Sentence examples for major gangs from inspiring English sources

The police estimate that six major gangs there have 1,000 members total.

Indeed, he was thought to have a constructive working relationship with the bosses of most major gangs.

In the cases at hand, the racketeering operation is Salvadorans With Pride, one of a handful of major gangs active on the Island.

In the foyer outside, seven young men, all of North African descent and members of one of the three major gangs that dominate the projects, stand waiting.

Over time, the Black Guerrilla Family, like other major gangs, including the Aryan Brotherhood, picked up recruits around the country, as members were released into the community and then re-arrested.

Of course, as with many of the country's other major gangs — the Bloods, for instance — there is great appeal for young people to want to be seen as affiliated with MS-13, to bond, to intimidate, to boast.

It centered on the Warriors, a gang forced to defend itself from rivals after being falsely blamed for the death of a major gang leader.

LAW enforcement officials arrested 30 immigrants earlier this month in what they described as the Island's third major gang roundup in 13 months.

His troubles began last year, when the bus company he worked for refused to pay the protection money demanded by a major gang.

In fact, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there are marginalized areas — including Miami-Dade County, which, like Baltimore, has a major gang problem — with jails that have lower than average rates of sexual abuse.

Creon is at an age where he is certainly living high on the hog as a major gang leader – until his "facety niece" comes into his life and brings it crashing down around him.