Sentences with phrase «drug gangs»
The phrase "drug gangs" refers to groups of people who work together to illegally sell and distribute drugs. They often use violence and intimidation to maintain control over their territory. Full definition
Cartagena, Colombia's primary tourist city on the Caribbean Sea, largely escaped the years of violence from drug gangs in cities such as Medellin and Cali, but its luck may be running out.
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The street is patrolled 24/7 by the army, navy, and police seeking to prevent the gruesome conflicts between drug gangs from reaching the tourist areas.
We've paid for bulletproof vests for close to 8,000 police officers across the state and funded it with money my office seized from drug gangs and criminals we've locked up.
Culiacán (Mexico)(AFP)- Amid a bloody dispute between rival drug gangs battling for control, the Mexican state of Sinaloa has just seen its deadliest weekend in years with at least 30 people killed.
Congress created the military - transfer program in the early 1990s, when violent crime plagued America's cities and the police felt outgunned by drug gangs.
He and CIA spook Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) wreak havoc among Mexican drug gangs by slaughtering members in Texas and Arizona, hoping to provoke a gang boss into bolting to Mexico and leading them to the kingpin.
Focusing its primary gaze on Michoacán, a Western Mexican state in the grip of the Templar Knights cartel, Cartel Land is a complex, harrowing documentary about drug gangs» grip on Mexico (and the Mexican - American borderlands) that doubles as a portrait of the difficulties of grassroots revolutionary movements.
Poorly bred dogs have a lot to do with why the bully breeds have gotten such a bad reputation: dogs are sold to people that shouldn't own a dog; dogs are bred to fight on behalf of drug gang members; and dogs are bred without any consideration of proper temperament or health.
«His family lost a good and brave young man,» said de Blasio, adding that the killing prompted «a turnaround,» including a crackdown on drug gangs in the area.
The film finds the pair fighting drug gangs to recover Peele's character's stolen kitten.
Mireles leads the Autodefensas, ordinary people armed with far more than pistols to challenge the veritable army of drug gangs.
«That kind of decentralised system is a recipe for setting Guerrero's small, feuding drug gangs... against each other,» the AP added.
Not only that, it is harder to crack down on heavily armed drug gangs that sell it than on the unscrupulous doctors who turned their practices into «pill mills.»
«Unfortunately, the Governor and the Assembly Speaker care more about keeping teenage drug gang members, murderers and rapists out of jail than they do about funding our public schools, providing tax relief for our families and rebuilding our infrastructure,» said Sen. Tom Croci, a Long Island Republican.
A dark, grown - up version of The Secret Garden collides with a dangerous drug gang on an avenue of boarded - up houses in the middle of a decaying surf - town neighborhood as a mysterious stranger steers Clara on a yearlong journey of self - discovery and forgiveness in THE AVENUE.
The Blips are a ruthless drug gang from the wrong side of the proverbial tracks.
Further complicating matters is the fact that the local drug gangs rule the roost.
Rival drug gangs recruit kids as foot soldiers and sort out differences with gunplay.
With know - how gained from extorting sectors including agriculture, transport and mining, drug gangs began applying their tried - and - true methods at refineries.
The stockpiling began in the 1990s, as Congress implemented the military - transfer program to equip police with automatic weapons and armored trucks to better protect themselves against drug gangs and neutralize armed assailants like the two men who carried out the Columbine High School massacre.
Reports that a rising drug gang, the CJNG (Jalisco New Generation Cartel), may have been involved with El Chapo's prison escape and that CJNG may become, in effect, the paramilitary wing of the Sinaloa cartel, have added to governmental concerns.
While estimates vary, law enforcement officials on both sides of the border say Mexican drug gangs earn the bulk of their cash from cheap - to - produce marijuana, using revenues to sustain wars against rivals and the government that have killed more than 33,000 people across Mexico in the past four years.
If drug gangs in Mexico are successful enhancing the quality of their product, they can sell the improved marijuana for up to five times the normal price.
That's why he had such productive relationships in the fight against violent criminals and drug gangs across a variety of administrations in City Hall and the State House.
Beset by mobs of drunk Europeans, rank punters, terrorism in their south, waves of middle eastern «businessmen,» Nigerian drug gangs in downtown Bangkok, and now muslim boat people.
Varginha is deemed «occupied» by the Brazilian government after police took over the community last year, forcing out drug gangs who had controlled it for decades.
«Attorney General Schneiderman is proud to have been endorsed by law enforcement unions like the PBA of New York State, the Detectives Endowment Association, the Nassau and Suffolk County PBAs as well as dozens of prosecutors around the state because of his outstanding record taking down some of the state's largest drug gangs.»
Members of a Melrose drug gang were arrested and charged yesterday, reports the Post.
There might be heartless drug gangs and violent pushers, but this is a set of circumstances devoid of winners.
A Brief History of Seven Killings chronicles the rise of a Jamaican drug gang in the United States.
Detective Constable Aidan Waits agrees to infiltrate a Manchester drug gang, but matters are complicated by the presence there of an MP's runaway daughter.
Just in the past couple of days, I've seen stories of dogs that have been purposely burned (set on fire, or chemical burns); beaten; kicked; dragged behind vehicles; thrown in dumpsters; abused by animal control or animal shelters; ritual killings; cult or religious killings; drug gangs using dogs for pit fighting; starved dogs; dogs left behind in homes after the people move out... and on and on.
Drug gangs abuse them to turn them into fighters to make illegal gambling profits, and to protect their drug operations.
We'll meet in Cancún — drug gangs make less bad press than those damned European climate activists!
The Los Cabos killings are believed to be tied to battles between drug gangs, including factions of the Sinaloa cartel.
Or are we just talking about drug gangs and cartels claiming drug routes.
Crime and violence between rival drug gangs has surged throughout Mexico, creeping into other popular destinations, such as Los Cabos on the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula.
Given that a single nest can contain 80 or more eggs, trading in turtle eggs can be a lucrative sideline for criminals employed by drugs gangs to move their products along the coast.
How does this dovetail with the overall western effort to characterize Iran as behind every nefarious act, even the ludicrous - sounding plot announced months ago by the White House, in which the Iranians were purportedly trying to recruit Mexican drug gangs to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US?
That kind of decentralised system is a recipe for setting Guerrero's small, feuding drug gangs, the Rojos, Pelones, Guerreros Unidos and others, against each other.
«Cartel Land» opens with a scene in the jungles of Michoacán, Mexico, where armed drug gangs are mixing meth.
As evidence of the deep divisions on Raise the Age, Senator Thomas D. Croci, a Republican from Long Island, suggested that Mr. Heastie and Mr. Cuomo «care more about keeping teenage drug gang members, murderers and rapists out of jail than they do about funding our public schools, providing tax relief for our families and rebuilding our infrastructure.»
«Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered» sees the return of George Stobbart and Nico Collard in the sequel to the smash hit «Broken Sword: Director's Cut», widely praised as the best adventure available for Android.While investigating a ruthless drug gang, journalist Nico Collard unexpectedly comes across an...
As the drug packages proved too heavy a burden for the Colombian pigeon to bear and the prison walls too high, its task of transporting narcotics from a local drug gang to inmates ended in failure.
More than 130 prisoners have been reported killed in Brazil this year, many of them beheaded, in a series of bloody prison riots blamed on drug gangs.
Reducing the power of drug gangs?
Phantom Secure, a company that sells modified BlackBerry and Samsung phones, has been accused of «knowingly» selling products to drug gangs in order to help them evade law enforcement.