Sentence examples for dominant criminal from inspiring English sources

Its dominant criminal gangs – Barrio 18 and MS 13 – have forged alliances with some of Latin America's biggest narco-trafficking cartels.

A 60-strong gang of Syrian men are currently said to be the dominant criminal force, operating an extortion racket with seeming impunity.

It was a triumph for both the Hells and the Popeyes, says Isnor, and was the first step in a path that would ultimately see the Hells Angles became one of, if not the, dominant criminal enterprise in the country.

It was a triumph for both the Hells and the Popeyes, says Isnor, and was the first step in a path that would ultimately see Hells became one of, if not the, dominant criminal enterprise in the country.

He added there was no doubt that some officers engaged in excessive violence, but said Rio's security forces were lucky not to be up against a single dominant criminal organization like the First Command of the Capital in São Paulo.

Legal Aid will be allowed to seek those contracts and is likely to win most of the indigent defense work, but there will no longer be a citywide defender's office, or a dominant voice for criminal defendants.

The two troopers who shot three unarmed minority men on the New Jersey Turnpike in April 1998, making racial profiling the state's dominant issue, now face criminal charges in the shooting and are accused of misrepresenting the race of the drivers they stopped in order to conceal their racial profiling.

After weeks of saturation publicity that often cast Mr. Komisarjevsky as the dominant of the two criminals, Professor Dunlap said, "it's going to be impossible — not just difficult — to select a panel of jurors who know nothing about the case and who don't already know Komisarjevsky's co-defendant was already convicted and sentenced to death".

Criminal gangs became dominant forces in Serbia during the Balkan conflicts of the nineteen-nineties, and they were further empowered by Western sanctions, which gave them a stranglehold on the markets for gasoline, cigarettes, and other staples.

It has been the explosive growth of prisons, more than efforts by the police, or changes in the law or tougher sentences by judges that has been "the most dominant characteristic of the American criminal justice system" in the last three decades, Professor Zimring said.

During my 28 years as a Special Agent investigating how criminals acquire firearms, gun shows played a dominant role in supplying firearms to the criminal element.