LA gang member sentenced to life in prison for targeting blacks
Tagged: California, crime, Los Angeles, prisonPosted on: January 23rd, 2007“The fourth member of a Hispanic street gang convicted of hate crimes in a bloody campaign to drive blacks from their neighborhood was sentenced Monday to life without parole in federal prison.
Porfirio Avila, 32, and three other members of the Avenues were found guilty in August in what authorities charged was a conspiracy to attack blacks over six years in the Highland Park area, east of downtown Los Angeles.”
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