Fullerton Boys

Infobox Criminal organization
name = Fullerton Boys
founding_location = Fullerton, CA
years_active = 1996-2002
territory = Southern California
ethnicity = Asian , Mostly Korean
membership = 15
activities = Home Invasion, Assault, Extortion, Murder
allies = LVM Gang, Sarzana, Korean Mobsters
rivals = Santanas, Crayzies, Family Mobsters, Garden Grove Boys, Triad Boyz

Fullerton Boys, commonly spelled Fullerton Boyz were a group of Asian gang-members mostly composed of Korean-Americans that lived in the city of Fullerton, CA. Most of its members belonged to the LVM Gang, SZA (Sarzana) gang and some from the Wah Ching gang. These gang-members were known to also claim Fullerton Boyz against their rivals and as the gangs disbanded in Fullerton, most of them started to claim Fullerton Boyz as a gang.

History

Fullerton Boyz was founded in 1996 by a group of Korean teens living in Fullerton, CA. Fullerton Boyz were not considering themselves as a gang but rather as a faction of two dominant Asian gangs in Fullerton which were the LVM Gang and Sarzana street gangs. This fraction also composed of members of the Wah Ching gang that were living in Fullerton at the time. In the mid 90's most of the LVM, Sarzana and Wah Ching gang members in Fullerton were arrested during an intense Police investigation of crime sprees that involved assaults on rival gang members and home invasions. With the fallout of LVM and Sarzana the former members started to claim Fullerton Boyz against their rivals. By the late 90's Fullerton Boyz membership started to grow and with it came criminal activities involving the group.

Activities

Fullerton Boyz main rivals were the Garden Grove Boyz and Asian street gangs from the city of Cerritos. The rivalry often resulted in assaults and gang brawls in each of these cities. Whoever was claiming either of these three cities were often assaulted by the other. In 1996, members of the Fullerton Boyz were arrested in a Home Invasion and in September, 2000, members of the Triad Boyz and the Fullerton Boyz were involved in a deadly shootout which left several injured and one dead from gunshot wounds.

Membership

Members of Fullerton Boyz, like most other Asian gangs do not claim a color and because Fullerton is a mid-upper class neighborhood, crimes committed by Fullerton Boyz did not involve crimes committed for profit. As with most Asian gangs a lot of their members were also known to have good grades in school. There were always a dispute of whether the Fullerton Boyz were a gang or a brotherhood of gang-members that lived in Fullerton.

ee also

*List of Korean American gangs

References

http://www.streetgangs.com/asian/fullerton.htmlhttp://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1376946.phphttp://www.streetgangs.com/topics/2006/120806year50.html