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SOTEL13 ~ West Los Angeles

7:59 AM PST on December 12, 2006

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This LA CityBeat story was written in 2003 descrbing the demise of SOTEL13 based in and around Stoner Park, but anyone who lives in West LA knows that their writers, at the very least, are far from gone.

"The Los Angeles Police Department's West L.A. Division, home to the lowest crime rate in the city, mainly keeps its eye on two gangs: the Playboy Gangsta Crips, claiming turf along La Cienega Boulevard less than one mile south of tony Beverly Hills, and the Sotel gang, which is named for Sawtelle Boulevard and the adjacent neighborhood..."

http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=362&IssueNum=22

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