18th Street gang

Behind the Scenes With America’s Most Violent Gang

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A notorious Central American street gang famed for its heavily tattooed members and torturing its victims has now established its self across the United States. As well as shootings, MS-13 is known to kill its victims with baseball bats and machetes. Police and federal investigators believe they have a presence in 40 states as well … Read more

Schools On the Frontline of Honduras Gang Turf Battles

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The clatter of bullets piercing the school’s roof sent pupils running for safety. Four of them and their teacher were wounded. The February 27 attack on the Maximiliano Sagastume school in a northern district of Tegucigalpa was just one violent episode in a turf war between heavily armed gangs in Honduras. Such occurrences are so … Read more