gang signs and induction rituals, officials said. They also are usually larger -- Vatos Locos has more than 60 members -- and not generally tied to a particular block or neighborhood, as crews are.

They have names like Treetop Pirus, Folk Nation, Surenos, Tres Vatos Locos, Bloods and Crips ... basketball and football players flash gang signs on TV. He showed a home video of what the local ...

U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said the suspects, all but one in custody, are members of the violent Vatos Locos street gang. "These six defendants are charged with a frightening level of ...

It’s a sign of people wanting to be in a gang ... A member of another Latino gang, called Vatos Locos, was picked up in Westminster and deported to Mexico a few months ago, Bullock said.

A leader of a Latino street gang that took four lives and scarred countless others in a bid to eliminate its rivals was sentenced yesterday to 151 years in prison for his part in the conspiracy.

Eight suspected members of two feuding Mexican street gangs have been arrested in Yonkers. Police, immigration and homeland security officials rounded up five Vatos Locos gang members Wednesday.

Police said the girls thought they were being taken to the park to be beaten as a re-initiation into the “Vatos Locos” gang, which they had earlier left. The gang members who brought them ...

There is now a name to go along with a suspected gang connection to the recent double homicide in Goshen. Vatos Locos means “crazy dudes” in English. The name dropping came today as formal ...

and are believed to be members of a gang called Vatos Locos, police spokesman George Gilson said. District Attorney Danny Porter said authorities were looking into whether the shootings in ...

Chavarria-Cruz, a Sureños 13 gang member, shot Hernandez-Perez because he mistakenly believed he was a member of the rival Vatos Locos gang. Chavarria-Cruz will be sentenced in about three weeks ...

Police in Yonkers arrested a reputed member of Mexican street gang Vatos Locos for the shooting death that occurred during a sweet 16 party. Yunior Flores, 17, is charged in the weekend shooting ...