Sentence examples for main gangs from inspiring English sources

In March the two main gangs, the Mara Salvatrucha and the Mara 18, declared a truce, cutting the murder rate by two-thirds overnight (see chart).

El Salvador's murder rate dropped sharply during a truce between the country's two main gangs in 2012-14, wasch was brokered by the government.

"More bullets (were) flying around than in the first three days of the Iraq war," says Mr Vigil.The greatest success has come against the most-feared of the three main gangs, that run from Tijuana by the Arellano-Félix brothers.

The country's three main gangs – MS-13, Barrio 18, and the 18th Street Revolucionarios – control most towns and cities, battling over territory, while making money from small-time drug deals and extorting businesses and locals.

Where once there was total mistrust between law-enforcement authorities in the two countries, now there is active co-operation, at the top at least.The problem, as Mr Fox implies, is that the government's actions have unleashed a turf war between two of the main gangs, one based on the Gulf coast and the other in Sinaloa.

In March 2016, in a video announcement posted online, a masked gang member of unidentified allegiance announced that the leaders of all three of El Salvador's main gangs were asking their members to temporarily stand down, in order to show the government that its "extraordinary measures" were unnecessary.

The scouts capture three poachers, but the main gang splits up and heads for the escarpment.

Kimmett Edgar, research manager at the Prison Reform Trust, has identified two main gang types behind violence.

Police interrogation of the suspects apparently revealed that the main gang behind the violence had been recruited, armed and trained in the coastal hinterland some months ago.

Billy Hill was born in 1911 and established himself as one of London's main gang leaders with what was known as "the heavy mob" in the 30s.

Also revealed during the show was that Lisa Kudrow – who plays Phoebe – was the only actor from the main gang who had to audition twice: "But I had to come in and audition for Jimmy," she said while discussing the auditions.