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A decade after Arizona law enforcement agencies led an all-out push to rein in escalating gang activity, street gangs are resurgent across the Phoenix area, and officials say they are more violent ...
Armando "Decoy" Munoz is a Phoenix dancer who's found viral stardom popping and locking in the desert. Here's his story.
A crackdown Thursday on a “violent criminal street gang” in Tucson was years in the making, with police attributing various armed robberies, aggravated assaults, shootings and drug crimes to ...
Law enforcement agencies announced Friday morning that 89 people have been charged with various federal crimes following a ...
Former Maricopa County prosecutor April Sponsel deserved to have her law license suspended for two years because her decision to press forward with made-up gang charges against 15 Black Lives Matter ...
In 2020, ex-Maricopa County prosecutor April Sponsel charged protesters as a phony street gang, which the Arizona Supreme Court called “egregious.” ...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), arrested a Guatemalan national with a history of gang activity and felony ...
While gangs do differ from each other, many are very violent and have learned to manipulate the prison system to their advantage. Below, we’ll go over some of the most feared prison gangs in the ...
As "street takeovers" have been on the rise in many communities across the country, police in Arizona have managed to decrease the dangerous chaos and crowds.
After seven members of the so-called Gilbert Goons, an Arizona teen "hybrid gang," were charged in the murder of a 16-year-old in 2023, officials want to curb youth violence.
In December, the Arizona Republic reported that Lord’s death was not an aberration but the culmination of an alarming trend: a group of largely upper-middle-class teen-agers had been wreaking ...