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Five San Fernando Valley Street Gang Affiliates Arrested on Federal Complaint Alleging Murder-for-Hire Plot Against Local Crime Boss

LOS ANGELES – Five members and associates of the San Fernando Valley-based Vanowen Street Locos and Elmwood Rifa 13 gangs were arrested today on a federal criminal complaint – four of them charged with taking part in a murder-for-hire plot targeting an Armenian Organized Crime boss but which instead resulted in his significant other getting shot and wounded in front of their two young children earlier this year.

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Action Details

  • Date:September 30, 2025
  • Agency:U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California
  • Enforcement Types:
    • Criminal and Civil Actions