Gang News

Mexican authorities have captured a top Salvadoran gang leader who had been secretly released from an El Salvador prison and had fled the country. His capture, and expulsion to the United States to face charges, exposes the growing rift between the US and El Salvador over how to deal with top-level gang members. A US…

A suspected MS-13 gang member was arrested Wednesday in the killing of a man under a Massachusetts bridge in 2010, authorities said, after investigators matched his voice to a recording in which he allegedly acknowledged he took part in the killing. Adam Rodriguez, 33, was indicted Wednesday on a racketeering conspiracy, or RICO, charge, the…

FBI Raids Baltimore City Taxpayer-Funded ‘Safe Streets’ Program For Possible Gang Infiltration Democratic leadership in imploding Baltimore City has funneled city and state dollars into a super-progressive anti-violence program called “Safe Streets,” which pushes ‘non-policing’ techniques to deter violent crime. Mayor Brandon Scott has championed Safe Streets, yet many residents have complained the program is…

A gang member was sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting and paralyzing a rival in a Montgomery County, Maryland, recording studio in August 2020. Prosecutors said chilling video played for the jury showed Marvin Frazier in a Montgomery Village studio when he heard two rivals in an ongoing gang feud were in the…

BALTIMORE – Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Baltimore arrested an undocumented noncitizen convicted of driving while intoxicated and driving a vehicle not equipped with an ignition interlock. Deportation officers from ERO Baltimore’s Fugitive Operations Team apprehended the Salvadoran national, a documented member of the notorious MS-13 street gang on Oct. 30 in Temple Hills, Maryland.…

BALTIMORE — The FBI raided the Belair-Edison site of Baltimore’s anti-violence program Safe Streets, WJZ has learned. A spokesperson for the FBI said the agency was “conducting court-authorized activity” at the location, which is in the 3400 block of Belair Road. The scope of the investigation was not immediately clear. Safe Streets was formed in…

The 37th and final defendant charged as part of the case against members and associates of the Simon City Royals gang – a gang aligned with the Gangster Disciples – pleaded guilty today to racketeering (RICO) conspiracy. “The Simon City Royals terrorized Mississippi prisons and communities for far too long,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General…

There’s no silver bullet to New Zealand’s gang problem, but something needs to be done to address this growing problem. This is according to Jared Savage, the author of two books on organised crime and a senior investigations writer at the Herald, who tells the Front Page podcast that the major parties in New Zealand…

ATLANTA — Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr Wednesday announced his office’s Gang Prosecution Unit has secured a 52-count indictment charging three alleged gang members with a variety of drug and weapons offenses. Chiquille Bell, Contrellis Books, and Marcus Thornton are accused of violating the state’s Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act, trafficking oxycodone, possession with…