{"id":29447,"date":"2017-02-14T19:02:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T03:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=29447"},"modified":"2017-02-14T19:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T03:14:14","slug":"fugitives-alleged-racially-motivated-hate-crimes-resulted-murders-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=29447","title":{"rendered":"Fugitive&#8217;s Alleged Racially Motivated Hate Crimes Resulted Murders of Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487122693306_3347\" class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487122693306_3346\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487122693306_3345\"><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0\u00a0 LOS ANGELES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487122693306_8468\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A member of the Avenues street gang who was on the run for well over a decade plead not guilty this morning to federal hate crimes charges stemming from the racially motivated murders of two African-American men in Highland Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487122693306_3368\" class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29452 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FBI-WANTED-CAMBRIA-300x169.png\" alt=\"FBI WANTED CAMBRIA\" width=\"559\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FBI-WANTED-CAMBRIA-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FBI-WANTED-CAMBRIA.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/>\u00a0 Merced Cambero Jr., 38, whose street name was \u201cShadow,\u201d entered not guilty pleas \u00a0in federal court. \u00a0His trial is set for March.before United States District Judge Percy Anderson, who scheduled a trial on March 28.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487122693306_3369\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> Cambero was repatriated to the United States and turned over to the custody of special agents with the FBI and detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department on February 3 at the San Ysidro Port of Entry after he was deported by Mexican immigration authorities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487122693306_3369\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In the weeks leading up to his deportation, Cambero had been detained in Baja California by Mexican law enforcement officers on an unrelated matter and was found to be using a false identification, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487122693306_3369\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Further investigation by Mexican authorities and members of the San Diego Police Department verified Cambero\u2019s true identity and the outstanding federal civil rights charges in Los Angeles. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487122693306_3369\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">He is being held without bond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487122693306_3369\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cambero faces three felony counts, including conspiring to violate the civil rights of African Americans who resided in Highland Park. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Among the victims of the plot was Kenneth Kurry Wilson, a 38-year-old African-American man who was fatally shot in Highland Park on April 18, 1999. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Members of the conspiracy also murdered Christopher Bowser, an African-American man who was shot while waiting at a bus stop in Highland Park on Dec. 11, 2000<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The conspiracy charge specially alleges that Cambero:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Participated in a 1997 attack on African-American men who were playing basketball in a park;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Was among several gang members who ambushed an African-American man in 1998 and struck him in the head with a metal object;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Attacked an African-American man in a park in 1999;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Directed racial slurs at an African-American girl in a supermarket and an African-American man walking down a street in 1999<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Was one of two triggermen in the murder of Kenneth Wilson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The indictment also charges Cambero with violating Wilson\u2019s civil rights by murdering him because he was African American and because he was using the public streets of Los Angeles. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The third count of the indictment charges Camero with using a firearm during the commission of the federal conspiracy and hate crime charges, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cambero was among five Avenues members who were indicted in 2004 in the first case in the nation to allege civil rights crimes against members of a street gang. The other four defendants were convicted at trial, and each was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/archive\/usao\/cac\/Pressroom\/pr2007\/012.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sentenced<\/a> in 2006 and 2007 to life-without-parole in federal prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe victims in this case were targeted simply because of their skin color and because members of the gang wanted to rid their neighborhood of African Americans,\u201d said United States Attorney Eileen M. Decker. \u201cThe heinous conduct with which this defendant is charged has no place in this nation, and the Department of Justice will stand steadfastly against hate crimes like those charged. Despite this defendant\u2019s efforts to avoid prosecution over the course of many years, his appearance in court today demonstrates that law enforcement and my office will be tenacious in pursuing justice against such criminal conduct.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe apprehension of Mr. Cambero is the latest example of success among agencies cooperating internationally,\u201d said Deirdre Fike, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI\u2019s Los Angeles Field Office. \u201cIn addition, this arrest proves that leaving the country and evading capture for 15 years will not deter law enforcement in finding justice for victims of crime; in Mr. Cambero\u2019s case, civil rights violations involving the alleged murder of an innocent man based on the color of his skin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Cambero is presumed to be innocent until and unless proven guilty in court.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 The arrest of Cambero is a result of a collaborative effort by Mexican law enforcement and immigration authorities; the San Diego Police Department; the FBI\u2019s Los Angeles and San Diego Field Offices; and the FBI\u2019s Legal Attach\u00e9 in Mexico City. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The investigation that led to the civil rights charges against Cambero was conducted by the FBI in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Police Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3160835784MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 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