Gang Violence

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials revealed that 735 criminal illegal aliens arrested in the Houston area last month accounted for more than 1,700 criminal convictions — with nearly 1,200 involving violent crimes or threats to public safety. The arrests included murderers, rapists, child predators, arsonists, drug traffickers, and members of MS‑13, Surenos 13, 18th Street, Tango Blast, and other brutal gangs.

Brazilian Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro thanked Donald Trump and Marco Rubio for the terrorist designation of drug gangs Red Command and PCC.

The State Department will announce on Thursday that it is planning to designate Brazil’s two most powerful organized criminal syndicates, the Comando Vermelho (Red Command) and Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Capital Command, or PCC), as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) and Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).

A seven-month-old baby girl was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon in Brooklyn while being pushed in a stroller by her parents. 

The Swedish government announced this week that it plans to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 13-years-old as it seeks to confront the rampant use of youths by criminal gangs.

248 members of El Salvador’s Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) deadly gang were sentenced to up to 1,335 years in prison for multiple crimes.

U.S. law enforcement needs a single, articulated national strategy to counter the Venezuelan terrorist gang Tren de Aragua, José Gustavo Arocha, national security expert at the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS), told Breitbart News.

Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes demanded the preservation of all evidence of the operation against the Red Command gang.

Rio de Janeiro’s Civil Police on early Thursday morning updated the official death toll of Tuesday’s massive police raid against the deadly Comando Vermelho (“Red Command”) drug-trafficking gang from an initial 64 to 121.

At least 64 individuals died in a massive police raid in Rio de Janeiro against Comando Vermelho, one of the country’s deadliest gangs.

Anthony Franck Laurent Saint-Cyr, the head of Haiti’s Presidential Transitional Council, proclaimed it is not the time for “Haiti fatigue.”

Colombian pop-reggaeton artist Maluma congratulated the people of El Salvador during a performance in the nation’s capital this weekend that has since gone viral in Spanish social media, noting the peace and stability of the country under President Nayib Bukele.

An English court handed an American woman a 30-years after she was convicted attempted murder in a clan feud between families.

The shooting took place outside a mosque in the central city of Örebro in the early afternoon following Friday prayers, police said.

The United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday imposed sanctions on Héctor “The Child” Guerrero, leader of the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization, and five other members of its top brass.

The gang member convicted of killing an innocent 15-year-old in one of the most brutal and senseless murders in recent New York crime history was found dead Friday in prison – not even a month into his sentence.

Dozens of Haitians on Sunday marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince to demand the resignation of Interim Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé and the Transitional Presidential Council amid an escalation of gang violence.

A group of people reportedly connected to the violent Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang brawled with police in Times Square on Friday.

French authorities investigating a wave of prison attacks are looking at the possible involvement of a notorious drug cartel.

A 16-year-old who recently returned to Sweden from Somalia has been arrested following an apparent gangland hit that left three dead in the city of Uppsala this week.

Dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro claimed his regime “will not rest” until it rescues the Venezuelans “kidnapped” by El Salvador.

Growing demand for Ozempic and similar drugs used for weight loss in Brazil has sparked a wave of violent robberies across pharmacies by organized gangs who see it as a lucrative source of income, the New York Times reported over the weekend.

Specialized members of Haiti’s National Police together with members of the Kenyan-led multinational security mission to Haiti over the weekend launched a major security operation to crack down on pre-Carnival activities organized by 400 Mawozo, one of the nation’s largest gangs.

Kristersson says security services investigating whether “foreign power” may be behind execution of an Iraqi critic of Islam in Sweden.

President Donald Trump held a phone conversation with Salvadoran counterpart Nayib Bukele on Thursday in which he celebrated Bukele as an “example” for his peers and promised to support his efforts to stop organized crime and illegal immigration.

A pair of Seattle, Washington-area teens accused of tying a younger boy to a tree and “disemboweling” him in a possible gang-related attack earlier this month have been charged as adults.

Haitian gangsters opened fire on a government press conference at Haiti’s largest public hospital on Tuesday, killing two journalists and a police officer. The Viv Ansanm gang said it committed the atrocity because it controls that portion of Port-au-Prince, and did not give the hospital permission to resume operations.

Iranian-backed networks are reportedly hiring child mercenaries from mostly immigrant community gangs in European nations such as Sweden and Norway to attack Israeli targets.

A report published by the BBC on Wednesday detailed how the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization “learned from the mistakes” of other gangs such as the Salvadoran MS-13 and 18th Street to carry out its unusually rapid expansion throughout the hemisphere, including the United States.

Police in Aurora, Colorado, reported that 14 people have been detained after a home invasion and stabbing at an apartment complex at the center of alleged activity from the dangerous Tren de Aragua gang.

American Airlines has backtracked on its plans to resume flights to the gang ridden nation of Haiti in February, company officials said.

New York Democrats are sponsoring a bill that would strengthen protections for illegal aliens accused of crimes even as Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is suddenly claiming she supports deporting criminal illegal immigrants.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has warned that the Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) is now operating in 16 states and the District of Columbia, according to a report from the New York Post.

Hundreds of Haitians packed their belongings and fled from previously secure districts of Port-au-Prince on Thursday as a running battle broke out between gangsters and police.

A Spirit Airlines flight was battered by gunfire while it attempted to land in Haiti on Monday, leading to an injured flight attendant and a diversion to the Dominican Republic.

A clash between warring gangs saw a rush-hour commuter line train become the scene of a blood bath, with two seriously injured by an axeman.