"gang" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Just as their Italian counterparts, gangs specializing in extortion began operating in the heavily Jewish neighborhoods of New York's Lower East Side most prominently the so-called Yiddish Black Hand headed by Jacob Levinsky, Charles "Charlie the Cripple" Litoffsky and Joseph Toplinsky during the early 20th century.
- By 1993, Saverin's father had become wealthy, and in 1993 it was discovered that his son Eduardo's name had been placed on a list of potential kidnapping victims by gangs specializing in kidnapping for ransom.
- Traffickers are organized criminal gangs specializing in movement of persons, proprietors of small businesses such as bars or brothels, or illicit employment brokers; victims are lured romantically or with promises of legitimate employment and then forced into prostitution.
- They claimed in a series of articles of a growing trend in the country of "criminal tourism for which eastern European Roma clans are responsible" with professional gangs specializing in burglary, thefts, organized begging and street prostitution.
- In addition, authorities say, some former soldiers and policemen have formed gangs specializing in robbery and kidnapping.
- Dennis graduates from the club into a seasoned streetwalker who hangs out with a gang specializing in drugs and car theft.
- Gus Winkler (March 28, 1901 Lemay, Missouri - October 9, 1933 North Center, Chicago) was a St. Louis mobster who, with Fred "Killer" Burke, was head of a criminal gang specializing in armed robbery and murder for hire.
- April - Brazilian police arrest 20 suspected members of a gang specializing in contract killings in the state of Pernambuco.
- In "Debt", Ming-Na played a woman who gets in over her head with a Chinese gang specializing in smuggling and extortion.
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