All news on the topic: Gangs

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Contaminated seafood worth £8,000,000 seized from criminal gangs
Over 30 tonnes of contaminated seafood has been seized by European authorities, potentially saving millions of people from getting food poisoning over Christmas.
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’Thor’ and his gang smuggled £140m of cocaine into the UK from Sierra Leone
Members of the organised crime group have been locked up for a combined total of more than 75 years
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Police arrest 93 gang members behind £4m thefts in shoplifting crackdown
A new police unit has for the first time mapped the gangs targeting shops around the country to see where they’re operating.
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Week-long county lines crackdown leads to 1,600 arrests, £3 million in drugs, and 557 weapons seized
More than 1,600 people have been arrested following a week-long crackdown on county lines drug gangs.
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Hundreds arrested in Northern Ireland during crackdown on people smugglers
Gangs charging €8,000 for illegal travel packages that avoid crossing Channel on small boats
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Multi-billion-pound Russian money-laundering operation uncovered with ties across the UK
The UK’s NCA has led an international crackdown on the "unprecedented" money-laundering operation which swapped cash from British street-level drug deals for cryto from elite Russian hackers
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Six teenagers have been arrested after a 13-year-old girl was found stabbed at the side of a dual carriageway
A 13-year-old girl is fighting for life after being stabbed by a gang of teenagers.
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Chris Kaba caught on camera shooting rival in busy nightclub just days before police shooting
This is the moment a man thought to be Chris Kaba shot a rival in a crowded nightclub in east London, before chasing him down and shooting him again.
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Kinahan gang boss who orchestrated arms cache plot from prison receives a six-year jail sentence
Thomas Kavanagh, 57, enlisted two associates to help with the scheme while he was in prison. He wanted the National Crime Agency to find a weapons stash in an effort to influence his sentencing in a multimillion-pound drug case.
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Inside sick ’human butchery’ ring who made £300,000 from ’testicle salads’ and live castrations
As the Court of Appeal has ruled that convicted members of an extreme body modification gang can challenge their appeals, the Mirror takes a look inside the twisted group of ’eunuch makers’, whose leader kept his penis in a drawer
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Chris Kaba was identified as a "core member" of one of London’s most dangerous gangs, according to reports
A man who was shot dead by police was a ‘core member’ of one of London’s most dangerous gangs.
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Jay Line drugs gang that exploited children to sell heroin and cocaine sentenced to 29 years in prison
A drugs gang who used children to peddle heroin and cocaine from the Midlands across the UK have been locked up for more than 29 years. The ’complex network of dealers’ supplied their stash of drugs using the AB Line and Jay Line.
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Man carrying 18 knives arrested outside a London train station following a stop and search
A man is in custody after being found carrying 18 knives - which were likely destined for south London gangs.
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Nine arrested in operation to dismantle gang smuggling people with fake documents
Nine men from Manchester have been arrested in a large-scale operation to dismantle an Organized Crime Group (OCG) believed to be smuggling people into the country using fake documents.
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An East London drug dealer who boasted about being ’like Pablo Escobar’ has been caught
A prolific drug gang leader who compared himself to notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has been arrested.
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El Salvador mega prison detains dangerous criminals where ’no one sleeps’
Inmates inside El Salvador’s Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism face brutal conditions with 80 crammed into one cell and no natural daylight as President Bukele takes a tough crackdown on drugs gangs
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CNN documentary: “Most disruptive” Latin American gang has reached the US
A violent gang that most likely originated in a Venezuelan prison in 2012 has, in just over a decade, grown into Latin America’s “most disruptive” criminal group and is spreading like cancer throughout the continent.
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The children as young as 10 being groomed into county lines drug gangs
There’s one harrowing memory that sticks in Michael White’s mind. It was a cold winter’s evening, when his 15-year-old son walked through the door after spending the night with ‘friends.’
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British ambassador to Mexico sacked after pointing gun at embassy employee
Clip on social media showed Jon Benjamin aiming assault rifle at colleague in region rife with drug gangs
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’UK’s biggest benefit fraudsters’ jailed for stealing £53m with fake claims
Bundles of cash stuffed in suitcases, designer goods and a luxury car were found in a raid on their properties. One gang member had also filmed themselves throwing stacks of £20 notes in the air.
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Grooming gang sentenced to nearly 350 years for rape of eight young girls
A gang of sexual predators who committed horrific acts of abuse against at least eight young girls over the course of a decade have finally been jailed.
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Haiti's 'Barbecue' gang leader gives chilling five-word threat to politicians
Jimmy Cherizier, who's nicknamed 'Barbecue' for incinerating his victims, has issued a chilling warning to political leaders as Haiti is plunged into further violence
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Haiti's violence 'worse than in Ukraine' as gangs ordered to 'shoot at random'
A humanitarian aid worker has described the terrifying 'pop-pop-pah' of constant gunfire in Haiti’s capital as Jimmy 'Barbecue' Chérizier and his gang thugs become increasingly more volatile
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Haiti's gang leader warns of 'chaos' if world doesn't give country 'a chance'
Haiti's most notorious gang leader, Jimmy Chérizier, has warned the international community that without their help, the Caribbean country will plunge into 'further chaos'
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Haiti's top gang boss warns of 'genocide' in his fight to topple government
Jimmy Cherizier, known as "Barbecue," claims the violence engulfing Port-au-Prince will lead to "civil war" if Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who was supposed to resign last month, continues in his role