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[8] [11] On September 21, 1989, an article in the local The News Tribune described the group as "on the verge of vigilante action" due to police inaction; [12] the story had the effect of slowing drug dealing in the area, which Foulk says angered gang members. [8] The main drug house in the neighborhood was across the street from Foulk's.
An Asian Boyz gang member, Lea Mek, was killed by Wah Ching gang member Chieu Luong Yang. Another shootout between the two gangs occurred in San Marino that led to the deaths of two youths at a San Marino High School graduation party in June. After an investigation by the authorities, police claimed that when the Asian Boyz gang members arrived ...
The funeral of a Tainan local boss was attended by 3,000 alleged gang members, mostly from Taipei. Law enforcement speculated that these visiting groups aimed to use the occasion as a way to recruit members for their respective gangs. [13] In 2023, a YouTube video of a crime boss's 2019 funeral reached over a million views.
Ordinary members, known as đàn em, are those who directly carry out criminal acts, as well as all tasks assigned by the leaders. For example, during the 1960s in South Vietnam, there was a powerful gang led by the infamous Đại Cathay, the trùm of his gang and the "Brother of all brothers" (Vietnamese: Đại ca của các đại ca).
(The Center Square) – Members of the violent Venezuelan prison gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), continue to expand criminal operations nationwide, including in the northeast and mid-Atlantic states ...
Prosecutors did not identify the gangs involved in the confrontation, but local media said the dead men may have belonged to the hyper violent Familia Michoacana cartel, while the victors were ...
U.S. law enforcement and immigration officials have launched more than 100 investigations of crimes tied to suspected members of a violent Venezuelan gang, including sex trafficking in Louisiana ...
A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang. Most gangs are considered to be part of organized crime. Gangsters are also called mobsters, a term derived from mob and the suffix-ster. [1] Gangs provide a level of organization and resources that support much larger and more complex criminal transactions than an individual criminal could ...