Gang Knew About This Morning's Glassell Park Raid?

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AN INTERESTING COMMENT on an LA Times blog about today's 4:00am Glassell Park raid: The Drew St. gang started moving out at 11:00PM though 3:00AM last night. Hit tagging from ER Blvd through Ave 50 to Ave 54 (Avenue's territory) on about twenty homes. Makes it sound like the Avenue gang's Drew Street clique escaped by leaving directional breadcrumbs for their brethren in the form of spray-painted homes all over Glassell Park and Eagle Rock, perhaps re-carving territory while they were at it. It goes on.

Pre-Dawn Raid: Culmination of 10-Month Investigation

MORE ON TODAY'S pre-dawn raid, with more than 500 officers arresting dozens of Avenues gang members, the culmination of a 10-month investigation, just across San Fernando Road from Atwater Village:

• 'Major takedown' targets members of Glassell Park's Drew Street gang [LA Times]
• L.A. gang targeted in major operation [ABC7]
• Task Forces Target Gangs Near Glendale [CBS2]

Several of the gang's members have been indicted for murder, drug trafficking, carjacking, home invasion robberies and witness intimidation.

Does this mean it's safe again for late-night tacos on Fletcher Drive?

Glassell Park Early-Morning Crackdown

THE POLICE AND NEWS helicopters above Atwater Village since 4:00am have been circling an early-morning crackdown on the Drew Street gang in the neighboring northeast LA neighborhood of Glassell Park.

CBS2 this morning shows local and federal law enforcement surrounding apartment buildings between Forest Lawn cemetery and the 2 freeway, serving warrants on suspected members of "a splinter group of the larger Avenues gang that has been linked to numerous and violent crimes in the area."

Thanks for the wake-up call, cops. See if you can get my stereo back.

Northeast LA Wakes Up, Realizes We Have a Gang Problem

Warning Signs along the LA River, by Atwater Village Newbie

A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL Sunday. A community meeting Monday. Another confab with government officials tonight. The northeast LA neighborhoods of Atwater Village, Cypress Park and Glassell Park are waking up to more than our fair share of gang shootings lately. By one account, LAPD's northeast division has seen 12 gang-related shootings, more than any other division, so far in 2008. Greater Cypress Park NC Health & Safety Committee Tuesday, Feb. 26, 7:00pm Aragon Ave Elementary School 1118 Aragon Ave., L.A., CA 90065 Feb. 26: Shattered sense of security [LA Times] Feb. 23: Glassell Park gang shooting incident yesterday [LA City Council President Eric Garcetti] Feb. 23: A Gang's Staying Power [LA Times] Feb. 22: Gang mayhem cripples big area [LA Times]