Also Avenidas, a large Mexican-American street gang based in Highland Park, Los Angeles, California. Under the direct control of the Mexican Mafia, the gang has been the target of a series of landmark prosecutions by the Federal government and by Los Angeles Assistant District Attorney Anthony Manzella. Members of the Avenues have recently been prosecuted under the Federal Hate Crimes Statute for using violence and intimidation to drive all African-Americans out of the territories it controls. Several of these trials are related in Tony Rafael's true crime bestseller The Mexican Mafia.