West Coast Crips Gang Members Arrested After Taking Selfies At The Murder Scenes

The ruthless leader of a notorious California gang was arrested with 54 other members and associates, who posed for selfies at murder scenes and used high school students as drug mules, prosecutors said.



Randy Alton Graves, 50 — who investigators say ran the West Coast Crips — was indicted in San Diego last week with 55 other gangbangers on a slew of charges that included racketeering and conspiracy to distribute drugs and guns.

Authorities seized more than 16 guns, over 4 pounds of methamphetamine, 4,400 pounds of marijuana and $300,000 in counterfeit bills during a series of raids on Thursday.

“Today, we cut off the arm of the West Coast Crips,” the county’s district attorney, Bonnie Dumanis, told reporters.

The suspects — aged 18 to 51 years old — were collared in the city and the nearby towns of Spring Valley, El Cajon and National City.

Dumanis said the months-long probe found the gang was responsible for one third of gang-related murders in the city and 13% of its overall murder rate, according to KNSD-TV.

“The West Coast Crips are particularly volatile and violent, so we anticipate seeing a huge impact when these individuals are removed from the communities throughout San Diego,” said U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy.

Investigators say one of the murders pinned on the crew was the April 2013 killing of Chyrene Borgen, an associate who openly criticized lower-ranked members, known as “3-Babiez.”

After the woman’s death, several members of the crew posted selfies taken at the murder scene to their Facebook accounts, authorities said.

In one of the pictures, which was released to the media, one member is wearing a white hoodie that reads, “3 BABIEZ, YELLOW TAPE GANG, ANYBODY KILLA.”


Court papers reveal that Graves was recorded on a wiretap threatening another gang associate, a woman he feared was about to report a murder to police.

“You run your mouth, you die. Period,” Graves tells the woman on the phone, according to the documents. “You run and hide, we get the next closest thing to you. Period. No ifs, ands or buts.”

Aside from the violent crime, investigators uncovered a drug-smuggling operation that enlisted some teenagers from El Cajon Valley High School to smuggle meth from Mexico.

It was not immediately clear if any current students were arrested in the takedown, but the school’s principal, Erin Richisin, said that she alerted parents about the recent busts.




These ni**as took selfies at the murder scenes?Selfies Gone Wrong!



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