List of criminal enterprises, gangs and syndicates
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This is a listing of criminal groups and associations, the primary purpose of which is to generate income through illegal means. It does not cover groups that primarily engage in such activity for funding political and/or military objectives (such as terrorist organizations), or groups which have been accused (or have had members accused) of such activity but are not inherently criminal in their nature (such as motorcycle clubs
or Chinese-American Tongs
).
Drug cartel
In several drug-producing or transit countries, drug traffickers have taken advantage of local corruption and lack of law enforcement to establish cartels turning in millions if not billions of dollars each year. Sometimes if government enforcement is particularly poor, the cartels become quasi-paramilitary organizations.
Latin America
Italian organized crime
Organized crime in Italy, especially the south, has existed for hundreds of years and has given rise to a number of notorious organizations with their own traditions and subculture which have managed to infiltrate almost every part of Italian society . The Italian mafia is often thought of as being the archetype for organized crime worldwide.
American Mafia
Italian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century formed various small-time gangs which gradually evolved into sophisticated crime syndicates which dominated organized crime in America for several decades. Although government crackdowns and a less-tightly knit Italian-American community have largely reduced their power, they remain an active force in the underworld.
African-American organized crime
Irish Mob
Post-Soviet organized crime
Although organized crime existed in the Soviet era, the gangs really gained in power and international reach during the transition to capitalism
. The term Russian Mafia
, 'mafiya' or mob is a blanket (and somewhat inaccurate) term for the various organized crime groups that emerged in this period from the 15 former republics of the USSR and unlike their Italian counterparts does not mean members are necessarily of Russian ethnicity or uphold any ancient criminal traditions, although this is the case for some members.
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of Japan
are similar to the Italian mafias in they originated centuries ago and follow a rigid set of traditions, but have several aspects that make them unique, such as their full-body tattoos and their fairly open place in Japanese society. Many yakuza groups are umbrella organizations, smaller gangs reporting to a larger crime syndicate.
). However not all Chinese gangs fall into line with these traditional groups, as many non-traditional criminal organizations have formed, both in China and the Chinese diaspora.
Triads
Cybercrime
As society enters the Information Age
, certain individuals take advantage of easy flow of information over the Internet
to commit online fraud or similar activities. Often the hackers will form a network to better facilitate their activities. On occasion the hackers will be a part of a criminal gang involved in more 'blue collar crime', but this is unusual.
is the economic relationship between supply and demand
. From the organization's point of view, the issues are what the consumer wants, and how much the consumer is willing to pay the smuggler or smuggling organization to obtain it.
s are a natural meeting place for criminals, and for the purposes of protection from other inmates and business prisoners join gangs. These gangs often develop a large influence outside the prison walls through their networks. Most prison gangs do more than offer simple protection for their members. Most often, prison gangs are responsible for any drug
, tobacco
or alcohol
handling inside correctional facilities. Furthermore, many prison gangs involve themselves in prostitution
, assault
s, kidnapping
s and murder
s. Prison gangs often seek to intimidate the other inmates, pressuring them to relinquish their food and other resources. In addition, prison gangs often exercise a large degree of influence over organized crime
in the "free world", larger than their isolation in prison might lead one to expect.
Outlaw motorcycle club
An outlaw motorcycle club is a type of motorcycle club that is part of a subculture with roots in the post-World War II USA, centered on cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and choppers, and a set of ideals celebrating freedom, nonconformity to mainstream culture, and loyalty to the...
or Chinese-American Tongs
Tong (organization)
The word tong means "hall" or "gathering place". In North America a tong is a type of organization found among Chinese living in the United States and Canada. These organizations are described as secret societies or sworn brotherhoods and are often tied to criminal activity...
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Drug cartelDrug cartelDrug cartels are criminal organizations developed with the primary purpose of promoting and controlling drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises. The term was applied when the largest trafficking...
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In several drug-producing or transit countries, drug traffickers have taken advantage of local corruption and lack of law enforcement to establish cartels turning in millions if not billions of dollars each year. Sometimes if government enforcement is particularly poor, the cartels become quasi-paramilitary organizations.Latin AmericaLatin AmericaLatin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
- Colombian drug cartelsIllegal drug trade in ColombiaIllegal drug trade in Colombia refers to the practice of producing and distributing illegal drugs with psychoactive effects in Colombia. Colombia has had four major drug trafficking cartels which eventually created a new social class and influenced several aspects of Colombian culture...
- Medellín CartelMedellín CartelThe Medellín Cartel was an organized network of "drug suppliers and smugglers" originating in the city of Medellín, Colombia. The drug cartel operated in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Central America, the United States, as well as Canada and Europe throughout the 1970s and 1980s. It was founded and...
- Miami branchGriselda BlancoGriselda Blanco is a former drug lord for the Medellín Cartel, and was a pioneer in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1970s and early 1980s.-Biography:...
- Miami branch
- Cali CartelCali CartelThe Cali Cartel was a drug cartel based in southern Colombia, around the city of Cali and the Valle del Cauca Department. The Cali Cartel was founded by the Rodríguez Orejuela brothers, Gilberto and Miguel, as well as associate José Santacruz Londoño...
- Norte del Valle CartelNorte del Valle CartelThe Norte del Valle Cartel, or North Valley Cartel, is a drug cartel that operates principally in the north of the Valle del Cauca department of Colombia...
- Black EaglesBlack EaglesBlack Eagles is a term describing a series of Colombian right wing, counter-revolutionary, paramilitary organizations made up of new and preexisting paramilitary forces, some of which were part of the demobilized Self-Defense Units of Colombia...
- Los NevadosMiguel Ángel Mejía MúneraMiguel Ángel Mejía Múnera aka "El Mellizo" or "Pablo Mejía" is a presumed Colombian drug lord and former paramilitary leader. Along with brother Víctor Manuel he created a drug cartel called "Los Nevados" out of a former paramilitary which they bought for US$ million dollars...
- Los RastrojosLos RastrojosLos Rastrojos is a Colombian neo-paramilitary, armed group engaged in the Colombian armed conflict...
- New Generation
- Los Nevados
- North Coast CartelNorth Coast CartelThe North Coast Cartel was a drug cartel operating in northern Colombia mostly controlling the area of the Colombian Caribbean coast illegal drug trade flow from other regions of Colombia and neighboring countries and local production. The North Coast Cartel was headed by Alberto Orlandez-Gamboa...
- Medellín Cartel
- Mexican drug cartelsMexican Drug WarThe Mexican Drug War is an ongoing armed conflict taking place among rival drug cartels who fight each other for regional control, and Mexican government forces who seek to combat drug trafficking. However, the government's principal goal has been to put down the drug-related violence that was...
- Sinaloa CartelSinaloa CartelThe Sinaloa Cartel is the most powerful drug cartel in Mexico and considered by the United States Intelligence Community as "the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world." The Sinaloa Cartel is based in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, but also operates in the Mexican states of Baja...
- Milenio CartelMilenio CartelThe Milenio Cartel, or Cártel de los Valencia, was an organized crime gang originally based in Michoacán, Mexico. The group splintered from the Juárez Cartel in 1999 and it is currently operating as a branch of the powerful La Familia Michoacana, and has relocated to Guadalajara city.Luis Valencia...
- Gente NuevaGente NuevaGente Nueva , also known as Los Chapos, in reference to their supreme leader Joaquín Guzmán Loera, is a group of hitman that works as the armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel....
- Milenio Cartel
- Sonora CartelSonora CartelThe Sonora Cartel, also called the Caro-Quintero Organization, was a Mexico based criminal cartel. Upon of the cartel's disintegration, its leaders were incorporated into the Tijuana Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel....
- Tijuana CartelTijuana CartelThe Tijuana Cartel is a Mexican drug cartel based in Tijuana. The cartel has been described as "one of the biggest and most violent criminal groups in Mexico"...
- Oaxaca CartelOaxaca CartelThe Oaxaca cartel is one of the smaller drug cartels currently operating in Mexico and at the service of the Tijuana Cartel; it focuses on marijuana and cocaine trafficking and operates in southern Mexico, particularly in the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas....
- Los PelonesLos PelonesLos Pelones was a group of Mexican gang members and hitmen operating in Tijuana who worked as the armed wing of the Tijuana Cartel in the 2000's, which controls one of the primary transportation routes for billions of dollars worth of illegal drug shipments and murders for the Tijuana Cartel Mexico...
- Oaxaca Cartel
- Gulf CartelGulf CartelThe Gulf Cartel is one of the most powerful drug cartels in Mexico, and perhaps the oldest organized crime group in the country...
- Los ZetasLos ZetasLos Zetas is the second most powerful drug cartel in Mexico and considered by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as the most violent drug cartel and paramilitary enforcement group in Mexico...
- Juárez CartelJuárez CartelThe Juárez Cartel , also known as the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization, is a Mexican drug cartel based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, across the border from El Paso, Texas...
- La LineaLa Línea (gang)La Línea is a group of Mexican drug traffickers and corrupt Juárez and Chihuahua state police officers who work as the armed wing of the Juárez Cartel, which controls one of the primary transportation routes for billions of dollars worth of illegal drug shipments annually entering the United...
- La Linea
- Colima CartelColima CartelThe Colima Cartel was a Mexican drug trafficking and methamphetamine producing cartel operating out of Guadalajara, Jalisco. It was formerly founded and led by José de Jesús Amezcua Contreras while and supported by his brothers Adán and Luis....
- Guadalajara CartelGuadalajara CartelThe Guadalajara Cartel was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in the 1980s by Rafael Caro Quintero, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo in order to ship heroin and marijuana to the United States...
- La Familia Michoacana
- Knights Templar
- La ResistenciaLa Resistencia (gang)La Resistencia is a Mexican criminal gang composed by well trained gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel, Gulf Cartel and Knights Templar Cartel dedicated to kill or expel Los Zetas Cartel operatives from the Mexican states of Michoacán and Jalisco.-History:La Resistencia gang was created by the Sinaloa...
- Los NegrosLos NegrosLos Negros was a criminal organization that was once the armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel and after a switch of alliances, became the armed wing of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel. On 2010 it went independent and had been contesting the control of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel. It was then the criminal...
- Beltrán-Leyva CartelBeltrán-Leyva CartelThe Beltrán-Leyva Cartel was a Mexican drug cartel and organized crime syndicate founded by the four Beltrán Leyva brothers: Marcos Arturo, Carlos, Alfredo and Héctor....
- South Pacific CartelSouth Pacific CartelThe South Pacific Cartel , is a Mexican gang that originated in the Mexican state of Morelos.Although they call themselves a 'cartel', the gang is a local cell created on April 2010 by Héctor Beltrán Leyva, leader of the Beltran Leyva Cartel. The gang is known for having employed a 12-year-old...
- Sinaloa Cartel
- DominicanDominican RepublicThe Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
drug cartels- Paulino organizationQuirino PaulinoQuirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo, a.k.a. "el Don" is an ex-captain of the army of the Dominican Republic, and alleged boss of a drug-trafficking organization responsible for importing tons of cocaine into the United States since September 2003...
- Paulino organization
- Venezuelan drug cartelsIllegal drug trade in VenezuelaIllegal drug trade in Venezuela refers to the practice of illegal drug trade in Venezuela. Historically Venezuela has been a path to the United States for illegal drugs originating in Colombia, through Central America and Mexico and Caribbean countries such as Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
- Walid Makled-Garcia organization
- Peruvian drug cartelsIllegal drug trade in PeruThe illegal drug trade in Peru includes the growing of coca and the shipment of cocaine to the United States. In an example of the balloon effect, dramatic falls in coca cultivation in the late 1990s saw cultivation move to Colombia....
- Zevallos cartelFernando ZevallosFernando Melciades Zevallos González, also known as Fernando Melciades Zevallos Gonzáles, is the founder and owner of what was Peru's largest airline, Aero Continente...
- Zevallos cartel
Asia
- Golden TriangleGolden Triangle (Southeast Asia)The Golden Triangle is one of Asia's two main illicit opium-producing areas. It is an area of around that overlaps the mountains of four countries of Southeast Asia: Burma, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. Along with Afghanistan in the Golden Crescent and Pakistan, it has been one of the most...
- Khun Sa cartelKhun SaKhun Sa , also known as Chang Chi-fu was a Burmese warlord. He was born in Loi Maw of Mongyai. He was also dubbed the "Opium King" due to his opium trading in the so-called Golden Triangle. He was also the leader of the Shan United Army and the Mong Tai Army.- Biography :Khun Sa was born to a...
- Khun Sa cartel
- Golden CrescentGolden CrescentThe Golden Crescent is the name given to one of Asia's two principal areas of illicit opium production, located at the crossroads of Central, South, and Western Asia...
- Afridi Network
- Afghan drug traffickersOpium production in AfghanistanAfghanistan has been the greatest illicit opium producer in the entire world, ahead of Burma and the "Golden Triangle" since 1992, excluding the year 2001. Afghanistan is the main producer of opium in the "Golden Crescent". Opium production in Afghanistan has been on the rise since U.S....
- Noorzai OrganizationHaji BasharHaji Bashir Noorzai is a convicted former Afghan drug lord, the Asian counterpart of the Colombian cocaine legend Pablo Escobar. He was an early supporter of the austere Taliban movement, and later worked as an undercover agent on behalf of the U.S. government...
- Khan cartelJuma KhanHaji Juma Khan, an ethnic Baluch from Afghanistan’s Nimroz Province, is a drug lord with links to the Taliban. The title Haji indicates that he has completed the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca....
- Noorzai Organization
Italian organized crimeItalian organized crimeSince their appearance in the middle of the 19th century, Italian organized crime and criminal organizations have infiltrated the social and economic life of many regions in Southern Italy, the most notorious of which being the Sicilian Mafia, which would later expand into some foreign countries...
Organized crime in Italy, especially the south, has existed for hundreds of years and has given rise to a number of notorious organizations with their own traditions and subculture which have managed to infiltrate almost every part of Italian society . The Italian mafia is often thought of as being the archetype for organized crime worldwide.- Sicilian Mafia
- Cuntrera-Caruana clan
- Sicilian Mafia CommissionSicilian Mafia CommissionThe Sicilian Mafia Commission, known as Commissione or Cupola, is a body of leading Mafia members to decide on important questions concerning the actions of, and settling disputes within the Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra...
- MandamentiMandamentoHistorically a mandamento was the part of Italian territory under the jurisdiction of a "pretore" which is a kind of magistrate. These divisions were abolished in 1923....
- Mazara mandamentoMariano AgateMariano Agate is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He is the boss of Mazara del Vallo Mafia family since the 1970s when he replaced the old boss Mariano Licari. He also was the boss of the mandamento of Mazara, including the Mafia families of Marsala, Salemi and Vita...
- Castelvetrano mandamentoMatteo Messina DenaroMatteo Messina Denaro , also known as Diabolik, is a Sicilian mafioso. He got his nickname from the Italian comic book character of the same name. He is considered to be one of the new leaders of Cosa Nostra after the arrest of Bernardo Provenzano on April 11, 2006...
- Trapani mandamentoVincenzo VirgaVincenzo Virga is the boss of the Trapani Mafia family and mandamento since 1982, when the previous boss, Salvatore Minore, was murdered....
- Pagliarelli mandamentoGianni NicchiGiovanni "Gianni" Nicchi is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. Despite his young age – his nickname is U picciutteddu – he is considered to be one of the leading mafiosi of Cosa Nostra in Palermo...
- Resuttana mandamentoGaetano FidanzatiGaetano Fidanzati is a historical boss of the Sicilian Mafia. He is the boss of the Resuttana mandamento in Palermo. He was on the "most wanted list" of the Italian Ministry of the Interior since 2008, until his arrest on December 5, 2009....
- CoscaCoscaThe word cosca is a Sicilian word which refers to any plant – such as the artichoke or the thistle – whose spiny closely folded leaves symbolize the tightness of relationships between members of the Mafia. In the English language this is best described as a clan. It is often used as a synonym for...
- CorleonesiCorleonesiThe Corleonesi is the name given to a faction within the Sicilian Mafia that dominated Cosa Nostra in the 1980s and the 1990s. It was called the Corleonesi because its most important leaders came from the town of Corleone, first Luciano Leggio and later Totò Riina, Bernardo Provenzano and Leoluca...
- Corleonesi
- Mazara mandamento
- Mandamenti
- 'Ndrangheta
- See also List of 'ndrine
- La Provincia
- Honoured SocietyHonoured SocietyThe Honoured Society was a Calabrian 'Ndrangheta criminal group that operated in Melbourne, Australia. In 1963, it was reportedly involved in the Victoria Market Murders. It was led by gangster Frank Benvenuto until his slaying in 2000...
(MelbourneMelbourneMelbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
) - Mammoliti 'ndrinaMammoliti 'ndrinaThe Mammoliti 'ndrina is a powerful clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina is based in Castellace and Oppido Mamertina in the plain of Gioia Tauro in southern Calabria on the Tyrrhenian coast. The clan is considered to be one of the more...
- Siderno GroupSiderno GroupThe Siderno Group is a criminal association in Canada and Australia related to the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organisation in Calabria. The association is labelled the "Siderno Group" because its members primarily came from the town of Siderno on the Ionian coast in Calabria and migrated to Canada...
- CamorraCamorraThe Camorra is a Mafia-type criminal organization, or secret society, originating in the region of Campania and its capital Naples in Italy. It is one of the oldest and largest criminal organizations in Italy, dating to the 18th century.-Background:...
- Nuova Camorra OrganizzataNuova Camorra OrganizzataThe Nuova Camorra Organizzata was an Italian Camorra criminal organization founded in the late 1970s by a Neapolitan Camorrista, Raffaele Cutolo, in the region of Campania. It was also known by the initials NCO...
- Di Lauro ClanDi Lauro clanThe Di Lauro clan is an Italian crime clan, part of the Camorra in Naples. The clan operates in the neighbourhoods of Secondigliano, Scampìa, Miano, Marianella, Piscinola, and in the adjacent municipalities of Casavatore, Melito, Arzano, Villaricca and Mugnano...
- Nuova FamigliaNuova FamigliaThe Nuova Famiglia was an Italian Camorra criminal organization created in the 1980s to face Raffaele Cutolo's Nuova Camorra Organizzata....
- Casalesi clanCasalesi clanThe Casalesi clan is a clan within the Camorra, an Italian criminal organization, operating from Casal di Principe in the province of Caserta between Naples and Salerno.Formed by Antonio Bardellino, it is a confederation of clans in the Caserta area...
- Contini clanContini clanThe Contini clan is a Neapolitan Camorra clan operating in the city of Naples, and more specifically in the area of the Naples Central Station. It also operates in the Poggioreale, Vasto, Mercato and San Carlo all'Arena suburbs of Naples.-History:...
- Fabbrocino clanMario FabbrocinoMario Fabbrocino , is a powerful Italian crime boss of the Camorra – the Neapolitan mafia. He was the leader of the Fabbrocino clan, based in the Vesuvius area, with its sphere of influence around Nola, Ottaviano, San Giuseppe Vesuviano, San Gennaro Vesuviano...
- Giuliano clanLuigi GiulianoLuigi Giuliano is a former Italian Camorrista who was the boss of the powerful Giuliano clan, based in the district of Forcella, Naples. He had multiple nicknames including "'o rre" and "Lovigno", which is an amalgamation of Luigi and love...
- Licciardi clanLicciardi clanThe Licciardi clan is a powerful Neapolitan Camorra clan which operates in the remote areas of Naples, specifically in the Secondigliano district and its stronghold of Masseria Cardone...
- Lo Russo clanLo Russo clanThe Lo Russo clan is a Neapolitan Camorra clan operating on its territory within the city of Naples, concentrated specifically in the area of Miano.-History:...
- Mallardo clanMallardo clanThe Mallardo clan is a Camorra clan operating from the town of Giugliano in Campania, north of the city of Naples.-History:The clan was headed by Domenico Mallardo who was killed by the Maisto clan on June 24, 1976. His son Francesco Mallardo and his younger brother Giuseppe Mallardo succeeded...
- Nuvoletta clanNuvoletta clanThe Nuvoletta clan is a Neapolitan Camorra clan operating from the town of Marano di Napoli, situated on the northern outskirts of the city of Naples, southern Italy.-Background:...
- Vollaro clanVollaro clanThe Vollaro clan is a Neapolitan Camorra clan operating in the area east of Naples, more specifically in the town of Portici and San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, a small village in the Vesuvius area.-History:...
- Scissionisti di SecondiglianoScissionisti di SecondiglianoThe Scissionisti di Secondigliano is a Camorra clan from the Secondigliano district of Naples, headed by Raffaele Amato and Cesare Pagano. They are also known as "Spagnoli" because of their endless trips ferrying cocaine from Galicia in Spain...
- La Torre clanAugusto La TorreAugusto La Torre is an Italian criminal and former Camorra boss. Up until his arrest and subsequent collaboration with Italian justice on January 2003, La Torre was the head of the La Torre clan, a powerful Camorra organization whose vast lucrative criminal empire stretched from its base...
- Alfieri clanAlfieri clanThe Alfieri clan was a Neapolitan Camorra clan operating on the north-east of Naples, with its sphere of influence in the municipalities of Saviano and Nola.-History:...
- Russo clanRusso clan (Nola)The Russo clan is a Neapolitan Camorra clan operating in the town of Nola and its surrounding territories. Police say the Russo clan had total control over illegal activity in about 40 towns in the Naples region.-History:...
- Nuova Camorra Organizzata
- Sacra Corona UnitaSacra corona unitaSacra Corona Unita, or United Sacred Crown, is a Mafia-like criminal organization from Apulia region in Southern Italy, and is especially active in the areas of Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto .-Background and activities:...
- StiddaStiddaLa Stidda is a name for Mafia-type criminal organizations centered in Gela, Sicily, in Italy. Members are known as stiddari or stiddaroli. It is most active in the rural parts of southern Sicily and is partially a rival to Cosa Nostra...
- Mala del BrentaMala del BrentaThe Mala del Brenta is a criminal organisation based in the Veneto, north-eastern Italy.The criminal organization's structure is believed to be based upon some elements of the Cosa Nostra and Camorra model...
- Banda della MaglianaBanda della MaglianaThe Banda della Magliana was an Italian criminal organization based in Rome, particularly active throughout the late 1970s until the early 1990s. Given by the media, the name refers to the original neighborhood, the Magliana, of most of its members....
- Banda della ComasinaRenato VallanzascaRenato Vallanzasca Costantini is a notorious Italian mobster from Milan who was a powerful figure in the Milanese underworld during the 1970s...
American MafiaAmerican MafiaThe American Mafia , is an Italian-American criminal society. Much like the Sicilian Mafia, the American Mafia has no formal name and is a secret criminal society. Its members usually refer to it as Cosa Nostra or by its English translation "our thing"...
Italian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century formed various small-time gangs which gradually evolved into sophisticated crime syndicates which dominated organized crime in America for several decades. Although government crackdowns and a less-tightly knit Italian-American community have largely reduced their power, they remain an active force in the underworld.Active crime families
- The CommissionThe Commission (mafia)The Commission is the governing body of the American Mafia. Formed in 1931, the Commission replaced the "Boss of all Bosses" title, with a ruling committee, consisting of the New York Five Families bosses and the boss of the Chicago Outfit...
- The Five FamiliesFive FamiliesThe Five Families are the five original Italian-American Mafia crime families which have dominated organized crime in America since 1931. The Five Families in New York remain as the powerhouse of the Italian Mafia in the United States.-History:...
of New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
- BonannoBonanno crime familyThe Bonanno crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia ....
- ColomboColombo crime familyThe Colombo crime family is the youngest of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia ....
- GenoveseGenovese crime familyThe Genovese crime family , is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The Genovese crime family has been nicknamed the "Ivy League" and "Rolls Royce" of organized crime...
- 116th Street Crew
- Greenwich Village CrewGreenwich Village CrewThe Greenwich Village Crew is a crew within the Genovese crime family, active in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. Original controlled by Don Vito Genovese from the early 1920s up until his arrest in the late 1950s. In the early 1980s Capo Vincent Gigante, was made the new boss of the...
- New Jersey CrewGenovese crime family New Jersey factionThe Genovese crime family New Jersey faction is the group of mobsters who control the interests of New Jersey rackets in the Genovese crime family. The New Jersey faction has maintained a strong presence in the Northern New Jersey area since the prohibition era...
- GambinoGambino crime familyThe Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The group is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963...
- Ozone Park Boys
- DeMeo crewRoy DeMeoRoy Albert DeMeo was a soldier in the Gambino crime family. He is infamous for heading the DeMeo crew, a gang suspected by the FBI of murdering at least 70 people between 1973 and 1983. The vast majority were disposed of so thoroughly that they were never found...
- LuccheseLucchese crime familyThe Lucchese crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The family originated in the early 1920s with Gaetano "Tommy" Reina serving as boss up until his murder...
- The Jersey CrewThe Jersey CrewThe Jersey Crew is a powerful faction of the Lucchese crime family, that operates and controls illegal activities like drug trafficking, labor racketeering, loansharking, extortion, illegal gambling, money laundering, and murder, in the Northern New Jersey area....
- The Vario CrewThe Vario CrewThe Vario Crew is a group operating within the Lucchese crime family. It was once controlled by powerful Capo Paul Vario from the early 1950s into the early 1980s, when Vario and Jimmy Burke were betrayed by Henry Hill. Hill betrayed the crew by testifying against many members and his life-story...
- The Jersey Crew
- Bonanno
- Buffalo crime familyBuffalo crime familyThe Buffalo crime family, also known as the Magaddino crime family and The Arm, is an Italian American criminal organization based in Buffalo, United States. As part of the American Mafia the family operates throughout Western New York and Canada.The Buffalo crime family, gained power during the...
- Rochester Crime FamilyRochester Crime FamilyThe Rochester crime family was a criminal organization based in Rochester, New York. It was considered a part of the American Cosa Nostra, also known as the Mafia.-History:...
- DeCavalcante crime familyDeCavalcante crime familyThe DeCavalcante crime family is an organized crime family that controls organized crime activities in Elizabeth, New Jersey and surrounding areas in the state, despite operating on the other side of the Hudson River in New York, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia...
- The Chicago OutfitChicago OutfitThe Chicago Outfit, also known as the Chicago Syndicate or Chicago Mob and sometimes shortened to simply the Outfit, is a crime syndicate based in Chicago, Illinois, USA...
- Philadelphia crime familyPhiladelphia crime familyThe Philadelphia crime family, also known as the Scarfo crime family, Bruno crime family, Philadelphia Mafia, or Philly Mob, is an Italian American criminal organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is one of the most active American Mafia families outside of the Five Families of New York...
- Bufalino crime familyBufalino crime familyThe Bufalino crime family, also known as the Pittston crime family, or the Scranton Wilkes-Barre family, was an American Mafia crime family active in Northeastern Pennsylvania cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Pittston...
- Pittsburgh crime familyPittsburgh crime familyThe Pittsburgh crime family, also known as the LaRocca crime family, is an American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, United States.-Prohibition era:...
- Dallas crime familyDallas crime familyThe Dallas crime family is an American Mafia crime family based in Dallas, Texas. It was one of the member families of The Commission, the network of American Mafia families organized by Charles "Lucky" Luciano in 1931.-Early history:...
- Patriarca crime familyPatriarca crime familyThe Patriarca crime family, also known as the New England crime family and the Providence crime family, is an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in New England, specifically Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts, and is part of the Italian-American Mafia or "La Cosa Nostra"...
- Angiulo Brothers gangAngiulo BrothersThe Angiulo Brothers , were the leading Italian-American crime group from Boston's North End, during the 1950s and early 1960s...
- Angiulo Brothers gang
- Cleveland crime family
- Los Angeles crime familyLos Angeles crime familyThe Los Angeles crime family is an Italian American criminal organization based in Los Angeles, as part of the American Mafia . Since its inception in the early 1900s, it has spread throughout Southern California. Like most Mafia families in the United States, the L.A. family gained power...
- Kansas City crime familyKansas City crime familyThe Kansas City crime family, also known as the Civella crime family, is a Mafia family based in Kansas City, Missouri.-Early history:...
- Trafficante crime familyTrafficante crime familyThe Trafficante crime family better known as the Tampa Mafia, is the only original Mafia crime family in the state of Florida.-Tampa's underworld:...
- The Detroit PartnershipDetroit PartnershipThe Detroit Partnership, also known as the Detroit crime family, Detroit Combination, Detroit Mafia, Detroit Outfit or Zerilli crime family is an American Mafia crime family based in Detroit, Michigan...
- Milwaukee crime familyMilwaukee crime familyThe Milwaukee crime family is an American Mafia crime family based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The crime family was considered a branch of the Chicago Outfit. The family's most influential boss was Frank "Mr. Big" Balistrieri, who was greatly involved in the Las Vegas skimming casinos...
- New Orleans crime familyNew Orleans crime familyThe New Orleans crime family is one of the oldest American criminal organizations in activity. It is based in New Orleans and parts of southern Louisiana in the United States. Its status today is unknown, as it remained in the shadows since 1993...
Defunct mafia families
- Morello crime familyMorello crime familyThe Morello crime family is the direct ancestor of the Genovese crime family, the oldest of New York City's Five Families.-From Corleone to America:...
- Genna crime family
- East Harlem Purple GangEast Harlem Purple GangThe East Harlem Purple Gang was a semi-independent group of Italian American hit-men and heroin dealers who according to Federal prosecutors dominated heroin distribution in East Harlem and the Bronx during the late 1970s in New York City...
- Porrello crime family
- St. Louis crime familySt. Louis crime familyThe St. Louis crime family, also known as the Giordano crime family, is an American Mafia crime family based in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.-Prohibition era:...
- Licavoli Mob
- Denver crime family
- San Francisco crime familySan Francisco crime familyThe San Francisco crime family was a Mafia crime syndicate in San Francisco. The syndicate was organized in the early 1930s by Francesco "Frank" Lanza. The San Francisco family was a very small organization with 20-25 made members.-Francesco Lanza:...
- San Jose crime family
Canadian mafia families
- Rizzuto crime familyRizzuto crime familyThe Rizzuto family is a Mafia organization based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The family territory covers most of southern Quebec and Ontario. The FBI considers the family connected to the Bonanno family, but the Canadian law enforcement considers it a separate crime family...
- Cotroni familyCotroni familyThe Cotroni crime family is a Mafia organization based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The territory controlled by the family once covered most of southern Quebec and Ontario, until the Rizzuto family supplanted them...
- Musitano Crime FamilyMusitano Crime FamilyThe Musitano crime family is a small Mafia organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.The family's territory covers most of Southern Ontario and is one of the top Italian Mafia families in Hamilton and parts of Toronto.-History:It is not confirmed, but The Musitano Family is believed to have...
Non-Italian, American crime syndicates
- National Crime SyndicateNational Crime SyndicateThe National Crime Syndicate was the name given by the press to a loosely-organized multi-ethnic organized crime syndicate. Its origins are uncertain....
- Seven GroupSeven GroupThe Combined or Big Seven Group, was a criminal organization headed by organized crime figures on the east coast during Prohibition serving as the predecessor to the alleged National Crime Syndicate of the 1930s...
- Murder, Inc.Murder, Inc.Murder, Inc. was the name given by the press to organized crime groups in the 1920s through the 1940s that resulted in hundreds of murders on behalf of the American Mafia and Jewish Mafia groups who together formed the early organized crime groups in New York and...
- Seven Group
- Polish MobPolish MobPolish-American organized crime has existed in the United States throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Although not as well known as Russian, Italian-American, or Irish mafias, the Polish mob has a presence in many urban Polish American communities....
- Saltis-McErlane Gang
- Kielbasa Posse
- The Greenpoint Crew
- Flats MobJoseph FilkowskiJoseph Filkowski was a Polish-American gangster in Cleveland, Ohio.A longtime figure in Cleveland's underworld, Joseph Filkowski led the Polish bootlegging gang, the Flats Mob...
- The Flathead gang
- The Corporation
- Prohibition-eraProhibition in the United StatesProhibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. The ban was mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and the Volstead Act set down the rules for enforcing the ban, as well as defining which...
gangs- Shelton Brothers GangShelton Brothers GangThe Shelton Brothers Gang was an early Prohibition era bootlegging gang based in southern Illinois. They were the main rivals of the famous bootlegger Charles Birger. In 1950 the Saturday Evening Post described the Sheltons as "America's Bloodiest Gang"....
- Sheldon GangSheldon GangThe Sheldon Gang was a Chicago bootlegging gang during the early years of Prohibition known for being the main rivals of the Saltis-McErlane Gang and the Southside O'Donnell Brothers....
- Broadway MobBroadway MobThe Broadway Mob was a New York bootlegging gang during Prohibition. Although headed by Joe Adonis, the gangs day-to-day operations were handled by Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Frank Costello as well as financially backed by Arnold Rothstein...
- Circus Cafe GangClaude Maddox"Screwy" Claude Maddox , also known as J.E. Moore, was a Chicago mobster and head of the Circus Cafe Gang whose ranks included future Chicago mobsters Anthony "Tough Tony" Capezio, Vincenzo De Mora and Antonino "Tony" "Joe Batters" Accardo...
- Shelton Brothers Gang
- Polanco-Rodriguez organizationSantiago Luis Polanco RodríguezSantiago Luis Polanco Rodríguez is a Dominican American former drug dealer considered to be the first mass marketer of crack cocaine in United States. Better known by his street name, Yayo, he carries a special distinction among drug dealers, according to experts in the drug trade...
- 1970s Los Angeles
- Nash gangEddie NashEddie Nash is a former nightclub and restaurant manager in Los Angeles, as well as a convicted gangster and drug dealer; he is best known as the alleged mastermind of the Wonderland Murders.-Early life:...
- Wonderland GangWonderland GangThe Wonderland Gang was a group of drug dealers involved in the Los Angeles cocaine trade during the late 1970s and early 1980s; their homebase was located on Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel Canyon area. On July 1, 1981 four members of the gang died in the Wonderland murders...
- Nash gang
- Dixie mafiaDixie MafiaThe Dixie Mafia is a criminal organization based in Biloxi, Mississippi, and operated primarily in the Southern United States, in the 1970s. The group uses each member's talents in various crime categories to help move stolen merchandise, illegal alcohol, and illegal drugs...
- Cornbread mafiaCornbread mafiaThe Cornbread Mafia was a organized crime syndicate based in Marion County, Kentucky, first made public in June, 1989, when federal prosecutors revealed that 70 men, mostly from Marion County, but also two adjacent counties, Nelson and Washington, were arrested for organizing a marijuana...
- Cornbread mafia
- Greek-American organized crime
- Philadelphia Greek MobPhiladelphia Greek MobPhiladelphia's Greek Mob, or the Greek Mafia, are a low-profile criminal organization of ethnic Greek Americans with alleged connections to the Italian Philadelphia crime family. They were formed in southern Greece by the original boss Steve Kondonyanis. Kondonyanis also had strong ties with the...
- Velentzas FamilyVelentzas FamilyThe Velentzas crime family is a Greek-American criminal organization operating in the New York City area. Mostly active in the 1980s and 1990s with illegal gambling...
- Philadelphia Greek Mob
- Assyrian/Chaldean mafiaChaldean mafia- Background & Infrastructure :The Assyrian-Chaldean Mafia, composed predominantly of Iraqi nationals , operated a narcotics distribution network moving drugs from Phoenix and San Diego to Detroit...
- Non-ethnic mobs
- Wall gangCharlie WallCharles McKay "Charlie" Wall was an American businessman and organized crime figure who was a rival of reputed mobsters Santo Trafficante, Sr, and Santo Trafficante, Jr. The son of distinguished physician and civic leader John P...
- Elkins gangJim Elkins (Oregon criminal)James Butler Elkins was a famous crime boss in Portland, Oregon in the mid-20th century.Elkins was involved in numerous illegal activities for several decades in the mid-20th century, running gambling rackets and nightclubs like the 8212 Club, and was known for his brutality...
- Wall gang
Jewish mafia
- Cohen gangMickey CohenMeyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen was a gangster based in Los Angeles and part of the Jewish Mafia, and also had strong ties to the American Mafia from the 1930s through 1960s.-Early life:...
- Schultz gangDutch SchultzDutch Schultz was a New York City-area Jewish American gangster of the 1920s and 1930s who made his fortune in organized crime-related activities such as bootlegging alcohol and the numbers racket...
- The Purple GangThe Purple GangThe Purple Gang, also known as the Sugar House Gang, were a mob with predominantly Jewish members of bootleggers and hijackers in the 1920s, operating out of Detroit, Michigan, which was a major port for running alcohol products during Prohibition due to proximity to Canada.Many openly violent...
- The Bugs and Meyer MobThe Bugs and Meyer MobThe Bugs and Meyer Mob was a Jewish-American street gang in New York's Lower East Side headed by mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky during their teenage years shortly after the start of Prohibition as a predecessor to Murder Inc....
- Shapiro BrothersShapiro BrothersMeyer , Irving and William "Willie" Shapiro , collectively known as the Shapiro Brothers were the leaders of a group of Jewish-American mobsters from New York City and based in Williamsburg...
- Yiddish Black HandYiddish Black HandThe Yiddish Black Hand or the Jewish Black Hand Association was a criminal organization that operated on New York's Lower East Side during the early 20th century, led by Jacob "Johnny" Levinsky...
- Rosen gangHarry Rosen (mobster)Harry "Nig" Rosen was a Philadelphia mobster who was a major organized crime figure on the east coast with influence as far as Atlantic City, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.-Biography:...
- Rothstein gangArnold RothsteinArnold Rothstein , nicknamed "The Brain", was a New York businessman and gambler who became a famous kingpin of the Jewish mafia. Rothstein was also widely reputed to have been behind baseball's Black Sox Scandal, in which the 1919 World Series was fixed...
- Zwillman gangAbner ZwillmanAbner "Longie" Zwillman , known as the "Al Capone of New Jersey," was an early Prohibition gangster, founding member of the "Big Seven" Ruling Commission and a member of the National Crime Syndicate, who was also associated with Murder Incorporated.-Biography:According to the Social Security Death...
- Solomon gang
- Kid CannKid CannIsadore Blumenfeld , commonly known as Kid Cann, was a Jewish-American organized crime figure based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for over four decades and remains the most notorious mobster in the history of Minnesota...
's gang - Birger gangCharles BirgerCharles Birger was an American bootlegger during the Prohibition period in southern Illinois. His real name was Shachna Itzik Birger, and he emigrated to the United States as a child with his parents from the Russian Empire....
African-American organized crimeAfrican-American organized crimeAlthough a minority during the 19th and early 20th centuries, African-American organized crime first began to emerge following large scale migrations of Caribbean and African Americans to major cities of the Northeast and Midwest...
- New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
- The CouncilThe Council (drug syndicate)The Council was a drug and crime syndicate in New York City created by Harlem gangster Nicky Barnes in the 1970s. The seven man organization was modeled after the Italian mob families. The Council settled disputes, handled distribution problems and other drug related issues...
- Harlem numbers racketStephanie St. ClairStephanie St. Clair was a bookmaker in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood.-Early life:Madam St. Clair was born of mixed French and African descent on Martinique. She immigrated to the United States via Marseilles in 1912 and ten years later took $10,000 of her own money and set up a numbers bank in...
- Bumpy Johnson gang
- Supreme Team
- The Country BoysFrank LucasFrank D. Lucas is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1994. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district, the largest in the state and one of the largest in the country, stretches from the Panhandle to the fringes of the Tulsa suburbs—almost half of the state's land mass.-Early...
- Matthews OrganizationFrank Matthews (drug trafficker)Frank "Black Caesar" Matthews is a major heroin and cocaine trafficker who operated throughout the eastern seaboard during the late 1960s and early 1970s. At the peak of his career he operated in 21 states and supplied major dealers throughout every region of the country...
- The Council
- Detroit
- Black Mafia FamilyBlack Mafia FamilyThe Black Mafia Family , was a drug--trafficking organization originally based in Detroit, Michigan. Founded by the Flenory Brothers , the organization began in the late 1980s. By the year 2000, they had established multi-kilogram cocaine distribution cells in cities throughout the United States...
- Young Boys, Inc.Young Boys Inc.Young Boys Incorporated, also known as Y.B.I. was among the first African-American drug cartels that operated on street corners.They controlled 80% of the heroin traffic in Detroit, Michigan from the summer of 1978 through 1982....
- Best Friends gang
- Chambers BrothersChambers Brothers (gang)The Chambers Brothers were a criminal organization heavily involved in the distribution of crack cocaine in the city of Detroit, Michigan during the 1980s...
- Black Mafia Family
- Philadelphia
- Black MafiaBlack MafiaThe Black Mafia, a Philadelphia-based organized crime syndicate whose small beginnings started from holding up crap games and dealing in the illegal drug business, was formed in September 1968 by Samuel Christian, who later adopted the name Suleiman Bey under the Nation of Islam, and was at its...
- Junior Black Mafia
- Black Mafia
- Oakland
- 69 Mob
- BaltimoreBaltimoreBaltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
- Williams organizationMelvin Williams (actor)Melvin D. Williams , known as Little Melvin, is a former drug trafficker and organized crime figure in his native Baltimore, Maryland. Williams is widely known for his involvement in heroin trafficking in Baltimore in the 1970s and 1980s...
- Williams organization
- Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
- Rayful EdmondRayful EdmondRayful Edmond III , was a notorious drug dealer who is largely credited with introducing crack cocaine into the Washington, D.C. area...
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- Rayful Edmond
- ChicagoChicagoChicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
- Theodore RoeTheodore RoeTeddy Roe was an African-American mob boss who built an illegal gambling empire in South Side, Chicago during the 1940s and 1950s. Roe earned the nickname "Robinhood" because of his generous philanthropy among the neighborhood poor...
's gambling ring
- Theodore Roe
Irish MobIrish MobThe Irish Mob is one of the oldest organized crime groups in the United States, in existence since the early 19th century. Originating in Irish American street gangs of the 19th century — depicted in Herbert Asbury's 1928 book The Gangs of New York — the Irish Mob has appeared in most...
- Prohibition-eraProhibition in the United StatesProhibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. The ban was mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and the Volstead Act set down the rules for enforcing the ban, as well as defining which...
ChicagoChicagoChicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
gangs- North Side GangNorth Side GangThe North Side family Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was the dominant Irish-American criminal organization within Chicago during the Prohibition era from the early to late 1920s and principal rival of the Johnny Torrio-Al Capone organization, later known as the Chicago Outfit.- Early...
- James Patrick O'LearyJames Patrick O'LearyJames Patrick O'Leary was a gambling boss and saloon owner in Chicago. His parents were Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, in whose barn the Great Chicago Fire is believed to have begun.-Biography:...
organization - John Patrick LooneyJohn Patrick LooneyJohn Patrick Looney was a gangster in the Rock Island, Illinois area during the early 1900s. Looney was also a successful lawyer and newspaper man in Rock Island.-Background:...
gang - Valley GangValley GangThe Valley Gang was an Irish street gang in Chicago, Illinois during the early twentieth century and was later allies of the Chicago Outfit under Al Capone....
- Ragen's ColtsRagen's ColtsRagen's Colts was a chiefly Irish street gang which dominated the Chicago underworld during the early twentieth century. By the late 1920s and early '30s, the gang became part of the Chicago Outfit under Al Capone....
- Roger TouhyRoger TouhyRoger Touhy was an Irish-American mob boss and prohibition-era bootlegger from Chicago, Illinois. He is best remembered for having been framed for the 1933 faked kidnapping of gangster John "Jake the Barber" Factor, a brother of cosmetics manufacturer Max Factor, Sr...
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- North Side Gang
- BostonBostonBoston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
- Mullen GangMullen Gang-Gang members:Paulie McGonagle was a Boston mobster and onetime leader of the Mullen Gang, a South Boston street gang involved in burglary, auto theft, and armed robbery. During the war against Donald Killeen and his brothers, McGonagle successfully led the Mullens in a string of shootings which...
- Winter Hill GangWinter Hill GangThe Winter Hill Gang is a structured confederation of Boston, Massachusetts-area organized crime figures, predominantly Irish-American with a small Italian-American faction. It derives its name from the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts north of Boston. Its members have...
- Gustin GangGustin GangThe Gustin Gang was one the earliest Irish-American gangs to emerge during the Prohibition and dominate Boston's underworld during the 1920s. The name "Gustin Gang" came from a street name in South Boston, which is off of Old Colony Ave .Originally formed by Steve Wallace, with his brothers Frank...
- Charlestown MobCharlestown MobThe Charlestown Mob was an Irish Mob group in Charlestown, which figured prominently in the history of Boston for much of the 20th century....
- Killeen gangDonald KilleenDonald Killeen was an Irish-American mob boss who controlled criminal activity, primarily bookmaking in South Boston, Massachusetts, during the 1960s and 1970s...
- Mullen Gang
- Egan's RatsEgan's RatsEgan's Rats was an American organized crime group that exercised considerable power in St. Louis, Missouri from 1890 to 1924. Its 35 years of criminal activity included bootlegging, labor slugging, voter intimidation, armed robbery, and murder...
- Danny HoganDanny Hogan"Dapper" Danny Hogan was a charismatic underworld figure and boss of Saint Paul, Minnesota's Irish Mob during Prohibition. Due to his close relationships with the officers of the deeply corrupt St...
empire - Danny WalshDanny WalshDaniel L. "Danny" Walsh was an figure in Providence, Rhode Island involved in bootlegging during Prohibition. He was the top underworld figure in southern New England, and last major Irish-American gangster in the region, until his kidnapping and apparent murder in 1933.-Biography:Born in the...
gang - Saltis-McErlane Gang
- Tom DennisonTom Dennison (political boss)Tom Dennison, aka Pickhandle, Old Grey Wolf, was the early-20th century political boss of Omaha, Nebraska. A politically savvy, culturally astute gambler, Dennison was in charge of the city's wide crime rings, including prostitution, gambling and bootlegging in the 1920s...
empire - The Westies
- White Hand GangWhite Hand GangThe White Hand Gang was a collection of various Irish American gangs on the New York, Brooklyn, and Red Hook waterfronts from the early 1900s to 1925 who organized against the growing influence of Italian gangsters...
- West End GangWest End GangThe West End Gang is one of Canada's most influential organized crime groups. Active since the early 1900s, their rise to notoriety did not begin until the 1960s when they were known simply as the "Irish gang". Their criminal activities were focused on, but not restricted to, the west side of...
- Danny Greene's Celtic ClubDanny GreeneDaniel "Danny" J. Patrick Greene was an Irish American mobster and associate of Cleveland mobster John Nardi during the gang war for the city's criminal operations during the 1970s. Competing gangsters set off more than 35 bombs, most attached to cars in murder attempts, many successful...
- Enoch L. JohnsonEnoch L. JohnsonEnoch Lewis "Nucky" Johnson was an Atlantic City, New Jersey political boss and racketeer. From the 1910s until his imprisonment in 1941, he was the undisputed “boss” of the Republican political machine that controlled Atlantic City and the Atlantic County government...
organization
Post-Soviet organized crimeRussian MafiaThe Russian Mafia is a name applied to organized crime syndicates in Russia and Ukraine. The mafia in various countries take the name of the country, as for example the Ukrainian mafia....
Although organized crime existed in the Soviet era, the gangs really gained in power and international reach during the transition to capitalismPerestroika
Perestroika was a political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1980s, widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
. The term Russian Mafia
Russian Mafia
The Russian Mafia is a name applied to organized crime syndicates in Russia and Ukraine. The mafia in various countries take the name of the country, as for example the Ukrainian mafia....
, 'mafiya' or mob is a blanket (and somewhat inaccurate) term for the various organized crime groups that emerged in this period from the 15 former republics of the USSR and unlike their Italian counterparts does not mean members are necessarily of Russian ethnicity or uphold any ancient criminal traditions, although this is the case for some members.
- MoscowMoscowMoscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
- Izmaylovskaya gang
- Solntsevskaya bratvaSolntsevskaya bratvaThe Solntsevskaya Bratva is a powerful organized crime organization from Moscow, Russia. It is named after the Solntsevo neighborhood in the city. It is considered to be one the most dangerous criminal organizations in the entire world.-History:...
- Ivankov organizationVyacheslav IvankovVyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov was a notorious member of the Russian Mafia who was believed to have connections with Russian state intelligence organizations and their organized crime partners. He has operated in both the Soviet Union and the United States...
- Ivankov organization
- Orekhovskaya gangOrekhovskaya gangThe Orekhovskaya gang was a criminal organization based in Moscow active between the late 80's and early 90's.-History:The gang was founded in 1988 and was made up primarily of former young sportsmen between 18 and 25. The gang's leader was Sergei Timofeyev, nicknamed "Sylvester" after Sylvester...
- Tambov GangTambov GangThe Tambov Gang is a large gang in Saint Petersburg, Russia. According to common allegations, it was organized in St. Petersburg in 1988 by two men from Tambov Oblast, Vladimir Kumarin and Valery Ledovskikh. The gang is named after their region of origin, Tambov Oblast...
- Chechen mafiaChechen mafiaThe Chechen mafia is one of the largest organized crime groups operating in the former Soviet Union next to established Russian mafia gangs, which originally consisted of criminals of Chechen ethnicity who later also tried to recruit former Russian special military forces, police and army officers...
- Lazanskaya gangMovladi AtlangeriyevMovladi Atlangeriyev is a reputed Chechen mafia boss and founder of the so-called Lazanskaya crime group, known by the nicknames "Lord", "Lenin" and "The Italian"...
- Obschina
- Labazanov gangRuslan LabazanovRuslan Labazanov was a notorious criminal boss of the Chechen mafia and head of a Chechen armed faction, held by some as an example of a modern abrek .-Biography:...
- Lazanskaya gang
- Mogilevich organizationSemion MogilevichSemion Yudkovich Mogilevich is a Ukrainian-born organized crime boss, believed by European and United States federal law enforcement agencies to be the "boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world...
- Russian-Jewish gangs
- Brighton BeachBrighton BeachBrighton Beach is an oceanside neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. As of 2000, it has a population of 75,692 with a total of 31,228 households.-Location:...
, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
- Potato Bag gangPotato Bag gangThe Potato Bag Gang, a manifestation of the Odessa Mafia, was a gang of con artists from Odessa that operated in New York City's Soviet emigre community in the Brighton Beach area of New York City in the mid-1970s.-Criminal activity:...
- Agron gangEvsei AgronEvsei Agron was a thief in law and boss of New York City's Russian Mafia during the 1970s and '80s.Born in Leningrad, Agron immigrated to the United States under the Jackson-Vanik Amendment in 1975. He swiftly gained control of criminal operations among the Soviet Jews living in Brighton Beach...
- Nayfeld gangBoris NayfeldBoris Nayfeld, alias Biba, was a Belarusian mob boss and heroin trafficker, who operated out of Brighton Beach, New York City.- Arrival to America and rise to power :...
- Balagula gangMarat BalagulaMarat Balagula is a Russian - Ukrainian Jewish immigrant, former mob boss, and associate of the Lucchese crime family. He has often been referred to as "the Russian Tony Soprano."-Early life:...
- Potato Bag gang
- Mishka Yaponchik gangMishka YaponchikMishka Yaponchik was a Odessa gangster, Jewish revolutionary, and Soviet military leader.-Early years:Born as Moisei Wolfovich Vinnitskiy to family of a Jewish wagon-builder Meer-Wolf Mordkoich Vinnitskiy by some records in stanitsa Golta , Mishka was around 4 years of age, Vinnitsky's family...
- Brighton Beach
- Kurganskaya gangAlexander SolonikAlexander Viktorovich Solonik , also known as Sasha the Macedonian,A reference to Alexander the Great and Solonik's Greek descent and ability to shoot handguns from both hands, in Russian called a Macedonian shooting and Superkiller, was an infamous Russian hitman in the early 1990s and was...
- Georgian mafia
- Oniani crime familyTariel OnianiTariel Oniani is an ethnic Georgian mobster and 'thief in law'. He is reportedly a member of the "Kutaisi" criminal gang.- Background and activity in Spain :...
- Oniani crime family
- Grandpa HassanAslan UsoyanAslan Usoyan aka Grandpa Hassan is an ethnic Yezidi mobster and thief in law began his career operating in Georgia, continued in Moscow, Ural, Siberia, Uzbekistan, Krasnodar, Sochi, and other parts of ex-USSR.Starting in 2007, Usoyan was embroiled in a gang war with Georgian mobster Tariel...
's syndicate - Armenian mafia
- Mirzoyan-Terdjanian organization
- Lithuanian mafia
- Vilnius BrigadeBoris DekanidzeBoris Dekanidze was the head of the "Vilnius Brigade" organized crime gang in Lithuania. In 1994, he was convicted of ordering the murder of a journalist and was executed by Lithuania. Dekanidze was the last person executed by Lithuania prior to its abolition of the death penalty in...
- Vilnius Brigade
- Estonian mafiaEstonian mafiaEstonian mafia is a loose alliance of Estonian mobster groups, principally of Russian groups ethnic or origins, with a wide range of different rackets...
- Helin gangToomas HelinToomas Helin is an Estonian drug smuggler. Police considers Helin to have been among the leaders of the so-called Linnuvabriku group of organised crime.-Drug smuggling:...
- Helin gang
- Uzbek Mafia
- Kyrgyz mafia
- Erkinbaev gang
Balkan organized crime
Balkan organized crime gained prominence in the chaos following the communist era, notably the transition to capitalism and the wars in former YugoslaviaYugoslav wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of wars, fought throughout the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. The wars were complex: characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on the one side and Croats and Bosniaks on the other; but also...
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- Albanian mafiaAlbanian mafiaThe Albanian Mafia or Albanian organized crime are the general terms used for criminal organizations based in Albania or composed of ethnic Albanians. Albanian organized crime is active in Albania, the United States, and the European Union countries, participating in a diverse range of criminal...
- Rudaj OrganizationRudaj OrganizationThe Rudaj Organization was the name given the Albanian mafia in the New York City metro area, so named for the man accused of being its kingpin, Alex Rudaj of Yorktown, New York. The Rudaj Organization, called "The Corporation" by its members, was started in 1993 in Westchester and spread to the...
- Dobroshi gangPrinc DobroshiPrinc Dobroshi .In 1993 he was caught in Norway and in 1994 sentenced to 14 years in prison for heroin trafficking . In a well coordinated operation he escaped from the Ullersmo prison in 1997...
- NaserliganNaserliganNaserligan , named after the leader Naser Dzeljilji, is a criminal gang in Sweden. It is primarily active in the Gothenburg area and has members of Albanian ethnicity. The criminal activities of the gang includes drug trafficking, gambling and protection racketing. Several persons in the gang are...
- Gang of ÇoleGang of ÇoleGang of Çole was a criminal group that operated in the city of Vlora during 1997-1999, peaking of the criminal activity was during the period March-June 1997, when anarchy reigned in the South...
- Gang of Pusi i MezinitGang of Pusi i MezinitGang of Pusi i Mezinit was a criminal group with activities throughout southern Albania. Origin of the members of this band was from across the south of the country. Most of them had been imprisoned during the communist regime for crimes. Called by his nickname "The strongest of the South", this...
- Rudaj Organization
- Bosnian mafiaBosnian mafiaThe Bosnian Mafia is a term used to describe illegal gangs and criminal organisations operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina and within the Bosnian diaspora. Bosnian organised crime figures operate mostly in Europe, as well as in Canada, the United States and Australia...
- Prazina gangJusuf PrazinaJusuf "Juka" Prazina was a Sarajevan gangster and paramilitary warlord during the Bosnian war.A troubled teen, Prazina's youth allegedly contained numerous stays in various jails and correctional facilities of the former Yugoslavia...
- Prazina gang
- Bulgarian mafiaBulgarian mafiaThe Bulgarian mafia is an informal term to describe any number of organized crime groups originating from Bulgaria.-Organised crime groups and activities:...
- VISVIS (criminal organisation)Vasil Iliev Security, or VIS, is a security and insurance company in Bulgaria thought to be a front for a criminal organisation dealing in extortion, car theft, drug trafficking and more. Set up in the early 1990s by Vasil Iliev. The company was declared illegal in 1994 but continued operating...
- Karamanski gangIvo KaramanskiIvo Karamanski was a reputed Bulgarian mobster. His life started very difficultly with his mother dying when he was only four years old. In 1981 he became National and Balkan rowing champion. A colorful underworld character in the Bulgarian Mafia, he was reputed to be a killer "who never even shot...
- VIS
- Serbian mafiaSerbian mafiaSerbian Organized Crime or Naša Stvar are various criminal organizations based in Serbia or composed of ethnic Serbs in the Serbian Diaspora. Serbian mafiosos are very active in European Union countries...
- Arkan gangŽeljko RažnatovicŽeljko Ražnatović , widely known as Arkan was a Serbian career criminal and later a paramilitary leader who was notable for organizing and leading a paramilitary force in the Yugoslav Wars...
- Zemun ClanZemun ClanThe Zemun Clan is one of the Belgrade clans of the Serbian Mafia. The name is based on the base of the clan i.e. Zemun, a municipality of Belgrade....
- Pink PanthersPink PanthersPink Panthers is the name given by Interpol to an international jewel thief network, named after The Pink Panther series of crime comedy films, which is responsible for some of the most audacious thefts in criminal history. They are responsible for what have been termed some of the most glamorous...
- Arkan gang
- Montenegrin MafiaMontenegrin MafiaThe Montenegrin Mafia or Montenegrin Cartel are terms used for the various criminal organizations based in Montenegro or composed of Montenegrins. There are 700 documented organized criminals operating within Montenegro; outside of the country Montenegrin gangs are active throughout Europe-notably...
- Macedonian MafiaMacedonian MafiaThe Macedonian Mafia is a term used to describe illegal gangs and criminal organisations operating in the Republic of Macedonia and within the Macedonian diaspora.-Background:...
British crime 'firms'
- LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
- Adams crime familyClerkenwell crime syndicateThe Clerkenwell crime syndicate, most often known as the Adams Family or the A-team by the British press, is alleged to be one of the most powerful criminal organisations in the United Kingdom if not in fact the strongest. By the nature of their position reliable information about them that has not...
- The Richardson GangThe Richardson GangThe Richardson Gang was a 1960s group of criminals in South London, England. Less well remembered than their rivals the Krays, they nevertheless had a reputation at their peak as being some of London's most infamous and sadistic gangsters...
- The FirmKray twinsReginald "Reggie" Kray and his twin brother Ronald "Ronnie" Kray were the foremost perpetrators of organised crime in London's East End during the 1950s and 1960s...
- Interwar era gangs
- Messina BrothersMessina BrothersThe Messina Brothers were a Maltese-based criminal organization which dominated London's underworld during the inter-war and post-WWII years.-Early life:...
- Sabini gangCharles SabiniCharles Sabini commonly known as Darby Sabini, was a British criminal of mixed Italian and English parentage who, as leader of the Sabinis and 'king of the racecourse gangs', dominated the London underworld and racecourses throughout the south of England for much of the early twentieth century...
- Hoxton GangHoxton GangThe Hoxton Mob was an independent street gang based in London's Soho district during the interwar years. They were one of several gangs which fought against Charles "Darby" Sabini and the "Italian Mob", specifically over control of gambling clubs or "spielers"...
- Elephant and Castle MobElephant and Castle MobThe Elephant and Castle Mob was one of the many independent street gangs active in London's underworld during the interwar years. A rival of mobster Charles "Darby" Sabini along with the Birmingham Boys and the Cortesi brothers of Saffron Hill , they were eventually forced out by Sabini with the...
- Birmingham BoysBirmingham BoysThe Birmingham Boys was a street gang prominent in London's underworld during the 1920s, rivaling Sicilian mafiosi Darby Sabini for control of horse racing and other illegal gambling activities in southeastern England..-Further reading:...
- Messina Brothers
- Essex gangCarlton Leach-Early Life:He was born in Canning Town in East London. Leach was catapulted into a criminal career by his love of West Ham. Before long, he was a member of the notorious Inter City Firm, a gang of hooligans who followed the East London club.-Criminal Career:...
- Adams crime family
- ManchesterManchesterManchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
- Quality Street GangQuality Street gangThe Quality Street Gang was a name given to a group of criminals operating in Manchester in the 1960s and 1970s. Although the group was considered by some senior officers in the Greater Manchester Police to be the instigators of much of Manchester's major crime, many others believed that the gang...
- Noonan crime familyDesmond NoonanDesmond "Dessie" Noonan was a British organised crime figure in Manchester of Irish descent who acted as a political fixer for the Noonan crime family...
- Quality Street Gang
- Aggi CrewAggi CrewThe Aggi Crew were a criminal drug gang based in the St Pauls district of Bristol. The name of the gang was taken from the surnames of the founding gang members...
- Curtis Warren's drug empire
- GlasgowGlasgowGlasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
- McGraw crime familyThomas McGrawThomas "Tam" McGraw , also known as "The Licensee" or "Wan-Baw McGraw", was a gangster involved in organised crime including extortion, narcotics and drug trafficking in Glasgow, Scotland....
- Thompson crime family
- Douglas crime syndicateWalter DouglasWalter Douglas is a Scottish drug trafficker and organized crime figure, dubbed the Tartan Pimpernel by the press, who is one of the richest in the United Kingdom with an estimated worth of £20 million...
- McGraw crime family
Other European crime syndicates
- SwedenSwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
- Original GangstersOriginal Gangsters (gang)Original Gangsters is a Assyrian/Syriac criminal gang in Sweden. Founded in 1993, it has its base in Gothenburg and members in Halmstad and Jönköping, among other places, and is one of a handful of Swedish criminal gangs that have received significant media attention. Its leader and founder is...
- Fucked For LifeFucked For LifeFucked For Life is a criminal network in Sweden, probably founded by the infamous Daniel Maiorana. The new leader is believed to be Johan Davidsson. At the core of the network are 12 men, some of whom have "FFL" tattooed on their arms or neck...
- Uppsala mafiaStefan ErikssonBo Stefan M. Eriksson is a Swedish criminal from Uppsala involved in the UK gaming company Gizmondo until it became insolvent in 2005. In 2006 he became known for wrecking an Enzo Ferrari in southern California, USA...
- Original Gangsters
- NetherlandsNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
- Bruinsma drug gangKlaas Bruinsma (drug lord)Klaas Bruinsma was a major Dutch drug lord, shot to death by mafia member and former police officer Martin Hoogland...
- Holleeder gangWillem HolleederWillem Frederik Holleeder is perhaps one of the best known Dutch criminals. In 2007 he was sentenced to nine years in prison for several counts of extortion, including the extortion of Willem Endstra, who was murdered in 2004 after falling-out with Holleeder. He is currently serving his sentence...
- Bruinsma drug gang
- FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
- Corsican mafiaCorsican mafiaThe Corsican mafia is the general term used to describe the various criminal groups originating from Corsica. The Corsican mafia is one of the most influential organized crime structures in France, also active in many African and Latin American countries...
- Unione CorseUnione CorseThe Unione Corse is a secretive criminal organization operating primarily out of Corsica and Marseilles in France. Unlike the Sicilian Mafia, it has not attempted to gain a foothold in the United States, and thus does not have the other organization's notoriety...
- Brise de mer gangGang de la Brise de MerThe gang de la Brise de Mer is one of the most powerful Corsican criminal organizations. Based in the Northern Corsica, the gang controls various activities in Corsica, but also in the South of France, in Paris, in Occidental African countries , and in Latin...
- Unione Corse
- Tractions Avant gangGang des Tractions AvantIn France, the Gang des Tractions Avant was a criminal gang in the Pigalle quarter of Paris, made up of surviving members of the Carlingue militia, lapsed police officers and criminals from the French Resistance...
- Hornec gangHornec gangThe Hornec brothers gang, also called "the H" or "the Montreuil gang", is a Gipsy/Manush criminal group from the region of Paris. It is the most influential gang in the french capital....
- Mad Jacky gangJacky ImbertJacques "Jacky Le Mat" Imbert is a gang leader who first came to prominence in 1960s Marseille's underworld, where he is still considered "The Last Godfather".His nickname "Jacky Le Mat" means "Jacky the madman" in Provençal...
- Corsican mafia
- IrelandIrelandIreland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
- Cahill gangMartin CahillMartin "The General" Cahill was a prominent Irish criminal from Dublin.Cahill generated a certain notoriety in the media, which referred to him by the sobriquet "The General". The name was also used by the media in order to discuss Cahill's activities while avoiding legal problems with libel...
- Gilligan gangJohn GilliganJohn Gilligan is an Irish criminal.John Gilligan was born to a poor family from the Ballyfermot area of Dublin city. His father, John, was a violent alcoholic who subjected his wife, Sarah, to horrific beatings. This had a profound effect on the young Gilligan...
- Cahill gang
- PolandPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
- Pruszków MafiaAndrzej KolikowskiAndrzej Kolikowski nicknamed Pershing was the leader of the so-called Pruszków Mafia in Poland and arguably the best-known Polish gangster of the 1990s. He was assassinated by his enemies while on vacation in Zakopane....
- Pruszków Mafia
- Slovak mafiaSlovak mafiaSlovak mafia constitutes various organized crime groups in Slovakia, controlled primarily by Slovak interests. Slovak mafia does not have significant international presence and even in Slovakia, their activities are limited by boundaries set by the powerful Russian mafia and various Balkan groups...
- Romani gangs
- Raffael clanVeszprém stabbingIn the Veszprém stabbing of 8 February, 2009, a group of people stabbed three members of the MKB Veszprém handball team in a bar in Veszprém, Hungary, which caused the death of one of them, Marian Cozma.-Circumstances:...
- Sztojka clanVeszprém stabbingIn the Veszprém stabbing of 8 February, 2009, a group of people stabbed three members of the MKB Veszprém handball team in a bar in Veszprém, Hungary, which caused the death of one of them, Marian Cozma.-Circumstances:...
- Raffael clan
Yakuza organizations
The yakuzaYakuza
, also known as , are members of traditional organized crime syndicates in Japan. The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them bōryokudan , literally "violence group", while the yakuza call themselves "ninkyō dantai" , "chivalrous organizations". The yakuza are notoriously...
of Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
are similar to the Italian mafias in they originated centuries ago and follow a rigid set of traditions, but have several aspects that make them unique, such as their full-body tattoos and their fairly open place in Japanese society. Many yakuza groups are umbrella organizations, smaller gangs reporting to a larger crime syndicate.
Active yakuza groups
- Roku-daime Yamaguchi-gumiYamaguchi-gumiis Japan's largest and most infamous yakuza organization. It is named after its founder Harukichi Yamaguchi. Its origins can be traced back to a loose labor union for dockworkers in Kobe pre-WWII....
六代目山口組- Yon-daime Yamaken-gumiYamaken-gumiis a yakuza gang based in Kobe, Japan. It is the largest affiliate of the largest known yakuza syndicate in Japan, the Yamaguchi-gumi, followed by the Nagoya-based Kodo-kai...
四代目山健組- Kenkoku-kai 健國会
- Go-daime Kenryu-kai 五代目健竜会
- Fushimi-gumi 伏見組
- Koshin-kai 晃心会
- Shusei-kai 秀誠会
- Washisaka-gumi 鷲坂組
- Hoshin-kai 邦心会
- Kenichi-kai 兼一会
- Atae-gumi 與組
- Ni-daime Senoo-gumi 二代目妹尾組
- Toryu-rengo 東龍連合
- Seiryu-kai 誠竜会
- Yon-daime Harukoma-gumi 四代目春駒組
- Ni-daime Hokuryu-kai 二代目北竜会
- Hachi-daime Nakatsugawa-gumi 八代目中津川組
- Ni-daime Sekiso-kai 二代目石湊会
- Ni-daime Kodo-kaiKodo-kaiThe Kodo-kai is a yakuza criminal organization based in Nagoya, Japan. It is a secondary organization of the Sixth Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest known yakuza syndicate in Japan...
二代目弘道会- Ju-daime Inabaji-ikka 十代目稲葉地一家
- Ni-daime Takayama-gumi 二代目高山組
- San-daime Tsukasa-kogyo 三代目司興業
- Tanisei-kai 谷誠会
- Seibu-rengo 西部連合
- Seishin-kai 西心会
- Hamaken-gumi 浜健組
- Go-daime Kawamura-ikka 五代目河村一家
- Hachi-daime Hiranoya-ikka 八代目平野家一家
- Shichi-daime Yorii-soke 七代目寄居宗家
- Sasaki-ikka 佐々木一家
- Shichi-daime Asano-kai 七代目浅野会
- San-daime Yonekawa-gumi 三代目米川組
- Juichi-daime Kamiya-ikka 十一代目紙谷一家
- Ni-daime Takumi-gumiTakumi-gumiThe Second Takumi-gumi is a Japanese yakuza gang affiliated with the powerful Yamaguchi-gumi syndicate.The Kansai-based gang was founded in 1967 by Masaru Takumi, the longtime second-in-command and financial overseer of the Yamaguchi-gumi....
二代目宅見組- Ni-daime Nishioka-gumi 二代目西岡組
- Ni-daime Shoshin-rengo 二代目勝心連合
- San-daime Ishikawa-ikka 三代目石川一家
- Teishin-kai 禎心会
- San-daime Sugimoto-gumi 三代目杉本組
- Shichi-daime Matsuno-kai 七代目松野会
- Ni-daime Sato-kai 二代目佐藤会
- Akira-rengokai 秋良連合会
- Misaka-gumi 三坂組
- Hokuto-kai 北斗会
- Ichiren-kai 一蓮会
- Ryosei-kai 綾誠会
- San-daime Kansai-Gokoku-dan 三代目関西護国団
- Yamato-Doshi-kai 大和同志会
- Ni-daime Mie-Maekawa-gumi 二代目三重前川組
- San-daime Kuramoto-gumi 三代目倉本組
- Akebono-sogyo 曙総業
- Ni-daime Mietomo-kai 二代目三重友会
- Koshin-rengo 功心連合
- Ni-daime Funamoto-kai 二代目船本会
- Shoryu-kai 松龍会
- Ni-daime Kokushin-kai 二代目國心会
- San-damie Minami-gumi 三代目南組
- Go-daime Yamatonara-gumi 五代目倭奈良組
- San-daime Nagai-kogyo 三代目永井興業
- Ni-daime Kanto-Hara-gumi 二代目関東原組
- Kyu-daime Takagi-gumi 九代目高木組
- Go-daime Kokusui-kaiKokusui-kaiThe Kokusui-kai , founded in 1958, is a Tokyo-based yakuza organization with an estimated 500 members. Despite its relatively low membership, it is widely viewed as a wealthy and successful gang, controlling Tokyo's fashionable Ginza district....
五代目國粹会- Kyu-daime Ochiai-ikka 九代目落合一家
- Jusan-daime Namai-ikka 十三代目生井一家
- Shichi-daime Koga-Namai-ikka 七代目古河生井一家
- Ju-daime Maekawa-ikka 十代目前川一家
- Juyon-daime Teraya-ikka 十四代目寺谷一家
- Hachi-daime Tanbo-ikka 八代目田浦一家
- Hachi-daime Shinshu-Saito-ikka 八代目信州斉藤一家
- Roku-daime Yoshidagawa-ikka 六代目吉田川一家
- Hachi-daime Kanamachi-ikka 八代目金町一家
- Hanabusa-gumi 英組
- Ni-daime Okawa-gumi 二代目大川組
- San-daime Nishikawa-kai 三代目西川会
- Eishin-kai 英心会
- Gishin-kai 義信会
- Nikkan-rengokai 日冠連合会
- Kyokushin-rengokai 極心連合会
- Ni-daime Kyokua-kai 二代目極亜会
- Kyokusui-kai 極粋会
- Kyokuyu-kai 極勇会
- Kykoujin-kai 極仁会
- Kyokuichi-kai 極一会
- Kyokuto-kai 極闘会
- Ni-daime Kyokuho-kai 二代目極朋会
- Shoyu-kai 章友会
- Oishi-gumi 大石組
- Shinpuku-kai 心腹会
- Kyoyu-kai 侠友会
- Ni-daime Izu-gumi 二代目伊豆組
- Kyokudo-kai 旭導会
- Masaki-gumi 正木組
- Ikeda-gumi 池田組
- Roku-daime Shimizu-ikka 六代目清水一家
- San-daime Oguruma-Makoto-kai-honke 三代目小車誠会本家
- Go-daime Hayano-kai 五代目早野会
- SAn-daime Ono-ikka 三代目大野一家
- Yon-daime Sumida-kai 四代目澄田会
- Yamato-kai 倭和会
- Yon-daime Minami-ikka 四代目南一家
- Shichi-daime Ichiriki-ikka 七代目一力一家
- Ni-daime Matsuyama-kai 二代目松山会
- San-daime Seiyu-kai 三代目誠友会
- Ni-daime Aio-kai 二代目愛桜会
- Ni-daime Konishi-ikka 二代目小西一家
- Ju-daime Seto-ikka 十代目瀬戸一家
- Yon-daime Kitaoka-kai 四代目北岡会
- Rachi-gumi 良知組
- Kokuryoya-ikka 國領屋一家
- Shichi-daime Oshu-Aizu-Kakusada-ikka 七代目奥州会津角定一家
- Juichi-daime Hirai-ikka 十一代目平井一家
- Yon-daime Yamaken-gumi
- Inagawa-kaiInagawa-kaiThe is the third largest of Japan's yakuza groups, with approximately 15,000 members. It is based in the Kanto region, and was one of the first yakuza organizations to begin operating overseas.-History:...
稲川会- Hachi-daime Yokosuka-ikka 八代目横須賀一家
- Ni-daime Yamakawa-ikka 二代目山川一家
- Ju-daime Himonya-ikka 十代目碑文谷一家
- Roku-daime Keiyo-Nanakuma-ikka 六代目京葉七熊一家
- Ni-daime Sugiura-ikka 二代目杉浦一家
- Nakajima-ikka 中島一家
- Go-daime Mikazuki-ikka 五代目三日月一家
- Sagami-ikka 相模一家
- Sichi-daime Oba-ikka 七代目大場一家
- Sichi-daime Tsukumasa-ikka 七代目佃政一家
- Sichi-daime Ichinose-ikka 七代目一之瀬一家
- Kyu-daime Horii-ikka 九代目堀井一家
- Go-daime Mimomi-ikka 五代目実籾一家
- Roku-daime Hakoya-ikka 六代目箱屋一家
- Juyon-daime Ogusa-ikka 十四代目大草一家
- Go-daime Kigure-ikka 五代目木暮一家
- Hachi-daime Yagita-ikka 八代目八木田一家
- Yon-daime Hayashi-ikka 四代目林一家
- San-daime Umechi-ikka 三代目埋地一家
- Ni-daime Koganei-ikka 二代目小金井一家
- Yon-daime Morita-ikka 四代目森田一家
- Go-daime Joshu-Kyowa-ikka 五代目上州共和一家
- Sichi-daime Sanbonsugi-ikka 七代目三本杉一家
- Sumiyoshi-kaiSumiyoshi-kaiThe , sometimes referred to as the , is the second-largest yakuza group in Japan with an estimated 20,000 members.The Sumiyoshi-kai is a confederation of smaller gangs. Its current sosai, or president, is Shigeo Nishiguchi. Structurally, the Sumiyoshi-kai differs from its main rival, the...
住吉会- Sumiyoshi-ikkaSumiyoshi-ikkaThe Sumiyoshi-ikka is an affiliate of the Sumiyoshi-kai yakuza syndicate, based in Tokyo, Japan. Its current leader is Hareaki Fukuda, who is also the kaicho of the Sumiyoshi-kai.-Successive sochos:...
Shinwa-kaiShinwa-kai (Sumiyoshi-ikka)The Shinwa-kai in the Sumiyoshi-ikka, is a yakuza gang based in Tochigi-shi, Tochigi, Japan. It is affiliated with the Sumiyoshi-kai, Japan's second-largest yakuza syndicate.Its current leader is Hideo Komatsuzawa....
住吉一家親和会- Tochigi Ni-daime 栃木二代目
- Yamatoya Roku-daime 大和屋六代目
- Kokyoya San-daime 光京家三代目
- Oshima Kyu-daime 大島九代目
- Kansuke Juni-daime 勘助十二代目
- Haguro Go-daime 羽黒五代目
- Sunaga Juni-daime 須永十二代目
- Yahata Go-daime 矢畑五代目
- Yamakoshi Shichi-daime 山越七代目
- Tano Sichi-daime 田野七代目
- Shimomagi Shichi-daime 下馬木七代目
- Bushi Hachi-daime 武士八代目
- Izumi Hachi-daime 泉八代目
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Maruto-kai 住吉一家丸唐会
- Ona Go-daime 小名五代目
- Kabeya Yon-daime 神谷四代目
- Taira Go-daime 平五代目
- Minato Go-daime 湊五代目
- Nakajima Ni-daime 中島二代目
- Kokubun-gumi 國分組
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Aota-kai 住吉一家青田会
- Fuchu Shodai 府中初代
- Bekkoya Go-daime 鼈甲家五代目
- Owada-Takubo Go-daime 大和田田久保五代目
- Sensui Ju-daime 泉水十代目
- Noda Yon-daime 野田四代目
- Inage San-daime 稲毛三代目
- Inouchi Roku-daime 井之内六代目
- Mitoya Yon-daime 水戸家四代目
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Saikaiya Hachi-daime 住吉一家西海家八代目
- San-daime Hayasaka-kai 三代目早坂会
- Ni-daime Seishi-kai 二代目西志会
- San-daime Abeyoshi-kai 三代目阿部喜会
- Go-daime Yoshida-kai 五代目吉田会
- Go-daime Takeda-kai 五代目武田会
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Dai-Nippon-kogyo 大日本興行
- Shinmei-Oba Ni-daime 神明大場二代目
- Oshu Ikuta Ni-daime 奥州生田二代目
- Ito-gumi 伊藤組
- Yamakawa Ni-daime 山川二代目
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Kyowa Roku-daime 住吉一家共和六代目
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Musashiya Ju-daime 住吉一家武蔵屋十代目
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Mabashi Shichi-daime 住吉一家馬橋七代目
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Kobayashi-kai San-daime 住吉一家小林会三代目
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Hanada-kai Ni-damie 住吉一家花田会二代目
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Numazawa-kai 住吉一家沼澤会
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Ishii-kai 住吉一家石井会
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Nakazato Roku-daime 住吉一家中里六代目
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Noguchi-kai 住吉一家野口会
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Asakusa-Takahashi-gumi Go-daime 住吉一家浅草高橋組五代目
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Nkamura-kai San-daime 住吉一家中村会三代目
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Takinogawa Hachi-daime 住吉一家滝野川八代目
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Hirokawa-kai San-daime 住吉一家広川会三代目
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Sanshin-kai 住吉一家三心会
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Seiwa-kai Ni-daime 住吉一家西和会二代目
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Sankaku Hachi-daime 住吉一家三角八代目
- Sumiyoshi-ikka Kogo-mutsumikai Roku-daime 住吉一家向後睦会六代目
- Kohei-ikka 幸平一家
- Doshida-ikka 土支田一家
- Sumiyoshi-ikka
- Matsuba-kaiMatsuba-kaiThe is a yakuza organization based in Tokyo, Japan. The Matsuba-kai is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 1,500 active members and 600 semi-active members.-History:...
松葉会- Joman-ikka 上萬一家
- Kitakanto-Okubo-ikka 北関東大久保一家
- Kunii-ikka 國井一家
- Kyokuto-kaiKyokuto-kaiThe is a yakuza organization based in Tokyo, Japan. The Kyokuto-kai is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 1,200 active members.-History:The Kyokuto-kai was registered as a designated yakuza group under the Organized Crime Countermeasures Law in July 1993....
極東会- Matsuyama-rengokai 松山連合会
- Matsuyama-rengokai Shinsei-kai 真誠会
- Matsuyama-rengokai Shinryu-kai 眞龍会
- Matsuyama-rengokai Matsuyama-ikka 松山一家
- Shoto-rengokai 松東連合会
- Shoto-rengokai Ni-daime Kabuto-kai 二代目加部東会
- Shoto-rengokai Ni-daime Nogami-kai 二代目野上会
- Shoto-rengokai Ni-daime Itami-kai 二代目伊丹会
- Hioki-rengokai 日置連合会
- Naka-rengokai 仲連合会
- Ni-daime Okazaki-kai 二代目岡崎会
- Dojin-kaiDojin-kaiThe is a yakuza organization headquartered in Kurume, Fukuoka on the Kyushu island of Japan, a designated yakuza syndicate, with approximately at least 850 members....
道仁会- San-daime Kobayashi-gumi 二代目小林組
- San-daime Hirano-gumi 三代目平野組
- Mori-gumi 森組
- Yon-daime Kudo-kaiKudo-kaiThe is a yakuza group headquartered in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka on the Kyushu island of Japan, with an estimated 690 active members. refers to the Kudo-kai as an affiliate of the Yamaguchi-gumi, but that is false...
四代目工藤會- Yon-daime Tanaka-gumi 四代目田中組
- San-daime Kyokusei-gumi 三代目極政組
- Roku-daime Aizu-Kotetsu-kaiAizukotetsu-kaiThe , based in Kyoto, is Japan's fourth-largest yakuza organization. Its name comes from the Aizu region, "Kotetsu", a type of Japanese sword, and the suffix "-kai", or society....
六代目会津小鉄会- Yon-daime Iroha-kai 四代目いろは会
- San-daime Shinohara-kai 三代目篠原会
- San-daime Zukoshi-gumi 三代目図越組
- Ni-daime Baba-gumi 二代目馬場組
- Okinawa Kyokuryu-kaiOkinawa Kyokuryu-kaiThe is a yakuza criminal organization based on the Okinawa island of Japan. A designated yakuza group with an estimated 523 active members and 145 semi-active members, the Okinawa Kyokuryu-kai is the largest yakuza organization in Okinawa Prefecture.-History:...
沖縄旭琉会- Uezato-ikka 上里一家
- Nanshu-ikka 南州一家
- Ni-daime Teruya-ikka 二代目照屋一家
- Kyushu Seido-kaiKyushu Seido-kaiThe is a yakuza organization based in Fukuoka Prefecture on the Kyushu island of Japan, with an estimated 380 active members. Headquartered in the southern Fukuoka region of Omuta, the Kyushu Seido-kai maintains its offices in five other prefectures including Tokyo....
九州誠道会- Go-daime Murakami-ikka 五代目村上一家
- Nagaishi-gumi 永石組
- Go-daime Kyosei-kaiKyosei-kaiThe is a yakuza group based in Hiroshima, Japan, with an estimated 280 active members and 470 semi-active members. The Kyosei-kai is the largest yakuza organization in the Chugoku region.-History:...
五代目共政会- Ishii-gumi 石井組
- Ni-daime Okimoto-gumi 二代目沖本組
- San-daime Fukuhaku-kaiFukuhaku-kaiThe is a yakuza organization based in Fukuoka on the Kyushu island of Japan. The Fukuhaku-kai is a designated yakuza group with an estimated membership of 280, and has its offices in three other prefectures as well as its headquarters in Hakata, Fukuoka....
三代目福博会- Yon-daime Umezu-kai 四代目梅津会
- San-daime Futaba-kai 三代目双葉会
- San-daime Goyu-kai 三代目強友会
- Soai-kaiSoai-kaiThe is a yakuza organization based in Chiba, Japan. The Soai-kai is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 230 active members.-History:The Soai-kai was formed in 1945 by Toramatsu Takahashi, then a member of a Yokohama-based bakuto group named the Sasada-ikka...
双愛会- Shichi-daime Yato-ikka 七代目谷戸一家
- Yon-daime Terajima-ikka 四代目寺島一家
- Ni-daime Takatora-ikka 二代目高寅一家
- Yon-daime Azeta-Kissei-ikka 四代目畔田吉清一家
- Ni-daime Yoshida-ikka 二代目吉田一家
- Yon-daime Kyokuryu-kaiKyokuryu-kaiThe is a yakuza criminal organization based on the Okinawa island of Japan, with an estimated membership of 210–270.Headquartered in Naha, Okinawa, the Kyokuryu-kai is one of the two designated yakuza groups in Okinawa Prefecture along with its splinter group Okinawa Kyokuryu-kai, and had been...
四代目旭琉会 - San-daime Kyodo-kaiKyodo-kaiThe is a yakuza group based in Hiroshima, Japan. The Kyodo-kai is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 180 active members and 300 semi-active members, and is the second largest yakuza group in the Chugoku region after the Kyosei-kai.-History:...
三代目俠道会 - Taishu-kaiTaishu-kaiThe is a yakuza organization based in Fukuoka Prefecture on the Kyushu island of Japan, with an estimated 180 active members.-History:The Taishu-kai was formed around 1954 under the name by , a mineworker who became the first president. The Ota Group was later renamed the , and again renamed the...
太州会 - Shichi-daime Goda-ikkaGoda-ikkaThe is a yakuza group based in Yamaguchi, Japan. The Goda-ikka is a designated yakuza group and Yamaguchi Prefecture's largest yakuza group with an estimated 440 members.-History:...
七代目合田一家 - Toa-kai 東亜会
- Ni-daime Azuma-gumiAzuma-gumiThe is a yakuza organization based in Osaka, Japan. The Azuma-gumi is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 170 active members.-History:The Azuma-gumi was registered as a designated yakuza group under the Organized Crime Countermeasures Law in August 1993....
二代目東組 - Yon-daime Asano-gumiAsano-gumiThe is a yakuza group based in Okayama, Japan. The Asano-gumi is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 130 active members.-History:The Asano-gumi was formed in 1945 as a bakuto organization named the by Kunio Oyama. The group restarted as the Asano-gumi with the head of Shin'ichi Asano in...
四代目浅野組 - Hachi-daime Sakaume-gumiSakaume-gumiThe is a yakuza organization based in Osaka, Japan. The Sakaume-gumi is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 110 active members.The Sakaume-gumi is an old-established, small group that focuses primarily on gambling, and not on other activities like extortion and drugs...
八代目酒梅組 - Yon-daime Kozakura-ikkaKozakura-ikkaThe is a yakuza organization based in Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, with an estimated 100 active members. The Kozakura-ikka is the only designated boryokudan group in Kagoshima Prefecture....
四代目小桜一家 - Ni-daime Shinwa-kaiShinwa-kai (Takamatsu)The is a yakuza group based in Takamatsu, Kagawa on the Shikoku island of Japan. The Shinwa-kai is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 70 active members.-History:...
二代目親和会 - Nidaime-Kumamoto-kai 二代目熊本會
- Hachi-daime Iijima-kai 八代目飯島会
- Chojiya-kai 丁字家会
- Chukyo-Shinno-kai 中京神農会
- Sakurai-soke 櫻井總家
- Anegasaki-kai 姉ヶ崎会
- Takezawa-kai 竹澤会
- Sugito-kai 杉東会
Defunct yakuza groups
- Kantō-kaiKanto-kaiThe was a Japanese underworld organization formed by Yoshio Kodama in 1964, and named for the Kantō region from which it drew most of its membership. Kodama envisioned the Kantō-kai as a secret national police force, with the aim of forwarding the far right-wing views he and other organized...
関東会 - Ni-daime Honda-kaiHonda-kaiThe Honda-kai were a Japanese yakuza gang active in Kobe in the middle of the 20th century.The Honda-kai was a "bakuto" gang, mainly devoted to illegal gambling. After World War II, they formed an alliance with the Yamaguchi-gumi syndicate, then growing under the leadership of Kazuo Taoka...
二代目本多会 - Ni-daime Dainippon-Heiwa-kai 二代目大日本平和会
- Yamaguchi-gumi
- Goto-gumiGoto-gumiThe was a Japanese yakuza organization founded by Tadamasa Goto. The gang was originally formed in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, but moved its activities east in 1991 when it merged with a gang in Hachiōji, Tokyo...
後藤組 - Suishin-kaiSuishin-kaiThe Suishin-kai was a Japanese yakuza gang based in Nagasaki. The gang, affiliated with the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza syndicate, came to prominence in April 2007 when its former underboss , Tetsuya Shiroo, shot and killed the mayor of Nagasaki, Iccho Itoh.The killing is believed to...
水心会
- Goto-gumi
- Ichiwa-kaiIchiwa-kaiThe Ichiwa-kai was a yakuza gang based in Osaka, Japan.It was formed on June 13, 1984 when Hiroshi Yamamoto, a top lieutenant in the Yamaguchi-gumi, broke from that gang to form his own organization with over 10,000 members...
一和会 - Kumamoto-rengo 熊本連合
- San-daime Yamano-kaiYamano-kaiThe Third was a yakuza group based in Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan. It was a secondary organization of the Kumamoto-rengo .Founded by Yoshiaki Yamano in 1954 under the name , it changed its name to "Yamano-kai" in 1956. Masatoshi Minoda succeeded as its president in 1972, and Tetsuo Ikeda became the...
三代目山野会
- San-daime Yamano-kai
- Nakano-kaiNakano-kaiThe Nakano-kai was a notorious Osaka-based yakuza gang, founded by Taro Nakano in the years after World War 2. The Nakano-kai was known for its fierce bellicosity and thus sometimes dubbed the "Dojin-kai in the Yamaguchi-gumi".Before 1997, the Nakano-kai had been an affiliate of the Kobe-based...
中野会 - Kyokuto Sakurai-soke-rengokai 極東桜井總家連合会
Triads and other Chinese criminal organizations
The Triads is a popular name for a number of Chinese criminal secret societies, which have existed in various forms over the centuries (see for example TiandihuiTiandihui
The Tiandihui is a fraternal organization that originated in China. The Hongmen grouping is today more or less synonymous with the whole Tiandihui concept, although the title "Hongmen" is also claimed by some criminal groups.As the Tiandihui spread through different counties and provinces, it...
). However not all Chinese gangs fall into line with these traditional groups, as many non-traditional criminal organizations have formed, both in China and the Chinese diaspora.
Triads
- 14K Group14K TriadThe 14K is a Triad group based in Hong Kong but active internationally. It is the second largest Triad group in the world with around 20,000 members split into thirty subgroups. They are the main rival of the Sun Yee On, which is the largest Triad. The 14K are responsible for large-scale drug...
十四K- 14K Baai Lo 十四K 湃廬
- 14K Chung 十四K 忠字堆
- 14K Chung Yee Tong 十四K 忠義堂
- 14K Hau 十四K 孝字堆
- 14K Kim 十四K 劍字堆
- 14K Lai 十四K 禮字堆
- 14K Lun 十四K 倫字堆
- 14K Ngai 十四K 毅字堆
- 14K Sai Shing Tong 十四K 西勝堂
- 14K Sai Yee Tong 十四K 西義堂
- 14K Sat 十四K 實字堆
- 14K Shun 十四K 信字堆
- 14K Tai Huen Chai 十四K 大圈仔
- 14K Tak 十四K 德字堆
- 14K Yan 十四K 仁字堆
- 14K Yee 十四K 義字堆
- 14K Yee Shing Tong 十四K 義勝堂
- 14K Yung 十四K 勇字堆
- Long Zi Group 龙子頭
- Long Zi Tong 龙子堂
- Long Zi Kongsi 龙子會館
- Long Zi Association 龙子协会
- LZK
- Wo Group 和字頭
- Wo Shing WoWo Shing WoWo Shing Wo is the original Wo Group Triad, and it is the triad with longest tradition in Hong Kong.Wo Shing Wo was established in Sham Shui Po in 1930 and, while maintaining its traditional stronghold in Tsuen Wan, it has extended its influence to Tsim Sha Tsui and Mong Kok.It also operates in...
和勝和 - Wo Shing Yee 和勝義
- Wo On Lok (Shui Fong) 和安樂(水房)
- Wo Hop ToWo Hop ToWo Hop To is Triad group based in Wanchai, Hong Kong. The name translates to "Harmoniously United Association" or "Harmonious Union Plan" and is thought to have been founded in 1908 in Sai Ying Pun as a secret political organization in opposition to the Qing Dynasty...
和合圖(老和) http://web.archive.org/web/20080109233824/http://usinfo.state.gov/eap/Archive_Index/Chinese_Criminal_Enterprises.html - Wo Lee Kwan 和利群 http://web.archive.org/web/20080109233824/http://usinfo.state.gov/eap/Archive_Index/Chinese_Criminal_Enterprises.html
- Wo Kao Chi 和九指
- Wo Kwan Lok 和群樂
- Wo Lee Wo 和利和
- Wo Shing Tong 和勝堂
- Wo Yau Wo 和友和
- Wo Yee Tong 和義堂
- Wo Yung Yee 和勇義
- Wo Hung Shing 和洪勝 http://ited.yingwa.edu.hk/~ywc-031142/right9.html
- Wo Kwan Ying 和群英 http://ited.yingwa.edu.hk/~ywc-031142/right9.html
- Wo Luen Shing 和聯勝 http://ited.yingwa.edu.hk/~ywc-031142/right9.html
- Wo Yat Ping 和一平
- Wo Yee Ping 和二平
- Wo Shing Wo
- Luen GroupLuen GroupLuen group is one of the Organized Crime groups of Hong Kong. The membership of the group exceeds 8000 and contains several subgroups. It is also an active member in a number of other countries and is said to have a strong presence in Toronto.-External links:...
聯字頭- Luen Kung Lok 聯公樂
- Luen Lok Tong 聯樂堂(單耳)
- Luen Shun Tong 聯順堂
- Luen Ying She 聯英社(老聯)
- Luen Fei Ying 聯飛英
- Luen Hung Ying 聯鴻英
- Luen To Ying 聯桃英
- Ah KongAh KongAh Kong was an organized crime gang involved in its main trade of drugs and used to control the European heroin trade in the 1970s to 1990s. It was one of the world's largest drug syndicates with its origin from Singapore but was based in the drug capital of the world, Amsterdam, Holland and...
新加坡黑手黨
- Ang Bin Hoay 昂斌Hoay
- Ang Soon TongAng Soon TongAng Soon Tong is a secret society based in Singapore and Malaysia. According to a former police officer, the society was active as early as the 1950s, mainly in the Sembawang area...
昂很快塘
- Big Circle GangBig Circle GangThe Big Circle Boys is one of the major Chinese Organized Crime syndicates. Its Chinese designation is Tai Huen Chai . It was featured in the Alex Rider novel Skeleton Key...
大圈幫
- Black DragonsBlack Dragons (gang)The Black Dragons The Black Dragons The Black Dragons (traditional Chinese: 黑龍） is a Chinese/American Triad(secret society) and street gang that was formed in 1980 by Chinese immigrants in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California. It was started by a group of young men who bounded together to...
黑龍 http://www.streetgangs.com/topics/2005/062105dragon.html
- Cai crime family 蔡犯罪家族 http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/chinese-mafia/
- Chongqing groupChongqing gang trialsThe Chongqing gang trials were a series of triad-busting trials in the city of Chongqing that began in October 2009 and is ongoing as of July 2010...
重慶組
- Chuen Group 全字頭
- Chuen Chi Wo 全志和
- Chuen Yat Chi 全一志(老全) http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=&art_id=46077&sid=&con_type=1&archive_d_str=19990213
- Ghee Hin KongsiGhee Hin KongsiThe Ghee Hin Kongsi is a secret society in Singapore and Malaya, formed in 1820. Ghee Hin literally means "the rise of righteousness" in Chinese. The Ghee Hin often fought against the Hakka-dominated Hai San secret society....
酥油軒懸空寺
- Green GangGreen GangThe Green Gang was a Chinese criminal organization that operated in Shanghai in the early 20th century.-Origins:It was a secret society established originally by Fong Toh-tak of Shaolin Monastery to protect the Han Chinese who were oppressed by the Manchu rulers of the Qing Dynasty, and to restore...
青帮
- Hai San 海新
- Long Zii Tong 籽亿龙堂
- Rung Group 梯級組
- Shing Group 盛集團
- Sio Sam OngSio Sam OngSio Sam Ong , literally means Three Little Emperors is a leading Chinese triad in Malaysia; with a strong presence in the north . Mainly based in Penang, it is widely considered to be one of the most powerful triads in the country...
(小三王)
- Tung Group 東字頭
- Tung Kung She 東公社
- Tung Kwan She 東群社
- Tung Luen She 東聯社(老東)
- Tung On Tong 東安堂
- Tung Ying She 東英社
- Tung On Wo 東安和
- Tung Kwan Ying 東群英
- Tong Group 同字頭
- Tong Kwan Ying 同群英
- Tong Lok 同樂
- Tong San Wo 同新和(老同)
- Jackson Street BoysJackson Street BoysJackson Boyz or Jackson Boys are a San Francisco, California based Asian street gang and Triad society. The gang is composed of Chinese and Vietnamese members, and is centered in San Francisco's Chinatown....
積臣街小子 http://www.asianweek.com/2000_03_30/bay_21boysextortion.html
- Kung Lok 功乐
- Kwong Group 廣字頭
- Kwong Hung 廣雄
- Kwong Luen Shing 廣聯盛(老廣)
- Kwong Shing 廣盛
- Kwong Sing Tong 廣聲堂
- Yuet Group 粵字頭
- Yuet Kwong 粵廣
- Yuet Tung 粵東
- Ching Group 正字頭
- Ching Lung Tuen 正龍團
- Chiu Chow Group 潮州幫
- Fuk Yee Hing 福義興(老福)
- Sun Yee OnSun Yee OnSun Yee On is one of the leading triads in Hong Kong and Mainland China, with the most members – more than 40,000 – worldwide....
新義安(老新)- Chiu Kwong She 潮光社
- Chiu Luen Yee 潮聯義
- Chung Chau Yuet 中秋月
- Chung Sun Tong 忠信堂
- Hoi Luk Fung 海陸豐互助社
- King Yee 敬義 http://web.archive.org/web/20080109233824/http://usinfo.state.gov/eap/Archive_Index/Chinese_Criminal_Enterprises.html
- Sam Shing She 三聖社
- Tai Ho Choi 大好彩
- Yat Lo Fat 一路发幫
- Yee Kwan 義群 http://web.archive.org/web/20080109233824/http://usinfo.state.gov/eap/Archive_Index/Chinese_Criminal_Enterprises.html
- Yee Shing Tong 義勝堂
- Wah ChingWah ChingWah Ching is a Chinese American Triad Society and street gang also known as "Dub C" originating in San Francisco during the early 1960s. At the time, Wah Ching was organized into one enormous gang...
華青 http://web.archive.org/web/20070124185611/www.usdoj.gov/usao/cac/pr2002/013.html
- Wah KeeWah KeeWah Kee is a secret society based in Malaysia and Singapore in the nineteenth century. In Malaysia, Wah Kee is the biggest enemy of Hong Men....
華記
- Taiwan Group 台灣團體
- Chi Hsien Pang 七賢幫
- Chung He Pang 中和幫
- Four SeasFour SeasThe Four Seas Gang is a triad society based in Taiwan. It includes mainland Chinese and their descendants who fled to Taiwan with the KMT. The Four Seas Gang has an estimated membership of over 5,000 in Taiwan. Its members have extended their influence to cities in the southern region of California...
四海幫 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/local/archives/2001/12/17/116136 - Hsi Pei Pang 西北幫
- Niu Pu Pang 牛埔幫
- Pei Lien Pang 北聯幫
- San Huan Pang 三環幫
- Sung Lian 宋廉
- Sung Lien Pang (Pine Union) 松聯幫 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/local/archives/2001/12/17/116136
- Tian Dao Man 田道曼
- Tien Tao Meng (Celestial Way) 天道盟 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/local/archives/2001/12/17/116136
- United BambooUnited BambooUnited Bamboo is a fashion brand founded in 1998 by designers Thuy Pham and Miko Aoki.The designers issue an annual calendar of well dressed cats. The outfits used in the calendar have been put on sale, priced at $500.-External links:* * *...
竹聯幫 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/local/archives/2001/12/17/116136
Other Asian organized crime
- Kkangpae
- Sang-Hyun Park organization http://newark.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nk091610.htm
- VietnamVietnamVietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
- Binh XuyenBinh XuyenBình Xuyên, often linked to its infamous leader, General Le van "Bay" Vien, was an independent military force within the Vietnamese National Army whose leaders once had lived outside the law and had sided with the Viet Minh...
- The Nam CamNam CamNăm Cam was a notorious Vietnamese gangster. He was born in Saigon, Vietnam.-Early life:When Nam Cam was 15 years old, he was arrested for stabbing a man to death in a fight. He subsequently spent two years in jail. Upon his release, he joined the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in 1966, to fight...
gang - The Tran organization http://sandiego.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel11/sd011411.htm
- Binh Xuyen
- Kuratong balelengKuratong balelengKuratong Baleleng is an organized crime syndicate in the Philippines that once was an anti-communist vigilante group. They received nationwide attention due to their alleged end in a shootout with the Police on May 1995 in Quezon City.-History:...
- CambodiaCambodiaCambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...
- Teng BunmaTeng BunmaTeng Bunma is one of the wealthiest businessmen in Cambodia, a country whose wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small group of closely connected politicians, military officials and businessmen...
organization
- Teng Bunma
South Asian criminal organizations
- Indian mafiaIndian mafiaThe term Indian mafia refers to certain criminal organizations found in some of India's major cities. The "Indian Mafia" also refer to powerful families that have criminal aspects to it.- Mumbai underworld :...
- MumbaiMumbaiMumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
- D-CompanyD-CompanyD-Company is a term coined by the media for the criminal organization and terrorist group headed by wanted terrorist leader and crime boss Dawood Ibrahim....
डी कंपनी - Rajan gang राजन गिरोह
- Gawli gangArun GawliArun Gulab Gawli , known to his followers as "Daddy", is an alleged criminal turned politician from Mumbai, India. He is based at Dagdi Chawl in Byculla- Saat Rasta, Mumbai...
गवली गिरोह - Bada RajanBada RajanRajan Mahadeo Nair , popularly known in the Mumbai underworld by his moniker Bada Rajan was an Indian mobster and underworld don from Mumbai, who operated from his base in the Tilak Nagar neighborhood of Chembur.-Early years:...
- Mudaliar gangVaradarajan MudaliarVaradarajan Muniswami Mudaliar, also known as Vardhabhai was a Tamil from Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, who rose to be a mafia don in Mumbai, India. Most active in the 1970s, he was the link in the underworld history between old time mafia men such as Haji Mastan.Varadarajan started as a porter in...
- Mastan gangHaji MastanHaji Mastan Mirza, popularly known as Haji Mastan or Bawa, was a Bombay gangster and smuggler in the 1960s and 1970s. Mastan became the first celebrity gangster of the city, expanding his clout in the film industry. As Mastan's influence in Bollywood grew, he began to produce films...
- Rai gangMuthappa RaiMuthappa Rai is a former underworld don and an Indian entrepreneur. He says he 'renounced' violence and is based near Bangalore.-References:- External links :**...
- D-Company
- Johal gangBindy JohalBindy Johal was a notorious Vancouver-based Indo-Canadian organized crime leader who was born in India, and came to Vancouver, B.C when he was young. Johal began to associate with those involved in a criminal lifestyle, which ultimately led to his demise...
जोहल गिरोह (Canada) - Budesh gangAli BudeshAli Baba Budesh , is a notorious Indian extortionist and underworld don of the Indian Mafia, based in Bahrain. Fearing backlash from the Mumbai police, Budesh fled to Bahrain in the late eighties, where he opened up his new base of operations in the capital city of Manama.-Early life:Most of the...
(BahrainBahrain' , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain , is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. The population in 2010 stood at 1,214,705, including 235,108 non-nationals. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.Bahrain is...
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- Mumbai
- Pakistani Mafia
- Dekait gangRehman DakaitSardar Abdul Rahman or Rehman Dakait was a famous gangster based in Karachi's Lyari neighbourhood who formed the Peoples' Aman Committee. He has been making headlines for some years now, and his capture in Jinnah Town in Quetta made front-page news...
- Dekait gang
- Mafia RajMafia RajMafia Raj refers to an economic and political situation in India where public goods, property and funds are controlled and systematically embezzled by a criminalized nexus of government officials, elected politicians, business interests and other entities Mafia Raj (Hindi-Urdu: माफ़िया राज, مافیا...
Middle Eastern organized crime
- Israeli mafiaIsraeli mafiaThe Israeli mafia is the general term for organized crime groups operating in Israel and also internationally. Allegedly there are 16 crime families operating in Israel, five major groups active on the national-level, and 11 smaller organizations...
- Abergil Crime Family משפחת אברג'יל
- Alperon crime familyYaakov AlperonYaakov Alperon , was an Israeli mobster who was murdered in a car bomb attack. He was reputed to have run Tel Aviv's third-largest crime family, the Alperon crime family.-Biography:...
אלפרון משפחת פשע - Zeev RosensteinZeev RosensteinZeev Rosenstein is an infamous Israeli mob boss and drug trafficker. Rosenstein was born to a Romanian Jewish father and a mountain Jewish mother in Yafo, Israel....
organization זאב רוזנשטיין הארגון
- Turkish mafia
- ArifsArifs (gang)The Arifs are a South East London-based Turkish Cypriot criminal organization heavily involved in armed robbery, contract killing, drug trafficking and other racketeering-related activities within London's underworld since the late 1960s...
- Kilic gangDundar KilicDündar Kılıç was an infamous mob boss and legendary figure in the Turkish underworld. He earned himself the nickname of being the 'godfather of godfathers'.- Early life and rise in underworld :...
- Cakici gangAlaattin ÇakiciAlaattin Çakıcı is a former member of the ultra-nationalist organization Grey Wolves and one of the leading mobs of the Turkish underworld.- Early years :...
- Arabaci clanNecati ArabaciNecati "Neco" Arabaci is a Turkish businessman and criminal, who was formerly active in Cologne, Germany and has been referred to as the "Boss of Bosses". In 2002 he was arrested for pimping, human trafficking, assault, extortion, weapons violations, and racketeering. In 2004 he was sentenced to...
- Kurdish mafia
- Baybasin drug organizationHüseyin BaybasinHüseyin Baybaşin is a Kurdish drug lord. Once described as "Europe's Pablo Escobar", he is currently serving life sentence in the Netherlands convicted of drug smuggling charges.- Rise to leadership of a drug empire :...
- Baybasin drug organization
- Arifs
- Tahvili crime familyOmid TahviliOmid Tahvili, is an Iranian criminal who is the kingpin of an Iranian organized crime family in Canada which is connected to various international crime organizations....
- ShabeehaShabeehaShabeeha , is an Arabic word used mainly in Syria roughly translating to thugs or bullies...
Other crime syndicates
- JamaicaJamaicaJamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
n Yardies & Posse'sJamaican PosseJamaican posses, often referred to simply as posses, are a loose coalition of gangs, based predominantly in Kingston, London, the New York City area and Toronto, Canada, first being involved in drugs and gun-running in the early 1980s...
- Shower PosseShower PosseThe Shower Posse is a Jamaican posse which is involved with drug and arms smuggling. Its home is in Tivoli Gardens in Jamaica, but it primarily operates in New York, New Jersey, Florida, and Pennsylvania, where it is one of the most powerful posses. There are differing reports on the origin of the...
- Tottenham MandemTottenham MandemThe Tottenham Mandem Crew are a gang based in Tottenham, North London that began on the Broadwater Farm estate prior to the Broadwater Farm riot in 1985. One of the early members and later leader Mark Lambie, jailed in 2002, was a suspect in the murder of PC Keith Blakelock during the riots.The...
- Klans Massive
- Shower Posse
- MungikiMungikiMungiki is a politico-religious group and a banned criminal organization in Kenya. The name means "A united people" or "multitude" in the Kikuyu language. The religion, which apparently originated in the late 1980s, is secretive and bears some similarity to mystery religions. Specifics of their...
- Nigerian organized crimeNigerian organized crimeNigerian organized crime, or Nigerian OC, may refer to a number of fraudsters, drug traffickers and racketeers of various sorts originating from Nigeria...
- AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
- SydneySydneySydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
- Razor gangRazor gangRazor gangs were criminal gangs that dominated the Sydney crime scene in the 1920s. With the passage of the Pistol Licensing Act 1927, the New South Wales State Parliament imposed severe penalties for carrying concealed firearms and handguns...
s - 5T gang5T (gang)The 5T was a Vietnamese crime gang active in the Cabramatta and Bankstown area of Sydney, Australia, in the final two decades of the 20th century.-The Rise of the 5T:...
- Freeman gangGeorge Freeman (bookmaker)George David Freeman was a Sydney organised crime figure and illegal casino operator. He was linked to the Sydney drug trade during the 1970s and '80s, was named in several Royal Commissions into organised crime and had links with American crime figures...
- McPherson gangLenny McPhersonLeonard Arthur McPherson was one of the most notorious and powerful Australian career criminals of the late 20th century...
- Mr Sin gangAbe SaffronAbraham Gilbert "Abe" Saffron was an Australian nightclub owner and property developer who was reputed to have been one of the major figures in Australian organised crime in the latter half of the 20th century....
- Razor gang
- MelbourneMelbourneMelbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
- Carlton CrewAlphonse GangitanoAlphonse John Gangitano was an Italian Australian criminal from Templestowe, a suburb of Melbourne. Nicknamed the "Black Prince of Lygon Street", Gangitano was the face of an organisation known as the Carlton Crew, and a close associate of convicted criminals Graham Kinniburgh, Mick Gatto and...
- Moran familyMoran familyThe Moran family is an infamous Melbourne-based criminal family, notable for their involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings. Family matriarch Judy Moran lost two sons, Jason and Mark, estranged husband Lewis, and brother-in-law Des to an underworld feud that resulted in the deaths of over 30...
- Williams family
- Carlton Crew
- Sydney
- Chadee gangDole ChadeeDole Chadee was a drug lord and convicted murderer. His base of operation was in Piparo, Trinidad and Tobago....
(Trinidad & Tobago) - Hard Livings gangRashid StaggieRashid Staggie was a crime boss in Cape Town, South Africa. His twin brother, Rashaad Staggie was the leader of the HardLivings gang and was killed dramatically on live TV by being shot and burned alive in 1996 by PAGAD.-References:...
(Cape TownCape TownCape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
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CybercrimeCyberCrimeCyberCrime was an innovative, weekly America television program on TechTV that focused on the dangers facing computer users. Filmed in San Francisco, California, the show was hosted by Alex Wellen and Jennifer London...
networks
As society enters the Information AgeInformation Age
The Information Age, also commonly known as the Computer Age or Digital Age, is an idea that the current age will be characterized by the ability of individuals to transfer information freely, and to have instant access to knowledge that would have been difficult or impossible to find previously...
, certain individuals take advantage of easy flow of information over the Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
to commit online fraud or similar activities. Often the hackers will form a network to better facilitate their activities. On occasion the hackers will be a part of a criminal gang involved in more 'blue collar crime', but this is unusual.
- AnonymousAnonymous (group)Anonymous is an international hacking group, spread through the Internet, initiating active civil disobedience, while attempting to maintain anonymity. Originating in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, the term refers to the concept of many online community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic,...
- Anton GelonkinAnton GelonkinAnton Gelonkin was a Russian bank chairman who disappeared during the 1995 collapse of the Moscow City Bank and later convicted of running an international organised internet based fraud in 2006.-Moscow City Bank:...
internet fraud group - Artem Tsygankov internet bank fraud group.http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/international-cooperation-disrupts-multi-country-cyber-theft-ring
- AvalancheAvalanche (phishing group)Avalanche is a criminal syndicate involved in phishing attacks. In 2010, the Anti-Phishing Working Group reported that Avalanche had been responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks in the second half of 2009, describing it as "one of the most sophisticated and damaging on the Internet"...
- DarkMarketDarkMarketDarkMarket was an English-speaking internet cybercrime forum created by Renukanth Subramaniam in London that was shut down in 2008 after FBI agent J. Keith Mularski infiltrated it using the alias Master Splyntr, leading to more than 60 arrests worldwide...
- Dmitry Naskovets internet fraud group
- EstDomainsEstDomainsEstDomains was a website hosting provider and a Delaware corporation headquartered in downtown Tartu, Estonia. EstDomains was known for hosting websites with malware, child pornography, and other illegal content...
- Legion of DoomLegion of Doom (hacking)The Legion of Doom was a hacker group active from the 1980s to the late 1990s and early 2000. Their name appears to be a reference to the antagonists of Challenge of the Superfriends...
- Leo KuvayevLeo KuvayevLeonid Aleksandrovitch Kuvayev, , who usually goes by the name of Leo, is a Russian/American spammer believed to be the ringleader of one of the world's biggest spam gangs. In 2005, he and six business partners were fined $37 million as a result of a lawsuit brought by the Massachusetts attorney...
internet spam group - LulzRaftLulzRaftLulzRaft is the name of a computer hacker group or individual that gained international attention in 2011 due to a series of high-profile attacks on Canadian websites...
- LulzSecLulzSecLulz Security, commonly abbreviated as LulzSec, is a computer hacker group that claims responsibility for several high profile attacks, including the compromise of user accounts from Sony Pictures in 2011. The group also claimed responsibility for taking the CIA website offline...
- Masters of DeceptionMasters of DeceptionMasters of Deception was a New York-based hacker group. MOD reportedly controlled all the major telephone RBOC's and X.25 networks as well as controlling large parts of the backbone of the rapidly emerging Internet....
- Nigerian 419 gangs
- PLESHCHUK-TŠURIKOV ATM hacking grouphttp://atlanta.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/atl111009.htm
- Russian Business NetworkRussian Business NetworkThe Russian Business Network is a multi-faceted cybercrime organization, specializing in and in some cases monopolizing personal identity theft for resale...
- ShadowCrewShadowCrewShadowCrew was a cybercrime message board that operated under the domain name ShadowCrew.com between August 2002 - October 2004 and assisted criminals with allegedley stealing an estimated $4.3-$10.0+ million US dollars from fraudulent credit card transactions alone.According to the US Secret...
Drug and smuggling rings
Smuggling is a behavior that has occurred ever since there were laws or a moral code that forbade access to a specific person or object. At the core of any smuggling organizationSmuggling organization
Smuggling is a behavior that has occurred ever since there were laws or a moral code that tax or forbid access to a specific person or object. At the core of any smuggling organization is the economic relationship between supply and demand...
is the economic relationship between supply and demand
Supply and demand
Supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market. It concludes that in a competitive market, the unit price for a particular good will vary until it settles at a point where the quantity demanded by consumers will equal the quantity supplied by producers , resulting in an...
. From the organization's point of view, the issues are what the consumer wants, and how much the consumer is willing to pay the smuggler or smuggling organization to obtain it.
- North American drug rings
- The Brotherhood of Eternal LoveThe Brotherhood of Eternal LoveThe Brotherhood of Eternal Love was an informal organization of psychedelic drug enthusiasts and dealers that operated in the late 1960s. The group was founded in Laguna Beach, California. The group was headquartered in the Mystic Arts bookstore on Pacific Coast Highway...
- Black Tuna GangBlack Tuna GangThe Black Tuna gang was an American marijuana-smuggling organization active in 1970s Miami. The group were responsible for bringing in around 500 tons of marijuana into the United States over the course of 16 months....
- The CompanyAndrew C. Thornton IIAndrew C. Thornton II was a head member of "The Company", a drug smuggling ring in Kentucky. The son of Carter and Peggy Thornton of Threave Main Stud farm in southern Bourbon County, Kentucky. Drew grew up living a privileged life in the Lexington, Kentucky area and attended the private with...
- Jung organizationGeorge JungGeorge Jacob Jung , nicknamed "Boston George", was a major player in the cocaine trade in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s. Jung was a part of the Medellín Cartel which was responsible for up to 85 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States . He specialized in the...
- Mancuso organizationCiro MancusoCiro Mancuso was a Nevada based drug dealer convicted of running a $140-million marijuana smuggling operation for more than a decade. In cooperation with a foreign exchange student from Thailand, Ciro Mancuso built one of the largest domestic drug cartels in U.S...
- Chagra organizationJamiel ChagraJamiel Alexander Chagra was a Lebanese-American drug trafficker. He was implicated in the May 1979 assassination of John H. Wood, Jr. in San Antonio, Texas....
- "Freeway" Ricky Ross organizationRicky Ross (drug trafficker)Ricky Donnell Ross , also known as "Freeway" Rick Ross, is a convicted drug trafficker best known for the "drug empire" that he presided over in Los Angeles, California, in the early-1980s...
- Ike Atkinson organizationIke AtkinsonLeslie "Ike" Atkinson is a former US Army master sergeant and convicted drug trafficker, believed to have been a major figure in smuggling heroin into the United States from Southeast Asia from about 1968 to 1975.-Criminal career:...
- Pizza ConnectionPizza Connection TrialThe Pizza Connection Trial was one of the longest criminal jury trials on record in the district of Manhattan. It took place between October 24, 1985 and March 2, 1987-Scope of the trial:...
- The Yogurt ConnectionThe Yogurt ConnectionThe Yogurt Connection was a drug smuggling ring which operated out of Indianapolis, Indiana, United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Prosecutors estimated that the gang ran an estimated 250,000 pounds of Colombian, Jamaican and Thai marijuana. Distribution reached into eleven Midwestern U.S...
- The Brotherhood of Eternal Love
- England
- Hawkhurst GangHawkhurst GangThe Hawkhurst Gang was a notorious criminal organisation involved in smuggling throughout southeast England from 1735 until 1749. One of the more infamous gangs of the early 18th century, they extended their influence from Dorset, where they successfully raided the customs house at Poole, to the...
- The Aldington GangThe Aldington GangAldington was the stronghold of The Aldington Gang, a band of smugglers roaming the Romney Marshes and shores of Kent. The gang's leaders, made the local inn, , their headquarters and drop for their contraband. The Inn was often used when they waited for others of their group to bring in goods from...
- Brian Brendon Wright's drug empire
- Howard MarksHoward MarksDennis Howard Marks is a Welsh author and former drug smuggler who achieved notoriety as an international cannabis smuggler through high-profile court cases, supposed connections with groups such as the CIA, the IRA, MI6, and the Mafia, and his eventual conviction at the hands of the American Drug...
smuggling ring
- Hawkhurst Gang
- Organ trafficking organizations
- Gurgaon organ traffickingGurgaon kidney scandalThe multi-billion rupee Gurgaon kidney scandal came to light in January 2008 when police arrested several people for running a kidney transplant racket in Gurgaon, an industrial township near New Delhi, India...
network - Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum organ trafficking network http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/u-s-professor-i-told-fbi-about-kidney-trafficking-7-years-ago-1.280718
- Kosovar Organ Trafficking Network
- Gurgaon organ trafficking
- International drug rings
- Mr Asia
- The French ConnectionFrench ConnectionThe French Connection was a scheme through which heroin was smuggled from Turkey to France and then to the United States. The operation reached its peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when it provided the vast majority of the illicit heroin used in the United States...
- Valencia drug ringAngie Sanclemente ValenciaAngie Sanclemente Valencia also known as Angie Sanselmente Valencia is a former Colombian beauty queen and lingerie model believed to be the ringleader of one of the world's largest drug syndicates.-Background:...
- James Springette Island Boys organization http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/archives/legacy/2002/112002/11062002.xml
- Rum running organization
- William S. McCoyWilliam S. McCoyWilliam Frederick McCoy , also known as "Bill" McCoy, was an American sea captain and rum runner smuggler during the Prohibition in the United States. In pursuing the trade of smuggling alcohol from the Bahamas to the Eastern Seaboard, Capt...
organization
- William S. McCoy
- Arms trafficking organizations
- Viktor BoutViktor BoutViktor Anatolyevich Bout is a convicted arms smuggler. A citizen of Russia, he was arrested in Thailand in 2008 and was extradited in 2010 to the United States to stand trial on terrorism charges after being accused of smuggling arms to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to use against...
's organization - Leonid MininLeonid MininLeonid Efimovich Minin is an international arms trafficker. He was arrested on August 4, 2000 by Italian authorities in Cinisello Balsamo near Milan. Minin had been under surveillance since 1992 for his suspected illegal arms dealings, mostly to West African nations...
's organization - Monzer al-KassarMonzer al-KassarMonzer al-Kassar , also known as the "Prince of Marbella", is an international arms dealer. He has been connected to numerous crimes, including the Achille Lauro hijacking and the Iran-Contra scandal. On November 20, 2008, he was convicted in U.S. federal court as part of a U.S...
's organization
- Viktor Bout
- People smugglingPeople smugglingPeople smuggling is defined as "the facilitation, transportation, attempted transportation or illegal entry of a person or persons across an international border, in violation of one or more countries laws, either clandestinely or through deception, such as the use of fraudulent documents"...
- Snakeheads 蛇頭
- CoyotajeCoyotajeCoyotaje is a colloquial Mexican-Spanish term referring to the practice of people smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border. Smuggling should not be misinterpreted to mean human trafficking. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement define smuggling as the "Importation of people into the United...
Prison gangs
PrisonPrison
A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...
s are a natural meeting place for criminals, and for the purposes of protection from other inmates and business prisoners join gangs. These gangs often develop a large influence outside the prison walls through their networks. Most prison gangs do more than offer simple protection for their members. Most often, prison gangs are responsible for any drug
Recreational drug use
Recreational drug use is the use of a drug, usually psychoactive, with the intention of creating or enhancing recreational experience. Such use is controversial, however, often being considered to be also drug abuse, and it is often illegal...
, tobacco
Tobacco
Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as a pesticide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, used in some medicines...
or alcohol
Alcohol
In chemistry, an alcohol is an organic compound in which the hydroxy functional group is bound to a carbon atom. In particular, this carbon center should be saturated, having single bonds to three other atoms....
handling inside correctional facilities. Furthermore, many prison gangs involve themselves in prostitution
Prostitution
Prostitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment. The person who receives payment for sexual services is called a prostitute and the person who receives such services is known by a multitude of terms, including a "john". Prostitution is one of...
, assault
Assault
In law, assault is a crime causing a victim to fear violence. The term is often confused with battery, which involves physical contact. The specific meaning of assault varies between countries, but can refer to an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, or in the more...
s, kidnapping
Kidnapping
In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away or transportation of a person against that person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment, a confinement without legal authority...
s and murder
Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...
s. Prison gangs often seek to intimidate the other inmates, pressuring them to relinquish their food and other resources. In addition, prison gangs often exercise a large degree of influence over organized crime
Organized crime
Organized crime or criminal organizations are transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit. Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist organizations, are...
in the "free world", larger than their isolation in prison might lead one to expect.
Non American
- Primeiro Comando da CapitalPrimeiro Comando da CapitalPrimeiro Comando da Capital, or PCC , is an anti-establishment Brazilian prison gang and criminal organization founded in 1993 by inmates of Taubaté prison in São Paulo...
(First Command of the Capital) - Vory v zakoneThief in lawThief in law is a criminal who is respected, has authority and a high ranking status within the...
(вор в законе) - The Numbers GangThe Numbers GangThe Numbers Gang are a well known prison gang with one of the most fearsome reputations in South Africa if not the world. They are known to operate primarily in the Western Cape prison of Pollsmoor, however it is thought that they control most of the South African prisons.-Origin:Although the...
- Brödraskapet (The Brotherhood)
American
- WhiteWhite AmericanWhite Americans are people of the United States who are considered or consider themselves White. The United States Census Bureau defines White people as those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa...
- Aryan BrotherhoodAryan BrotherhoodThe Aryan Brotherhood, also known as The Brand, the AB, or the One-Two, is a white supremacist prison gang and organized crime syndicate in the United States with about 20,000 members in and out of prison...
- Dead Man IncorporatedDead Man IncorporatedDead Man Inc. or DMI is a predominantly white prison gang with branches in many correctional facilities throughout the U.S.-Origins:DMI was founded by Perry Roarke and James Sweeney in the late 2001-2002 in the Maryland Correctional System...
- Public Enemy No. 1Public Enemy No. 1The gang started as "Peni Death Squad ,a punk gang in the 1980s, the name being derived from the anarcho-punk/deathrock band, 'Rudimentary Peni'. Originally, PDS were mainly a loose-knit group of suburban kids, runaways and homeless kids. Other punk gangs, La Mirada punks, Vicious Circle, The HB's,...
- Nazi LowridersNazi LowridersThe Nazi Lowriders or NLR or "The Ride" are a white supremacist criminal organization primarily based in southern California, although it is believed to have spread to other states. They are allies of the larger and more notorious gang, the Aryan Brotherhood. Their main rivals are the Bloods, the...
- European KindredEuropean KindredEuropean Kindred or EK is a white supremacist prison and street gang that began in the Oregon prison system. They are affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood and the Ku Klux Klan. Their allies are Nazi Lowriders and Volksfront...
- Aryan Brotherhood
- HispanicHispanicHispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...
- Barrio AztecaEduardo RaveloEduardo "Tablas" Ravelo is a Mexican American leader of the Barrio Azteca gang. He is also a fugitive wanted on several charges related to drugs and organized crime...
- Mexican MafiaMexican MafiaThe Mexican Mafia , also known as La Eme , 13 is a Mexican American criminal organization, and is one of the oldest and most powerful prison gangs in the United States.-Foundation:...
(La Eme) - Nuestra FamiliaNuestra FamiliaNuestra Familia is a criminal organization of Mexican American prison gangs with origins in Northern California. While members of the Norteños gang are considered to be affiliated with Nuestra Familia, being a member of Nuestra Familia itself does not signify association as a Norteño...
- Nuevo Syndicato http://www.gangsorus.com/new_mexico_syndicate_prison_gang.htm
- Texas SyndicateTexas SyndicateThe Texas Syndicate is a mostly Texas-based prison gang that includes Hispanic and at one time, White members...
(Syndicato Tejano) - ÑetasÑetasThe Ñeta Association is the name of a Puerto Rican gang that began in the Puerto Rico prison system and spread to the United States...
- Puro Tango BlastPuro Tango BlastTango Blast is a collection of mostly Hispanic gang members who operate on the streets and within many correctional facilities in Texas.- History :...
- MexikanemiMexikanemiMexikanemi is known as the Texas Mexican Mafia in the Texan penal systems. As it functions separately from the original California Mexican Mafia , Mexikanemi was formed as an offshoot from the Mexican Mafia in Texas by Heriberto "Herbie" Huerta in 1984.- References :* Mexikanemi Summary*...
- Barrio Azteca
- African AmericanAfrican AmericanAfrican Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
- Black Guerrilla FamilyBlack Guerrilla FamilyThe Black Guerrilla Family is a prison and street gang founded in 1966 by George Jackson and W.L...
- D.C. BlacksD.C. BlacksThe D.C. Blacks is an African-American prison gang in the United States whose members are from Washington D.C.. They are allied with the Black Guerrilla Family and some other black prison gangs. The Aryan Brotherhood is one of their main enemies....
- Black Guerrilla Family
- People NationPeople NationPeople Nation is an alliance of street gangs generally associated with the Chicago area. They are rivals to the Folk Nation.The People Nation were formed much in the same way as the Folk Nation. In 1978, the El Rukns People Nation is an alliance of street gangs generally associated with the Chicago...
- Folk NationFolk NationThe Folk Nation is an alliance of street gangs, based in the Chicago area, which has since spread throughout the United States, specifically in the Midwest and the South. They are rivals to the People Nation....
Street gangs
Youth gangs have often served as a recruiting ground for more organized crime syndicates, where juvenile delinquents grow up to be full-fledged mobsters, as well as providing muscle and other low-key work. Increasingly, especially in the United States and other western countries, street gangs are becoming much more organized in their own right with a hierarchical structure and are fulfilling the role previously taken by traditional organized crime.Non American
- Apaches
- Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
- Amigos dos AmigosAmigos dos AmigosAmigos dos Amigos is a criminal organization that operates in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. It was started up in 1998 when a member of Comando Vermelho was expelled from the organization for ordering the murder of another member. The gang's main rivals are Comando Vermelho and Terceiro...
- Comando VermelhoComando VermelhoComando Vermelho is a Brazilian criminal organization founded in 1979 in the prison Cândido Mendes, on the Ilha Grande island, Rio de Janeiro, as a collection of ordinary convicts and left-wing political prisoners who were members of the Falange Vermelha , which fought the military dictatorship...
- Amigos dos Amigos
- New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
- Mongrel MobMongrel MobThe Mongrel Mob is a New Zealand gang, originally formed in Hawke's Bay in the 1960s and early 1970s.The gang offers a surrogate 'family' for young men, most of whom are often alienated from their family via joining. Members are from New Zealand's Maori, European or other Polynesian ethnic groups,...
- Black PowerBlack Power (New Zealand)Black Power is a prominent gang in New Zealand. It was formed as the "Black Bulls" by Rei Harris and Māori youth in Wellington about 1970, in response to the rival Mongrel Mob gang and enemy White Power associated gangs. The gang then spread to other major centres and rural towns in New Zealand...
- Mongrel Mob
- Area BoysArea boysArea boys are loosely organized gangs of street children and teenagers, composed mostly of males , who roam the streets of Lagos, Nigeria. They extort money from passers-by, sell illegal drugs, act as informal security guards, and perform other "odd jobs" in return for compensation...
- MarasMaras (gangs)Maras are gangs originating from Central American countries such as El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.- Activities :Maras activities range from Arms trafficking, assault, auto theft, burglaries, drug trafficking, extortion, human trafficking, identity fraud, identity theft, illegal gambling,...
- Mara SalvatruchaMara SalvatruchaMara Salvatrucha is a transnational criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles and has spread to other parts of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America. The majority of the gang is ethnically composed of Central Americans and active in urban and suburban areas...
- 18th Street gang18th Street gang18th Street gang is considered to be the largest transnational criminal gang in Los Angeles, California. It is estimated that there are thousands of members in Los Angeles County alone...
- Mara Salvatrucha
- AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
- Rocks PushRocks PushThe Rocks Push was a notorious larrikin gang, which dominated the The Rocks area of Sydney from the 1870s to the end of the 1890s. In its day it was referred to as The Push, a title which has since come to be more widely used for cliques in general and the left-wing movement the Sydney Push.The...
- Evil WarriorsEvil WarriorsThe Evil Warriors are a gang based in and around the town of Wadeye, Northern Territory, Australia. They are composed entirely of Aboriginal members, drawn towards crime by the poverty and poor conditions that plague the Australian indigenous community...
- DlasthrDlasthrDlasthr is an Assyrian criminal gang active in the south western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Members wear a distinctive clenched fist tattoo across their backs together with the letters AK .-Early years:...
- Sword BoysSword BoysSword Boys is a street gang in Perth, consisting mostly of Lebanese Australians, that has been known to authorities since mid 1990s. Gang members have been reported to wear a miniature gold scimitar on a chain around their necks....
- Rocks Push
- CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
- VancouverVancouverVancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
- Independent SoldiersIndependent SoldiersThe Independent Soldiers, otherwise known as the IS, is one of the most well known gangs in British Columbia. The I.S consists of many nationalities with higher positions generally filled with Indo-Canadians of Punjabi descent....
- United NationsUnited Nations (gang)The United Nations Gang or Global United Nations Syndicate is a criminal gang active in the Vancouver, British Columbia area...
- Red ScorpionsRed ScorpionsThe Red Scorpions are a gang based in British Columbia, Canada. Originally formed in a young offenders facility, they have been running “dial-a-dope lines” – in the suburbs of Vancouver since 2000...
- Independent Soldiers
- Aboriginal Based Organized CrimeAboriginal Based Organized CrimeAboriginal-based organized crime is a term used to refer to Canadian criminal organizations with a high, statistically significant percentage of Aboriginal members. These organizations are primarily found in the prairie provinces - geographical areas which statistically hold a higher concentration...
- Indian Posse
- Native Syndicate
- Redd Alert
- Mad KowzMad KowzThe Mad Kowz is a Winnipeg street gang. The gang recruits from Aboriginals and Africans. The most notorious member of the gang is Hussein Jilaow, a Somali refugee but deported back to his native country on May 23, 2007, for allegedly assaulting guards while incarcerated numerous times only to be...
- VVTVVT (gang)VVT is a Tamil gang in Toronto believed to be named after the Sri Lankan town of Valvettithurai. It was founded in the early 1990s by Tamil immigrants. The VVT had a strong presence in the west end of Toronto and was regarded as being very business savvy and motivated by the profits of crime...
- Vancouver
- United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
- LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
- Ghetto BoysGhetto BoysThe Ghetto Boys are a street gang based in New Cross Lewisham and Deptford, South London. The gang was formed on the Woodpecker Estate and its members are primarily of Black British origin. Most of the members hail from the London Borough of Lewisham...
- Peckham BoysPeckham BoysThe Peckham Boys, also referred to as Black Gang, are a gang based in Peckham, South London. Its members are primarily Black British.The Peckham Boys are composed of several affiliated sets...
- The YiddishersThe Yiddishers-Plot:The plot is about Moses who lives on the Lower East Side and helps support his family by selling papers. When one of the other newsboys tries to rob Moses, Ed comes to his rescue. Moses invites Ed over for Shabbat dinner. When Ed is run down by a passing bicycle, Moses visits his friend in...
- Ghetto Boys
- Lynx GangLynx GangThe Lynx Gang is a Birmingham-based gang that was founded in the 1970s, initially to protect the Asian community from racist skinheads. Later, the gang transformed into a violent criminal gang...
- Gooch gang
- Croxteth Crew
- GlasgowGlasgowGlasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
- Penny MobsPenny MobsThe Penny Mobs was the names used by the press to describe the early street gang active in Glasgow, Scotland during the early 1870s. As the court system offered heavy fines as an alternative to imprisonment, gang members were often freed after a collection from the gang at a "penny a head" thus...
- Tongs
- Razor gangsGlasgow razor gangs- Introduction :The Glasgow razor gangs were violent gangs that existed in the South Side of Glasgow in the late 1920s and 1930s, named for their weapon of choice, which they used to slash their victims....
- Penny Mobs
- London
- DenmarkDenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
- AK81AK81AK81 is a street gang in Denmark. It is a support gang of the Hells Angels, but members are not required to own a motorcycle or wear a patch. Because of this, and due to high-running racial tensions, they are recruiting much faster than the Hells Angels in Denmark...
- Black CobraBlack Cobra (gang)Black Cobra is one of the largest criminal networks in Denmark and is represented in most major Danish cities, with approximately 100 members. The gang is also active in Sweden, having established itself in the Malmö district Rosengård and the Stockholm suburbs of Tensta and Rinkeby. They also...
- AK81
- 36 Boys36 BoysThe 36 Boys were a gang of primarily Turkish immigrants from Berlin-Kreuzberg.The gang was active from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s. Besides Turkish, other nationalities were also represented in the 300–400 members of the large gang...
- SalakauSalakauSalakau, which literally means '369' in Hokkien, also known as "Sah Lak Kau", is a street gang or secret society based in Singapore. The numbers 3, 6 and 9 add up to 18, which was the name of an older gang; the number signified the 18 lohans of Shaolin.- Gang violence in Singapore :In the late...
- The Barbarians
- Raskol gangsRaskol gangsRaskol gangs are criminal gangs in Papua New Guinea, primarily in the larger cities, including Port Moresby and Lae. Raskol is a Tok Pisin word derived from the English word rascal and is currently used in PNG to refer to gang members or criminals in general.Raskol gangs first emerged in Port...
- George Street CrewGeorge Enrique HerbertGeorge Enrique Herbert is a Belizean gang leader and drug trafficker who worked with Mexican and Colombian drug cartels to distribute controlled drugs in Belize and the United States. He was convicted by a jury in Manhattan federal court on December 14, 2004 on multiple cocaine importation charges...
- George Street Crew
American
- Friends Stand UnitedFriends stand unitedFriends Stand United is a national organization in the United States which is classified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a street gang, a distinction that FSU members deny...
- ChicagoChicagoChicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
- TAP BoyzTAP Boyz (The Arabian Posse)The Arabian Posse, or TAP Boyz, is a Chicago-based Arab-American street gang or "movement" formed on the corner of 63rd & Kedzie in 1992. It was formed in response to anti-Arab sentiment from rival gangs in the hub of the Arab-American community which was 63rd and Kedzie at the time...
- Simon City RoyalsSimon City RoyalsThe Simon City Royals, formally the Almighty Simon City Royal Nation, are a Chicago street gang which began in the late 1950s as Simon City, a greaser gang...
- Chicago GaylordsChicago GaylordsThe Chicago Gaylords, also known as the Almighty Gaylords, is one of the oldest Chicago street gangs. It originated in the neighborhood of Grand and Noble...
- JoustersJoustersThe Jousters were a Chicago street gang that originally started on the South side of Chicago and then later branched out to the north side of Chicago as well. Their name is of course a reference to the medieval sport of jousting...
- PopesPopes (gang)-Early history:The Popes, also now known as the Insane Popes and originally the Almighty Popes, are a Chicago street gang, formed in the late 1950s on the north side of the city.- Expansion :...
- TAP Boyz
- Armenian PowerArmenian PowerArmenian Power, also known as AP, is an Armenian criminal organization located in Los Angeles County, California. They are involved in drug trafficking, murder, assault, fraud, identity theft, illegal gambling, kidnapping, racketeering, robbery and extortion...
- Italian-American street gangs
- South Brooklyn BoysSouth Brooklyn BoysSouth Brooklyn Boys is a famous New York City street gang that was formed some time around the 1950s in Brooklyn, NY...
- Forty-Two GangForty-Two GangThe Forty-Two Gang was a teenage street gang in Chicago during Prohibition. Like Brooklyn's Italian and Jewish street gangs of Brownsville and Ocean Hill, the Forty-Two Gang served as a "farm team" for future members of the Chicago Outfit...
- The Tanglewood Boys
- South Brooklyn Boys
- Green Street CountsGreen Street CountsThe Green Street Counts were a street gang in Philadelphia, "the most menacing gang of teenagers," according to Detective Captain James Kelly, "ever to get together in this city." The Green Street Counts were active in the early 1950s....
African-American
- ChicagoChicagoChicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
- Gangster DisciplesGangster DisciplesThe Black Gangster Disciple Nation is a gang which was formed on the South-side of Chicago in the late 1960s, by David Barksdale, leader of the Black Disciples, and Larry Hoover, leader of the Supreme Gangsters. The two groups united to form the Black Gangster Disciple Nation .The gang has made...
- Mickey CobrasMickey CobrasThe Mickey Cobras are a large street gang affiliated with the nationwide gang affiliation known as the People Nation. Based in Chicago and consisting largely of African-American membership, the gang is considered very mobile, wear the color red, and factions of the gang are being established...
- Black DisciplesBlack DisciplesThe Black Disciples is a large African American street gang based in Chicago, Illinois. The gang is considered extremely violent and is known to engage in drug trafficking and distribution, in addition to other criminal activities. The street gang is estimated to have in excess of 24,000 members...
- Vice LordsVice LordsThe Almighty Vice Lord Nation is the second largest and one of the oldest street gangs in Chicago. Their total membership is estimated to be as many as 30,000...
- Black P. StonesBlack P. StonesThe Almighty Black P. Stone Nation is a Chicago-based street gang estimated to have more than 30,000 members. The gang was originally formed in the late 1950s as a civil rights organization called the Blackstone Rangers...
- Gangster Disciples
- Black P. Stones (Jungles)Black P. Stones (Jungles)Black P. Stones Jungles refers to the division of the Black P. Stones gang active in the Baldwin Village section of Los Angeles.The Black P. Stones Jungles first emerged in California in 1969 and operated in the West Adams area of Los Angeles near Crenshaw Blvd. Over the years the P. Stones grew...
- BloodsBloodsThe Bloods are a street gang founded in Los Angeles, California. The gang is widely known for its rivalry with the Crips. They are identified by the red color worn by their members and by particular gang symbols, including distinctive hand signs...
- Sex Money Murda
- Double II SetDouble II SetThe Double II Set is a chapter of the Bloods street gang centered in East Orange, New Jersey. Chapters of the Bloods are called "sets."In 1993, Bloods members from the Queen Street Bloods Gang of Inglewood, California came to East Orange, initiating East Orange members in the practices and...
- PirusPirusThe Pirus or Piru Street Boys are a Los Angeles, California area street gang alliance based out of Compton which spread to Carson, Inglewood, and Watts. Piru sets make up most of the original blood gang alliance in Los Angeles.The name "Piru" is derived from Piru Street in the city of Compton...
- CripsCripsThe Crips are a primarily, but not exclusively, African American gang. They were founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1969 mainly by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams...
- Venice Shoreline CripsVenice Shoreline CripsThe Venice Shoreline Crips are a black American street gang located in the Oakwood section within Venice, a district of Los Angeles, California....
- Rollin 60 Neighborhood CripsRollin 60 Neighborhood CripsThe Rollin 60 Neighborhood Crips is a street gang based in Los Angeles, California. In 1972, the Rollin' 60's formed as a faction of the original Crip gang, the Westside Crips, and have since grown. Their main rival is the Eight Tray Gangster Crips to the East; however, they also fight with all...
- Eight Tray Gangsta Crips
- East Nashville CripsEast Nashville CripsAlso known the Nashville Rollin' 90s Crips, the East Nashville Crips, whose territory is in East Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee, are a division of the Los Angeles, California-based Rollin' 90s Crips. The Rollin 90s Crips set belongs to the original Crips gang founded in Los Angeles.- Origins :The...
- Grape Street Watts CripsGrape Street Watts Crips (gang)The Grape Street Watts Crips is a large black street gang from the Watts section of Los Angeles, California. In addition to wearing blue, the Grape Street Watts sport the color purple to signify Grape Street, a north-south street in Watts and 103rd in the heart of their neighborhood.- Territory...
- Venice Shoreline Crips
- 12th Street GangShauntay HendersonShauntay L. Henderson was a wanted fugitive apprehended on March 31, 2007 by the FBI after serving less than 24 hours on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. A reward of $100,000 for information leading to her arrest was offered...
- United Blood NationUnited Blood NationThe United Blood Nation, simply called the East Coast Bloods is primarily a street gang formed in 1993 within the New York City jail system on Rikers Island's George Mochen Detention Center. GMDC was used to segregate problem inmates from the rest of the detention center. Prior to this time period,...
- West Side Street Mobbhttp://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2010/may/trafficking_052010/sex-trafficking-convictions-seattle-gang-dismantled
- Errol FlynnsErrol FlynnsThe Errol Flynns were a criminal organization, or street gang, founded on the east side of Detroit, Michigan during the 1970s. Reportedly the gang appropriated their name from the Hollywood film star Errol Flynn because they fashioned themselves as flamboyant gangsters in dress and ‘jitting’, or...
- Pony down gang
- Zoe Pound
Asian American
- 21 Boys 廿一仔 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/03/25/MNR6BA2.DTL
- Asian Invasion 亞洲進擊 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/05/20/MN79431.DTL
- Asian Boyz 亞洲
- Black Bugs 黑蟲 http://www.chineseplayground.com/sample.html
- Black Eagles 黑鷹
- Born To KillBorn to Kill (gang)Born to Kill was the name of a notorious New York City-based street gang composed of first-generation Vietnamese immigrants. Their rise to power was in the 1980s when they ran New York City's Chinatown with an iron fist and quickly rose to become the most notorious Asian gang the country has ever...
天生殺手幫 http://www.cybertranslator.idv.tw/misc_gang.htm - Chung Ching Yee (Joe Boys)Chung Ching YeeJoe Boys was a Chinese youth gang founded in the 1960s in San Francisco's Chinatown. Joe Boys was originally known as "Joe Fong Boys", after its founder Joe Fong...
忠精義 http://www.brockmorris.com/btigers/btigers04-6.html - Chung Yee 忠義
- Continentals 大陸幣
- Dai Ben (Cookies) 大餅 http://www.brockmorris.com/btigers/btigers06-3.html
- Flying Circle Boys 飛圈仔
- Flying DragonsFlying Dragons (gang)The Flying Dragons are a well known Chinese street gang affiliated with the Hip Sing Tong are active in New York City's Chinatown, and have a presence in Hong Kong, Canada and Australia. The gang moved heavily into heroin trafficking after the Italian-American Mafia lost the trade as a result of...
飛龍幫 - Fong-Fong Boys 豐芳男 http://www.chineseplayground.com/sample.html
- Fuk Ching 福青
- Ghost ShadowsGhost ShadowsThe Ghost Shadows are a Chinese American gang that was prominent in New York City's Chinatown from the 1980s through the early 1990s.Formed in 1971 by immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia, the gang is believed to be under control of the On Leong Tong...
鬼影幫 http://www.nychinatown.org/articles/nytimes030511.html?20065 - Golden Star 金星
- Green Dragons 青龍 http://www.gorillaconvict.com/blog/index.php?date=200605&PHPSESSID=c54254173cf0191e423b691aa7e80e07
- Hong Kong Boys 香港仔
- Hop Sing Boys 合勝仔 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/06/17/MN102196.DTL
- Hung Pho 紅火
- Immortals 神仙 http://www.chineseplayground.com/sample.html
- Kit Jai 傑仔 http://www.brockmorris.com/btigers/btigers06-3.html
- Korrupted Boyz 的
- Kurrupted Boys 男孩
- Liang Shan (Quen Ying) 梁山 http://books.google.com/books?id=CWg1Efv5C5UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=#PPA219,M1
- Menace of Destruction 毀滅的威脅
- Mo Ming Pai 無名派 http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=753§ion_id=2
- Phoenician Warriors http://www.chineseplayground.com/sample.html
- Ping Boys 平仔 http://www.brockmorris.com/btigers/btigers07-2.html
- Ping On 平安
- Raiders 攻略 http://www.chineseplayground.com/sample.html
- Red Sun 紅陽 http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/ChineseOrgCrime.pdf
- Seven Stars 七星 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/08/04/MNR3BA15.DTL
- Sing Wa 興華 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/19/1023864457120.html
- Suey Sing Boys 萃勝仔 http://www.sfweekly.com/2005-04-27/news/gang-today-hair-tomorrow/
- Taiwan Boys 台灣仔
- Thien Long Boyz 天龍
- Tiny Rascal Gangsters 微小的拉斯卡爾剛
- Tung On 東安幫 http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/18/nyregion/tong-leader-in-chinatown-is-convicted.html
- Viet Ching 越青 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,959570,00.html?iid=digg_share
- White Dragons 白龍
- White Eagles 白鷹 http://www.nychinatown.org/articles/nytimes030511.html?20065
- White Tigers 白虎
- Yau Lai 友利
Hispanic
- Latin KingsLatin KingsThe Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation is said to be the largest and most organized Hispanic street gang in the United States of America, which has its roots dating back to the 1940s in Chicago, Illinois.-History:...
- New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
Dominican gangs- Dominicans Don't PlayDominicans Don't PlayDominicans Don't Play is a Dominican-American street gang started in Manhattan, New York in the early 1990s. They are known for primarily using machetes and knives as weapons...
- Jheri CurlsJheri CurlsThe Jheri Curls were a Dominican gang which was active in the Washington Heights, Manhattan neighborhood of New York City in the early 1990s. Taking their moniker, and coiffures, from the Jheri curl hairstyle that was of waning popularity in the United States during the time, the gang ran a major...
- Trinitarios
- Dominicans Don't Play
- CaliforniaCaliforniaCalifornia is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
- White FenceWhite FenceWhite Fence, also known by the acronym WF, is the oldest East Los Angeles gang. They also sometimes use the name Cerco Blanco which is Spanish for White Fence. In East L.A. they were also known as "Pachucos".- History :...
- Fresno BulldogsFresno BulldogsThe Fresno Bulldogs is a primarily Hispanic street gang located in Fresno California and in towns of its namesake county. It's the largest Hispanic gang in central California with membership estimated at 5,000 members and an equal number of associates who identify with the gang.Origins=The Fresno...
- Lott Stoner Gang
- NorteñosNorteñosThe Norteños , also Norte, are affiliated with Nuestra Familia , are a coalition of traditionally Latino gangs in Northern California A member of these gangs is a Norteño or Norteña based on Spanish usage...
- SureñosSureñosSureños are a group of Mexican American street gangs with origins in the oldest barrios of Southern California. Although they are based in California, the influence of the Sureños has spread to many parts of the US and other countries as well such as Germany and Japan...
- 38th Street gang38th street gangThe 38th Street gang is a Chicano street gang from South Central, Los Angeles. The 38th Street gang is one of the oldest street gangs in Los Angeles.- History :...
- Culver City Boys 13
- Longos
- Venice 13Venice 13Venice 13 is a Mexican American street gang based in the Oakwood neighborhood of Venice, a section of Los Angeles, California, with a substantial presence in East Venice as well as the Culver City/Los Angeles border, especially around Washington Blvd.The gang dates back to the 1950s, and has long...
- Tooner Ville Rifa 13
- AvenuesThe Avenues (gang)The Avenues, also known as Avenidas or AVE's, is a Mexican-American street gang. The Avenues, like most Mexican gangs in Los Angeles, are under the direct control of the Mexican Mafia when sent to State, County, or Federal prisons.- History :...
- 38th Street gang
- Logan Heights GangLogan Heights GangThe Logan Heights gang is a Sureño street gang based in Southeast San Diego. - History :The Logan Heights gang was established in Southeast San Diego during the 1960's, when several individual Mexican-American street gangs from the neighborhoods of Barrio Logan, Logan Heights, and Memorial unified...
- White Fence
- ChicagoChicagoChicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
- Insane Deuces http://www.atf.gov/most-wanted/wanted-posters/martinez--miguel.pdf
- La Raza NationLa Raza NationThe LRZ gang were founded in 1972. Their colors are green, white, and red symbols include Mexican flag, cross, and a six point star. Although, La Raza is affiliated with Folk Nation and are allies with the Crips, La Raza went to war with many Folk Nation gangs such as Ambrose, Gangster Disciples,...
- Maniac Latin DisciplesManiac Latin DisciplesThe Maniac Latin Disciples are the second largest Latino street gang in Chicago and the largest Latino gang in the Folks alliance . Originally known as the Latin Scorpions, the gang was founded by Albert "Hitler" Hernandez and Roberto Ramos Rios, in the Humboldt Park community in approximately...
- Siete ViehoSiete Viejo (gang)The Siete Viejo gang or also known as Los Sieteros and Los Siete Bandidos is a Latino street gang from Laredo, Texas.It was formed in the 2000 by Mexican American and Mexican immigrants...
Historical
- Irish-American
- 19th Street Gang19th Street GangThe 19th Street Gang was a New York predominantly Irish street gang during the 1870s known as a particularly violent anti-Protestant gang.The 19th Street Gang, made up mostly of young pickpockets, muggers, and sneak thieves, was led by a young man known as Little Mike...
- 40 Thieves40 ThievesThe Forty Thieves — likely named after Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves — was the first organized street gang in New York's history. Primarily consisting of Irish immigrants, they terrorized the Five Points intersection in New York City, New York....
- Dead RabbitsDead RabbitsThe Dead Rabbits were a gang in New York City in the 1850s, and originally were a part of the Roach Guards. Daniel Cassidy claimed that the name has a second meaning rooted in Irish American vernacular of NYC in 1857 and that the word "Rabbit" is the phonetic corruption of the Irish word ráibéad,...
- Gopher GangGopher GangThe Gopher Gang was an early 20th century New York street gang known for its members including Goo Goo Knox, James "Biff" Ellison, and Owney Madden...
- Grady GangGrady GangThe Grady Gang was a New York sneak thief gang during the 1860s. Organized by fence John D. "Traveling Mike" Grady following the American Civil War, the Grady Gang operated in Broadway's "Thieves Exchange" where Grady would regularly purchase around $10,000 in stolen goods.He soon formed his own...
- Five Points GangFive Points GangFive Points Gang was a 19th-century and early 20th-century criminal organization, primarily of Italian-American origins, based in the Sixth Ward of Manhattan, New York City. Since the early 19th century, the area was first known for gangs of Irish immigrants...
- Daybreak BoysDaybreak BoysThe Daybreak Boys was a New York street gang during the mid nineteenth century.Formed in the late 1840s, by 1852 the teenage Daybreak Boys were suspected by police to have been responsible for 20 to 40 murders between 1850 and 1852 as well as stealing goods estimated at $200,000. The gang was said...
- Tenth Avenue GangTenth Avenue GangThe Tenth Avenue Gang was a New York street gang and later became the city's first train robbers.Formed by Ike Marsh in 1860, the gang consisted of a small number of various burglars and other criminals...
- KerryoniansKerryoniansThe Kerryonians were an early-19th-century New York street gang made up mostly of recent Irish immigrants from County Kerry, Ireland. One of the first gangs, along with the 40 Thieves, to occupy the Five Points area, the Kerryonians particularly targeted those of British descent...
- Roach GuardsRoach GuardsThe Roach Guards were an Irish street gang in New York City's Five Points neighborhood during the early 19th century. Originally formed to protect New York liquor merchants in Five Points, the gang soon began committing robbery and murder....
- WhyosWhyosThe Whyos, a collection of the various post-Civil War street gangs of New York, was the city's dominant street gang during the late 19th century. The gang controlled most of Manhattan from the late 1860s until the early 1890s, when the Monk Eastman Gang defeated the last of the Whyos...
- ChichestersChichestersThe Chichesters were an early Five Points street gang during the mid 19th century in New York. The gang began stealing from stores and warehouses and selling the stolen goods to local fences in 1820s, later becoming involved in illegal gambling and robbery...
- MarginalsMarginalsThe Marginals, also called the "Paddy Irish" gang, was a New York street gang during the early 1900s which, under stevedore Thomas F. "Tanner" Smith, succeeded the longtime Hudson Dusters from their territory of New York's Lower West Side....
- Live Oak BoysLive Oak BoysThe Live Oak Boys was an Irish street gang who dominated New Orleans throughout the 1860s and 70s.Led by "Red" Bill Wilson, the Live Oak Boys were formed in 1858. Their name derived from the oaken clubs that were their weapon of choice. They were less well-organized than their Five Points...
- Bottoms GangBottoms GangThe Bottoms Gang was an American street gang that terrorized St. Louis, Missouri in the early 20th century. Their main criminal activities included voter intimidation, armed robbery, assault, illegal lottery, and murder. The gang's members were primarily Irish-American, with a handful of German and...
- 19th Street Gang
- New YorkNew YorkNew York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
- Neighbors' SonsNeighbors' SonsThe Neighbors' Sons was a New York street gang which, operating in the neighborhoods between Bleecker and Grove Streets, were rivals of the Gopher Gang and the Hudson Dusters during the early 1900s....
- Boodle GangBoodle GangThe Boodle Gang was an American street gang active in New York City during the mid-to- late 19th century. The gang were notorious "butcher cart thieves" during the 1850s and their hijacking methods would later be used by criminals of the early twentieth century....
- Honeymoon GangHoneymoon GangThe Honeymoon Gang was a New York street gang of the mid 19th century. The gang was said to be so violent that they were denied protection often received by other street gangs from Tammany Hall politicians....
- Dutch MobDutch MobThe Dutch Mob was a New York pickpocket gang during the late nineteenth century.Formed during the late 1860s by Little Freddie, "Sheeny" Mike Kurtz, and Johnny Irving, former members of the Italian Dave Gang, the Dutch Mob soon became one of the largest pickpocket gangs in the United States...
- Eastman GangEastman GangThe Eastman Gang was the last of New York's street gangs which dominated the city's underworld during the late 1890s until early 1910s. Along with the Five Points Gang under Paul Kelly, the Eastmans succeeded the long dominant Whyos as the first non-Irish street gang to gain prominence in the...
- Batavia Street GangBatavia Street GangBatavia Street Gang was a New York independent street gang based in the Fourth Ward during the 1890s. Affiliated with the Eastman Gang during the turn of the 20th century, they were rivals of the Cherry Hill Gang throughout the previous decade...
- Bowery BoysBowery BoysThe Bowery Boys were a nativist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Irish gang based north of the Five Points district of New York City in the mid-19th century. They were primarily stationed in the Bowery section of New York, which was, at the time, extended north of the Five Points...
- Charlton Street GangCharlton Street GangThe Charlton Street Gang was a New York street gang and river pirates during the mid nineteenth century.The Charlton Street Gang was one of the earliest river pirates raiding small cargo ships in the North River of New York Harbor during post-Civil War period of the 1860s...
- Gas House GangGas House GangThe Gas House Gang was a New York street gang during the late nineteenth century.Founded in the 1890s, the Gas House Gang was based in the Gas House district of Manhattan and controlled the area along Third Avenue from 11th to 18th Street...
- Lenox Avenue GangLenox Avenue GangThe Lenox Avenue Gang was an early 20th century New York City street gang led by Harry Horowitz, and was one of the most violent gangs of the pre-Prohibition era.-History:...
- Crazy Butch GangCrazy Butch GangThe Crazy Butch Gang was an American juvenile street gang active in the New York City underworld during the late nineteenth century. Largely active in Manhattan's Lower East Side, the group were widely known as the cities top pickpockets and sneak thieves during the "Gay Nineties" period...
- Hudson DustersHudson DustersThe Hudson Dusters was a New York City street gang during the early twentieth century. Formed in the late 1890s by Circular Jack, Kid Yorke, and Goo Goo Knox the gang began operating from an apartment house on Hudson Street. Knox, a former member of the Gopher Gang, had fled after a failed attempt...
- Humpty Jackson Gang
- Slaughter House GangSlaughter House GangThe Slaughter House Gang, known as the Slaughter Housers, were a prominent street gang in New York's Fourth Ward during the late 1840s to the mid 1860s....
- Cherry Hill GangCherry Hill GangThe Cherry Hill Gang was a New York street gang during the late nineteenth century.Formed in the 1890s, the Cherry Hill Gang were known as the "dandies" of New York's underworld...
- Swamp AngelsSwamp AngelsThe Swamp Angels were a New York waterfront street gang during the mid nineteenth century.One of the most successful waterfront gangs of the period, the Swamp Angels dominated the dockyards of New York Harbor from the 1850s into the post-Civil War era...
- Yakey YakesYakey YakesThe Yakey Yakes was a 19th century street gang, prominent in New York's underworld during the late 1890s and early 1900s. Based in the neighborhood of Catherine and Madison Streets, the gang were formed by Yakey Yake Brady in the 1890s and later participated in the gang war between Monk Eastman...
- Hook GangHook GangThe Hook Gang was an American street gang and later river pirates active in New York City during the late-19th century. The gang made up some of the most notorious criminals and thugs on the New York waterfront and were a major force in the old Forth Ward and Corlears' Hook districts during the...
- Tub of Blood BunchTub of Blood BunchThe Tub of Blood Bunch was an early New York waterfront street gang of the late 1860s.A collection of criminals made up of gang members from the various New York street gangs following the "cleanup" of the Fourth Ward by police shortly after the American Civil War, the Tub of Blood Bunch included...
- Neighbors' Sons
- Bloody TubsBloody TubsThe Bloody Tubs were a nineteenth century gang of opportunistic street thugs in Baltimore, Maryland, who worked primarily for nativist Know Nothing politicians to commit election fraud....
- Plug UgliesPlug UgliesThe Plug Uglies were a street gang that operated in the westside of Baltimore, Maryland from 1854 to 1860. The Plug Uglies coalesced shortly after the creation of the Mount Vernon Hook-and-Ladder Company, a volunteer fire company whose truck house was on Biddle Street, between Pennsylvania Avenue...
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- Philadelphia Poison RingPhiladelphia Poison RingThe Philadelphia poison ring was a murder for hire gang led by the Petrillo cousins, Herman and Paul Petrillo, in 1938. The leaders were ultimately convicted of 114 poison-murders and were executed by electric chair in 1941...
- Zwi MigdalZwi MigdalZwi Migdal was an organization of Jewish white slave traders based in mostly Argentina, which engaged in trafficking of women from the shtetls of Eastern Europe.-Origin of the name:...
- Mamak GangMamak GangThe Mamak Gang is a notorious Malaysian gang that has been active since the early 1990s. Originally they specialised in breaking into factories and warehouses, but eventually they switched to mainly carjackings and robbing motorists...
- Nigerian campus cults
- Bad Newz Kennels dogfighting ringBad Newz Kennels dog fighting investigationThe Bad Newz Kennels dog fighting investigation began in April 2007 with a search of property in Surry County, Virginia, owned by Michael Vick, who was at the time quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons football team, and the subsequent discovery of evidence of a dog fighting ring...
- Football hooliganismFootball hooliganismFootball hooliganism, sometimes referred to by the British media as the English Disease, is unruly and destructive behaviour—such as brawls, vandalism and intimidation—by association football club fans...
groups - ProstitutionProstitutionProstitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment. The person who receives payment for sexual services is called a prostitute and the person who receives such services is known by a multitude of terms, including a "john". Prostitution is one of...
rings- Emperors Club VIPEmperors Club VIPEmperors Club VIP was an international escort agency based in New York City, founded in 2004 by Mark Brener and Cecil Suwal and operated from the bank accounts of QAT Consulting Group, Inc., and QAT International, Inc...
- Heidi FleissHeidi FleissHeidi Lynne Fleiss is an American former madam, and also a columnist and television personality regularly featured in the 1990s in American media. She is often referred to as the "Hollywood Madam"....
prostitution ring
- Emperors Club VIP
- PiracyPiracyPiracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea. The term can include acts committed on land, in the air, or in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not normally include crimes committed against persons traveling on the same vessel as the perpetrator...
groups- Piracy on Falcon LakePiracy on Falcon LakePiracy on Falcon Lake refers to an increase in crime at the border between the United States and Mexico on Falcon Lake. The lake is a long reservoir constructed in 1954 and is a known drug smuggling route. A turf war between rival drug cartels for contol of the lake began in March 2010 and has led...
- Somalian pirate gangsPiracy in SomaliaPiracy off the coast of Somalia has been a threat to international shipping since the second phase of the Somali Civil War in the early 21st century...
- Indonesian pirate gangsPiracy in the Strait of MalaccaPiracy in the Strait of Malacca has historically been an unresolved threat to ship owners and the mariners who ply the 900 km-long sea lane...
- Piracy on Falcon Lake
- SpySPYSPY is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* SPY , ticker symbol for Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts* SPY , a satirical monthly, trademarked all-caps* SPY , airport code for San Pédro, Côte d'Ivoire...
rings- Atomic spiesAtomic SpiesAtomic Spies and Atom Spies are terms that refer to various people in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada who are thought to have illicitly given information about nuclear weapons production or design to the Soviet Union during World War II and the early Cold War...
- Cambridge FiveCambridge FiveThe Cambridge Five was a ring of spies, recruited in part by Russian talent spotter Arnold Deutsch in the United Kingdom, who passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and at least into the early 1950s...
- Duquesne Spy RingDuquesne Spy RingThe Duquesne Spy Ring is the largest espionage case in United States history that ended in convictions. A total of thirty-three members of a German espionage network headed by Frederick "Fritz" Joubert Duquesne were convicted after a lengthy espionage investigation by the Federal Bureau of...
- Illegals programIllegals ProgramThe Illegals Program, as it was called by the United States Department of Justice, was a network of Russian sleeper agents under non-official cover whose investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation culminated in the arrest of ten agents and a prisoner swap between Russia and the United...
- Portland Spy RingPortland Spy RingThe Portland Spy Ring was a Soviet spy ring that operated in England from the late 1950s till 1961 when the core of the network was arrested by the British security services. It is one of the most famous examples of the use of illegal residents — spies who operate in a foreign country but...
- Walker spy ring
- Atomic spies
- Jesse James HollywoodJesse James HollywoodJesse James Hollywood is a former drug dealer who kidnapped and ordered the murder of Nicholas Markowitz and is serving life without parole for the murder in the California prison system.-Childhood and adolescence:...
's drug ring - Brazilian Jogo do Bicho ringsJogo do BichoJogo do Bicho is an illegal gambling game in Brazil, prohibited by federal law since 1946. Very popular throughout the country, the "game" is actually a lottery-type drawing operated on a regional basis by mobsters known as contraventores , bicheiros or banqueiros...
- BurglaryBurglaryBurglary is a crime, the essence of which is illicit entry into a building for the purposes of committing an offense. Usually that offense will be theft, but most jurisdictions specify others which fall within the ambit of burglary...
rings- Dinner Set GangDinner Set GangThe Dinner Set Gang was a gang of thieves who became notorious in the late 1960s and 1970s for their burglaries of the homes of the wealthiest Americans while the victims were at home eating dinner...
- Bling RingBling RingThe Bling Ring, sometimes referred to as the "Hollywood Hills Burglar Bunch", "The Burglar Bunch", or the "Hollywood Hills Burglars", were a group, mostly of teenagers based in and around Calabasas, California, who burglarized the homes of several celebrities over a period believed to have been...
- Sugarman GangSugarman GangThe Sugarman Gang was a burglary ring which operated between Leeds and London, England during the early 1900s until its breakup by Scotland Yard in 1910....
- Dinner Set Gang
Historical
- Benson SyndicateBenson SyndicateThe Benson Syndicate was an organized crime organization in the western United States which received contracts from the General Land Office to perform land surveys of the public lands, and headed by one John A Benson , a former school teacher, county surveyor and later a reputable deputy land...
- Black Hand
- Bronx gangs (1950s-1960s)Bronx gangs (1950s-1960s)In the 1950s and 60s the youth gangs in the Bronx, New York, emerged with a particular notoriety.-History:Gangs of the Bronx included*the Fordham Baldies*the Ducky Boys Gang aka the Ducky Gang*the Fordham Flames...
- Soap GangSoapy SmithJefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II was an American con artist and gangster who had a major hand in the organized criminal operations of Denver, Colorado; Creede, Colorado; and Skagway, Alaska, from 1879 to 1898. He was killed in the famed Shootout on Juneau Wharf...
criminal empire, Denver, Creede, ColoradoCreede, ColoradoThe historic town of Creede is a Statutory Town that is the county seat of, and the only incorporated municipality in, Mineral County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 377 at the U.S. Census 2000.-History:...
, and Skagway, AlaskaSkagway, AlaskaSkagway is a first-class borough in Alaska, on the Alaska Panhandle. It was formerly a city first incorporated in 1900 that was re-incorporated as a borough on June 25, 2007. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city was 862...
1880s-1890s. - Al SwearengenAl SwearengenEllis Albert "Al" Swearengen was a pimp and early entertainment entrepreneur in Deadwood, South Dakota, running the Gem Theater, a notorious brothel, for 22 years, and combining a reputation for brutality with an uncanny instinct for forging political alliances.Swearengen and his twin brother,...
organization - ThuggeeThuggeeThuggee is the term for a particular kind of murder and robbery of travellers in South Asia and particularly in India.They are sometimes called Phansigar i.e...
- GardunaGardunaThe Garduña is said to be a secret criminal society in Spain in the late Middle Ages. It was essentially a prison gang that grew into a more organized entity over time, involved with robbery, kidnapping, arson, and murder-for-hire. Some have claimed to have found documentation listing clients,...
- Markham GangMarkham GangThe Markham Gang was a notorious criminal organization located primarily in Ontario, Canada in the middle of the 19th century. Evolving from organizations originally founded to support the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, the Markham Gang used its private communications network of couriers across...
- England
- Jonathan WildJonathan WildJonathan Wild was perhaps the most infamous criminal of London — and possibly Great Britain — during the 18th century, both because of his own actions and the uses novelists, playwrights, and political satirists made of them...
's crime ring - Charles HitchenCharles HitchenCharles Hitchen was a "thief-taker" in 18th century London who was also famously tried for homosexuality....
's crime ring - Forty ElephantsForty ElephantsThe Forty Elephants or Forty Thieves were an all-female gang of London criminals who specialised in shoplifting. This gang was notable for its longevity and skill in avoiding police detection....
- Jonathan Wild
- Predecessors to modern yakuza
- TekiyaTekiyaTekiya were itinerant Japanese merchants who, along with the bakuto , were the predecessors to the modern yakuza....
的屋 - BakutoBakutoBakuto were itinerant gamblers in Japan from the 18th century to the mid-20th century. They were one of the forerunners of the modern Japanese crime gangs known as yakuza....
博徒 - KabukimonoKabukimonoor appeared in Japan, between the end of the Muromachi era and the beginnining of the Edo period, . Kabukimono is often translated into English as 'strange things' or 'the crazy ones', believed to be derived from kabuku meaning 'to slant' or 'to deviate'...
傾奇者 (カブキもの
- Tekiya
See also
- Continuing Criminal EnterpriseContinuing Criminal EnterpriseThe Continuing Criminal Enterprise Statute is a United States federal law that targets large-scale drug traffickers who are responsible for long-term and elaborate drug conspiracies...
- Crime familyCrime familyA crime family is a term used to describe a unit of an organized crime syndicate, often operating within a specific geographic territory. The term is used almost exclusively to refer to units of the Mafia, both in Sicily and in the United States, although it is occasionally used to refer to other...
- Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009The Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, or FERA, , is a public law in the United States enacted in 2009. The law enhanced criminal enforcement of federal fraud laws, especially regarding financial institutions, mortgage fraud, and securities fraud or commodities fraud.-Legislative history:U.S...
- GangGangA gang is a group of people who, through the organization, formation, and establishment of an assemblage, share a common identity. In current usage it typically denotes a criminal organization or else a criminal affiliation. In early usage, the word gang referred to a group of workmen...
- Gun mollGun mollGun moll is a term that refers to the female companion of a male professional criminal. In some contexts, gun moll more specifically suggests that the woman handles a firearm....
- Illegal drug tradeIllegal drug tradeThe illegal drug trade is a global black market, dedicated to cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of those substances which are subject to drug prohibition laws. Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license, of many types of drugs by drug prohibition laws.A UN report said the...
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- MafiaMafiaThe Mafia is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering...
- Organized crimeOrganized crimeOrganized crime or criminal organizations are transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit. Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist organizations, are...
- Police corruptionPolice corruptionPolice corruption is a specific form of police misconduct designed to obtain financial benefits, other personal gain, or career advancement for a police officer or officers in exchange for not pursuing, or selectively pursuing, an investigation or arrest....
- Political corruptionPolitical corruptionPolitical corruption is the use of legislated powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. Misuse of government power for other purposes, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is not considered political corruption. Neither are illegal acts by...
- Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ActRacketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ActThe Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization...
- RacketRacket (crime)A racket is an illegal business, usually run as part of organized crime. Engaging in a racket is called racketeering.Several forms of racket exist. The best-known is the protection racket, in which criminals demand money from businesses in exchange for the service of "protection" against crimes...
- TerrorismTerrorismTerrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...
- United States Patriot Act
- War on DrugsWar on DrugsThe War on Drugs is a campaign of prohibition and foreign military aid and military intervention being undertaken by the United States government, with the assistance of participating countries, intended to both define and reduce the illegal drug trade...