A Democratic congressman “personally requested” to meet with a criminal gangbanger and several other illegal migrants with ...

An indictment unsealed Tuesday accuses 11 members of L.A.'s so-called 18th Street gang of belonging to two 'cliques' that acted at the behest of imprisoned Mexican Mafia member Ruben Castro.

The gang (an offshoot of the much older Clanton 14) formed more than 40 years ago on 18th Street in Pico-Union, the neighborhood bordered by the Santa Monica Freeway to the south and the Harbor ...

Despite its local name, the 18th Street gang is a sprawling organization founded years ago in Los Angeles and now has members across North America. Its biggest rival is the better-known MS-13.

Cynthia Gonzalez has responded to backlash after she appeared to call on gangs to defend their neighborhoods from federal immigration agents.

L.A.’s 18th Street Gang Is Hit With Injunction Forbidding Recruiting By Jessica Garrison July 3, 2004 12 AM PT Times Staff Writer ...

Marroquin-Galdamez and others in the same bar were members of a rival gang, 18th Street, according to the release. Marroquin-Galdamez was arrested and indicted in August 2021, according to court ...

Formed in Los Angeles in the 1960s, 18th Street is one the city’s largest gangs and has spread across the United States and into Mexico and Central America. For years, members of the gang in Los ...

The FBI has been trying to take down the 18th Street gang in Los Angeles for more than a decade, but generations of gang leaders have made it difficult. One gang leader even ran his "loyal ...

The 18th Street gang, which traces its beginnings to the streets of Los Angeles, uses the Roman numeral X for 10. The shower area had “18” inscribed on it in black spray-painted letters 2-feet ...