LA: Police raid against the gang "Armenia Power"
By Benoîte Juneau criminals face sentences ranging from one year to life imprisonment.
banking scam, hacking, violence, kidnapping and murder: in the space of twenty years, the Armenian mafia has infiltrated all levels of organized crime.
The mobsters were first set up a credit card scam in a dozen 99 Cent Only stores in the region. Thanks to a sophisticated filtering, they managed to recover the account numbers of customers. A total of two million dollars have been stolen. But the Armenian Power is not his first feat.
The gang is also accused of hacking bank. He would have done with the help of street gangs Afro-Americans in Los Angeles. The victims, often elderly, have been stolen more than $ 10 million.
Some members of Armenian Power are also involved in murder cases. According
Andre Birotte Jr., Attorney at the Federal Court of California, the criminals had taken the habit of resorting to violence to carry out their scams. "Violence, crime and often constitute the dominant common to all these defendants, no matter the crime committed. Each of them is willing to kill for money, "he said the Los Angeles Times. The proof the kidnapping of a businessman in Glendale. The gang had then demanded a ransom of 500,000 dollars against the life of a businessman.
"They are desperate to strike fear in their communities and achieve their goals," said the prosecutor. This conviction 
crown two years of intensive investigation. The operation, renamed Power Outage, involved more than a thousand police officers. The authorities, initially, past the cities of Glendale, Burbank and Hollywood East scrutinized before investigating the rest of the country. Moreover, a new arrest took place this morning at Glendale second largest home to the Armenian world. Twelve alleged members of Armenian Power were then locked up for a scam.
Appeared in the 1990 Los Angeles, the Armenian Power street gang is a very virulent. These members are from the Armenian community, located in the suburbs of Los Angeles since the 1980s.
According to police, 200 people are believed to belong to this small group. One hundred still run in nature.
Photo credits: The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times Source:
http://franceusamedia.com/2011/02/la-raid-de-la-police-contre-le-gang-armenia-power /
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