Posted on 03/07/2008 1:04:37 AM PST by ruination
MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO, Drew Street was a beautiful green spot named by pioneer Andrew Glassell after his son, Drew. For most of the 20th century, it was a tucked-away suburban enclave flanked by the Los Angeles River and Glendale's Forest Lawn cemetery. Then, starting in the 1960s, the city built apartments on its dead-end streets and avenues — and a bad element moved in, seeing the isolated little neighborhood as the perfect lair.
Drew Street, with its long, straight rise, offered the perfect viewing base from which to espy approaching cop cars. It turned out to be just the thing for Maria "Chata" Leon, a young toughie from a rough, lawless Mexican village who settled there and gave birth to 13 children — a half-dozen of whom became criminals. With a new baby on her hip every year or two, Leon dealt drugs and staked her claim on Drew Street, in a Bleak House stocked with guns and explosives.
She regularly did stints in jail and prison, and her growing brood, the extended Leon crime family, which has close ties to the Avenues gang that controls the area, slowly turned Drew Street into a hellish microcommunity that L.A. cops, politicians and code enforcers could not turn around. But hope materialized last year, when the city announced it was shutting down the Leon home and banning most of the Leon brood from their longtime family compound.
Leon was already gone, moved to Victorville, and many of her violent and drug-dealing sons were in prison. Some Glassell Park neighbors, who tell stories of around-the-clock drug deals and rampant gang activity at the house — including a murder in Leon's front yard — began to hope the nightmare might be over.
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Colonists.
Just another excellent example of why the Invasion has to be stopped and all illegals in the U.S. must be deported or self-deport.
Aye, right you are Levotb. Nice to see your typed characters.
Regards
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Coming soon to a Section 8 house near you.
Until “the city built apartments.” Thanks, city.
They’re selling drugs Americans won’t sell, and trashing neighborhoods Americans won’t trash.
Mexicans are the bane of the Western Hemisphere. The question is, did they become that way because they immitate the leadership of their third-world, toilet of a country; or, are the corrupt narco-grifters who run that sh!thole country just a reflexion of the people? Inquiring minds want to know.
She was finally convicted of drug felonies, in 1995 and again in 1997...
Her longest stint in prison came after a Halloween bust in 2002, when the Glendale Police Department used a search warrant to enter the longtime Leon home on Drew Street. She was arrested for narcotics sales and child endangerment after officers found automatic weapons and explosives throughout the home...
Then Maria Leon was released from state prison in 2006.
What the hell happened to "three strikes you're out"?
You hear about these guys going to prizon for the rest of their life for stealing a cookie or something and this family, if you read the whole story, seem to walk out of jail the day after they're arrested.
If she’d been in jail longer, likely she would not have continued to over populate with her demon brood.
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