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The article presents information about the use of uniforms and colors by street gangs in New York City. At the Puerto Rican Day Parade on June 10, 2007, 208 people were arrested and most of them were wearing the black and gold colors of a violent gang called the Latin Kings. Even though the colors make it easy for police to identify gang members, they are worn in defiance and for cultural pride and defiance.

This article discusses the death of former high school football star and gang member Mandrell Dean. Dean was shot to death in January of 2007, and he was remembered as a dynamic high school football player who never academically qualified for college, instead becoming involved in the Piru Bloods gang in New York City.

This article presents information about the guilty verdict in the criminal trial of street gang member Ronell Wilson who was convicted of murdering New York City police detectives James V. Nemorin and Rodney J. Andrews. The detectives were killed while involved in a weapons sting with Wilson and other gang members. The trial was unique because it featured evidence against Wilson from the written lyrics of a rap song found in his pockets boasting about and describing the killings.

The article profiles Nicky Cruz, former head of Mau Maus gang in New York City. He was born in Puerto Rico. At the age of 15, he was sent to New York City to live with his brother. Cruz had been in and out of the prison since he became a member of what is considered the most feared and vicious gang in the city. Since Cruz met David Wilkersen, a Christian minister, he left his gang and devoted his life to Christ and found complete solace.

The article informs that it was surprising for a Harlem moment that in the middle of a gala benefit fund raiser for the "Pulse Ensemble Theatre," and the "Harlem Summer Shakespeare Project," the image of a notorious gang member would be evoked. That was the case on Monday evening when the eminent artist Gordon Parks took the stage at the Schomburg Center and related an encounter he had upon arriving at the event. When he stepped from the car and was headed for the Schomburg, a man named Red Jackson approached him, he was a former memeber of the notorious gang.

Focuses on Chinese businesswoman Cheng Chui Ping, who ran a multinational underground empire that she oversaw from a New York City Chinatown storefront. Background on the trial of Cheng, who is charged with immigrant smuggling, hostage taking and money laundering; How Cheng's main, multi-million-dollar business was a global underground banking network; How the collapse of her illegal conglomerate began in June 1993, when a tramp steamer that she had helped to finance ran around with 289 immigrants, killing 10; Cheng's denial of the charges; Comments of her lawyer, Lawrence Hochheiser; How Cheng was involved in smuggling as an investor, hiring gang members to help move the immigrants, according to witnesses; Overview of the case.

Reports on the racist attack on 20-year-old Afro-American man George Saint Louis in Queens, New York City on the night of February 23, 2001. Incidents that led to the physical and verbal attack on Saint Louis; Racist remarks heard; Injuries suffered by Saint Louis; Names of gang members who were arrested for attacking Saint Louis; Assistance given by Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network.

Reports on the arrest of 35 members of a Central Harlem drug gang known as `112th No Fear.' Details on charges filed against the drug members; Information on the criminal activities of the organization; Use of children by the group to transport drugs.

When Walter Alberto Torres, a Salvadoran immigrant and a gang member, confessed in October 2009 that he had unsuccessfully plotted the assassination of an immigration agent in New York City, the admission touched off more than just his prosecution. In the weeks that followed, immigration authorities, working with other law enforcement agencies, conducted raids on suspected hide-outs of Mr. Torres's gang, La Mara Salvatrucha 13, an international network of violent cliques with a growing presence in New York City and its suburbs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the arrest of seven suspected members of a gang, after brutally beating and torturing a gay recruit in New York.

The Flocc street gang had an unusual mix of members. It formed out of an alliance, law enforcement officials said, between two groups that have traditionally been rivals: the Crips and the Bloods. As the gang muscled its way into the drug trade in Far Rockaway and South Jamaica, Queens, and police officers on foot patrols started proving a nuisance to their business, at least one of their members hatched a plan to shoot them from a rooftop, the officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AROUND 8 o'clock on a breezy evening in 1992, two private investigators stepped out of their car at the Christopher Street pier in Greenwich Village and approached a group of drunks and addicts huddled over a small fire. The investigators were soon joined by three Chinatown gang members who had information that the investigators needed. But the conversation was brief; the gang leader had a temper, and guns were drawn fast. That was the opening salvo in a chaotic scene that also featured undercover police officers dressed as winos, a surprise attack by another gang from a car speeding along the West Side Highway, and a double-cross scheme by a member of the first gang. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that 10 people have been arrested in New York City on charges of smuggling fake merchandise worth million of dollars from China to New York City. It is speculated that the arrested people might be members of an international smuggling gang. It is stated that it is the largest smuggling operation discovered in the U.S.

The article discusses that proving that slain 18-year-old Donnell MacFarland was a gang leader may be a key in the case brought against 32 youth arrested in Bushwick, New York City. It states that the sophomore at Bushwick Community High School was arrested with over 30 others on May 21, 2007 en route to McFarland's wake. Police officers said the youth, who wore t-shirts emblazoned with McFarland's picture, posed a gang threat.

The article focuses on the growing street crime involving youngsters in central Queens, New York City. The major gangs operating in the region include the Latin Kings, the Bloods, the Crips and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). These gangs have specific dress codes. The Bloods favor red and pink, while the Latin Kings prefer black and gold. The police informed that in every one of the seven or more attacks in the area, the victims and the attackers were young Latino men aged between 15 to 20.

The article reports on the conviction of the six men accused of being members of a gang led by Balkan immigrants that seized control of illegal Mafia strongholds, were found guilty of multiple counts of racketeering, illegal gambling and extortion by the Federal District Court in Manhattan, New York.

Reports that Jose Peralta has asked the Guardian Angels, the crime patrol group best known for distinctive red berets and bomber jackets, to return to Queens, New York due to increasing number of gang members.

Reports on the indictment of six men from Brooklyn, New York City, described as members or leaders of a violent gang responsible for five killings and for attempts to kill the police officers, on charges racketeering and murder.

Reports on a violent gun fight involving drug sales and rival gang members at a housing project in Coney Island, New York. Death of one man and critical wounding of two others; Details of the scene of the crime according to police reports; Arrest of Anthony Ward on suspicion of his involvement in the conflict; Comments from neighborhood residents.

Reports on the indictment of 14 members of a drug gang around the corner of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City, New York. Comments from Robert M. Morgenthau, district attorney of Manhattan, on drug dealing and violence in the neighborhood; Overview of the activities of the group focused on by the charges; Remarks from officials concerning the gang members.

Discusses the violence that pervaded New York City's Chinatown in years past, and how the bloodshed still effects the area even though it is changed and much more peaceful as of May 2003. The work of the Ghost Shadows, a notorious gang from the 1970s; Comments from the founder and former member of the Ghost Shadows on why the gangs were part of Chinatown's soul in the past, but are no longer existing in the area; How and why the area has been cleaned up; Outlook for the future.

Reports on the arrest of several gang members who sell narcotics in Brooklyn, New York City.

Presents information on State Supreme Court Justice Arthur W. Lonschein's rejection of New York City's request for a court order to banish gang members from a section of Queens frequented by prostitutes. Reason for the rejection; Remarks from Chris Dunn, a lawyer for the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Reports on the arrest of the members of the gangs Netas and Hard Pack or THP in line with the gangs' alleged selling of guns and drugs. Locations of the gang's territories in New York City, New York; List of the illegal drugs being sold by the gangs; Message of Loretta Lynch, the United States attorney for Brooklyn of New York City, to gang members; Charges against the arrested gang members.

Reports on the arrest and charges against thirteen members of a Staten Island gang with arranging sales of designer drugs like Ecstasy over the Internet in New York. Comments from Inspector James P. McCool, the commander of the Gang Investigation Division; How the detectives arrested the gang members; Evidences seen by investigators during their search.

Reports on the arrest of Edward and Tyrone Mitchell, suspects in a gang-related slaying in Brooklyn, New York City. Death of Kelvin McGinnis; Charges made against the suspects; Details of their arrest; Details of the slaying.

Reports on the arrest of 26 gang members that are believed to have preyed on subway riders in New York, New York. Background on the gangs; Comments from investigators; Charges against the members.

Reports that a security guard at Intermediate School 302 in Brooklyn, New York, who confessed on March 3, 1997, of being a member of the Latin Kings gang had his duties reassigned pending a personnel investigation. Comments from security guard Harry Roman; Matters concerning security at public schools in New York City; How Roman described the activities of his gang.

Tells that prosecutors in the Bronx, New York City have cited revenge as a motive in the October 1996 shooting of police Captain Steven Plavnick of the 46th Precinct. The $5000 offer by an unnamed criminal to the Latin Kings gang, which subcontracted the killing to the Netas gang; Shooting as revenge for the acquittal of Officer Francis X. Livoti in the December 1994 death of Anthony Baez; Question of whether Livoti used an illegal choke hold.

Reports that on May 14, 1998, 94 gang members from the Latin Kings were seized by law enforcement officials in New York. What the members were charged of; Identification of items confiscated by police; Name of the gang's leader; How the gang tried to portray themselves.

Reports on the arrest of Antonio Fernandez, leader of the Latin Kings gang, in Brooklyn, New York City on November 15, 1997 along with 31 other members of the gang. Charges brought against 24 members of the gang; Information on the gang; Details on the arrests.

Focuses on the gangs in New York, New York and suggests how they should be treated by law enforcement agencies. Description of some violent gangs in New York city; Outline of how each gangster evolves; Prosecution and conviction of gang members.

Reports that a group of ten gang members set upon two teen-age girls walking in the Cortlandt Village section of the Bronx stealing jewelry from one and slashing both across the face. Two of the ten suspects arrested by the police.

Features the Valley, an agency in New York City that tackles the many side effects of gang violence. Psychological effect of the Bloods gang hype; Activities and services offered by the agency to youth participants; Consequences of being a gang member.

Focuses on gang-related youth violence in New York City. Opinions about the city's gang problems; Statistics about gang-related youth felonies in the boroughs and neighborhoods of New York City; Actions taken by Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes on the problem concerning youth violence; Opinions and suggestions of heads of youth concerned organizations in preventing and eliminating gang-related youth violence.

Reports that Latin street gangs in New York City are upset after Dawn Florio, Bronx assistant district attorney, announced that the shooting of Captain Steven Plavnick of the 46th Precinct was a contract hit to avenge the acquittal of Officer Francis Livoti in the death of Anthony Baez. Circumstances surrounding Plavnick's death; Number of suspects who were arraigned on January 14, 1997.