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    Dumbfuck Gangster Gets Tattoo Of Crime Scene, Is Charged W/Murder As Result

    Only in America. Yet another terrific criminal mind at work...

    Gang tattoo leads to a murder conviction

    By Robert Faturechi, Los Angeles Times



    Inked on the chest of a Pico Rivera gang member was the detailed scene of a liquor store slaying that had stumped an L.A. County sheriff's investigator for more than four years. It leads to a jailhouse confession from Anthony Garcia — and a first-degree murder conviction.


    Los Angeles, California - The process was routine. L.A. County Sheriff's homicide investigator Kevin Lloyd was flipping through snapshots of tattooed gang members.

    Then one caught his attention.

    Inked on the pudgy chest of a young Pico Rivera gangster who had been picked up and released on a minor offense was the scene of a 2004 liquor store slaying that had stumped Lloyd for more than four years.

    Each key detail was right there: the Christmas lights that lined the roof of the liquor store where 23-year-old John Juarez was gunned down, the direction his body fell, the bowed street lamp across the way and the street sign — all under the chilling banner of RIVERA KILLS, a reference to the gang Rivera-13.

    As if to seal the deal, below the collarbone of the gang member known by the alias "Chopper" was a miniature helicopter raining down bullets on the scene.

    Lloyd's discovery of the tattoo in 2008 launched a bizarre investigation that soon led to Anthony Garcia's arrest for the shooting. Then sheriff's detectives, posing as gang members, began talking to Garcia, 25, in his holding cell. They got a confession that this week led to a first-degree murder conviction in a killing investigators had once all but given up hope of solving.

    For Lloyd, the image on the chest of the delicate, doe-eyed gang member brought back a rush of memories. The snapshot was taken inside the sheriff's Pico Rivera station after Garcia was arrested in a routine traffic stop and booked on suspicion of driving with a suspended license.

    Before they are released, suspected gang members typically are asked to remove their shirts and have their tattoos photographed by graffiti team deputies. Taggers often mark their own bodies with the same signatures they spray on buses and storefronts — and eyewitnesses to crimes sometimes help close cases by recalling distinctive tattoos.

    Homicide Lt. Dave Dolson said gang members frequently get symbolic tattoos to bolster their street cred: three dots on the hand to signify "mi vida loca" ("my crazy life"), sketches of prisons where they've done time, gang insignia prominently stenciled on their heads and torsos.

    But a tattoo laying out a detailed picture of a crime scene is something far outside the norm. "I haven't seen it before, and I haven't heard of anything like it either," Dolson said.

    Garcia's tattoo shows a man with the body of a peanut being hit by bullets and falling back toward the liquor store. In gang slang, the word "peanut" is used to derisively describe a rival gang member.

    Lloyd had been at the scene of the Pico Rivera killing as a station sergeant. After he recognized it in the tattoo, the 30-year veteran called up the cold case file. He pored over the crime scene photographs alongside the photos of Garcia's chest. He also drove to the site of the slaying.

    "I worked Pico Rivera a lot of years, so I'm pretty familiar with that area," he said. "It was incredible."

    With the help of major crimes investigators, deputies found Garcia living with relatives in La Habra. They arrested him and began setting up a ruse to secure his conviction.

    A detective posing as a Los Angeles gang member who'd been arrested on attempted murder charges was placed in Garcia's Norwalk station jail cell. He soon got Garcia talking, sheriff's investigators said. Garcia was proud, and he bragged about the shooting. He didn't know the conversation was being recorded and that it would soon be played for a jury.

    But perhaps it was all bound to end up this way, said Capt. Mike Parker.

    "Think about it. He tattooed his confession on his chest. You have a degree of fate with this," Parker said. "The detective who spotted it had been a Pico sergeant who went on to become a homicide sergeant. I never worked Pico station. I never would have recognized that Pico liquor store."

    Investigators don't believe Garcia's elaborate tattoo was a rash decision. Photos from several bookings over the years show the mural on his chest evolving as he added details to the tattooed murder scene — until one day Lloyd saw them as a whole and something clicked.
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    Brilliant! Just brilliant... I hope that at some point useless fucks like this are herded up and put down. You either play by the rules or you're out of the game.
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    Quote Originally Posted by VAiN View Post
    Brilliant! Just brilliant... I hope that at some point useless fucks like this are herded up and put down. You either play by the rules or you're out of the game.
    I wouldn't put them down. I would get some utility out of them. I would make sure that had very miserable slow prison lives and find a way to make money off of it. Then that money would be set aside to help the community. I don't these these guys are scared of death as much as spending the rest of their lives working their asses off in some prison slave camp hell hole.
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    Jesus, It's really a different world isn't it.
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    What a fucking idiot.
    Well, that worthless fuck is in the p-farm for the rest of his life. Good riddance...
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    This would have made the worst Columbo ever...
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    What I don't quite get is why the tattoo depicts one of the gangbangers apparently locked in a life or death struggle with Mr. Peanut.


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    Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

    Is it just me, or does he look like the leat scary gangster ever? 100lbs of raging fury
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nitro Express View Post
    I wouldn't put them down. I would get some utility out of them. I would make sure that had very miserable slow prison lives and find a way to make money off of it. Then that money would be set aside to help the community. I don't these these guys are scared of death as much as spending the rest of their lives working their asses off in some prison slave camp hell hole.
    I agree, to a point. Prisoners should be made to work. Hard.

    All of those jobs that everyone in the community can see need doing but there's never the resources to fund them - tarmacking roads, remooving graffitti, working on public gardens, mending fences, catching rats, whatever it may be.

    Depsite the free labour, it would probably cost quite a lot to fund with security etc. But I think it would be money well spent - working 8 hours a day might limit the amount of time these guys to plan gang activity and so on.

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    this bit, craig..

    'Garcia's tattoo shows a man with the body of a peanut being hit by bullets and falling back toward the liquor store. In gang slang, the word "peanut" is used to derisively describe a rival gang member.'
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    Man linked to murder by tattoo sentenced to 65 years in prison

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    LOS ANGELES A gang member who was linked to a 2004 murder by an elaborate tattoo on his chest that authorities say memorialized the crime scene was sentenced on Thursday to 65 years to life in prison.

    Anthony Garcia, 25, was convicted of murder in April in the January 23, 2004 shooting death of 23-year-old John Juarez outside a liquor store in the Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera.

    Garcia was first suspected in the killing of Juarez after he was arrested in 2008 for driving on a suspended license and a detective noticed his tattoo, which shows a peanut man being shot by a helicopter outside a store.

    Prosecutors say the helicopter represents Garcia, whose gang nickname is "Chopper," and that "peanut" is a derogatory term for a rival gang.

    "This is completely one-of-a-kind," Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Brock Lunsford said of the tattoo.

    During the sentencing hearing Michelle Sotelo, the mother of the victim's daughter, told Garcia that he should blame only himself.

    "You were stupid enough to get the tattoo that convicted you," Sotelo said. "I'm not going to say I forgive you because I don't. It's going to take me a long time to think about forgiving you."
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