Mexicano’s father was sentenced to 30 years behind bars when Mexicano was just five. Two years later, he saw his stepfather ...

A man alleged to be the founder and leader of a Haitian gang was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for orchestrating the 2021 kidnapping of 17 people — 16 of them Americans — including five ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authorities in Guatemala accused gangs of killing eight police on Sunday in retaliation for the government's refusal to transfer ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man alleged to be the founder and leader of a Haitian gang was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for orchestrating the kidnapping of 17 people, including five children, who ...

Guatemala's interior minister accused gangs of killing seven police on Sunday in retaliation for the government's refusal to transfer gang leaders to a lower-security prison. The killings occurred in ...

Clashes between security forces and gang members in Guatemala’s capital Sunday killed seven officers, authorities said, shortly after police in the country’s southwest regained control of one of three ...

Elite officers entered the Alcacuz prison near Natal in northern Brazil to build a makeshift wall with the containers to impede access between wings of the facility. At the same time, 1,800 soldiers ...