Gang Violence
Jamaica battle for drug kingpin leaves 27 dead
May 25, 2010 14:13 EDT
Gun battles raging here have left 27 people dead, mostly civilians, police said Tuesday, as a bloody standoff with gangs to capture an alleged drug kingpin rocked the Jamaican capital.
32 arrested in hit on major European crime ring
May 25, 2010 13:41 EDT
British, Irish and Spanish police launched dawn raids Tuesday in a coordinated hit aimed at smashing a major European guns, drugs and money laundering empire, authorities said.
Jamaica cops attack drug lord's slum stronghold
May 25, 2010 11:16 EDT
Jamaica cops, soldiers invade slum stronghold where gunmen defend reputed drug kingpin. Thousands of heavily armed police and soldiers continued an assault into the capital's most violent downtown slums on Tuesday, scouring buildings for weapons and battling die-hard defenders of a powerful Jamaican gang leader sought by the U.S.
Police arrest 32 across Europe in Irish gang crackdown
May 25, 2010 10:22 EDT
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Police arrested 32 people on Tuesday in simultaneous raids across several European countries targeting an alleged Irish organized crime ring, officials said.
Mexican pop singer cancels concert, cites violence
May 25, 2010 06:26 EDT
Pop singer cancels Monterrey concert, citing concern over violence in northern Mexico. Mexican pop singer Reyli Barba said he is indefinitely postponing a benefit concert that had been planned for Saturday in the northern city of Monterrey, citing concerns about recent violence there.
AP IMPACT: Deadly, ultra-pure heroin arrives in US
May 24, 2010 21:30 EDT
AP IMPACT: Mexican drug smugglers peddle ultra-pure form of heroin that can kill instantly. Mexican drug smugglers are increasingly peddling a form of ultra-potent heroin that sells for as little as $10 a bag and is so pure it can kill unsuspecting users instantly, sometimes before they even remove the syringe from their veins.
Two police killed in battle for Jamaican drug lord
May 24, 2010 13:59 EDT
Gunmen shot dead two police officers and wounded six others in a spasm of violence in Jamaica triggered as gangs take up arms to fight US calls to extradite a popular local drug lord.
Two police killed in battle for Jamaican drug lord
May 24, 2010 13:08 EDT
Gunmen shot dead two police officers and wounded six others in a spasm of violence in Jamaica triggered as gangs take up arms to fight US calls to extradite a popular local drug lord.
Two Jamaican police killed in battle to grab druglord
May 24, 2010 11:13 EDT
Gunmen shot dead two police officers and wounded six others in a spasm of violence in Jamaica triggered as gangs take up arms to fight US calls to extradite a popular local druglord.
Jamaican PM declares emergency amid gang warfare
May 24, 2010 07:47 EDT
Jamaica's prime minister vowed tough action against a frenzy of gang violence in Kingston, imposing a state of emergency to curb armed supporters of an alleged druglord sought by the United States.
Jamaica declares emergency amid gang warfare
May 24, 2010 03:56 EDT
Jamaica's prime minister vowed tough action against a frenzy of gang violence in Kingston, imposing a state of emergency to curb armed supporters of an alleged druglord sought by the United States.
Jamaica PM vows tough response to gang violence
May 24, 2010 00:06 EDT
Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding vowed a tough response to armed gangs behind a frenzy of violence in the capital Kingston, saying criminals "will not be allowed to triumph."
Kingston under state of emergency amid gang warfare
May 23, 2010 21:53 EDT
Jamaican authorities clamped Kingston under a state of emergency and urged people to leave the city's roughest neighborhoods, as police clashed with armed gangs over the possible extradition of a drug suspect to the United States.
Jamaica crackdown: women, children ordered away
May 23, 2010 20:30 EDT
Jamaican authorities have scrambled to try to evacuate women and children from Kingston's roughest neighborhoods, as police clashed with powerful gangs over the possible extradition of a drug suspect to the United States.
Jamaica: Gunfire, fire bombs in barricaded slum
May 23, 2010 19:29 EDT
Jamaica declares emergency as gunfire erupts in barricaded stronghold of alleged drug lord. Masked men torched a police station and traded gunfire with security forces in a patchwork of barricaded slums in Jamaica's capital Sunday, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency.
State of emergency for Jamaican capital as police fights gangs
May 23, 2010 17:56 EDT
Jamaican authorities said Sunday they were putting Kingston and surrounding areas under a state of emergency as police fought armed gangs trying to block the arrest of a reputed gang leader sought for possible extradition to the United States.
Tourists take walk on wild side with LA gang tour
May 23, 2010 01:40 EDT
Far away from the well-worn Hollywood bus rides where tourists gawk at the mansions of the rich and famous, Alfred Lomas is taking sightseers for a walk on the wild side.
Jamaican PM faces unrest over gang leader's extradition
May 22, 2010 16:50 EDT
Prime Minister Bruce Golding called for street barricades to come down so police can move into a Kingston district to arrest a popular, reputed gang leader, as unrest brewed over the man's possible extradition to the United States.
US warns of possible civil unrest in Jamaica
May 22, 2010 11:56 EDT
The US State Department warned Friday of the threat of civil unrest in Jamaica amid reports that criminal gangs were massing in Kingston and the military was mobilizing.
Gangs set barricades in Jamaica to protest extradition
May 21, 2010 23:05 EDT
Gangs have amassed weapons and erected street barricades in the Jamaican capital to protest the extradition of a reputed gang leader, police said, as the United States warned travelers of possible civil unrest.
