In the past five years, violent gangs from Sweden have increased their presence in Spain, drawn in by the warm weather and high quality of life ~life Article 954 words 9 votes
Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld. There was just one problem for anyone using it for criminal means: it was run by the police ~tech security privacy Article 4002 words 14 votes
Award-winning Swedish rapper Yasin Mahamoud has been sentenced to ten months in jail for conspiring to kidnap rival artist Haval Khalil ~music Article 8 votes
An0m: Hundreds arrested in massive global crime sting using messaging app ~news australia crime.organized usa Article 723 words 19 votes
US FBI secretly ran the An0m encrypted messaging platform, yields hundreds of arrests in global sting ~tech Article 249 words 7 votes
Drug cartel now assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones ~tech Article 872 words, published Aug 28 2020 17 votes
Mafia fugitive caught after posting cooking show on YouTube ~food cooking Article published Mar 29 2021 9 votes
Getting plowed - Exposing the bid-rigging, violence and sabotage at the heart of an unlikely racket: snow removal (2012) ~life Article 4886 words, published Apr 18 2012 4 votes
Mexican drug cartels are installing parasite antennas on existing cell towers, layering their criminal communications network on top of the official one and making life dangerous for technicians ~news mexico crime.organized Article 2797 words 11 votes
Hundreds arrested after European law enforcement agencies monitored over 100 million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by criminals ~tech privacy Article 2927 words 20 votes
The Nova Scotia shooter case has hallmarks of an undercover operation ~news canada.ns crime.organized Article 1660 words 8 votes
Nedim Yasar, a former gang leader who had turned his back on crime, was shot dead in Copenhagen just as a book about his life was published ~books Article 577 words 6 votes
In agricultural giant Brazil, a new and growing hazard: The illegal trade in pesticides ~enviro Article 1897 words 5 votes
The mafia is more powerful than it’s ever been ~life Article 2088 words, published Jun 16 2018 8 votes
How the US helped create El Salvador’s bloody gang war ~humanities.history Article 3080 words 5 votes
Swedish rapper Yasin Mahamoud has been arrested in connection to the murder of a former friend ~music Article 335 words 4 votes
UPS employees allegedly ran massive drug shipment operation, evading authorities for a decade ~news usa.az.tucson mexico crime.organized Article 1048 words 12 votes
Mexico ambush: How a US Mormon family ended up dead ~life Article 1970 words, published Nov 8 2019 8 votes
Iceland has become the world's leading miner of digital currency – then the crypto-crooks showed up ~finance cryptocurrency Article 5103 words 5 votes
Sweden bomb attacks reach unprecedented level as gangs feud – thirty blasts in the past two months and 100 so far this year ~news sweden crime.organized Article 657 words 6 votes
Arming the cartels: The inside story of a Texas gun-smuggling ring ~life Article published Aug 7 2019 6 votes
Lawyer: Shooter wasn't trying to kill a mob boss. He was under 'QAnon' delusion ~news usa crime.organized Article 561 words 17 votes
The new drug highway: Pacific islands at centre of cocaine trafficking boom ~news colombia crime.organized Article 1363 words 5 votes
The Mastermind - He was a brilliant programmer and a vicious cartel boss, who became a prized US government asset ~life Link 3 votes
China executes 'godfather of crystal meth' Cai Dongjia whose village supplied one third of the country's methamphetamine ~news china.guangdong crime.organized Article 237 words 9 votes
The Feds cracked El Chapo's encrypted comms network by flipping his system admin ~tech Article 734 words 10 votes
Victorian Government calls royal commission into potentially tainted gangland convictions ~news australia.vic crime.organized Article 1192 words 4 votes
Danish ex-gangster shot dead on day his memoir on leaving criminal past was launched ~books Article 261 words 7 votes
Around 100 migrant caravan members have been kidnapped by human traffickers, Mexican officials warn ~news mexico crime.organized Article 436 words 4 votes
In El Chapo’s trial, extraordinary steps to keep witnesses alive ~news usa mexico crime.organized Article 915 words 10 votes
The cartel next door: How prosecutors tied a brazen murder in an upscale Dallas suburb to one of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations ~life Article 8102 words, published Sep 21 2018 13 votes
The big squeeze: Sicily’s mafia sprang from the growing global market for lemons – a tale with sour parallels for consumers today ~humanities.history Article 2173 words, published Sep 5 2018 8 votes
Homicides in Guatemala. This project explores the challenges and lessons of disaggregating gang-related and drug trafficking-related murders ~science sociology Link 3 votes
US asylum: Domestic and gang violence cases 'no longer generally qualify' ~news usa crime.organized Article 725 words 5 votes
Hell on wheels: Fatal accidents, off-the-books workers, a union once run by a mobster - The rogue world of one of New York’s major trash haulers ~life work Article 7742 words 3 votes
ICE claimed a Dreamer was “gang-affiliated” and tried to deport him. A Federal judge ruled that ICE was lying. ~news usa crime.organized Article 1126 words 6 votes