Street Gang Life

Thirty people are facing charges today in a crackdown on two street gangs who terrorized residents in the Bowdoin-Geneva section of Dorchester and the Uphams Corner section of Roxbury, federal prosecutors said this afternoon. “This community has been in desperate need of reprieve from the violence. We hope the arrests and prosecution of the defendants [...]

A documented member of a street gang has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in connection with a house party shooting that left a popular Delray Beach high school senior dead, police said. Matthew Miles Toresco, 19, of Boynton Beach, was taken into custody by U.S. Marshal’s deputies on Wednesday at his father’s house [...]

The Brooklyn district attorney’s office says 41 members of a violent gang have been indicted. A video shows one of the gang members brazenly walking down a street with a shotgun in his hand. The 68-count indictment includes charges of murder, attempted murder, conspiracy, robbery and burglary. Prosecutors say the highly organized gang, called TBO, [...]

Authorities in Tulsa say more than 140 violent gang members were taken off the streets during a recent operation. Officials say they also recovered 29 guns, $20,000 in cash and more than $22,000 in cocaine and other drugs during the operation, which ran from August to October.