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Across the street from SoFi Stadium, Midnight and Stomper from 18th Street are walking through a shopping center, attempting to avoid Crenshaw Mafia Blood members. While walking, they encounter a man sitting in front of the Ross Department Store and claim that the man at Ross banged on them with the word “Whoop”. In less than 20 seconds, Stomper pulls out a pistol and shoots the man one time in front of multiple witnesses before fleeing into the 18th Street neighborhood. Detectives immediately identify the two suspects from pictures taken by a witness on the scene and a manhunt begins. After Midnight and Stomper are taken into custody, they begin to show weakness in the interrogation room and throw each other under the bus. After explaining the crime to detectives, one of the members of 18th Street is let go, while the other is held on 1st degree murder charges.

Joshua Giles is a tire shop waiting for a Brake inspection with his 5 year old and 1 year old baby. He’s on the phone with his girlfriend when a masked individual approaches him and executes him in front of his kids. As detectives struggle to find a motive for this senseless murder, they begin to stumble on several leads across a month long crime spree pointing to Kavion Sims-Petty aka Slap-A-Napp from 83 Hoover as a suspect. As detectives race to try to catch Slap, he participates in more brazen crimes across the streets of Los Angeles. With the 83 Hoovers being in multiple gang wars throughout the city, it’s only a matter of time before Slap commits another unprovoked murder in the city.

A robbery crew from Nutty Blocc Compton Crip is competing with the Chesapeake Bandit armored truck robbery team from Los Angeles. In 2022, Gregory James and Lamond Akins from Compton decide to get into the armored truck robbery scene but with a twist, they like to shoot the truck guards on every robbery. As the Chesapeake Bandits take credit for a $1 Million robbery in Gardena, the FBI is certain that the Nutty Blocc’s were actually the ones responsible for that robbery where two guards were shot. With many similarities been both crews, the Feds begin to attack them at the same time due to the attempted homicides starting to occur more frequently.

After a dice game between the Rollin 60’s and the Main Street Mafia Crips ends with a Main Street member being robbed, 4Xtra from Rollin 40s is called to enact revenge. 4Xtra gathers various members from the 40s and Main Street to retaliate against the 60s and a target is spotted on 11th Ave. A 41 year old woman, who is finishing her birthday celebration is sitting in her car while 4Xtra and his crew pulls up to her car and begins shooting, striking her 8 times but not killing her. After 11 years, an individual from Rollin 40s that was involved in the shooting is sitting in prison and decides to start cooperating against 4Xtra and the other shooters. Police eventually make an arrest and charge 4xtra and other members of the Rollin 40’s with attempted murder.

Adhan Clark, a rental car employee is stalking a security guard at a weed dispensary in his company car, after a heated interaction on social media. Clark is from Neighborhood Piru in Inglewood and he suspects the security guard, Enrique Alvarado, is from Inglewood 13; a rival gang. Clark decides to execute Enrique in front of his job in the middle of the day and attempts to evade police. In a matter of hours, Clark’s company vehicle exposes his identity to detectives and the hunt begins to capture a cold blooded killer in the streets of Los Angeles.

Suckerfree104, a rising Hispanic rapper is trafficking guns from Arizona back to his neighborhood in Los Angeles. He releases a music video speaking about his death during one of his trips back to LA and is unaware that a group of people have already been plotting on him. He meets with other members of his neighborhood one night in a popular gang hangout and a fight erupts between Suckerfree and an older homie of his who is tied in with the Mexican Mafia. Surveillance video of the crime shows that members of Lennox 13 were seemingly divided on how they viewed him and his death would put a spotlight yet again on the Mexican Mafia and how they tax Hispanic communities throughout the city of LA.

Markham Bond, a 61 year old serial bank robber is granted compassionate release after serving 27 years out of a 47 year sentence for previous bank robberies. With three previous federal indictments under his belt, Bond is back in the city of Inglewood having a hard time adjusting to life in 2023. He begins to use drugs and is experiencing paranoia as a result. With no where else to turn, Bond goes back to his comfort zone, bank robberies. As federal agents begin to realize they made a mistake letting him out of prison, Bond goes on lavish shopping spree’s and vacations, attempting to make up for all the time missed. As the FBI closes in, Bond decides to take another shot at his third federal trial fighting for his freedom, against a potential life sentence.

On Memorial Day weekend, Kevin “Tiki” Ball is talking to his ex-girlfriend behind a smoke shop controlled by the 83 Gangster Crips. John Ramos rides up on his bike and joins the conversation while a stolen Toyota Rav 4 has been circling the area. Tiki has on a Gangster Crip hat that the occupants of the Rav 4 have took notice of. Two suspects get out of the stolen vehicle and shoot Tiki and John Ramos along with Tiki’s ex girlfriend but patrol units hear the shots. When patrol arrives on scene, they observe multiple suspects fleeing the area and immediately setup a perimeter commanded by LAPD SWAT. What starts now is a race against the clock to extract these suspects from residential buildings before anyone else gets hurt.

Two brothers from rival gangs decide to assemble a robbery team after one of them is released from a 17 year prison sentence. After turning their family home into a command center for armored truck heists, the FBI begins to take notice. With multiple robberies taking place across Los Angeles, other members of the robbery crew begin to insert themselves until the feds step in and somebody is killed. This wouldn’t be the only murder tied to a crew named the Chesapeake Bandits during their crime spree.

Following an initial federal indictment in 2025, the FBI releases a superseding indictment targeting the Hoover Criminals and other gang members trafficking minors and adults throughout Los Angeles and other parts of the country. As details begin to emerge, disturbing allegations of human trafficking crimes circulate to the public. The gruesome details of how these individuals controlled missing children and adult may be disturbing to many. Viewer discretion is advised as we uncover the dirty truth behind the human trafficking trade.

On a Sunday afternoon in South Los Angeles, Mylik Birdsong and his girlfriend are saying goodbye to his Mom and Stepfather in front of their home. As they approach their vehicle to leave, a stolen SUV occupied by five individuals pulls up to Mylik and multiple suspects get out and begin firing at Mylik in front of his family. As his Stepfather is grazed, Mylik is chased down further into his Mom’s driveway and left with 10 gunshot wounds to his body.As police begin to dig deeper into the investigation, one of the shooters, known as Infant RS from Rollin 60’s makes costly mistakes that lead to his arrest in the murder of Mylik Birdsong. With many questions still unanswered, there is still speculation around whether this was an unprovoked attack, or if Mylik’s past had caught up to him.

In the heart of Downtown Los Angeles, Lavelle Gilchrist is sub-leasing a luxury high rise apartment unit to prospective tenants via Instagram. When the future tenants arrive for a walkthrough, Lavelle is ambushed and murdered by masked gunmen in front of the building. As police begin to speak with witnesses and watch surveillance footage of the murder, they quickly realize that this incident was a targeted assassination. What follows is an investigation that leads detectives through an internal gang war between the Neighborhood 1-11 Crips and Original Blocc Crips who both fall under the Rollin’ 100s collective. Detectives uncover numerous altercations between Lavelle and his killers along with several other murders that took place after Lavelle’s death.

A quadruple murder at a birthday party in Inglewood is captured on Ring camera, showing seven suspects armed with rifles, sub-machine guns, and handguns firing over 100 rounds into the party. When the dust settles, detectives find themselves retracing their steps back to a compound that the seven suspects operate out of. Video surveillance located at that compound depict the suspects’ every move after a multi-month crime and murder spree that took the lives of seven people, and injured several more. A multi-agency operation between LAPD, FBI, and the Secret Service uncover the makings of serial killers from East Coast Crip and the aftermath of aggressively planned shootings across Los Angeles.

15 year old Anthony Smithers aka Infant Loko from 8 Trey Hoover Criminals found himself in communication with an attractive young lady on Instagram. After an exchange of messages, he was lured to his death in a neighborhood he was comfortable in. The Main Street Crips were initial suspects in the case but another gang had took an interest in him from a recent “Hood Vlog” that he made an appearance in on YouTube. What follows is a series of investigative tactics that unveil the real killer and the motives behind the brutal murder of a 15 year old boy.

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