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Ogden • They call themselves the "kings of all sides."

There's no west side or south side. There's just one central city – Ogden – and one gang that rules: The Ogden Treces.

On Day Two of an evidentiary hearing to determine whether a preliminary injunction filed against the gang will become permanent within the city, prosecutors for the Weber County Attorney's Office brought in a current gang member to testify about how the Treces operate.

The injunction prohibits members of the large street gang from associating with each other in the city, sets a curfew and prohibits them from carrying guns or graffiti tools in public.

The difference between Monday's subpoenaed inmates and the 36-year-old man who testified Tuesday was that the man, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, was a voluntary witness who outlined the large gang's structure in great detail.

He identified tattoos and graffiti in 2nd District Court, and defined the "O" often tattooed on the top of the head of gang members that signified their "O crown," and that they were the "king of all sides."

The man, who has been in the gang since he was nine years old and is currently incarcerated in California in federal prison on a gun charge, told the court Tuesday that not just anyone can tattoo gang symbols on their bodies. He said anyone jumped in to the gang can tattoo "O13," but a tattoo that referenced the "Central City Locos," an alternative name for the gang, had to be earned.

"You can't just put 'CCL' on you right off the bat," he said. "You've got to earn it."

And to earn it, he said they must do work for the gang. Anything from selling drugs, home invasions, drive-by shootings – anything to further the gang's agenda or give them street notoriety.

The gang member was one of four witnesses who were brought by prosecutors to testify Tuesday. Dave Weloth, crime analyst for the Ogden Police Department, Mike Junk, Ogden City prosecutor, and Detective Anthony Powers, with the Ogden Police Department's gang unit, served as expert witnesses, and all outlined decreases they've seen in crime since the preliminary injunction was put into place in September 2010.

"It's disrupted their ability to do these crimes, to put in work," Powers testified.

Weloth testified that since the injunction had gone into place, gang-related crimes have decreased within the city. In 2009, before the gang injunction was put into place, the city averaged 72.5 gang cases a month. In 2011, the year following the injunction, the average was 54.41 cases.

But defense attorneys representing several alleged gang members questioned whether the drop in crimes could be directly tied to the injunction, or if another outside factor could have played a part in the decrease.

Defense attorneys also questioned the criteria used by the Ogden Police Department to quantify who is a Trece gang member, and who would qualify to be served a gang injunction, saying the currently written policy leaves too much to the individual officer's discretion.

Powers denied that idea, saying that sergeants and lieutenants have to approve the officer's paperwork, and if the identification isn't clear, they are told to go back and investigate more thoroughly.

Court will back in session on Thursday, where the defense attorneys will present their case. They have said the injunction violates their clients' constitutional rights.