Three men arrested as part of a police probe into the associates of slain gangland figure Carl Williams have been released, pending further inquiries.

Three men arrested as part of a police probe into the associates of slain gangland figure Carl Williams have been released, pending further inquiries.This morning police investigating the bashing murder of Williams in jail last year raided the family home of his former prison mate Tommy Ivanovic.Detectives swooped on the house in Cornwall Street in Brunswick West just after 7am, and a short time later arrested three men at a separate, unnamed location.Advertisement:...

Randolph Mob street gang jury found Vernon Anderson, 25, guilty of murder for the death of 19-year-old Zachary Roche-Balsam outside a party

A man was convicted of murder Wednesday in connection with the fatal shooting of another man in the city's Ingleside Heights neighborhood in 2006, according to the district attorney's office.A San Francisco Superior Court jury found Vernon Anderson, 25, guilty of murder for the death of 19-year-old Zachary Roche-Balsam outside a party in the 300 block of Victoria Street on Sept. 16, 2006, prosecutors said.Anderson, a member of the Randolph Mob street...

massive sweep against a Los Angeles street gang accused of drug and weapons trafficking has ended with 80 arrests.

massive sweep against a Los Angeles street gang accused of drug and weapons trafficking has ended with 80 arrests.More than 1,300 police and federal agents from several agencies, including the Secret Service, conducted raids Thursday to serve arrest warrants on reputed members and associates of a San Pedro gang.Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck told reporters that the gang had a "stranglehold" on the port community.Those arrested are charged...

Three suspected gang members climbed aboard a bus and shot a television cameraman to death as he rode to work, police said Tuesday.

A police report said the gunmen approached Alfredo Hurtado, 41, directly and shot him several times Monday.The cameraman worked for El Salvador's Channel 33 covering general news.Police reported no possible motive for the shooting in Jardines de San Bartolo, a town just outside the capital of San Salvador. But investigators suspected gang members because the area has been plagued by turf wars between the Mara Salvatrucha and the Mara 18 gangs.Paris-based...

MASKED gunman opened fire on a family home in what detectives fear is the latest attack in an increasingly violent gangland feud.

He fired a shot at the house in the daylight attack in Drumchapel, Glasgow, on Easter Sunday.The family, including 15-year-old twin boys, a nine-year-old girl and an 85-year-old woman, cowered inside the house in Summerhill Place as the attack happened.Sources said last night that the shooting was carried out in revenge for an earlier incident between rival gangs.The bloody feud has been raging since Angus Malavin, 26, and his 17-year-old brother...

There were clues but nothing was done, and now at least 177 bodies have been unearthed.

Suitcases started piling up, unclaimed, at the depot where buses crossing northern Tamaulipas state ended their route. That should have been an early clue.Then the bodies started piling up, pulled by forensic workers from two dozen hidden graves in the scruffy brush-covered ravines around the town of San Fernando, 80 miles south of this city that borders Brownsville, Texas.At least 177 corpses have been recovered in the last few weeks, most of them,...

There is a gang war and it’s brutal,” Chu said in 2009. “One of the battlegrounds in this war is the southeast sector of Vancouver where two gangs, the Sanghera Group and the Buttar Group, are killing each other for profit and territory.”

Crown prosecutors have stayed all firearms charges against two Vancouver men whom police described as leaders of a violent gang when they were rounded up in a massive organized crime sweep in 2009.Udham Singh Sanghera, 60, and Gordon Taylor, 49, were released Tuesday night after a surprise announcement in B.C. Supreme Court five weeks into their trial and more than two years after they were locked up.Taylor’s lawyer Pat Angly said he doesn’t know...

Martin Omar Estrada Luna, otherwise known as “El Kilo” or “El Comandante Kilo,” is the suspected leader of the Los Zetas drug cartel in the northern state of Tamaulipas

Mexican authorities said that they have arrested a notorious drug kingpin over the weekend, who allegedly was the person responsible for the mass graves in the north, media reports say.Martin Omar Estrada Luna, otherwise known as “El Kilo” or “El Comandante Kilo,” is the suspected leader of the Los Zetas drug cartel in the northern state of Tamaulipas, based out of the city of San Fernando, where the bodies were discovered, according to the Houston...

Mexico’s drug war has spilled over into the cultural life of the nation,

“narcocorridos” to narco-wives, Mexico’s drug war has spilled over into the cultural life of the nation, influencing language and even religion.A recent report by the Associated Press surveys narco-language, some of the most grisly terms that have sprung up around Mexico's organized...

San Fernando Massacre Overwhelms Mexican Morgues

grim litany of gang murders, tortures, and outright butchery by drug cartel members in Mexico has rendered the region near the international border almost untenable, and the latest discovery of 145 bodies in mass graves near San Fernando has precipitated a crisis in the logistics of dealing with death. The Houston Chronicle reported on Friday that the Mexican morgues were overwhelmed, and 70 of the bodies had been moved to Mexico City on Thursday.A...

16-year-old male has been arrested as a suspect for the murders of two British tourists in Sarasota

A 16-year-old male has been arrested as a suspect for the murders of two British tourists in Sarasota, Florida, police said on Monday.The bodies of James M. Cooper, 25, and James Thomas Kouzalis, 24, were found early Saturday morning in The Courts, a public housing project in Sarasota known for gang activity and a high crime rate, the Sarasota Police Department said.Investigators would not comment on why they thought the two men were there. Both...

Buck Wild gang, which has been tied to at least 24 shootings and seven murders in Palm Beach County.

Jury selection is expected to begin next week for a group of men accused of racketeering and conspiracy charges as alleged members of the Buck Wild gang, which has been tied to at least 24 shootings and seven murders in Palm Beach County.Circuit Judge John Kastrenakes on Monday heard several pre-trial motions in the case and set more hearings for Thursday.Authorities last year arrested eight men alleged to be part of the group, capping a two-year...

the Fourth Reich, a Nazi skinhead gang, became a breeding ground for some of New Zealand's most vicious killers.

In the late 1990s, the Fourth Reich, a Nazi skinhead gang, became a breeding ground for some of New Zealand's most vicious killers.Malcolm George Chaston, 41, was right at its heart.Yesterday in the High Court in Rangiora, Chaston received one of the harshest sentences in New Zealand history, a life sentence with a minimum non-parole period of 20 years for murder, and a sentence of preventive detention for two sexual crimes. For his surviving victims,...

One person is dead and another is at the hospital after an overnight shooting in a desert area south of the Valley.

Officials say the victims may have been part of a drug smuggling operation."Yeah, it's daily life. I see guys with bags coming through here with marijuana and things," said Peter Allen, who lives near the shooting site, in the area of I-8 at Milepost 150, near Stanfield.Residents and authorities say the area is known for problems with drug smuggling."This is a known point where people lay up before they come to I-8 and get picked up by they're next...

second gunman has been convicted in a triple murder dubbed the "49th Street Massacre."

A second gunman has been convicted in a triple murder dubbed the "49th Street Massacre."Ryan T. Moore, 37, was convicted of murder, attempted murder and conspiracy in the 2006 attack.Moore and co-defendant Charles Smith opened fire on a crowd of people with AK-47 assault rifles, killing 10-year-old David Marcial, his 22-year-old uncle Larry Marcial and 17-year-old neighbor Luis Cervantes.Prosecutors say the gunmen mistook the victims for rivals in...

Eastern Pennsylvania Drug Gang Threat Assessment prepared by the National Drug Intelligence Center outlines the growing problem of gang violence and drug trafficking.

The report, done on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice, was generated upon the request of U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton, who has asked federal authorities to provide assistance to local law enforcement agencies.“In many eastern Pennsylvania communities, the nature of drug distribution by gangs that originated in the New York area has shifted from occasional and transient operations to those that are more permanent and established,” the report...

Dover police said a “turf war” between rival gangs sparked a non-fatal shooting April 6 in the Barrister Place housing development off South Little Creek Road

.According to police, officers responded to the 400 block of Barrister Place shortly after 11 p.m. for a report of shots fired.Upon arrival, officers discovered there had been an exchange of gunfire in the street. Numerous bullets struck two unoccupied vehicles and a house occupied by two adults and five children, police said. No one was injured in the shoot out, but bullets did penetrate the residence.Investigators identified Barrister Place resident...

Members of Deep-C, traditionally a Central Richmond gang, have been migrating into South Richmond.

Police are saying that some of the violence that has been brewing in the city recently, which has left three dead and four wounded over the last two weeks, seems to be part of an escalating feud between gangs in North and Central Richmond.Pastor Henry Washington of the Garden of Peace Church agrees. “Central and north are at odds, and as a matter as fact, the whole city is a powder keg right now,” he said.The origins of the longstanding feud—believed...

Batang City Jail gang GANGSTER was shot and killed in front of his horrified live-in partner

GANGSTER was shot and killed in front of his horrified live-in partner and sibling in Tondo, Manila Friday night.Homicide detectives identified him as Roberto Melgarejo, 27, a member of the Batang City Jail gang, of 401-B Interior 32, Perla St., Tondo.He did not make it alive to the Gat. Andres Bonifacio Hospital. Reports said Melgarejo was walking  home along with his lover and brother at the corner of Perla and Quirino Street when the...

turf war between rival gangs.

One suspect was arrested and more are being sought in a street shootout that Dover police described Saturday as “a turf war between rival gangs.”Monte C. Jackson, 26, was charged with seven counts of first-degree reckless endangering and four other offenses.“The investigation continues and more arrests are expected to be made,” police Lt. Daniel McKeown said.The shootout erupted a few minutes after 11 p.m. Wednesday in the 400 block of Barrister...

Four people were murdered in 20 hours in Belize City this weekend. It is a record, and the worst kind.

Four people were murdered in 20 hours in Belize City this weekend. It is a record, and the worst kind. Even more worrying is that three of those people were genuinely killed for no reason, collateral damage in a gang war that now seems to be between gangs and the police.It's literally crazy! We start with a listing of the casualties:On Saturday morning at 5:00, 44 year old Joe Hamilton, a well-known bar-b-que vendor was shot down at the corner of...

former professional rugby player has appeared in court in South Africa over the murders of three men in a random axe attack.

Joseph Ntshongwana, 33, who played for the Blue Bulls Super 15 side, is accused of a rampage in townships of Lamontville and Umbilo near his home in Durban. He is charged with with three counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and one of assault with intention to commit...