Ricardo Richie Espinoza Jr., a Caldwell gang member, admitted in court this week he was involved in two Canyon County shootings

Ricardo Richie Espinoza Jr., a Caldwell gang member, admitted in court this week he was involved in two Canyon County shootings on the same day in 2007.The 18-year-old pleaded guilty to two amended charges of aggravated battery. He was originally charged with attempted murder in connection with two violent attacks in Wilder and Caldwell that left two people injured.An 18-year-old documented gang member was sentenced to prison on Feb. 5 for his role in the firebombing of the Wilder home.Fabian Hernandez Olmeda was sentenced to 10 years in prison on a first-degree arson charge. He will be eligible for parole in three years.Olmeda, of Caldwell, was 16 at the time. Olmeda admitted to officials that the attack was gang-related. He was charged as an adult and eventually pleaded guilty to the charge of first-degree arson. Espinoza told the court he was targeting a youth he mistook for a rival gang member who had fought with a female member of Espinoza's gang. As the victim — who was not a rival gang member — paid for food at the drive-through window of the North 10th Avenue restaurant at 11:20 p.m., Espinoza said he walked up to the victim's car and began shooting through the driver's side window. The teenage victim was treated at a Boise hospital for shots to his arm, elbow, shoulder and rib cage. The shooting was unprovoked and motivated by revenge, Espinoza told the judge.

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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

LaAunzae was a Vice Lord, and Donald Ragland was a Gangster Disciple

2005 execution-style murder in Frayser was a case marked by "gangs, guns and death." And not incidentally, they added, there was an element of revenge when defendant Donald Ragland Jr. shot 26-year-old LaAunzae Grady three times in the back on a cold December afternoon outside of St. Elmo's Market."He didn't have a problem taking this job, because LaAunzae had killed his brother five or six years before this," gang unit prosecutor Ray Lepone told a Criminal Court jury. "LaAunzae was a Vice Lord, and Donald Ragland was a Gangster Disciple."Asst. Public Defender Trent Hall said prosecutors would not be able to prove their case and asked jurors to acquit Ragland, 27, of first-degree murder.On Wednesday, jurors watched a surveillance video from the store that showed an apparently nervous Grady looking out the front door of the store several times before finally leaving.A half-dozen loud gunshots then quickly follow, though the shooting on the outside p

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