Comments on: LA Homeboys – Then & Now

By: Taco » Crime Blotter, October 1 ~ Los Angeles

Taco » Crime Blotter, October 1 ~ Los Angeles — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:15:46 +0000

[...] Stories From LA’s Crime Ridden Streets: Homeboys, Then and Now Awesome photo essay about bangers 15 years ago and what they’re up to [...]

By: Lea

Lea — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:22:24 +0000

Thanks Poplock for refreshing my memory on that story on Chucky i do remember his other homie got life in prison and one of the guys mom died of overdose something like that.But i remember seeing the original undercover report on them and chucky and his homie were like 9yr olds with tats on thier stomachs and stab wounds already it was pretty distrubing how they grew up.I am going to try to look for that report thanks..
Celeste thats too bad if you cant do before and after shots but whatever you have i am sure will be great! I am looking foward to it.

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:43:08 +0000

Thanks for explaining the Chucky reference, Poplock. I see now it was in answer to Lea’s question.

Lea, I am going to put some photos in the new version of the G-Dog book. But, regrettably I can’t do before and after photos as all the names in the book were changed at the insistence of the attorneys for the original publishers. (The book was first published by Hyperion. The two subsequent versions are from University of New Mexico Press.)

Anyway, we do intend to include photos, which is why I was going through my files. But although the Epilogue of the book does tell what’s happened to the main characters in the narrative, all these years later—I won’t be able to link the stories to the photos. Bummer. But there you have it.

By: poplock

poplock — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:57:33 +0000

In what I remember, Chucky stole a shipment of dope and maybe a gun or two from the big homies and tried to play the part as senor innocent. Once they figure him out, he took off-out of state to hide, found, and smoked, by of course, his own homies.
I dont remember the details – I have to remember so much.
You can probably ordered the episode from LA CAL News 11.
The life after that report is actually a good tool and story to use for a scare straight or a law enforcement gang class.

By: lea

lea — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:47:10 +0000

By the way i love to see more old skool pix like that are all those from father Boyal book?? and are you doing before and after shots in your book of some of these homies or is it just for the blog?

By: lea

lea — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:42:09 +0000

yup poplock it was chucky! and some other kid is there anyway to get any of those links from fox undercover on that???

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:57:35 +0000

Poplock, haven’t a clue who you’re talking about. What’m I missing here?

By: Poplock

Poplock — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:45:08 +0000

I thought little Chucky from Compton-TF got whacked out in Arizona by his own homies…..for burning his homeboys in SE-LA.

By: Lea

Lea — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:58:13 +0000

This is a great post!! Thanks for informing us on what happend to these fellows and its great most of them are doing well. So when does your new book come out?? By the way can anybody get the Fox Undercover clips they had done the undecover report on like these 9yr olds in the tortilla flats gang and then like 12 yrs or so later they showed them now and it was a sad sad outcome cant think of the name but does anybody know what i am talking about???

By: Woody

Woody — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:25:33 +0000

To the left, EVERYTHING has to do with Iraq.