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35 Guns Hoodstarz And Wave Gang

February 22, 2012 by · Comments Off on 35 Guns Hoodstarz And Wave Gang 

35 Guns Hoodstarz And Wave Gang, Police investigating three murders arrested 43 feuding New York gang members on Thursday based on evidence collected from monitoring what they were saying about the cases on Twitter and Facebook, authorities said.

The 25 accused members of the Wave Gang and 18 accused members of rival Hoodstarz have been terrorizing streets in Brooklyn with shootouts that led to the killing of three people and wounding of several others, New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

The gang members, ages 15 to 21, bragged about the shootings on the social media sites Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, he said.

‘By linking their postings and boastings to active cases and other crimes, these officers were able to build their case,’ Mr Kelly said.

GANG SPEAK (WHAT TS-EX- COPS HAD TO DECODE)

‘Going to the beach’ – Crossing into rival turf

‘Clapped him off the surfboard’ – Shooting a gang member

‘Actors’ or ‘chew’ – Hood Starz members

‘Woo’ – Wave members

‘Lining out’ – shooting someone

‘The officers who made this case became experts in the lexicon as they followed gang members on Twitter, on Facebook and on YouTube.’

The gang were watched and monitored for over a year while they continued to terrorise Brooklyn neighbourhoods.

When the gangs were talking about crossing into rival turf they used the phrase ‘going to the beach’ and when a gang member was gunned down, they said the shooter ‘clapped him off the surfboard’.

Wave members referred to Hood Starz as ‘actors’ and shooting them was called ‘lining them out’.

Wave members were called ‘Woo’ and Hood Starz were called ‘chew’.

According to NBC, last summer a 21-year-old man was visiting the Brownsville area of Brooklyn and was asked by a Wave member if he was ‘chewing’. When he did not understand he was shot in the face.

Wave Gang And Hoodstarz

February 22, 2012 by · Comments Off on Wave Gang And Hoodstarz 

Wave Gang And Hoodstarz, Crossing into rival turf was known as “going to the beach” and when a gang member was gunned down, enemies said the shooter “clapped him off the surfboard.”

The unique language posted on social media sites by members of warring Brooklyn street gangs not only gave cops a glimpse into their coded communications – it also led to 43 arrests.

“The officers who made this case became experts in the lexicon as they followed gang members on Twitter, on Facebook and on YouTube,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said at a press conference announcing the arrests.

Police said members of the Hood Starz and the Wave Gang took to the web to brag about violent crime in Brownsville. Law enforcement sources said gang investigators have increased their monitoring of social networking sites.

In this case, social media chatter helped link the gangs to six murders since June 2010 during an 18-month probe dubbed “Operation Tidal Wave.”

The online boasts also revealed colorful nicknames for the gang members. Members of the Wave Gang were called “Woo” and members of the Hood Starz were called “Chew,” Kelly said.

The Hood Starz are generally from the Marcus Garvey Houses, while members of the Wave Gang repped the Langston Hughes Houses, police said.

Among the suspects in the sweeping indictment was Sahiah (Uzi) Davis, 16, a member of the Wave Gang. She was already at Rikers, held without bail after being slapped with a murder charge in August. She’s accused of killing another teen in Brownsville.

The indictment details a slew of charges, including murder, conspiracy to commit murder and robbery. The NYPD, the Brooklyn district attorney’s office and the city’s special narcotics prosecutor conducted the investigation.

In addition to the murders, authorities linked the gangs to 32 shootings, 36 robberies, two burglaries, seven grand larcenies and 33 arrests for gun possession. A shootout in August involving the gangs wounded a 9-year-old boy and his father, authorities said.

The suspects are between 15 and 21.

“The gangs had a longstanding feud over territory, leading to wanton and reckless behavior where kids would shoot at each other because they were in the wrong gang or on the wrong street or in front of the wrong building,” Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said.

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