SUSPECTED GANG MEMBERS PLEA NOT GUILTY

Dozens of suspected West Side Crips arrested in this week’s raids have pleaded not guilty to numerous charges from first-degree murder to burglary.They appeared in a Bakersfield courtroom on Thursday.

Police and other agencies followed the gang for months after five-year-old Kason Guyton was killed in a drive by shooting as he rode in a rival gang member’s car.

Kelli Pierce