Latin Kings, Belizean Bloods, Two-Six Boys, Sureño 13s and Latin Dragons T transnational gangs remain a major problem in nearly every U.S. city

Latin Kings, Belizean Bloods, Two-Six Boys, Sureño 13s and Latin DragonsT transnational gangs remain a major problem in nearly every U.S. city. Transnational gangs differ from traditional American street gangs in that their members are foreign born and absent family connections to the communities in which they reside.Transnational gangs, like their indigenous American counterparts, are largely financed by the illicit drug trade. Based on law enforcement reports, the transnational gangs appear to be more violent toward competing gangs as well as...

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Original Gangster -- who says he lives by a code as timeless as the tattoo singed along his eyebrow.

When gang members “put some work in,” they go after rival gang bangers, the gang leader said.They don't go after innocents.The 34-year-old gang leader testified Tuesday that he was outraged when he learned that some younger members of his gang, 18th Street, may have been caught up in the robbery spree that left Luis Fernando-Silva and Tari Glinsmann dead and Omahan Charlie Denton wounded.“My concern was that they took innocent people's lives,” he said. “It shouldn't have happened. That's not what we do.”The old-school gang member's view of that...

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Daquan Stevens —Â member of the street gang International Robbing Crew

Daquan Stevens —Â member of the street gang International Robbing Crew and one of several subjects of the June CL cover story "Gang Mentality" — pleaded guilty yesterday to two murders and a kidnapping. He received three life sentences on top of the 75 years he was already serving.The murders that Stevens admitted to committing — the 2006 shooting death of Iraq veteran Ryan Harmon, and the 2005 suffocation and beating of business owner Mamadous Barry — were among IRC's more brutal and, certainly, more senseless crimes. In a 2007 interview, Stevens...

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Normand Marvin (Casper) Ouimet, a member of the gang’s Trois Rivières chapter who is also wanted in a case where he is alleged to have taken control

officers from several police forces arrested most of the 156 people named in an indictment that lists several serious charges including conspiracy, gangsterism and 22 counts of first-degree murder. The murders were carried out within the context of a bloody conflict over drug-trafficking turf between the Hells Angels and rival criminal organizations that stretched from 1994 to 2002, a period commonly referred to as the biker war. At least 16 people named in Operation SharQc are still being sought, according to the Sûreté du Québec’s website. That...

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The Pagans,It's a gang no different than the Bloods or the Crips or any gang,

arrest that netted four local members of the Pagans motorcycle gang in a far-ranging murder and racketeering conspiracy to deal cocaine and kill members of the rival Hells Angels was out of the ordinary for the area, police say.Motorcycle gangs with reputations for violence and drug dealing, such as the Pagans, Hells Angels and Outlaws, can be found at parties and biker bars in the Catskills and Hudson Valley, but the groups have largely coexisted without problems.This doesn't mean that the police don't characterize these groups as "anti-social"...

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10 Comanchero bikers to stand trial for murder. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.

Ten bikers will go on trial for murder after a vicious brawl between rival gangs at a Sydney airport resulted in a man being bludgeoned with a metal pole and stabbed to death with a knife and scissors, a court said Thursday. A chance meeting between members of the rival Hells Angels and Comanchero gangs on a flight led to cell phone calls for reinforcements when the plane landed.Hells Angel Anthony Zervas, 29, died after being struck and stabbed when a fight broke out in front of stunned onlookers at a domestic airport in Australia's main city...

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suspected drug hitmen killed the mayor of a town outside Mexico's northern business city of Monterrey

7 people were killed in a drug gangs shootout in Mexican resort city of Acapulco, according to local authorities.The Associated Press reports that Guerrero state investigative police director Fernando Monreal said gunmen used grenades and automatic rifles to attack a house in a residential area of Acapulco on Thursday.The state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, has become a drug cartel battleground.Mexican police source also said that suspected drug hitmen killed the mayor of a town outside Mexico's northern business city of Monterrey Thursday....

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“Operation Blood Trail” alleged that gang-affiliated dealers shipped tens of thousands of dollars worth of drugs every month

Forty-one members and affiliates of the Bloods street gang shipped cocaine, heroin and marijuana from Long Island and Brooklyn to upstate New York where the drugs were was sold in a massive distribution ring, state attorney general’s office said Wednesday.A Long Islander holds bundled decks of heroin in her hands.The suspects were rounded up Wednesday after being indicted on corruption and drug dealing charges following a seven-month investigation by New York’s Organized Crime Task Force, which used wiretaps, covert surveillance and undercover...

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