Police made emergency calls for backup, asserting that 50% of the Artibonite region had fallen under gang control after large ...

Simply by wiretapping the contraband cellphone of one convicted murderer, authorities were able to seize hundreds of pounds ...

"Our main goal is to dismantle their leadership," an Omaha police captain said. "And that's exactly what these detectives did ...

Even in the cutthroat world of Los Angeles street gangs, the saying associated with one Crips faction stands out as cold-blooded: “You ain’t a Rollin’ 60 ‘til you kill a 60.” The Rollin’ 60s ...

Katsina state, in Nigeria's far north, is a case in point. It has long been synonymous with insecurity - particularly ...

More than 300 schoolboys are kidnapped from their school in the town of Kankara, in north-west Nigeria, by a criminal gang.

A music bigwig who helped launch Nipsey Hussle’s career and was lauded as rap’s “godfather” has been accused of running a “Mafia-like” criminal enterprise involving murder, human trafficking, robbery ...

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