By ADAM LIPTAK

Published: May 17,2010

Back in September, we reported on the appearance of cocaine cut with levamisole, a veterinary de-worming agent, and its links to at least three deaths in the US and Canada from a disease caused by levamisole, agranulocytosis. At that time, the DEA reported that levamisole was turning up in about 30% of the cocaine it sampled.…

Three members of the Crips were recently convicted of raping a 19-year-old woman in a rental home in Poinciana as two other men watched.

Summit County gang raid nets 9 Surenos suspects

'We have cut off the head of the snake' of Tongan Crip Gang...

In a coordinated strike earlier today, nearly 600 federal, state, and local law enforcement officers from the Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force—which consists of the FBI, City of Newburgh Police Department, Orange County District Attorney's Office, ATF, ICE, Orange County Sheriff's Office, New York State Police, United States Marshals Service, City of Middletown Police Department, Town of Newburgh Police Department, Town of New Windsor Police Department, Village of Monticello Police…

WATSONVILLE, CA — Three suspected gang members were arrested after police rushed to break up a fight between young men armed with shovels, knives and a hammer on Monday evening, authorities reported.

Someone called 911 around 8 p.m. to report the fight in a parking lot near Main Street and Oholone Parkway, Watsonville police Sgt. Saul Gonzalez said.

A group of young men had confronted a motorist in a…

PHOENIX -- Phoenix police are searching for the gunman in a gang-related shooting in southwest Phoenix that sent one man to the hospital early Wednesday morning.

It happened at about 5 a.m. at the Southwest Village apartment complex, which is in the area of 59th Avenue and Van Buren Street.

A woman made the 911 call, saying her husband or boyfriend had been shot. The two were inside their apartment at the…

Crime » Gangs paid off behind bars with drugs and money.

Amongst the more than 3000 inmates who escaped from Haiti's main prison when the earthquake struck were untold numbers of gang members, including gangsters who once ruled the country's largest slum with violence and intimidation.

One particularly notorious escapee was the warlord known only by his street name "Blade".

These gangs stole guns from officers at the National Penitentiary and went straight to the collapsed…

The Flocc street gang had an unusual mix of members. It formed out of an alliance, law enforcement officials said, between two groups that have traditionally been rivals: the Crips and the Bloods.

As the gang muscled its way into the drug trade in Far Rockaway and South Jamaica, Queens, and police officers on foot patrols started proving a nuisance to their business, at least one of their members hatched a plan to shoot them from a rooftop, the…