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A criminal organization can also be referred to as an outfit, a gang, crime family, mafia, mob, [2] [3] (crime) ring, [4] or syndicate; [5] the network, subculture, and community of criminals involved in organized crime may be referred to as the underworld or gangland. Sociologists sometimes specifically distinguish a "mafia" as a type of ...
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.
U.S. law enforcement and immigration officials have launched more than 100 investigations of crimes tied to suspected members of a violent Venezuelan gang, including sex trafficking in Louisiana ...
Ten alleged members of a Minneapolis gang accused of “terrorizing” a city neighborhood have been charged with a range of federal crimes including possession of a machine gun and drug ...
Massino was the first sitting boss of a New York crime family to turn state's evidence, and the second in the history of the American Mafia to do so. [76] (Philadelphia crime family boss Ralph Natale had flipped in 1999 when facing drug charges, though Natale was mostly a "front" boss while the real boss of the Philadelphia Mafia used Natale as ...
A street level rumble of Apache gang members battling Parisian Police officers en masse on 14 August 1904. A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior ...
The DA is calling for Chile to be removed from a US visa waiver program, arguing that Chilean nationals have been abusing the system to get into the country seamlessly to commit crimes.