All news on the topic: Gangs

Rolex ripper gangs are drugging partygoers on nights out to steal their luxury watches in a new disturbing crimewave to hit London.

Bogus barbers, sweet shops, and vape stores are being targeted in a fresh crackdown on both illegal working and serious criminal organizations using the high street as a front for criminal activity.

Hundreds of gruesome photos of underworld beatings and mutilations have been collected by Spanish police as part of their investigation into the Lyons gang.

A Salvadoran court on Tuesday began a collective trial of 486 alleged gang members, in one of the biggest mass trials under president Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gang violence through controversial emergency powers.

Organized crime gangs are operating "with impunity" at a high-security jail by using drones to import drugs through broken and insecure windows, the watchdog has revealed.

At least 30 people, many of them young, have died and dozens more are reported to have been injured after a crush at a mountaintop fortress in northern Haiti that is a popular tourist spot.

Altagrace, a mother living in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, remembers the moment that her life changed forever.

Gangs of youths clashed with police in Milton Keynes on Saturday after a social media Easter egg hunt turned chaotic, in the latest outbreak of teenage mob disorder to sweep England.

The son of a notorious Scottish gangland boss convicted of murder has filmed himself having raves and taking drugs inside UK jails in brazen TikTok videos.

In a quiet park behind the local library, a young woman returns to a burnt-out tent and the sofa she now sleeps on — homeless due to a crippling addiction to the horse tranquilizer drug ketamine.

Dressed in a black puffer jacket and brand new trainers, a teenager hurries towards an apartment door and kicks it frantically, before shifting position to give it a strong kick from a different angle.

Kemi Badenoch will seek to press the Government to speed up its efforts to establish a national grooming gangs inquiry on Monday.

Gadgets used by criminals to steal keyless cars without breaking in are being sold online for more than £20,000.

Criminal gangs are buying up haulage firms to pose as truckers and steal goods by the lorryload, the BBC has learned.

It is just after nightfall in Bislett, a quiet student neighborhood in central Oslo, when two children armed with hand grenades step off a bus and approach their target.

A new United Nations force has begun operating in Haiti amid a flurry of media messaging about its mandate to “neutralize” heavily-armed criminal gangs, which have seized control of much of the Caribbean nation in a murderous rampage.

Five members of a Romanian grooming gang have been jailed for raping and sexually exploiting vulnerable women in Scotland.

Keir Starmer’s national grooming gang inquiry is in disarray after two survivors resigned from its oversight panel, accusing the Home Office and Labour of “contempt” and “political interference” even before a chair was appointed.

A Labour MP has disclosed that she was attacked by a racist gang who unleashed dogs on her and her family.

A targeted Met Police operation in southwest London has led to the arrest of six teenagers linked to an organized phone snatching gang, with robbery and theft in hotspot areas falling by up to 84 percent in just three months.

While headlines and political speeches have focused predominately on Tren de Aragua, another criminal group from Venezuela has expanded its operations in Latin America, leaving a quieter but no less violent mark than the more famous Venezuelan gang.

A talking parrot has helped British police uncover a drug-dealing gang.

Salman Iftikhar launched an extended and abusive verbal attack on a Virgin Atlantic flight attendant on a flight to Lahore, Pakistan, and the father was jailed last week.

A BBC investigation has exposed the French and UK operations of a powerful and violent smuggling gang taking people across the English Channel in small boats.

Scottish gangsters Eddie Lyons Junior and Ross Monaghan were shot dead in a nighttime assassination in Andalucia, Spain, and a man has been charged with their murder.