Tag: gangs

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) website content devoted to criminal gangs operating in the United States includes staggering figures about these groups’ presence and criminal activities across the country.

Federal and local law enforcement officers conducted 50 simultaneous raids in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday, taking down almost two dozen “high-ranking” suspected leaders of MS-13 in what is being described as the “largest gang raid in Los Angeles history.”

More than 140 gang members are facing federal charges after a multi-agency operation netted dozens of arrests over the last 75 days, the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of California announced Wednesday.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to eradicate the hyperviolent MS-13 transnational criminal gang during a speech he gave while in New York.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is echoing President Donald Trump’s sentiments toward the violent El Salvadorian MS-13 gang, blaming “years of lax immigration enforcement” for their growing presence across the U.S.

President Donald Trump sent a message to criminal illegal immigrants, Tuesday morning, particularly members of gangs like MS-13.

Tattoo removals have skyrocketed in San Francisco, as illegal aliens fear body markings may tie them to foreign criminal gangs and make them a target for immigration officials.

ICE officers arrested and detained 41 criminal illegal immigrants in New York City, New York, which prides itself on being “sanctuary city.”

A war between rival drug gangs has triggered a third massacre in an overcrowded Brazilian prison. After a 14-hour riot, police found 26 inmates charred and beheaded and had little time to begin identifying them before yet another disturbance began on Monday.

Brazilian police have yet to recapture over 100 inmates who escaped from two northern prisoners in riots on New Year’s Day and appear ill-equipped to rapidly resolve the institutional decay that allowed the riots to occur in the first place.

Brayan Bremer, one of over hundreds of inmates who escaped from two prisons in western Brazil over New Year’s Eve, is taunting police with selfies apparently taken from deep within the Amazon rainforest which surfaced on Facebook throughout the week.

The Black Lives Matter movement has a new victim: 14-year-old Jesse Romero, who was shot and killed by police Tuesday evening after being caught writing graffiti in Los Angeles. The only problem: Romero also allegedly fired a revolver at police.

A house party in San Jose spiraled so out of control on Friday night that a police SWAT team was called in to break up the chaos.

With 55 shootings and five deaths, the weekend in Chicago was particularly bloody, so much so that Sunday marked itself as having the most shootings in a single day in over a year.

California-based rapper The Game invited representatives from street gangs and law enforcement to a town hall-style anti-violence meeting in Los Angeles on Sunday.

As the nation took to backyard BBQs and paused to celebrate the birth of our nation, the incessant gang warfare in and around the Chicago area continued without a hitch with 37 shootings and six deaths over the three-day weekend. The tragic toll included the death of a 39-year-father and his two young girls in a nearby Chicago suburb.

An incredible 66 people were shot, although just six were killed, over Chicago’s Memorial Day weekend. The carnage pushed the number of gunshot victims well above 1,500 this year in this Democratic-run city.

The last four days, ending on Sunday evening, saw a terrible bloodletting in the city of Chicago–53 shootings and four deaths.

Disrespect for the Chicago police is at an all time high and as the weather turns warmer this summer, the city’s already high level of violence is ready to explode, especially if new proposed policies are adopted. So warns an official with Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police (FOP).

Police in Los Angeles arrested a man with known gang ties on charges of raping a woman in the restroom of a public park, court documents show.

The NYPD arrested 120 suspected gang members in the biggest crack-down in New York City’s history, CBS New York reports, for crimes such as murder, robbery, drug trafficking, and more.

Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Milwaukee Co., WI Sheriff David Clarke reacted to remarks from Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton speculating on why some in the black community join gangs. “Joining a gang is like having a family,” Clinton

In an interview with Bloomberg, filmmaker and newly-minted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Ice Cube said Hillary Clinton’s “superpredators” comments in 1996 helped “justify” the police brutality that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Thanks in part to a heavy police presence, a planned demonstration by armed members of the group BAIR — the Bureau for American Islamic Relations — went off peacefully, despite a counter protest organized by a group called the Huey P. Newton Gun Club that included members of the street gangs the Bloods and the Crips, as well as elements of Black Lives Matter.

More than 1,100 criminal gang members have been arrested in a multi-week Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation, netting transnational gang members allegedly involved in crimes like human smuggling, sex trafficking, murder, drug trafficking, and racketeering.

Seventeen are wounded and two dead as a result of Chicago’s incessant gang warfare. The death toll included a 13-year-old boy who had spoken out against gang violence only last year.

The gang-affiliated father of the 9-year-old Chicago boy who was murdered execution-style late last year has now been arrested and charged in the shootings of three other people, police say.

One of the defendant’s in a controversial gang injunction lawsuit has been murdered. He was killed in the Houston neighborhood where court action has been taken in an effort to reduce crime there.

Rams owner Stan Kroenke, who ramrodded his way to moving the St. Louis Rams back to Los Angeles, doesn’t want the Oakland Raiders to partner with him there, preferring the San Diego Chargers, because Raiders’ fans could mean big trouble.

Temperatures for Chicago’s second weekend of the new year finally measured in at what are more typically recorded for the city’s cold Winter days, but it didn’t put much of a damper on the gang warfare that so often breaks out in the streets there.