An OG or "original gangster" member of the Grape Street Crips shows off his tattoo. Grape Street participated in a gang truce, alongside other major Watts gangs, that started on April 26, 1992. (Axel ...

A Grape Street Crips gang member charged in a massive racketeering sweep in Essex County targeting dozens of members of the violent street gang has been sentenced to 19 years in federal prison after ...

A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a member of a violent Crips gang faction in Newark to 30 years in prison for setting up an associate to be killed in an ambush. The 31-year-old Grape Street Crips ...

Officials with the Department of Justice have charged 16 defendants with ties to the Grape Street Crips. A federal grand jury charged more than a dozen people with conspiracy to process various ...

A high-ranking street gang member has admitted setting up a murder, taking part in an attempted murder and conspiring to deal crack cocaine, federal prosecutors said. Rashan Washington faces a 30-year ...

Early in the morning, with roosters crowing next door, you can find Betty Day in her park. That's what she calls the slender pocket park on Grape Street, built incongruously on an empty single-family ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The leader of one of New Jersey’s most violent street gangs ordered murders of people thought to have cooperated with law enforcement and ran an operation that engaged in ...

Federal authorities on Wednesday announced a years-long investigation involving the Grape Street Crips leading to the indictments of 22 people. Acting U.S. Attorney Larry Laurenzi of the Western ...

NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) --Federal prosecutors say a long-running investigation into a New Jersey street gang has ended with the arrests of 71 people on charges ranging from violence to ...