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History

The collapse of the Soviet Union prompted a massive wave of Armenian immigration into Los Angeles County, California in the early 1990s, primarily in the communities of East Hollywood, North Hollywood, Pasadena, and Glendale. Faced with pressure from Hispanic gang members in the area, young Armenians in East Hollywood grouped together to form Armenian Power.^[1] Armenian-American street gangs are not large in terms of numbers but are violent and influential enough to allegedly be involved in Mexican Mafia peace talks between Hispanic gangs^{[citation needed]}. The Armenian Power gang was a quickly growing gang in Hollywood and Glendale which formed partnerships with other gangs. ^[2] The gang's biggest enemies are the Toonerville Rifa 13, The Avenues (gang) and MS-13. ^[3] Map of California showing Los Angeles County. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... East Hollywood is a neighborhood in Los Angeles encompassing Hollywood east of Western Ave. ... North Hollywood is a district in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, California. ... Pasadena may refer to: Cities in the United States: Pasadena, Texas Pasadena, California Pasadena, Maryland Cities in Canada: Pasadena, Newfoundland Other place names called Pasadena: Pasadena, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide South Pasadena, California South Pasadena, Florida Pasadena Hills, Missouri Pasadena Park, Missouri Other: USS Pasadena (SSN-752), a... Nickname: Location of Glendale within Los Angeles County and the State of California. ... The Mexican Mafia (MM) or La eMe (eMe) is a Mexican-American criminal prison gang in the United States. ... Hispanic (Spanish: ; Portuguese: ; Latin: , adjective from Hispānia, the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula) is a term that historically denoted relation to the ancient Hispania and its peoples. ... ... Glendale is the name of some places in the United States of America and Canada: Glendale, Arizona Glendale, California Glendale, Colorado Glendale, Rhode Island Glendale, Wisconsin Glendale, Alberta There are also: Glenn Dale, Maryland Glen Dale, West Virginia Glendale is also the name of a neighborhood in the borough of... Mara Salvatrucha, MS-13, MS, In the early 1980s, a violent civil war began in El Salvador which would last more than 12 years. ...

Armen Petrosyan was the founder and leader of Armenian Power, also known as Silent. ^[4]

In popular culture

F/X's crime drama The Shield has featured several plots involving LA's Armenian gangsters who belong to a gang called "Armenian Might". In the program's Second Season, the elite Strike Team led by Detective Vic Mackey commits the Money Train Heist, stealing millions of dollars from an Armenian money laundering ring. As a result, hitman Margos Dezerian is ordered to find and murder the culprits. After committing a string of grisly murders and severing his victims' feet to indulge a fetish, Margos is ambushed and murdered by Detective Mackey, who rigs the crime scene to look like self defense. F/X is a 1986 action film, released on Friday, February 7, 1986, starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy. ... This article is about the TV series. ... Detective Vic Mackey, portrayed by Michael Chiklis, is a fictional Los Angeles Police Department detective and leader of the Strike Team, a four-man anti-gang unit in the FX crime drama series The Shield. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Money laundering is the practice of engaging in financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source and destination of the money in question. ... Margos Dezerian kills an associate Margos Dezerian is a powerful Armenian Mob Hitman and a highly ranked figure in the Armenian Mob. ... Look up fetish in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

In Season 6, disgraced Strike Team Detective Shane Vendrell begins moonlighting as an enforcer for Diro Kesakhian (Franka Potente), the young and ruthless Godmother of an Armenian Crime Family. After learning from Shane that a trio of Black gangsters has been robbing her stable of Russian hookers, Diro arranges for the three men to be castrated. However, when Diro learns of the Strike Team's involvement in the Money Train Heist, Shane is horrified when she puts out contracts on the surviving Team members and their families. Shane transfers loyalty to her rival and forces her to flee to Germany. Before catching her flight, she tells him, "Your sentiment will destroy you." Information Aliases Cletus Van Damme Gender Male Age 30s Occupation Police officer Title Detective, vice unit Spouse(s) Mara Sewell-Vendrell (wife) Children Jackson Vendrell (son) Portrayed by Walton Goggins Created by Shawn Ryan Detective Shane Vendrell is a fictional character on the FX Networks police drama television series The... Franka Potente (born on July 22, 1974) is a German film actress. ... Hooker may be: A prostitute A position in rugby union or rugby league - see Rugby union positions and Rugby League positions. ... Castration, gelding, neutering, orchiectomy or orchidectomy is any action, surgical or otherwise, by which a biological male loses use of the testes. ... Sentiment can refer to: feelings and emotions the literary device sentimentality, which is used to induce an emotional response disproportionate to the situation, and thus to substitute heightened and generally unthinking feeling for normal ethical and intellectual judgment an eighteenth century literary genre called the sentimental novel This is a...

In the Showtime television drama, Weeds, An Armenian gang of marijuana growers exacts revenge by killing the DEA agent who busts their ringleader. Weeds is an American dark comedy television series It began with a 10-episode first season in August 2005. ...

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