Omari Allen is a suspected member of "200 block Young Hawgz," arraigned on counts of attempted murder

Omari Allen was arraigned on counts of attempted murder, assault on a peace officer and shooting at an occupied vehicle, with firearm and gang-related allegations that carry extra penalties, said Chief Deputy District Attorney Kathryn Mitchell. Allen returns to court Wednesday to enter a plea. His bail is set at $5 million. The shooting occurred on the night of Feb. 20 in Marin City, when a sheriff's deputy was sitting in his car in the 100 block of Drake Avenue. Sheriff's officials said a single round was fired at the car from a handgun and became lodged in a pillar on the driver's side of the car. The deputy was not injured. Allen was identified as a suspect through a single tip that came via the Crime Stoppers phone line for anonymous tips, sheriff's Sgt. Debra Barry said Tuesday. Investigators arrested Allen early Saturday morning during a raid at his apartment in the public housing complex. A gun was recovered during the arrest, and investigators are testing it to see if it can be linked to the shot on the deputy's car. The sheriff's department is also investigating whether Allen can be connected to a series of some 30 robberies in Marin City over the past year, many involving guns and targeting bus commuters near the transit center. The sheriff's office said Allen is a suspected member of
the "200 block Young Hawgz," a reputed criminal street gang in the public housing area along Drake Avenue. In December, two other alleged Hawgz pleaded guilty to a gang-related assault on a family visiting Marin City's annual Labor Day festival.
In a report last year, the Marin County Civil Grand Jury identified the Young Hawgz as a gang with about 35 members in Marin City

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Timothy “Fuzzy” Timms, a 45-year-old member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle club, stood up Monday for his First Amendment right to freedom of expressi

Timothy “Fuzzy” Timms, a 45-year-old member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle club, stood up Monday for his First Amendment right to freedom of expression. Timms, a resident of the San Diego community of South Park, refused to take off a black leather vest with the motorcycle club's “death's head” insignia when he reported for jury duty. He's a big burly man, 5 feet 8 inches, 250 pounds, with a full beard and auburn-colored, shoulder-length hair. At 7:45 a.m., Timms' stance got him booted from the San Diego Superior Court's Hall of Justice by sheriff's deputies, along with another Hells Angel who also refused to remove his insignia vest. Nine hours later, representatives of both the Superior Court and the sheriff's department apologized to Timms and club member Mick Rush for “misunderstanding” an order issued April 24 by Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Fraser. Rush also had been reporting for jury duty. “It all boils down to a misunderstanding of Judge Fraser'

Rashawn and Deon Beneby Someone mowed down the brothers, some 15 yards apart, on a grassy strip

''They may have been into drugs but they didn't do anything to harm anybody,'' said their aunt, Cheryl Watkins. ``It was cold-blooded murder to lay them out like that.''Miami-Dade County's 80th and 81st homicides of 2008: Rashawn and Deon Beneby, brothers and suspects in a string of violent robberies, shot dead Thursday afternoon next to the Liberty City middle school they once attended. ''It's cold-blooded, outright killing out there -- and we're not even in the summer yet,'' said the Rev. Richard Dunn, a community activist who lives three blocks away. Witnesses said a group of men were gathered outside an apartment at the Annie Coleman Gardens housing project when the shooting started.Someone mowed down the brothers, some 15 yards apart, on a grassy strip next to the chain-link fence that separates the community from the baseball field at Charles R. Drew Middle School, 1801 NW 60th St. Rashawn was executed -- shot in the head an

Jorge “Rivi” Ayala, Griselda Blanco, aka the Black Widow

Rivi was, for a time, the hit-man of choice for Griselda Blanco, aka the Black Widow. Griselda was the grande dame of the Miami cocaine business, a Colombian mother of three, of impoverished origins, who slaughtered and intimidated her way to the top of a billion-dollar industry. She is a central character in this movie, the most deadly figure in a story in which the bodies are stacked like dominos. Conspicuous by her absence as an interviewee, she is one of the few key survivors of the era whom the film-makers were unable to coax before the lens. “Her release was imminent at that point, as was her deportation. I think she has changed her mind since, because we have been reapproached,” Corben says. contract killer Jorge “Rivi” Ayala, the director of Cocaine Cowboys Billy Corben says: “He told me where there is a body buried in Miami, by the Florida turnpike. It’s all developed now, malls and condominiums. He knows where all the bodies are buried. We told the police. I think he told the

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