When people think of East Los Angeles the first things that pop into most people’s heads are gang violence, drugs dealers, crooks, and thieves. In a way this is what makes the Maravilla Projects such ...

Homicide detectives were called to the basketball courts behind Nueva Maravilla Housing Community ... according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Sky 2 was over the bloody scene ...

Deputies showed up at Rafael Madrigal’s door in Mira Loma, about 45 miles from the crime scene in East Los Angeles ... the gun belonged to a Ford Maravilla gang member who matched the victim ...

Gage Maravilla, White Fence and other local gangs in Boyle Heights, a dense neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles. Johnny Torres, the driver, has been a paid gang intervention worker in the ...

The corner of Fourth and Soto streets in East Los Angeles, according to the LAPD, used to be the "hub of gang activity" in the area. But during a news conference Thursday, LAPD Capt. Martin Baeza ...

Hundreds of law enforcement officers raided East Los Angeles homes on Wednesday, searching for gang members with ties to the Mexican Mafia who were indicted on federal racketeering charges.

In 2013, Chavez said he got a letter from Robert Ruiz, a Mexican Mafia member from the Lomita Maravilla gang in East Los Angeles. Ruiz had gotten the lawyer’s name from another gang member ...

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On a recent Saturday afternoon, a dozen children took to the Maravilla Handball Court for ... of the oldest handball court in East Los Angeles. “This is just the beginning,” said Huante ...

In the early morning hours of May 12, 2014, Hernandez and seven other members of an East Los Angeles street gang, which claimed the Ramona Gardens public housing complex as its turf, prepared ...