James Walter Hayward

A member of the 92nd Street Hoover Crips with prior felony convictions who pleaded guilty to illegally possessing and selling a .22-caliber revolver. He was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison followed by supervised release.

Documented network

RB ORG 92ND_STREET_HOOVER_CRIPS (organization) appears in the canonical graph as member of or associated with, documented status, 90% confidence. This describes the stored relationship and should not be stretched into a broader claim that the current source record does not support.

Status and record

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Evidence and editorial boundaries

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Source record

The current Master package attaches the following evidence sources to this profile: – Gang Member with Prior Felony Conviction Sentenced to 41 Months in Federal Prison for Possession of a Firearm That He Sold — U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, Tier 1.

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Core graph context

The strongest organizational context currently attached to this profile is RB ORG 92ND_STREET_HOOVER_CRIPS. Those links are already present in the Master graph and should remain the backbone of future research rather than being replaced by generic crime background.

How this profile fits the archive

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Research state

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Future audit triggers

Editorial note

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Federal firearms case

The strongest evidence for Hayward’s profile is the federal sentencing record from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. Prosecutors identified him as a member of the 92nd Street Hoover Crips with prior felony convictions. According to the government’s account, he illegally possessed and sold a .22-caliber revolver despite being prohibited from possessing firearms.

Hayward pleaded guilty in federal court. In April 2016 he was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison followed by supervised release. That sentence is the most important structured legal fact in the current profile and should be kept separate from broader statements about the organization.

The profile therefore functions as a case-backed gang member node rather than a generalized history of the Hoover Crips. Future additions should come from court filings, sentencing records or new canonical events, not from unsourced assumptions about activity beyond the offense documented by the Justice Department.

Evidence-led next steps

This profile has now reached the working depth threshold using only material already supported by the current Master package. Future expansion should come from stronger primary records, new canonical events, prison history, court documents or processed media connections. The page should not grow by repeating general background that belongs on an organization or event page.

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