over several times until it ended up in the southbound lanes of Cicero.
Yanez was ejected and was run over by a car headed south on Cicero.
Yanez did of multiple injuries stemming from the ejection, and his death was ruled a homicide.
Four other people, all passengers in the Bravada, were injured, one seriously.
Police did not indicate why Ocon, who served prison time following a 2006 burglary conviction, was arrested this week, other than that witnesses identified him as the driver of the van, and police were able to determine he was the registered owner of the van.
Cook County Assistant Public Defender Marijane Placek told the court that Ocon, of the 6300 block of South Komensky Avenue, supports a family by working at a sausage factory.

Teen charged in 16-year-old boy's slaying

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22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding : they are wise to do evil , but to do good they have no knowledge .

A  17-year-old boy has been chargedwith gunning down a 16-year-old in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side earlier this week.
Joel Batalla, 17, is charged with the killing of Angel Cano, 16, on Tuesday..
Officers responding to a call of shots fired found Cano unresponsive in the 4300 block of South Paulina Street around 5:20 p.m. Tuesday.
Cano, of the 2200 block of West 50th Place, was shot several times