In the Interest of C. P

In In the Interest of C. P., 296 Ga. App. 572, 575 (675 SE2d 287) (2009), the juvenile defendant was found to be part of a criminal street gang under OCGA 16-15-3 (2) and to have committed the crime of participation in criminal street gang activity under OCGA 16-15-4 (a) because officers testified that, based on their experience and training, C. P. was wearing colors associated with the Bloodz gang and that the pieces of paper he was carrying depicted symbols and codes associated with the Bloodz and the 55 Mafia. In addition, C. P. admitted to being a gang member to the responding officer at the time of his arrest and later told the vice officer that scars on his hand were the result of removing a gang tattoo and that he had been "blessed in" to the gang as a result of his older brother's membership. Id. at 575.