Gerardo Campana, one of the leaders of the feared Almighty Latin Kings and Queen Nation gang, is fond of showing off his thug tattoos.
Gerardo Campana, one of the leaders of the feared Almighty Latin Kings and Queen Nation gang, is fond of showing off his thug tattoos.

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A chart released by the Dubai police shows the travel ports of entry and exit of suspects in the murder of Hamas officer Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

MEXICO CITY — Red Cross clinics in some parts of Mexico are refusing to treat people wounded by gunshots after finding themselves caught in the drug war, with cartel hit men intercepting ambulances to seize patients and even killing a Red Cross worker this week.

VIENNA — After avoiding any use of the term “Russian mafia” in the last few years, law enforcement personnel in Europe and elsewhere are now speaking about it again, noting that it includes “up to 300,000 people” and dominates the criminal world in many countries around the world, according to a Moscow investigative journalist.

Jackie Tran enters the Calgary International Airport toting two suitcases and a knapsack. The known gang member reported to border service officials to be deported Tuesday afternoon.
BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) — The Chinese police have disabled 56 mafia-style gangs from operating and detained more than 3,000 suspects allegedly involved in mafia-style or violent crimes since last December, said a senior police officer here Wednesday.

Angie Sanselmente Valencia
An international arrest warrant has been issued for the 30-year-old, who is suspected of recruiting beautiful women and using them to move drugs to Europe and North America.
Ronald Smith, the younger brother of incarcerated Hot Boys rapper Turk, was murdered on Monday (Feb. 22) in New Orleans. According to reports, he was in his early 20s.

A Japanese man who was allegedly an organised crime group leader was arrested in downtown Bangkok after fleeing an arrest warrant by the Japanese police in Tokyo.
Criminal-record checks are increasingly required for employment, education, name changes, adoptions, travel visas and volunteer work.

Shahid Azmi
A Muslim lawyer who was defending a man accused of planning the Mumbai terror attacks has been gunned down in a suspected underworld hit.

DENVER (AP) — Police in at least two states are increasingly using a DNA crime-solving technique that some legal experts say amounts to guilt by association: If your brother, father, uncle or son has been in trouble with the law and is in a DNA database because of it, you, too, could fall under suspicion.
Lil Wayne’s dental surgery has delayed his sentencing until March 2.
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Reporting from secret farms and not-so-secret grow houses of marijuana cultivators, Lisa Ling goes into their world — where marijuana is not just a drug but a way of life. More after the JUMP…

MONTREAL – Nicolo Rizzuto might have thought he left his troubles behind him in 2008 when he walked away from a conviction in Project Colisée with only a probationary sentence left to serve.
THE GOOD: Teacher Rohan Robinson, left, has been stopped numerous times, THE BAD: Police frequently stopped Mark Cain, now a convicted murderer.
By: Jim Rankin