Datwain Crudup, 27, of the Hilltop, whom Columbus police homicide detectives say has ties to a local Crips gang, is charged with two counts of murder and one count of felonious assault in connection ...

Two more men accused in a crackdown on alleged members of the Hilltop Crips street gang have been sentenced to prison while a third man arrested in the crackdown had his case dismissed. Deondre L.

Six men were convicted or pleaded guilty this week in connection with a wide-ranging criminal case against 36 alleged members of the Hilltop Crips street gang. A jury on Thursday convicted Darryl ...

TACOMA — Last week’s crackdown on suspected members of the Hilltop Crips street gang has become a headache for Michael Kawamura. The chief of Pierce County’s Department of Assigned Counsel must find ...

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Police say a round up of gang members that began at 4 a.m. Tuesday in Tacoma aims to arrest 32 people on 51 charges. Police say each person is accused of criminal conspiracy in ...

Nearly 25 years after a member of the Hilltop Crips was shot to death in the streets of Tacoma, five rival gang members have been charged with his murder. Bernard Houston was killed on Aug. 28, 1988, ...

TACOMA, Wash. -- It began with the whisperings of confidential informants. The Hilltop Crips were making a play to exert their force on the city again, sources told members of the South Sound Gang ...

AKRON, Ohio -- A convicted member of an Akron street gang was shot while robbing a drug house, marking the second time he was shot during an armed robbery since 2008, police say. Tyler McCraney, 26, ...

TACOMA -- Manuel Hernandez was the first in his family to graduate from high school, but didn't get to walk across a stage. He never went to prom, never went to the mall or movies, or stayed the night ...

A Columbus man has been charged with two counts of murder in connection with a double homicide last April on the city's West Side. Datwain Crudup, 27, of the Hilltop, is charged with two counts of ...

TACOMA, Wash. - The FBI, the South Sound Gang Task Force and the Tacoma Police Department today executed multiple search and arrest warrants targeting more than 30 members of the Hilltop Crips street ...