Thursday, January 14, 2010

Cambodian gang's members arrested in teen's killing

Steven Kao, 21, of Santa Ana. (COURTESY OF THE TUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT)
Ravy Nhem, 20, of Santa Ana. (COURTESY OF THE TUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT)

January 13, 2010
By KIMBERLY EDDS and ELYSSE JAMES
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER (California, USA)

TUSTIN The gunning down of a 16-year-old boy connected to a tagging crew is the latest attack by a Cambodian gang known for its reputation for violence, an investigator said.

Six people, including four of the gang's members, were rounded up in a multi-county raid Tuesday night in connection with the late-night killing of 16-year-old Juan Carlos Rodriguez.

The shooting of a 12-year-old boy hours later while he was sleeping in his bed in Santa Ana may have been retaliation, authorities said. The boy, shot in the leg, is expected to make a full recovery.

Rodriguez, shot in the back, died early Sunday morning after being shot during a shower of bullets that rained down outside a house party. His killer, according to Tustin police, is a member of the Tiny Rascal Gang.

"It was a straight murder mission," said Tustin Sgt. Jeff Blair, a former gang investigator who spent years dealing with the Tiny Rascal Gang.

It was a tale of two parties on Myrtle Avenue. Members of the Tiny Rascal Gang were at one house. Down the street, a group of taggers was partying, police say.

Things got ugly around 2 a.m. when Ravy Nhem, 20, and Pablo Kachirisky, 21, of the Tiny Rascal Gang walked by the other party and someone questioned them about their gang affiliation, Blair said.

Seeing they were outnumbered but apparently unwilling to back down from the challenge, Nhem and Kachirisky went to nearby King Liquor to call for backup from fellow gang members. Tiny Rascal Gang members Steven Kao, 21, and David Escobar, 20, showed up and they went back to the tagging crew's party and started arguing, Blair said.

Still outnumbered four to everyone at the party, the Tiny Rascal Gang members left and called for more reinforcements and guns.

The Tiny Rascals came back – and started shooting, Blair said. More than a dozen bullets were fired into the group. Rodriguez was shot in the back.

His friends dragged him into the house but didn't call police. He sat there for two hours, Blair said.

About 4:30 a.m., someone called Tustin police to report there may be a body inside an apartment on South Myrtle. Rodriguez was dead when police found him.

Whether Rodriguez was one of the instigators who demanded to know the gang member's gang affiliation is unclear, Blair said. It is clear he paid the price for it.

On Tuesday, just 36 hours after Rodriguez was gunned down, dozens of officers from the Tustin, Santa Ana, Irvine and Long Beach police departments, along with members of the Orange County Probation Department, raided three homes in Santa Ana, one in Anaheim and one in Murrieta.

Kao heard police were looking for him and used a pay phone in Long Beach to call police, Blair said. Long Beach police held Kao until Tustin detectives could pick him up.

One of the largest Asian gangs in the United States, the Tiny Rascal Gang has carved out its reputation through a path of violence and drugs.

The gang first emerged in the 1980s in Long Beach, a product of simple survival, not turf protection. Thrown into the streets of Long Beach, the children of Cambodian refugees had to protect themselves from Hispanic and black gangs. They fought back with violence, eventually expanding their expertise into drugs and home-invasion robberies and murder. Initially, the gang was restricted to just Cambodians, but the rules were later relaxed to include other Asians and white members.

With their shaved heads, baggy pants and Old English tattoos, the gang mimics Hispanic gangs. The resemblance is so striking even Tustin police had a tough time distinguishing the gang from other Hispanic gangs when they first moved into a Tustin safehouse in the early 1990s, Blair said.

What makes them different is their talent for getting their hands on guns and their reputation for brutality.

"They're not going to slug it out in a fistfight," Blair said. "They're going right to the guns."

In 1994, seven members of the Tiny Rascal Gang raped, robbed and strangled a mother in her Tustin home. She survived by playing dead. Her 3-year-old son was home at the time.

Tiny Rascal Gang member Michael David Cowles was arrested along with six juveniles. Twenty-one years old and 6 feet, 8 inches tall, Cowles cut an imposing figure and was believed to have been the ringleader. He is serving time in state prison for the attack.

A year later, five members of the Tiny Rascal Gang broke into a San Bernardino home and executed Son (Henry) Nguyen, 44; his wife, Trinh Yen Tran, 35; daughter, Doan Hoang, 15, and sons Daniel Nguyen, 11, and David Nguyen, 10. A 3-year-old son was shot but lived.

The gang was looking for money and valuables, according to published reports.

The gang has expanded from Seattle to Philadelphia. Amateur music videos posted on YouTube show slideshows of gang members flashing gang signs. One tattooed member is in a wheelchair. Another holds a baby in a group gang picture. Another flashes signs in front of a bookcase filled with stuffed bunny rabbits.

"You don't want to mess with a real G," sings the singer in the background music.

Kao, Nhem, Kachirisky, Escobar and 19-year-old Belinda Vu of Anaheim were arrested on suspicion of murder. Karrina Hernandez, 21, of Tustin was arrested on suspicion of accessory to murder but was released pending further investigation, according to police.

Nhem was out on $100,000 bail in connection with a Dec. 5 arrest on suspicion of lewd contact with a minor, according to Orange County court records.

The investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information is asked to call Tustin gang Investigator Manny Arzate at 714-573-3193 or 714-573-3200.

61 comments:

Anonymous said...

These guys are SRP's supporters in California.

Anonymous said...

So these guys will soon be deported to Cambodia again, if they're still holding green card. A wonderful American dream...!

Once back in Cambodia, they'll create another gang to destabilize our society. Guantanamo Bay should be the desired destination, not Cambodia.

CK

Anonymous said...

these guys look like hunsssssssssss shit man!

Anonymous said...

To bad to hear, but where this Khmer gang got all the weapons ?
It sound the law maker in the US let the people kill each others.
Contrary to our country Cambodia, some of the government employees or CPP party members had their own right to kill the innocent Khmer people.

Anonymous said...

Now, the Jesus believers will fuck his ass, esp. the black when he spends his time in jail.

Anonymous said...

Hey, we should give these guys a reward, just send them to Iraq or Afghanistan to fight with terrorism for couple of years, otherwise they will spoil the society here, but please do not send them back to Cambodia .

The USA deport only bad guys back, but why don't they accept to re-educate these shits and keep them in the States.

Another idea, Guantanamo prison is suitable for these shits.

Anonymous said...

US is regarded as the land of opportunity by million people around the world. These guys and many other took for granted. Great!

Anonymous said...

For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus.

This is the result of the wages of sin. No, it's not bad karma-it's sin working to bring death without hope.

Jesus can change lives. Many gangs have come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Many drug dealers have come to saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. He is the hope for their deliverance from wretched lives.

Listen to unshackled.org. People from all sorts of background
found hope when they turn to the one who can deliver them from death. This is true dramatized stories as told by the ones who lives are no longer the same.

Anonymous said...

WE must look up at their parents. Who are they and what are they doing? Gamblers or Alcohol addicts? Probablely they are not educated and don´t educate their kids.

Anonymous said...

Thugs are menace to the society! They do it to themself. It's their choice. I hope innocent people are not the victims of their uncharactoristic.

Sending them to jail is just a waiste of tax money. Should drop them off in the ocean to feed the shark.

Anonymous said...

Not sure why KI media posting this news! We cannot glorify bad deeds--a gangster lifestyle! Every community has gang issue, but as a responsible citizen of the free world we have to try and eliminate this societal disease. Khmer sons and daughters must be in school long enough to avoid getting lured into the gang groups. Khmer have suffered enough, we cannot allow our children to waste life in gang activities.

Khmer Angkor.

Anonymous said...

Hey!9:29

I 100% agreed with you man, you have a great idea better to feed shark as these dam shits.

If they deport back to Cambodia, then how many innocent people will suffer by their dam shit activities. or the US government wants they come back to Cambodia to educate young generation in Cambodia? this is shit. Let feed those sharks in the sea.

Anonymous said...

He can be very good of Hun Sen body guard. He able to get this kind of job easily because he knows how to shoot and kill just like Hun Sen.

Anonymous said...

9:29PM and 10:00PM,
Yes! It is better to feed them to the shark. At lease they are good for something.

They are young. I think they born here so they will not sending them to Cambodia. If they do it's a waiste of tax money for their flights ticket.

Sending them to jail also a major waiste of tax money. Today is very expensive to keep them thugs in jail. It is average of $45,000 a year expenses for each criminal are detained in jail. That's not including additional healthcare and trouble they may cause within.

Some people really try and work hard and may earn less then $45,000 a year. It makes no sense to me to spend that much or more for them criminal so they can cause further complication to the society or nations.

Useless expenses! Thos expenses should be spent on good citizens not criminals; sent good kid to school not waiste money to sent thugs to jail. FEED THEM TO THE SHARK!

Anonymous said...

Before we blame our brother, we have to know the situation. Surviving in a ghetto environment, we all need to fight and they have the right to fight back.

Anonymous said...

3:26 PM,you are the derachhan animal from Hun Xen!!!!
You see everyday what Ah Hun Xen does?Hun Xen is the gang,the Mafia in Cambodia and all Family Tree are the Hun Xen.

Anonymous said...

I must be an idiot to belive that those men are Khmers.
These young criminals are Americans but bad Americans.
Like some who support CPP, they are brain whashed Khmers or Yuons.

Anonymous said...

SRP members are not gangs as the first commentator said. We're a good people and try to change the regime in Cambodia.

These guys act tough to kill one another in the US. They should take their expertise and go to kill Hun Sen and CPP members.

I thought American Government deport most of these criminal to Cambodia already.

They should be deported back to Hun Sen and let them kill Hun Sen.

They're not productive in America. America is the land of opportunity, not to come and cause trouble.

The ones who dislike America that the ones who has no change to come to America. They're not welcome here.

Send them back where they come from.

Don't imprison them in American jail. It wastes of my tax money.

Khmer in the USA.

Anonymous said...

IN GENERAL, I HATE GANGS SO SO MUCH. THAT IS ALL THEY DO, KILLING, ROBBING, MAKING VIOLENT. IF THIS THING HAPPENED, I THINK THERE ARE TWO THINGS THEY CAN HAVE. GO DIE IN AFGANISTAN AND IRAQ OR HANG'EM DEAD IN PRISON HERE, NOT LET GO FREE IN CAMBODIA. THESE GANGS ARE TRASH, THEY ARE GARBAGE, THEY RUIN OUR KHMER REPUTATION. SOUNDS LIKE NOW EVERY ONE IN THE WHOLE US HATE CAMBODIANS REGARDLESS OF GOOD CAMBODIANS THAT TRY TO BUILD GOOD SOCIETY, GOOD REPUTATION FOR THE REST OF US.

THESE GANGS ARE TRASH, THEY ARE GARGAGE, THEY ARE EVILS, THEY ARE TROUBLE MAKERS.....AND THEY ALL SHOULD DIE AND DIE NOW...I MEAN THEY SHOULD WIPE OUT OF ANY STREETS.

Anonymous said...

good thinking 10:42Pm! but the prison guards, the prison doctors,the prison nurses, the prison electrician, the prison sanitation engineers get job too!

Anonymous said...

Send them to Afghanistan!

Anonymous said...

They must be released.
When Americans went to Cambodia 1970-1975, they bombed, they killed,
why they were not jailed ?

Anonymous said...

These khmer brothers have to fight to survive in the land of Uncle Sam , they are the less fortunated people who have been chased from their country Cambodia without any resources to live a good life , they end up falling in the rule of the gang .

Anonymous said...

hey, people are different. just because these gang-bangers are khmers in origin doesn't mean all khmer people are like them, though! get better education, please and stop being ignorant because one sign of ignorant is stereotyping at others, really!

Anonymous said...

what are the charisteristic s of the gang? they rob, rape, pillage, steal, demand protection money, menace,..... sound like members of the CPP.

Anonymous said...

khmer society should reject those criminal pple. please don't accept any deportation to cambodia, those criminal gangs will terrorize khmer society again once they step in khmer land. let them spend time in usa jail with black or spanish gang pple. they will learn to become a good citizen.

Anonymous said...

1:34 AM,

Sihanouk killed two millions of his people and he's the one who should be jailed. During the war, American killed North Vietnam/Vietcong (NVC) and Khmer Rouge (KR) like you. Without the American bombing during 1970-75 war those bastards would take over Cambodia in 24 hours instead of 5 years.

My Community Networking said...

Committed crime and pay the prize. Hope California don't have electric chair or gas chamber so the two guys would just spend life behind bar.

Anonymous said...

To me America is still the land of opportunity. Setting foot in Dallas, Texas in 1981. Getting a job within two weeks of arrival while still in school. After working for one company for 25 years I am now retired at age 58 with good pension. I owed it to America, the land of opportunity.

Anonymous said...

Let's give these thugs a second chance. Deport them back to Cambodia, rehabilitate them and give them a job. Have them cleared a landmine for food. They'll fit well in the Kinddom of Scambodia.

Anonymous said...

we should teach them to a rambo's way and send them to prah vihear border to kill siam army who shot khmer innocent,

Anonymous said...

NO TODO ES CULPA DE CAMBOYANOS ,HAY QUE VER TAMBIEN COMO EDUCAMOS ANUESTROS HIJOS .ESTE CHICO QUE MURIO ERA MEXICANO .PORQUE DEJARLO ESTAR EN ESAS FIESTAS ,SI ES UN MENOR DE EDAD.

Anonymous said...

Poor 2:55AM,
Vietnam is very far from USA. Cambodia too, it's far from USA.
You think, Americans went there to help you. They bombed Cambodia to help you ?
They leave Cambodia in 1975 because they want to help you ?
They are in Alganestan to help ?
They are in Irak to help ?
What USA do to rebuild Cambodia now ?

Anonymous said...

porque culpar en general a camboyanos ,si tambien la culpa es delos padres que no ponen atencion asus hijos ,este chico que murio tenia 16 de edad .que hacia en una fiesta .tan tarde .si era menor de edad .?

Anonymous said...

why some pple are so anti american ? with american there's no voice of freedom like we're making any comment rite now. plus don't they know internet was american's invention and allowed all nations to use it today. if you'r anti american why don't u invent one yourself. no one is perfect..

Anonymous said...

5:05 Am,

I know the war in Cambodia was between communists and non-communists. America deserve praise from me for trying to save Cambodia from falling into communist hands. Had Lon Nol and cronies not corrupted America will still be supporting us. Look at Istrael as an example, their government is democratically elected and is free of corruption and America is behind them 100% otherwise, Israel, of 2.5 Mil. people surrounded by arab countries of about 100 Mil. people, would be wiped of the world map a long time ago.

Anonymous said...

TO all of you F.O.B. Nerds mother fuckers. Don't worry about those guy. They born here they won't send them back to Cambodian.In cambodian it's not Independ it's still slavery to mother fuckers Youn anyway. You guy don't know how lifes in USA. In the US over 100 nationanlity and they have alots of things going on in here. I know most khmer peoples not looking for troubles.
Most of the times is those Beans and the mother fuckers Mexician peoples.And those mother fucker Nigger peoples are always looking for troubles all the time they jealous of khmer peoples.

Anonymous said...

I don't get it, there are still Cambodians in gangs???? I can't say about the 80's when the great majority of Cambo refugees were arriving in Long Beach California. Everybody was hating the Cambodians. I mean even little Cambo babies were hated. At public schools, white teachers hated the non-English speaking Cambo students because they blamed the Cambodian students for bringing down their average test score. Cambodian students were beaten up by blacks and mexicans on the school campuses, on school buses, and on the streets. Those mexicans and blacks used baseball bats to attack any Cambodian students walking to school. Cambodians were stabbed, thrown at with eggs, spitted on, kicked, jumped, cursed, robbed, and killed for just being Cambodians. There was nothing strange to see a completely passed out Cambodian student dumped in the trash bin by them blacks. Living was a nightmare in itself, but the Cambodian children were told by their parents to keep pushing on for education. Cambodians were the poorest of the poor. Living next to their black, mexican, and white neighbors was simply a trying experience in itself. They called Cambodians STUPID and dog-eaters because Cambodians were not able to speak English. Even white writers and researchers concluded that the only job any Cambos could ever get was a low paying job at the servant cleaning level. Cambodians were just happy to get any job to make money as the starting point. But that was in the 1980's. In the 2000's, Cambodian younger generation should have learned to move on and stay away from any gang affiliation. It is a shame to still see the younger Cambodian generation in gangs.

Anonymous said...

Oh well! These guys just want to be bad and let the law deal with them!

In life people have a choice to make for better or for worst and in a spit second their life will change forever!

For me I just want to be good because one day I will stand before God.

Anonymous said...

america is the most fair and just country in the world. in america, only the one committed crime are guilty or innocent until proven guilty, really. so, in america, their family members, friends, etc aren't guilty by association, really, unless they are evidently found to be associated to the crime itself. that's how it should be, really! god bless america and cambodia.

Anonymous said...

Khmer people, talk tough, act cool and easily be brainwashed. When it comes to stupidity, Khmers rank second after the blacks.

Anonymous said...

I bet ah 9:32 is just a piece of dirt when a bullet runs through his brain cells. Hahahha. I bet you don't ever see any of ah 9:32's relatives in any of the high ranking offices. When bullets run through his smart skull then he realizes that he is a just a piece of sh*t destined to be a fertilizer for plants to grow. Lol.

Anonymous said...

Agree with 8:34 AM,
Not to mentioned, there are 51 other states that you can moved out to better the conditioned that you're in. They make it this far, another states or two doesn't hurt. I'm just tired of their stupid excuses. Why do they feel like they're designated to one state. You got feet......move!

1:39,
Your stupid excuse doesn't deserve my condolences. I, unlike many Cambodians, came to America without my family. Yes, I agree that time were tough in the 80's. I see alot of Khmer kids that grew up around my neighborhood with family who choose to walk in the wrong path. Unlike them, I kept my head up and push for my high school diploma. Neatless to say, none make it past high school. There are choices and options to better yourself, but these dumbass choose the lazy path and their lazy path comes with consequence.

Anonymous said...

Poster 9:32AM is unbelievable! I praise for his STUPIDITY.

Anonymous said...

English vs. Slang
this sh..
that dat
what's up? Wuzzap!
thing thang
no nay
yes yeh
gun strap
5 nickle
10 dime
20 dub
50 chop chop
100 bone
1,000 G
100,000 K
lie trippin'
kill smoke
high stone
no good hell no
good hell yeah
hold on whoa whoa
duty dig it
money cha ching
exactly bingo
friends homies

Anonymous said...

These people destroye dthe liberty of a great country. Send them back to Cambodia.

Anonymous said...

I thought Cambos in the 80's were low, but even now as evidence show in his exchanges of ideas, there are still even lower Cambos in this thread. Cambos in the '80s were considered as "the most stupid disgusting dog-eaters whose children only bring down the good average score of a test". So if that loser claims to be doing good in the 80's, then he is a liar because according the American label, Cambos were predicted to be losers already. The loser talks about moving out of the city of placement, but I have to say f*ck you to your f*cking face. Cambos walked and suffered personal and emotional injuries for years before they were able to create a decent starting point. I bet that loser is just a loser. Get real, asshole. If you are so successful, how come you are not the cream of the crop in the American society, fool!

Anonymous said...

10:18 AM wrote: "I, unlike many Cambodians, came to America without my family....Unlike them, I kept my head up and push for my high school diploma....There are choices and options to better yourself, but these dumbass choose the lazy path and their lazy path comes with consequence."

You are the most despicable asshole I have ever seen. Without a family????? F*ck you stupid fool. How old were you, freak! If you were that old, then you didn't need to go through high school because that means you are still the leech that sucked on the American tax dollars namely, welfare, you f*cker! And you talk as if you stood on your own two feet from the beginning. F*ck you, you loser! Remember this: You were nothing then and you are nothing now. Who in the right mind would spell needlessly as "neatlessly"??? Only a stupid mather f*cker as you will do that, loser! It is better that a loser as you would just be dead rather than be alive, asshole.

Anonymous said...

12:14, or Gang banger
FYI, I was sponsored by an American family in 1980. Let your methamphetamine brain get a little jump start first before you rambling your Khmer Rouge mentality on my comment. I was ten years old......dumb fuck!
Oh, dumb ass! Learn how to spell "mother" first, before you try to correct my English.
Who's the dumb ass now?
BTW, are awaiting your deportation? LOL!!!!!!!!!
As far as cream of the crop; see if you can figure out where I work at.

Anonymous said...

To the f*cker 12:14 who can't even spell or differentiate between American slangs. F*ck you again, asshole! So why did you say that you came to America with no family, you stupid f*cker. You did have a family, you lying f*cker! And on top of it, you were dependent on welfare, you f*cker! Don't talk about mother because you f*cker just claim that you don't have a family, you f*cking dog. DEPORTATION my azz, you stupid f*ck! You have a f*cking job my ass, you loser. I know so because you still hang around Cambodian folks, so how successful are you f*cker now, you stupid f*ck! F*ck you and your stupid job, loser. Stop leeching on the tax payers, you f*ck.

Anonymous said...

Why khmer peoples they're always fight with each other? Not like ah Youn and chinese peoples they're hepings each other alots those.And most khmer peoples in southern california they're always go shopping at ah Youn supermarket. I'm never seen any Youn came to bought or ate any khmer food.

Anonymous said...

1st of all, the f*cker 12:44 really needs to be taught a lesson about what VIOLENCE is so that his f*cked face can learn to understand and consider more sides of thing.

Anonymous said...

3:24 PM

I liked your commend. There are more Yuon businesses than Khmer in Long Beach. These Yuon don't lived here their from Orange Country. Why? In Little Saigon their competing each other also got extorted from Vietnamese gangs.

Anonymous said...

man Khmer people. There is gangs in every race. Calm down and quit embarrassing each other with rude comments. Cant we all just.........KILL EACH OTHER??!!

Anonymous said...

Why we call them Cambodians ?
They are not Cambodians.
They are Americans.
Cambodian is someone who lives Cambodia or lives oversea and returns to Cambodia in the future.

Anonymous said...

I have no further comment for Gang Banger 4:42PM.
Until he learn how to talk like a man, then I will probably give him my thoughts. Oh, I do have a real job. What do you do? Home invasions for a living or snatched a necklace off of old Cambodian folks? Remember, rephrase from using your Ebonics gang language so we all can understand. Lol!

Anonymous said...

F*ck you in your potty mouth, mather f*cker 6:07. You have a blowjob, homo. Now come suck some cocks, homo. I know you are good at a blowjob. Lol. You can't even write in properly English and you claim that you have a job and a high school graduate? Lol. Reread your writing, you stupid loser that is a number cocksucker good at doing a blowjob. Lol.

Anonymous said...

.....and you can write in properly English?

Anonymous said...

Cambodians are nice people. I blamed the Mexicans for making the Cambodians join gangs, control over guns and violences. We lived in the low life neighborhood of Santa Ana, where the Mexicans kids waiting down the street to beat us up when we had to walk to the grocery store. Many times my siblings and I were beaten up with bloody nose across from elementary school on our way home.

There are times I have heard Mexican kids ages 2 and up, in the past and presence calling us “Chinitas or Chinitos” and “Go back to your country”. Mexican kids learned violence quickly because that is their nature. After being taught from school, I’ve learned that “Mexicans are the people who should go back to their country”. Come on we came to America with pride, dignity, and through airplanes. We didn’t come to America using a shovel, walking, and killing the border patrol. I have kids of my own and taught them with manners, my Mexican’s classmate spitted at me. Off course I told the teacher about it, she just told me it is ok.

For 25 years of my life in America, I felt this anger that there is no one here to protect us in the neighborhood and school? But I don’t go out and became this violent person, though hearing the Mexican gangsters being shot is ok with me.

Anonymous said...

THESE GUYS NOT BELONG TO CAMBODIA. DON'T KNOW WHY NEWS FLASH AT KI MEDIA.
SOUND LIKE LIKE AUTHORITY IN USA LACK OF DUTY TO PREVENT THESE GUYS FROM DEVIL ACTS THE FIRST PLACE.

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