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# Gangs

Last year
2023
Venezuela takes prison from gang, seizes bitcoin machines, rocket launchers
Armed attack kills 10 people in Ecuador port city overnight
All time
El Salvador police arrest 55,000 suspected gang members
'I found the window smashed in': Dublin gardaí probing spate of early morning café burglaries
Gardaí launch crackdown on Dublin city centre 'distraction thefts'
'Go back to your own country': Family forced to flee Dundalk home after attacks on mother and son
Two leading members of Lithuanian human trafficking crime gang evade capture during garda raids
A drop in demand for cocaine, a switch to cannabis: How the crisis is affecting drug crime in Ireland
Five arrests in north Dublin after gardaí seize drugs worth €400k
'At times there can be just two gardaí policing three separate feuds': Longford gangs exploiting skeletal garda cover
Brazil gang leader dresses up as daughter in jail escape bid
Surge in shootings in Sweden as warring criminal gangs settle scores
Gardaí carry out additional patrols after Drogheda gang boss's threats to rivals
Dublin and Drogheda feuds: 'Your line of cocaine in a pub is what these guys are fighting over'
Biker gangs to stand guard outside mosques during first Friday prayer service since terror attack
'The gang saved my life. If it weren’t for them lads, I’d be dead by now'
A mother on drug crime in Ireland: 'When the dealers called to my door and wanted me to settle his debts, I’d had enough'
Surge in cocaine supply in Europe as gangs 'uberise' the trade through social media
Crime spike in Dublin's north inner city after drug unit stood down following attack on garda
European gangs are using rural Longford to grow cannabis on an industrial scale
Gardaí increase patrols amid fears North Dublin gang feud will reignite after large drugs seizure
'A game of cat and mouse': The struggle to stop drug smuggling in a neglected Spanish town
Two Hutch gang members told to leave Dublin after spate of shootings
Up to 25% of Mountjoy Prison inmates being put in solitary confinement for their own protection
Dun Laoghaire burglary gangs 'have joined forces' to target upmarket areas of south Dublin
Kinahan cartel member arrested in Spain after €35 million cocaine seizure
Man (20s) shot in Citywest last night named locally
Two Kinahan gunmen arrested with gun charged with conspiracy to murder
Gardaí seize €350k in cash in latest crackdown on Kinahan gang
Children in Dublin's north inner city want violence and drugs off their streets
'A prisoner will say to you: I know where you live, I’ll burn your house down, I’ll get your kids.’
'It is a relentless war': Tánaiste wants to weaken the power of gang leaders in prisons
26 dead as gangs behead inmates in Brazilian prison massacre
There were 27 shootings in Chicago over the Christmas weekend
Missing Mexican priest found alive with "notable signs of torture"
Stolen Audi cars recovered in Meath and Wicklow as gardaí target organised crime gang
Handgun and ammunition seized by gardaí targeting feuding gangs
St Vincent de Paul down €1 million as gangs raid charity clothes bins
Snoop Dogg and the Game call gang members together for an anti-violence summit
Four gardaí injured arresting men suspected of running burglary ring