Posts Tagged ‘Gangs’
State Department labels Haitian gangs as terrorist organizations
The Trump administration has designated a coalition of Haitian gangs that have embroiled the Caribbean nation in mass violence as terrorist organizations, a White House official confirmed to NBC News. The Viv Ansanm coalition and the Gran Grif gang will now be labeled a Foreign Terrorist Organizations and as Specifically Designated Global Terrorists by the…
Read MoreFrance drops terrorism probe into prison attacks, cites organised crime
French anti-terror prosecutors said Friday they were dropping an investigation into 30 suspects linked to a wave of prison attacks, determining the acts fell under the scope of “major organised crime”. Attackers in April struck at several jails and other facilities across France, torching cars, spraying the entrance of one prison with automatic gunfire and…
Read MoreVirginia Gang Members Sentenced to Decades in Prison for Kidnapping and Murder
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/virginia-gang-members-sentenced-decades-prison-kidnapping-and-murder Hezekiah Carney, 26, of Norfolk, Virginia, and Jayquan Jones, 22, of Richmond, Virginia, were each sentenced today to 38 years in prison for federal charges relating to the kidnapping and murder of a fellow Almighty Black P. Stone gang member. A total of four defendants have now been sentenced as part of the case.…
Read MoreTrump administration plans to designate Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist groups
The Trump administration has told Congress that it intends to designate Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist organisations, according to people familiar with the notification. The State Department had similarly labeled eight Latin American crime organisations as it ratcheted up pressure on cartels operating in the US and anyone assisting them, and the new move indicates…
Read MoreKDY Crew Member Sentenced to 180 Months for Armed Carjacking and Marijuana Distribution
WASHINGTON – Jovan Terrell Williams, 20, of the District of Columbia, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 180-months in federal prison in connection with the November 2023 armed carjacking of a Chevrolet Corvette and for his participation in the Kennedy Street Crew drug trafficking conspiracy. The sentencing…
Read MoreJustice Department brings first terrorism case against alleged high-ranking TdA gang member
The Justice Department has charged an alleged high-ranking member of Tren de Aragua in Colombia with terrorism offenses, making the first case of its kind against a member of the gang the Trump administration has designated a foreign terrorist organization, officials said Wednesday. The case is part of a broad push to target Tren de…
Read More27 Members or Associates of Tren de Aragua Charged with Racketeering, Narcotics, Sex Trafficking, Robbery and Firearms offenses
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/27-members-or-associates-tren-de-aragua-charged-racketeering-narcotics-sex-trafficking First RICO Charges Against TdA Members and Associates Note: A copy of the Anti-Tren indictment can be found here. Today, two superseding indictments were unsealed charging 27 individuals currently or formerly associated with the designated foreign terrorist organization Tren de Aragua (TdA) with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking conspiracy, drug trafficking conspiracy, robbery, and firearms offenses. The first superseding indictment…
Read MoreU.S. to designate Haiti gangs as foreign terrorists, opening way to use Salvador prison
Haitian gangs and individuals financing and arming them could soon find themselves labeled as “terrorists” and imprisoned in El Salvador’s notorious maximum-security prison, the same facility the Trump administration has been sending alleged members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua, the Miami Herald has learned. The U.S. State Department, which earlier this year designated the Venezuelan…
Read MoreBritish man’s tattoo wrongly linked to Venezuelan gang in US government document
A tattoo belonging to a man from Derbyshire has appeared in a US government document used to identify members of a notorious Venezuelan gang – despite the man having no connection to the group. Pete Belton, 44, from Ilkeston says he was shocked to find his forearm featured in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS)…
Read MoreIran’s shadow war with Israel is ensnaring Swedish teens, security services say
As darkness enveloped Stockholm one evening last May, the city set into its nocturnal rhythm and its criminal underworld came alive. In a home in Västerås, a lakeside city 60 miles west of the capital, a mother completed her nighttime routine, comforted by the sight of her 15-year-old son safely in bed. But, just before…
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