Street Gang Life

More than 65 police with local and federal agencies are searching out known gang members in a sweep dubbed ‘Operation Gangsgiving.’ “We have every aim to stop this violence which seems to be happening for no other reason than they just don’t like each other,” said Capt. David Woosley, head of the major crimes division [...]

There was palpable tension inside and outside an eighth-floor courtroom when Marquez D. Storey pleaded guilty Tuesday in Ramsey County District Court to second-degree murder for the benefit of a gang. Under questioning from his attorney, Storey, 19, admitted that he shot 18-year-old Dionte R. Montantes for no other reason than that Montantes was a [...]

State and federal law enforcement officers launched a massive operation against a central Nebraska gang with international ties, arresting 12 suspected members during raids across this small manufacturing hub surrounded by farmland, authorities said Thursday. Officials said the roundup of suspects _ some of them arrested before dawn Thursday _ largely decapitated the local gang [...]

Former gang prevention counselor Rodney Britton, already indicted on federal racketeering charges stemming from gang involvement, is facing state rape charges. Britton, 22, is charged with raping a 15-year-old boy earlier this year. Britton is a former employee of the Galaxy Star Drug Awareness and Gang Prevention Center in east Nashville. He is accused of [...]