Venezuela’s biggest organized crime group involved in robbery, murder and drug trafficking has been recruiting children as soldiers to secure the gang-controlled territories, non-governmental organization claim.

The United States sanctioned seven suspected high-ranking members of the Los Huistas, Guatemala’s prominent criminal gang, accusing them of global illicit drug trade and cooperation with Mexico’s deadly Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said.

A federal judge indicted nine Maryland-based members of the brutal MS-13 gang for a racketerring conspiracy which involved murder, extortion and money laundering, the U.S Department of Justice said in a statement. Another group of 12 were charged with similar crimes in Virginia a second statement said.

The U.S. authorities announced Wednesday they have targeted 16 individuals and 24 entities suspected of corruption and serious human rights abuses. The ruling freezes U.S. property and money connected to those people and entities.

A U.S. court found two members of the Gypsy Joker Outlaw Motorcycle Club (GJMC) — widely known as an organized crime group — guilty of the kidnapping and murder of a former member they believed stole from them, the U.S. Department of Justice reported on Wednesday.

U.S. authorities indicted on Monday 13 alleged leaders, members, and associates of a Chicago criminal organization, in a multi-faceted case that includes racketeering, the murder of more than a dozen rival gang members, and the use of violence in enforcing the city’s West Side illicit drug trade.

South African police arrested seven suspects in connection with the murder of a woman who blew the whistle on fraudulent contracts made during the pandemic, the provincincial government of Gauteng announced. 

Spanish authorities arrested a renowned Irish crime figure suspected of having killed a rival gang member in Dublin in 2016.

Four men are on trial in Kyiv for allegedly attempting to murdering a Balkan drug lord. Three police officers played a role in the plot, but it’s unclear how much they knew, and none have been charged.

A member of the U.K. Parliament accused Home Secretary Priti Patel of trying to block the publication of an independent report into the 1987 killing of private detective Daniel Morgan as part of a “cover-up” aimed to protect corrupt police officials.

Days after the leader of one of Colombia’s Indigenous leaders was murdered, a group of armed men opened fire and injured 32 members of the Indigenous Guard while the group was clearing illegal coca plants from their territory.

Italian authoritiessaid they have arrested a 40-year-old man who allegedly hired a hitman on the dark web to cause life-changing injuries to his ex-girlfriend who had left him.

Three years ago today, Corinne Vella received a call that would forever change her family, her life, and even her homeland, the small Mediterranean island of Malta.

During televised remarks that followed a cabinet meeting on the coronavirus pandemic, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte publicly called on the country’s top customs official to simply execute drug smugglers. 

A Montenegrin and a Serbian with ties to a criminal clan were killed last week in an ambush near a villa they had been renting at Halikouna village on the south of the Greek island of Corfu.

Two gunmen killed a Pakistani journalist who had days before his death criticized authorities in the Balochistan province, accusing them of corruption, a Pakistan-based media and development sector watchdogannounced Monday.

Security forces in Russia have detained a regional governor on suspicion of orchestrating the 2005 murder of several entrepreneurs in the far east of the country.

Law enforcement authorities in Mexico have captured a fugitive cartel leader wanted by the US for the 2010 slaying of a pregnant American consulate worker and her husband.

An international human rights watchdog is demanding that Thailand cease military enforcement of its anti-narcotics laws following the torture of two drug dealers, one of whom later died of his injuries.

Two assassins killed on Sunday Colombia’s top prosecutor on the street in the city of Cali, southwest of Bogota, according toColombian Reports.