...belonged to a gang called the “Compton T–Flats,” and his nickname was “Dopey.” His friend, Jason Ayala, was a member of a different gang known as Primera Flats. According to Diaz, the Tree Top Piru gang...Angeles County Sheriff's Department Deputy Sheriff Eric Gomez, a gang expert, testified that the Tree Top Piru street gang claims a territory within Compton.... The Tree Top Piru gang's primary activities include murder, assault with a deadly weapon, robbery, and the sale of narcotics. One of their most important rivals is a Hispanic gang known...

...would I know you from?” Warren asked him, “Where you from?” Defendant said he was from “Tree Top Piru,” a Compton gang, although he was not a gang member. Warren told him, “Cuz, I’m Watts...police encouraged him to tell the truth, defendant admitted that he was walking with a girl when Warren and Cardearo “banged” on him. Defendant told them he was a Tree Top Piru member. Warren or...

...Jackson          Jackson testified that he was an inactive member of the Tree Top Piru (Tree Top) gang. On May 27, 2006, he was living on Hickory Street in Compton in...the Fruit Town Piru (Fruit Town) gang, a rival of Tree Top, whose claimed territory was on the other side of Rosecrans. Carey was alone.... “Tank Tops” is a derogatory term for Tree Top gang members.          When Jackson saw the burgundy car with the defendants...

....' " Leslie agreed. Davis was armed with a gun. Leslie drove down Lime Avenue in Compton, an area claimed as the Segundo gang's territory. A second vehicle, driven by another Tree Top Piru gang member, followed... Leslie was a member of the Tree Top Piru criminal street gang. Leslie's cousin, known as "Day-Day," and William Davis were also members of the gang. The Segundos, a Hispanic gang, and the Tree...and wounded. Members of the Tree Top Piru gang believed the Segundo gang was responsible. That evening, Davis asked Leslie to drive him around so he could " 'look and see if anybody [was] out...

...Piru (Tree Top) gang. On May 27, 2006, he was living in Compton in a household that included his mother and his sister, Erica Conner. Jackson left the house at approximately 9:00 a.m. to walk to a...Fruit Town Piru (Fruit Town) gang, a rival of the Tree Tops. Appellant was wearing a distinctive black head covering known as a “wave cap...          a. Carlee Jackson          Jackson testified that he was in inactive member of the Tree Top...

...evidence established that in May 2005, Sylvester Harris and his girlfriend, Shante Henderson, lived on Cedar in a residential community in Compton. They lived in an area claimed by the Tree Top Piru gang.... Harris was a former member of a rival gang. On May 25, 2005, Henderson fought a female at the Compton train station. Appellant, a Fruit Town Piru gang member, was the female’s boyfriend. He joined the...

....          MOB Piru has approximately 215 members. It claims certain territory in and about Compton as its own. The location where appellant was arrested is in this...          While on patrol in a marked car, two deputy sheriffs saw appellant and two other men standing outside a house in Compton. When appellant saw...is MOB Piru, which has been in existence since the early 1990’s. Sanchez has been working with MOB Piru since 1992; he characterized this as his “target gang” since he has been in law enforcement. He...

.... I Tazmania Bernard was a member of the Compton Fruit Town Piru street gang. Someone shot him to death on July 30, 2005. Fellow gang members.... Rodriguez testified Fruit Town Piru is a Blood gang located in the middle of Compton. The gang claimed some 290 members. Fruit Town Piru's territory had once overlapped with the Compton...blamed Bernard's murder on a rival Compton gang called the Varrio Tortilla Flats. Retaliation for Bernard's death was the motive for the deadly acts that followed...

...Bloods are a gang that originated in Los Angeles, California before breaking into individual branches, or "sets," including the so-called "Piru Bloods" in Compton, California. (Id. ¶¶ 8-9.) Sets...that Tree Top Piru Bloods member Gaddie had shot Campbell (id.), although the affidavit does not state the basis for their beliefs...Tree Top Piru Bloods member discussing police questioning of an individual to "build a case" on Newsome, expressing that individuals questioned by investigators should "cool down" (id. ¶ 25...

...Department's FBI Gang Task Force, testified that the 151 Piru gang originated in Compton in the early 1970's. It was based around 151 street. The gang is no longer active in the Los Angeles area because.... Defendant threw his hands up and made what the Manager believed were gang signs, while defendant and Romar yelled "Piru [B]lood." Defendant lifted up his shirt, displayed tattoos on his stomach, and said, "I...testified defendant yelled "Piru Blood" at least five times. The security guard called 911 when he heard defendant threaten to return and "shoot this place up...

...Side Piru gang member; and that at the time of the incident, there was a very heated gang war between West Side Piru and the Carver Compton Crips...          Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Richard Thomsen and his partner, Sergeant John Haughey, were on patrol in the Willowbrook/Compton area around midnight...was arrested was in West Side Piru territory. At the time of the incident, there was a strong alliance between the West Side Piru and the Campanella Park Piru gangs. Detective Gomez interviewed...

.... Nicos Mathis and Monique Peterson were members of a rival gang, Mob Piru. On October 24, 2012, the three were all in Gonzales Park in Compton with a large group of...members. The gang expert had contacted Vaughn "numerous times" and Vaughn has "identified himself as a [Lueders] Park Piru gang member." The...gang expert testified that Mahan's son "Doc" is "[p]robably the most senior [Lueders] Park Piru gang member on the street right now." He also testified that the Lueders Park gang claims territory in...

...PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND On June 6, 2014, Patricia Abrams hosted a party for her granddaughter's 10th birthday in the City of Compton. At least 15 of the 25 guests were children...spending the night at Abrams's house, which is located in territory claimed by the Leuders Park Piru street gang. Just before 11:00 p.m., while Abrams was on the front porch talking with her son-in...believe was code for the gun. During his police interview, White admitted to detectives that he was a member of the MOB ("Money Over Bitches") Piru street gang (Mob Piru), a rival of...

...Sheriff's Department and was assigned to the Compton Sheriff's Station. His primary job duties were to investigate gang-related crimes committed by certain street gangs, including Fruit Town Piru. He...Detective Magadan, Fruit Town Piru was a street gang in Compton with approximately 290 active members. The gang associated itself with the letter "P" and the color burgundy. The primary activities of...committed by Compton-based street gangs, including Fruit Town Piru. Detective Magadan also had prior experience working as a patrol officer and...

...investigation of two violent criminal street gangs on the east side of Compton, the Lueders Park Piru and Mob Piru gangs. These gangs were involved in criminal activities that included narcotic sales...for firearms, ammunition, and other items pertaining to the criminal street gang activities of the "Mob Piru" and "Lueders Park Piru" gangs. A portion of the warrant was sealed to protect the identity..., which had originally been friendly, became rivals after Mob Piru gang members shot and killed a well-known Lueders Park Piru gang member in April 2009. After a string of shootings from 2009 to 2013...

... O'BRIEN, Justice. Defendant was found guilty of the first degree premeditated homicide of Rodney Compton, on or about 22 October 1989. The... murder was committed while defendant was engaged in committing robbery. The proof in this case shows that the victim, Rodney Compton, disappeared sometime after 6:30 p.m. on 22...October 1989. Compton had just returned from a cruise to the Bahamas and had failed to arrive, as planned, at his mother's home on the evening of his disappearance. Compton's body was discovered in a...

...suppressed as fruit of the poisonous tree. On October 30, 2014, Compton and the government entered into a conditional plea agreement in which Compton agreed to plead guilty to...-2016 United States of America, Appellee, v. Peter Compton, Defendant–Appellant. Molly K. Corbett, Research & Writing Attorney.... Opinion John M. Walker, Jr., Circuit Judge: Defendant-Appellant Peter Compton appeals from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern...

...responded to a residence on West Cherry in Compton to do a home check on a minor, G.H. When Officer Tatley arrived at the residence, G.H. was in the front yard with appellant. G.H. admitted he was a Fruit...Town Piru gang member. Inside G.H.s bedroom there was a "graffiti shrine" to Fruit Town Piru. It was "written all over the walls in [G.H.s] room." G.H. has "other brothers. The whole family is from Fruit...Town Piru." On August 17, 2007, at approximately 5:10 p.m., Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff Russell Helbing went to a vacant house that had been "gutted by a fire" also on West Cherry...

...neighborhood claimed by the Palm and Oaks Crip gang, a rival of the MOB Piru gang. Members of the Palm and Oaks Crip gang typically wore blue. Davis and Ledford were also at Ace.... 2. On August 24, 2007, Edward Lair, wearing a blue shirt and a Dodger baseball cap, was with his friend Mac Richardson at Tommy's Mechanic Shop on Rosecrans Avenue in Compton, waiting...stopped the SUV and the Mustang. The SUV's occupants were identified as Warren Phillipus (Phillipus) and Andrew Haley (Haley). Haley's address on Killen Court in Compton was later...