The gang controlled this part of the city, and Keez had offered them a safe house.
Romanian gangs control most of the prostitution in Spain.
At the time, gangs control the city, after the opening of the military depots.
Several violent gangs controlled the regions drug trade in the 1970s & 1980's.
A few hundred men with permission to break the gangs would do more for the city than-" "You want another gang to control the others?
Often rival gangs control adjacent buildings, which insures constant warfare in the area.
The gang controlled convenience stores to stockpile the merchandise and a warehouse to distribute it, according to court records.
After 1923 gangs controlled a large percentage of alcohol and their facilities and acquired huge profits.
In some of them, local police will not even go inside, because the local gangs control the areas, and are usually better armed than the police.
With armed gangs controlling most roads, robbery is common.