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WALNUT CHEEK. Calif. (AP) — A disturbing new
ethic in which youth kill without remorse is rear
ing its ugly head in Contra Costa County, gang
experts say.
Youth gangs are tightening their grip on the urban
streets of San Pablo and Richmond and moving into
the affluent .San Ramon Valley, a newspaper report
ed Sunday.
"It's not amorality. It's not immorality. It s a new
morality." said Chuck Clement, a county deputy
probation officer.
Raised on violence, poverty and hopelessness,
gang members are committing more and more shoot
ings and other crimes, the Contra Costa Times
reported.
"They are like a snake," Jim Hernandez., a gang
mediator at Richmond High School, said of gang
members. "After a point, a snake will attack any
thing that moves."
The county, which spends about $11 million a
year to supervise juveniles in jail, estimates that a
quarter of them are gang members.
Before 1990. four to eight young people were slain
in the county each year. But this year, the county
is on pace for 25 such deaths, according to Jack
Waddell, senior deputy district attorney
Between 1988 and 1992, the number of juveniles
arrested for investigation of murder doubled from
seven to 14. And during the past seven years, the
Mount Diablo school district reported a fivefold
jump in suspension of firearms and other weapons
— from 42 in 1986-87 to 206 in 1992-9.1.
"Putting three bullets into someone's head and
looking at his brains hanging out doesn't faze them,"
Hernandez said “There's so much rage and anger
in them, and society is starting to feel it."
The Contra Costa Times spent six months of
reporting for the special section on the problem.
' Bleeding Colors," People interviewed included
gang members, who described the daily violence
and despair of their lives.
"There's a little war zone in the United States. ”
said Kao Kouei "Choco" Saechao. a 17-year-old
who grew up in North Richmond, listening to gun
shots from the streets nearly every night. He wears
a baseball cap in the blue color of the Sons of
Death, an Asian gang out of Richmond and San
Pablo.
"Man, this thing will never end.” he said. "There
ain't no way it can end. One way or another it will
just keep going on. It's just revenge after revenge.
It’s kind of stupid. That's reality."
Other youths belong to such gangs ns the 13s. also
known as Surenos. and their rivals, 14s. also known
as Nortenos. Both are two large, statewide Hispan
ic gangs with many local subgroups.
Other, local gangs include Brown Pride Locos,
a mix of 13s and 14s; Project Trojans, a black group;
Supreme White Power, a gang based in the Cali
fornia Youth Authority, and Richtown Locas. girls
associated with west county 13s.
Much of the gang violence occurs in the west
county, where gangs tend to divide along city lines.
San Pablo Police Chief Douglas Krathwohl estimates
there are up to 4,000 gang members in the west
county.
“What’s taking place here is a real cultural rev
olution." he said. “We don’t have enough police
officers and probation officers to deal with them.
It’s a shame on the whole community for letting
it happen this way," he said.
But turf battles also are waged in the eastern coun
ty. an area of suburban homes among rolling hills.
No deaths have been reported there, but there have
been shootings and fights. Authorities fear it could
get worse.
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Man guilty
of lesser
charge
MEDFORD (AF) — A former
Medford funeral director has
pleaded guilty to a lesser charge
in o case alleging he sexually
molested the corpse of a murder
victim.
Bradford Simas, 3 3, was
allowed to plead guilty last
week to a misdemeanor charge
of tampering with evidence in
the murder of Leah Lavis in
1991. He was originally charged
with felony corpse abuse.
The charge was brought last
summer after a local photo
processer gave police a roll of
film with pictures showing a
hand on the teen-ager's body
interspersed with vacation
snapshots of Simas.
Simas maintained that he had
left his camera on his desk and
anyone could have taken the
pictures while the body was
being held pending an autopsy.
Deputy District Attorney John
Bondurant said the hand shown
in the pictures was out of focus
and couldn't conclusively be
identified as Simas’.
Jackson County District Judge
Ross Davis fined Simas $295.
Simas is already serving four
years in federal prison for a Cal
ifornia drug conviction.
The case prompted both the
Conger Morris Funeral Home
and law enforcement authori
ties to enact new security pre
cautions.