60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Minneapolis and St. Paul, 2nd: Including Cambridge, St. Michael, and Northfield (60 Hikes - Menasha Ridge)Notorious Mpls. gang member pleads guilty to drive-by shooting | StarTribune.com: "One of north Minneapolis' most notorious gang members pleaded guilty...
Euro Weekly News | Kidnap gang jailed | International | News | The Largest English Language Newspapers in Spain: "final member of a violent kidnap gang who lured their victims with the promise of work before imprisoning them and demanding ransom payments was today sentenced for his role in a string of kidnap and blackmail offences. Min Yang pleaded guilty on 26 November and was today sentenced to eight years in prison, bring the total sentencing...
Elite cops track Boston’s most wanted fugitives - BostonHerald.com: "These Hub cops have tracked down and slapped cuffs on the city’s most notorious fugitives, including the Craigslist Killer and Edward Corliss, the man accused of killing Jamaica Plain clerk Surendra Dangol. Their latest collars? The two men charged in the Mattapan massacre.“I would like criminals to know if you commit a crime, the police are going to be looking for you,” said Sgt....
Gang warfare has landed a disabled woman in hospital with severe burns after her home was apparently set on fire, according to Prince George RCMP, who are linking the blaze to a suspicious fire at a tattoo shop one day earlier.A 60-year-old woman who is confined to a wheelchair had to be rescued when firefighters discovered her home fully engulfed in flames shortly after midnight on Wednesday.She is now in critical condition with severe burns at...
Organised crime in Mexico: Yet another victim | The Economist: "Jesús Silverio Cavazos Ceballos, who served as governor of the tiny state of Colima until November 2009, was gunned down by three men outside his home yesterday morning. So far the killers, who arrived in a Jeep that had been reported stolen in the state of Querétaro, have not been found, nor a motive establishe...
Teen raped by gang of knife-wielding women - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Police in a remote part of Papua New Guinea are warning men to be on the lookout after a group of knife-wielding women allegedly raped a teenage boy.The 17-year-old victim had just left his high school in Mendi in the Southern Highlands last Friday when he was confronted by a group of women armed with knives. The National newspaper reports there were at...
Arrests over American's death in Mexico: "Two brothers who are members of the Los Aztecas drug gang have been arrested here over the killing of a US consulate official in March, police say.Reynaldo Diaz and Jose Guadalupe Diaz had been leaders of a local cell of the Aztecas, officials said on Friday.The cartel in Ciudad Juarez was blamed for the almost simultaneous assaults in March in which Lesley Enriquez and her husband, both Americans, were killed,...
Authorities are reporting that 11 members of the drug cartel los Zetas are dead and two more are behind bars following an intense battle on the Mexican side of Falcon Lake.Mexico's Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) reported that the gun battle took place on the Mexican side of Falcon Dam in Nueva Ciudad Guerrero Wednesday afternoon.SEDENA officials reported that soldiers were patrolling the area around 4 p.m. Wednesday when they investigated...
Refugees flee gangs in Mexican town, but still live in fear | World | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "The Zetas began attacking Mier just hours after the killing by Mexican marines last Friday of Gulf Cartel boss Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas-Guillen, known everywhere as Tony Tormenta, or Tony Storm. Officials on both sides of the border have warned that Tony Tormenta's demise is all but certain to unleash havoc as rivals fight to replace hi...
Drug gang leaders held following Garda 'super raid' - The Irish Times - Tue, Nov 09, 2010: ", the gang leader, Christy Griffin (41), originally from Canon Lillis Avenue, Dublin, was accused of raping a young woman repeatedly from the time she was a child. Griffin has since been convicted of rape and is serving a life sentence.Many of his associates stood by him while others believed Griffin’s accuser and formed a faction opposed to Griffin. A volatile...
The Canadian Press: Halloween slaying of boy, 5, highlights changes in South Los Angeles gang crime: "Arms flexed in a muscleman pose, Aaron Shannon Jr. was getting ready for a Halloween party while his grandfather snapped photos of him in a Spiderman costume.Suddenly, the click of the camera lens was replaced by the pop, pop of gunfire and the 5-year-old boy was shot in the head and killed.The Oct. 31 attack — blamed on misdirected gunfire from...
Latin American Herald Tribune - 15 Kidnappers in Mexican Border City Could Get Life in Prison: "group of 15 kidnappers arrested in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s murder capital, could be the first people convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the crime, the Chihuahua state Attorney General’s Office said.The kidnapping ring, which had operated for nearly six months, was dismantled by the army, the AG’s office said.Six men between the ages of 18 and...
The gangs which have been there for a long time include the Crips and the Bloods from California. The origins of the Crips and Bloods can be traced to the late 1960′s, and the gang culture is a very deep rooted trait in the west coast area that many families have three to four generations of gangsters residing in the same residence areas where their origins sparked off. L.A. has gangs like any other city in the world but their number is between 800...
Buses transporting women from work were ambushed Friday resulting in the deaths of five women. The attack took place in Ciudad Juarez.A convoy of 20 police travelling in SUVs was ambushed shortly after in Jalisco in western Jalisco state. At least nine Mexican police officers were shot dead in that attack.At least 5 people were injured when attacked by people throwing grenades in a suburb of Guadelajara, the state capital of Jalisco. Two of the wounded...
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