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07/16/10 Man in drive-by, carjacking draws 19 1/2-year sentence, Ashley Meeks/Las Cruces Sun-News
LAS CRUCES - Jesus "Chuy" Castillo, 23, has been sentenced to 19 1/2 years in prison after a jury found him guilty pistol-whipping and carjacking an innocent bystander after a drive-by shooting Feb. 11, 2009.
The victim was eating a taco with a neighbor when he was attacked and his Cadillac Escalade - later found torched near Vado - was taken from him.
Castillo received the maximum sentence for the gunpoint robbery, conspiracy, aggravated battery with a firearm and aggravated assault with a firearm. He will have to serve about 15 and a half years in prison before he is eligible for release.
Castillo's co-defendants, Pedro Orozco Jr., 24, and his younger brother Javier Orozco, 16, also have been convicted in the Grant Street attack, which was in retaliation for another drive-by minutes before on Marquez Street in which 19-year-old Jorge Murillo is alleged to have been the driver.
Less than a year later, Murillo and Javier Orozco, on opposite sides of the Anthony drive-bys, would allegedly conspire to rob and murder another innocent bystander, noted Do-a Ana sheriff's investigator Vince Lopez.
"I honestly think we're really lucky to have not had a body on this (drive-by)," Lopez said Friday.
Murillo, Javier Orozco and 17-year-old Irvin Ramirez remain in county detention awaiting first-degree murder and other charges in the killing of Adam Espinoza, 20, an artist, musician and law student who was robbed and murdered at an Anthony, N.M., rest area late the night
05/17/10 Gang fight lands Anthony teens back in jail, Ashley Meeks, Las Cruces Sun-News
09/06/09 Residents: Gangs Getting Worse In Anthony, NM, Derek Shore-KFOX News Reporter
Castillo received the maximum sentence for the gunpoint robbery, conspiracy, aggravated battery with a firearm and aggravated assault with a firearm. He will have to serve about 15 and a half years in prison before he is eligible for release.
Castillo's co-defendants, Pedro Orozco Jr., 24, and his younger brother Javier Orozco, 16, also have been convicted in the Grant Street attack, which was in retaliation for another drive-by minutes before on Marquez Street in which 19-year-old Jorge Murillo is alleged to have been the driver.
Less than a year later, Murillo and Javier Orozco, on opposite sides of the Anthony drive-bys, would allegedly conspire to rob and murder another innocent bystander, noted Do-a Ana sheriff's investigator Vince Lopez.
"I honestly think we're really lucky to have not had a body on this (drive-by)," Lopez said Friday.
Murillo, Javier Orozco and 17-year-old Irvin Ramirez remain in county detention awaiting first-degree murder and other charges in the killing of Adam Espinoza, 20, an artist, musician and law student who was robbed and murdered at an Anthony, N.M., rest area late the night
05/17/10 Gang fight lands Anthony teens back in jail, Ashley Meeks, Las Cruces Sun-News
09/06/09 Residents: Gangs Getting Worse In Anthony, NM, Derek Shore-KFOX News Reporter
05/06/09 Gang speech was a real eye-opener, letter to Editor, El Paso Times, Madeline Sanchez, letter writer
01/21/09
Gang prevention starts with community involvement, Jeremy Baldillez - Las Cruces Public Schools/For the Las Cruces Sun-News01/07/09 Combating gangs (Parents, schools, churches, law enforcement and government need to come together to collaboratively combat this issue with an eye on prevention, intervention, education and suppression as a composite.) Letter to editor, Las Cruces Sun-News
01/15/09 Operation No Gangs/ARYBA TX-NM offers Respect and Manners Academy for Chaparral, NM, Laura London, Alamogordo Daily News, carried in Business Week Online
12/30/08 Legislation aims at getting tougher on gangs, Ashley Meeks, Las Cruces Sun-News
12/30/08 Gangs in Dona Ana County: Who are they?, Ashley Meeks, Las Cruces Sun-News
12/30/08 Youth follow wrong footsteps, Ashley Meeks, Las CrucesSun-News
12/29/08 Gang problem continues to plague Dona Ana County, Ashley Meeks, Las Cruces Sun-News
12/29/08 Gang rivals mark their territory with graffiti, Ashley Meeks, Las Cruces Sun-News
12/29/08 Gang inroads run deep in rural counties, Ashley Meeks, Las Cruces Sun-News
Spring 2008 New Mexico State University, Department of Criminal Justice, Southern New Mexico/Texas Gang Update
SPRING 2008, ISSUES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE, GANGS, CJ 432 VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1
09/15/08 New Mexico fugitive nabbed in Juarez, Anthony gang-related incident, KVIA TV El Paso
08/13/08 El Paso Times Editorial: Anthony Crime - Citizens must band together, El Paso Times (El Paso Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX)
06/18/08 New "Hit List" targets Las Crucen, Peter Daut, KFOX-TV, El Paso
06/12/08 Internet use by El Paso and New Mexico gangsters for violent purposes on rise, SAC Violence Symposium, Jose L. Medina, Las Cruces Sun-News http://merced.networkofcare.org/ps/news/detail.cfm?articleID=19099
06/11/08 Lovington schools (Lea County) prohibit facial hair, shorts, sagging pants, KOAT Channel 7, Albuquerque, NM
06/10/08 (video) Graffiti Vandalism Strikes Anthony, NM again, Angeeneh Adamian, KFOX-TV, El Paso
06/10/08 (Story) Anthony, NM Target of tagging spree, Angeeneh Adamian, KFOX-TV, El Paso
05/22/08 (video) Fernandez cleared of Anthony gang-style killing, KVIA-TV, Ken Molestina
05/07/08 Anthony teen found guilty of second-degree murder, by Renee Ruelas-Venegas/For the Las Cruces Sun-News
11/04/07 Inmates' stories aim to set teens straight at meth and suicide youth summit, Ashley Meeks, Las Cruces Sun-News
09/28/07 Expert teaches Chaparral parents signs of potential teen trouble, Alexis Vance, KDBC-TV
08/03/07 Graffiti cleanup days planned for Anthony, NM by Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times
07/31/07 Anthony residents want 'to take town back' from violence, by Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times
07/31/07 Gang Members: Parents Save Your Kids, Editorial Piece/ El Paso Times
07/`9/07 Task force planned for Dona Ana County, by Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times
07/17/07 Dona Ana County Commissioner Caviness and Sheriff Garrison call Anthony gang discussion, EPT video
07/11/07 Dona Ana official organizes anti-gang meeting in Anthony, NM - by Adriana M. Chavez / El Paso Times
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Spring 2008 New Mexico State University, Department of Criminal Justice, Southern New Mexico/Texas Gang Update
SPRING 2008, ISSUES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE, GANGS, CJ 432 VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1
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Operation No Gangs website contents
Gang awareness, gang prevention presentations for parents,
What can parents do to prevent gang involvement?
El Paso gang news
Dona Ana County gang news
Gang-related Tattoos
Gang-related Artwork
Texas parent's rights, Family Code Chapter 51
Gang News Videos
Gangster's Prayer
The Boys of our Town
Gang Graffiti
Gang Placazos
Gang Art
Fatherlessness and Gang Involvement
Signs of Hispanic Youth Gang Involvement
Profile of Youth Gang Recruit
You Can Get Out Of a Gang
Purpose-Driven Covenant - Rick Warren
Attitude - Chuck Swindoll
Internet Gangsters and the MySpace Gangster
Respect is An Attitude
Respect and Manners Classes
Merton Prayer
"I Loved You Enough" - Erma Bombeck
Carta a Mis Hijos - Deseos de Una Madre
"I Cannot Live My Life For You" - A Mother's Thoughts
Permissive parents are a school's main problem
http://borderpeace.blogspot.com
www.operationnogangs.com
www.operationnogangs.net
www.respectandmannersacademy.org
www.attitudinaldynamics.org