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Pages in category "Gangs in Washington, D.C." The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. D.C. Blacks; M.
Benning Terrace, also known as "Simple City," "Simp", and "Baby Vietnam", [4] earned a reputation in the 1990s as the center of violent gang activity. [5] In 1997, after a rash of murders, the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (CNE), along with the Alliance of Concerned Men and the District of Columbia Housing Authority Office of Public Safety, came together to bring gang warring to ...
The Five Points, Manhattan is a location that was associated with gang activities from the early 19th century. [1] In the late 1920s, Al Capone was the leader of the Chicago Outfit [2] The Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club was founded in 1948 and is considered a criminal gang by American law enforcement agencies, particularly for their involvement in drug-related activities and violent crimes.
Even in the violent world of the MS-13 street gang, the killings in northern Virginia in the summer of 2019 stood out. In that year, “the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area became an MS-13 ...
The D.C. Blacks prison gang is said to have originated in the late 1960s or the early 1970s. [3] [unreliable source] From being in prison, the D.C. Blacks became enemies with another prison gang called the Aryan Brotherhood, which is a group consisting of only convicted white men.
Violent street gangs that have historically focused on drug trafficking and gun running are expanding into white collar crime. According to a report released last Friday by the Federal Bureau of ...
In many cases, national street gangs originated in major cities such as New York City and Chicago [5] but they later grew in other American cities like Albuquerque [6] and Washington, D.C. [7] Street gangs can be found all across the United States, with their memberships differing in terms of size, racial and ethnic makeup, and organizational ...
The head of a notorious armed gang linked to the kidnapping of U.S. citizens in Haiti, including 16 missionaries, decided to plead guilty to federal weapons smuggling charges Tuesday while in the ...