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The Five Points, Manhattan is a location that was associated with gang activities from the early 19th century. [1] In the late 1920s, Al Capone was the leader of the Chicago Outfit [2] The Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club was founded in 1948 and is considered a criminal gang by American law enforcement agencies, particularly for their involvement in drug-related activities and violent crimes.
La Union is a census-designated place in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 1,106 as of the 2010 census. [4] NM 182 connects the community to NM 28. It is a part of the El Paso–Las Cruces combined statistical area.
NM 372: Western terminus; T intersection: 1.026: 1.651: NM 28 north (Avenida de Mesilla) – Las Cruces, I-10/US 180 NM 28 south (Lou Henson Highway) – San Miguel, La Union, Texas: 1.496: 2.408: McDowell Road north – NM 101: Eastern terminus; T intersection: West Union Avenue east – NM 478: Continuation east beyond eastern terminus
Las Gorras Blancas (Spanish for "The White Caps") was an clandestine organization active in New Mexico Territory in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Often characterized as vigilantes and in response to the Santa Fe Ring of land speculators, ranchers, and homesteaders, mostly Anglo-Americans, Las Gorras Blancas protested the takeover of former common lands of Hispanic residents by acts of ...
The "life-blood" of the gang is the drug sale, which they buy at a low cost due to their alliance with the Juárez cartel and profits from its own importation to the U.S. [65] They also tax ("cuota") independent drug dealers in El Paso, in other parts of West Texas, and in the Eastern part of New Mexico. Once the money is collected, the Barrio ...
The Crips and the Bloods, two majority-Black street gangs founded in Los Angeles (L.A.), have been in a gang war since around 1971. [36] [37] It has mostly taken place in major American cities, especially L.A., but is also present in Australia, Belize, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. The war is made up of small ...
State Road 182 (NM 182) is a 1.306-mile-long (2.102 km), paved, two-lane state highway in Doña Ana County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. NM 182 western terminus is in La Union at the road's end at La Union Townsite, and the eastern terminus is at the road's junction with NM 28 within the La Union community.