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…

“I’m gonna write a little letter,” sang Chuck Berry. “Gonna mail it to my local DJ.”

Alleged mafia godfather Salvatore Pesce did the same but not just because he needed “a shot of rhythm and blues”.

Rather Pesce, jailed five years ago on suspicion of international narcotics trafficking, and his fellow mobsters are accused of using a local radio station to send…

NEW YORK — The only man to admit shooting Malcolm X was freed on parole Tuesday, 45 years after he assassinated the civil rights leader. Thomas Hagan, the last man still serving time in the 1965 killing, was freed from a Manhattan prison where he spent two days a week under a work-release program, state Department of Correctional Services spokeswoman Linda Foglia said.

Hagan, 69, has said he was one of three gunmen who shot Malcolm X as he began a speech at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom…

Police can catch armed robbers, but they can't prevent armed robberies.

To do that, it takes a community.

Residents need to work with police by reporting what they see and what they know, said Tod W. Burke, a criminal justice professor at Radford University in Virginia and a former police officer.

By being aware, such as noticing a vehicle circling a convenience store, someone can provide the clue an investigator needs, Burke said.

Everyone needs to reduce the…

At 15, Christopher Dent thought the worst that could happen to him and his buddies if they got caught for armed robbery would be a little time in juvenile detent…

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Two men were indicted Tuesday in the gang-related slaying of an Augusta teenager in January.

Brandon Ira Helm, 19, and Darian Deandre Postell, 20, face murder and gun charges related to the shooting of 16-year-old Brandon Desean Taylor on Jan. 26, according to the indictment.

Taylor was a member of the Pepperidge Thugs gang while Helm is a member of the Georgia Deadly Boys gang and Postell is with a gang called 23rd, according to Richmond County Sheriff's Lt. Calvin…