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Boyd Gang – Former infamous criminal organization based in Toronto. Puma Cats - Infamous gang that operated exclusively in George's River, Cape Breton throughout the 1980s Dömötör-Kolompár criminal organization – Hungarian crime family that ran a human trafficking syndicate, lasting until 2010.
The gang was created in the late 1990s by five original members nicknamed "the five generals", from which the gang's name is based. The original five members then grew their gang by recruiting other local gangsters in Toronto's west end Mount Dennis neighborhood, as well as other locations along the south side of Weston Road and Jane Street.
Rates of youth gang activity in Toronto can be challenging to measure due to conflicting definitions of gangs, the smaller size of youth gangs, and their looser organization. [163] Some research found 11% of Toronto high school students and 27% of Toronto homeless youth identified as being gang members at some point in their lives. [ 164 ]
Between 2002 and 2009, there was a bloody gang war between two rival East Asian gangs the FK and FOB gangs which resulted in 25 gang related murders. East Asians were not the only group involved in gang violence. There were also White/Italian, (East) Indian, and, in some cases, Black gang members of these gangs.
VVT was a Canadian Tamil street gang originating in Toronto [1] believed to be named after the town of Valvettithurai in northern Sri Lanka. [2]VVT was founded in the early 1990s by Tamil immigrants, and had a presence in the west end of Toronto (in particular in Etobicoke and certain areas in Old Toronto and East York) and was regarded as being very business savvy.
The Galloway Boys, also known as the Galloway Gang or G-Way, are a gang based in Southern Ontario, Canada, originating in the east end Toronto district of Scarborough. They were founded in Scarborough in the early 1980s. Expanding East towards Durham Region, and Kawartha Lakes.
The Boyd Gang was a notorious criminal gang based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, named for member Edwin Alonzo Boyd. The gang was famous in the media at the time because of their actions, which included bank robberies , jail breaks , relationships with women, gun fights , manhunts, and captures.