Gang Members Arrested Facebook

Gang Members Arrested Facebook, Police investigating three murders arrested 43 feuding New York gang members on Thursday based on evidence collected from monitoring what the gang members 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,” Kelly said.

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said authorities will next be going after gangs in other Brooklyn neighborhoods.

“We know who you are. We know how you operate,” he said. “Make no mistake about it. We’re coming after you next.”

Hynes said the feud that started in August between Wave Gang and Hoodstarz resulted in the death of an innocent bystander, and the wounded included a 9-year-old boy and his father.

Life In Prison

Life In Prison, The jailmate of Carl Williams has today been sentenced to life behind bars for murdering the notorious gangland killer inside Barwon Prison. In a packed Victorian Supreme Court, Justice Lex Lasry described Matthew Charles Johnson’s actions in murdering Williams on April 19 last year in the high-security Acacia unit they shared as “appalling”.

“This was an appalling murder,” he said. “It was a killing which appears to demonstrate your belief that you have some special entitlement to kill when you think it is appropriate, or your ego demands it according to some meaningless underworld prison code.

‘‘I am left with no choice but to punish what you have done with an appropriately heavy sentence.”

He ordered Johnson, who showed no emotion in court, to serve a minimum of 32 years before becoming eligible for parole.

Johnson’s cold reaction was in contrast to his victim’s ex-wife Roberta Williams’, who was close to tears as she attended court for the sentence with her new baby and the couple’s school-aged daughter Dhakota.

The 38-year-old Johnson had pleaded not guilty to the gangland figure’s murder.

Williams was serving time in the unit after he was sentenced to life with a minimum of 35 years for the murders of Michael Marshall (October 25, 2003), Mark Mallia (August 18, 2003), Jason Moran (June 21, 2003) Lewis Moran (March 31, 2004) and conspiracy to murder Mario Condello (June 2004), who was later gunned down in 2006.