Mexican/Mexican American criminal street gang based in Los Angeles County, California. Originally a social club founded by the Flores brothers in the 1940s, it evolved into a violent drug-trafficking organization. The gang is known for hate crimes against African-Americans and is under the control of the Mexican Mafia in prison. It remains active with an estimated 800 members.
CRIMENET has extracted 19 linkages for this organization, including 6 cooperative ties across 4 organizations, 11 conflicts across 9 organizations, 2 other connections and footprints in 1 country.
the main drug of choice in the Avenue's hood switched from cocaine to methamphetamine due to the establishment of industrial-sized meth laboratories in central-Mexico