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HERMACINSKI, 24 HOUR NEWS 8.
Eric: THANK YOU, JAY.
MEMBERS OF TWO SOUTH SIDE GANGS
ARE IN JAIL TONIGHT.
PROSECUTORS SAY THEY HAVE
CHARGED 14 ALLEGED GANG MEMBERS
WITH FELONIES.
FIVE OF THE SUSPECTS ARE UNDER
THE AGE OF 17, BUT THEY ARE
BEING CHARGE AS ADULTS.
JULIAN GRACE SAID THE MARION
COUNTY PROSECUTOR IS USING
SPECIAL CHARGES FOR THIS CASE,
JULIAN?
Reporter: THAT'S RIGHT, ERIC.
TERRY CURRY, HE IS NO STRANGER
TO THOSE CHARGES.
YOU MAY REMEMBER BACK IN 2011 HE
CHARGED A VIOLENT EAST SIDE GANG
AND HE SAID THOSE MEMBERS HAVE
BEEN CONVICTED, AND THEY'RE
FACING ONE YEAR OF PROBATION AND
UP TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON.
FOUNTAIN SQUARE IS WHERE THE
OLD AND NEW CONSTRUCTION MEET.
POLICE SAY A PAIR OF GANGS WERE
ON A DESTRUCTIVE PATH
TERRORIZING THE SOUTH SIDE
NEIGHBORHOOD.
THEY GO AROUND PICKING ON
VULNERABLE GROUP.
Reporter: ONE GROUP CALLS IT
PROSECUTORS SAY THEY WOULD
ATTACK RESIDENTS UNPROVOKED
UNTIL THEY WERE ALL LOCKED UP.
Reporter: THE SECOND GANG
SQUARE BOYS.
THEY ARE ACCUSED OF BEATING
OTHER TEENS WHO THEY THOUGHT
WERE CONNECTED TO THEIR RIVALS.
WE DID A QUICK SURVEY IN THE HUB
OF FOUNTAIN SQUARE.
WE FOUND SOME WHO COULD RECALL
DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS WITH THE
MONTH.
A GROUP OF MY COLLEGE PEERS,
WE WERE HELD AT GUNPOINT AND
THEY HAD THEIR CARS TAKEN FROM
THEM.
Reporter: A TEENAGE BOY TRIED
DOWN THE STREET.
HE WAS JUST TRYING TO EGG ME
ON INTO A FIGHT OR SOMETHING.
AND I KIND OF JUST SHOOED HIM
AWAY, IGNORED HIM.
Reporter: DID IT MAKE YOU
NERVOUS?
WERE YOU SCARED?
I WASN'T SCARED.
Reporter: NOW THESE FACES MAY
NOT BE SEEN ON THE STREETS FOR
SOME TIME.
THEY'RE LOOKING AT MULTIPLE
YEARS IN PRISON ALL BECAUSE
THEY'RE CHARGED AS ORGANIZED
GANG MEMBERS.
APPROACH.
RATHER THAN ARREST THE GANG
MEMBER ON ISOLATED BASIS, FOR A
CRIME HERE, A CRIME THERE, WE
WANTED TO TAKE APPROACH THAT WE
THOUGHT WOULD DISMANTLE THESE
THAT IS OUR GOAL.
Reporter: THERE IS A LOCAL
CHURCH GROUP WHO SAY THEY'RE
GOING TO BE GIVING TEENS AN
ALTERNATIVE TO CRIME.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE HOLDING A
BLOCK PARTY ON FLETCHER AT
5:00 P.M.
AND THEY WANT TEENS TO KNOW THAT