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The US Coast Guard nabbed three suspected gangbangers aboard a migrant ship headed for American soil — who were sought for a 2020 shooting in Puerto Rico that left four people dead. The migrant ship was spotted by a US Customs and Border Enforcement plane and intercepted by the Coast Guard Cutter Winslow Griesser in the Mona Passage on Friday, officials said. The three suspects were taken into custody and turned over to a Dominican Republic navy ship, the Coast Guard said in a press release on Tuesday.

Criminals with ties to MS-13 and other gangs are selling fake green cards and social security cards to migrants on street corners in Queens — a dangerous security threat as rogue newcomers pour into the Big Apple. This week The Post spotted at least 10 men camped out in broad daylight at four different corners along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, hawking the bogus documents for $80 to $250. The forged social security numbers can be used to open up a bank account and potentially obtain a real driver’s license.

Two 18-year-olds have been charged with making a terroristic threat after police in Everman, Texas, thwarted a potential shooting at a high school homecoming football game last Friday.

Guns the leading cause of death for children, teens by: Joshua Short Posted: Apr 28, 2022 DENVER (KDVR) — New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals an alarming trend: Guns are now the leading cause of death facing children and teens. That new report comes as many observe Youth Violence Prevention Week this week. The Problem Solvers dug into these numbers and found it’s a trend also impacting local communities. Some experts say some people will read or even hear this headline and automatically assume this is an issue on guns or gun laws. But they...

The Las Vegas Raiders waived 2020 first-round pick Damon Arnette and have now cut ties with both first-round picks from that draft before the midpoint of their second season. General manager Mike Mayock called it a “painful decision” to release Arnette on Monday but said it was necessary in response to a social media post with Arnette brandishing a gun and threatening to kill someone. Arnette was drafted 19th overall with a pick acquired in the Khalil Mack trade despite what Mayock called “significant concerns” about his character. Arnette was rated lower on most draft rankings but the Raiders believed...

Only hours after President Joe Biden announced his plan to address crime, the city of Chicago suffered two mass shootings nearly simultaneously. According to Chicago’s CBS affiliate, eight people were shot, four each in shootings in two of Chicago’s neighborhoods. One incident claiming four victims occurred in the Austin neighborhood at around 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The second incident occurred in Englewood, where four people who belonged to a motorcycle club were shot around the same time of the evening. The Chicago Police Department (CPD) said the shots were fired from a passing vehicle. The CPD currently has no one...

KILLEEN, Texas (KTRK) -- Police have arrested a 19-year-old suspect in the mass shooting in downtown Austin that killed a tourist and wounded more than a dozen others, authorities said Thursday. De'Ondre Jermirris White was arrested in Killeen around 2:30 p.m. He was taken into custody without incident and transported to the city jail.

At least 15 people were injured, some critically, when they were shot while attending the funeral of 31-year-old Donnie Weathersby, a recent victim of gun violence himself. In a Wednesday morning update, police said that 10 of the victims were female and five were male. "I saw body after body on the ground," said witness Arnita Jeder. "It's a war out here … Why are they shooting like this? This is ridiculous. Enough is enough." According to reports, victims ranging in ages between 21 and 65 were entering and exiting the Rhodes Funeral Services funeral home when assailants in a...

A new study breaks down those most vulnerable to firearm violence. Originally published on November 25, 2019 5:03 pm Overall crime in the United States has been declining since the early 1990s. But the same cannot be said for gun violence, which has seen a slight uptick in recent years. A new report from Boston University found that uptick has been led by an increase in homicides of young people — particularly of young black and Hispanic men. Gun Violence Is A ‘Complicated Problem’ Researchers at Boston University, led by Dr. Bindu Kalesan, looked at national gun violence data...

Two men who were awaiting trial on unrelated murder charges when they escaped from a California jail early Sunday were arrested by federal officials Wednesday, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office said. Santos Fonseca, 21, and Jonathan Salazar, 20, were taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, the office announced in a tweet. Further details about their arrests were not immediately available, but police are expected to provide updates during a press conference at 2 p.m. ET. Both men are gang-related murder suspects and had been considered dangerous since their escape from a jail in Salinas early Sunday....

St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter is speaking out about the most recent shooting in the city. Two males were shot just blocks away from Allianz Field during Sunday night's Minnesota United game. Monday morning, the mayor is making a new plea to stop gun violence. Carter is calling on all city and community leaders to come together to stop the senseless violence. Sunday night's shooting happened outside a laundromat at about 7:30 p.m. just blocks from Allianz Field where 20,000 people were attending the playoff soccer game. The two males, identified as a 16-year-old and 24-year-old, were shot but are...

Police in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue had a chance to get Carlos Daniel Carillo-Lopez, an illegal immigrant, off the streets in March — but a local jail defied a deportation notification request from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and released him into the community. Three weeks later, police say, the 19-year-old Guatemalan, eager to join the violent Surenos street gang, took part in a murder posse that tracked down and slew a teen from a rival gang. Mr. Carillo-Lopez, who came to the U.S. as part of the Unaccompanied Alien Child (UAC) surge, is at the crossroads of the...

The United States Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost released data regarding the number of gang members apprehended by her men and women in her agency during the 2019 fiscal year through August. According to Provost, BP has arrested at least 445 individuals from the notorious Mara Salvatruchaa gang. "This fiscal year through August, Border Patrol agents have encountered & arrested 933 criminal gang members. Some smuggling, some being smuggled, some sneaking in, and some already here," Provost tweeted. These numbers include the following gangs: MS-13: 445 18th Street: 165 Paisas: 82 Surenos: 68 Latin Kings: 21 Tango Blast: 19 USBPChief...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Two young men were found dead inside torched cars. Three others died of apparent suicides. Another collapsed on a bus, his death ruled an overdose. Six deaths, all involving men with connections to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, drew attention on social media and speculation in the activist community that something sinister was at play. Police say there is no evidence the deaths have anything to do with the protests stemming from a white police officer’s fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, and that only two were homicides with no known link to the protests. But some...

“Elaborately Planned” Caravan Attracts Human Traffickers and Gangbangers Angry Young Men March to U.S. Yelling ‘Vamos Para Allá Trump!’ Judicial Watch Files Major Ethics Complaint Against Christine Blasey Ford’s Lawyers Elaborately Planned” Caravan Attracts Human Traffickers and Gangbangers The caravan moving north toward our border is a serious threat to the sovereignty of the United States. It is a blatant challenge to the rule of law. For this reason we sent our Director of Investigations and Research Chris Farrell and Judicial Watch Investigator Reporter Irene Garcia to Guatemala to uncover the truth about “caravan.” Here is their first report...

Judicial Watch has obtained exclusive information and photos from Guatemalan authorities revealing that they have recovered seven unaccompanied minors from human smugglers working inside the caravan. The children have been taken into custody and they are being provided with food, water and medical attention, according to a high-level Guatemalan government official. The smugglers have been arrested and the broader investigation into criminal activity in the caravan is ongoing. A Judicial Watch team, headed by Director of Investigations Chris Farrell, spent several days on the Guatemala-Honduras border covering the illegal alien caravan, which originated in the northern Honduran city of San...

The migrant caravan marching northbound through Central America is an “elaborately planned” movement that’s benefiting human smugglers and bringing disturbing numbers of violent gang members and other criminal elements through Guatemala, according to government sources in the capital city. “MS-13 gang members have been detained and coyotes (human smugglers) are joining the march with clients who pay to get smuggled into the United States,” a Guatemalan official told Judicial Watch. People from Asian countries waiting to get smuggled into the U.S. through Central America are also integrating with poor Hondurans in the caravan, a high-level Guatemalan government source confirmed. Among...

<p>PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police say they have arrested a 12-year-old boy who was walking down a street with a loaded AR-15 rifle.</p> <p>Police said Monday that the arrest happened over the weekend. A 19-year-old who police say was carrying a handgun was also arrested.</p>

A Illinois county might create a special task force to protect cemeteries as gangs have taken to opening fire on each other during funerals. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart proposed creating a special task force Thursday to combat rival gangs trying to shoot each other during funeral services, reported FOX 32. During a talk with various political leaders, religious members and funeral directors, Dart called for a task force made up of the three groups that would try to fix the problem. “This has been something that has been escalating I’d say over the last ten to 15 years from...

A disturbing incident involving a shooting inside a busy Washington D.C. metro station has received a lot of media attention, but all the reports conspicuously fail to mention if the suspect is an illegal immigrant. A man was captured on camera firing a gun down the escalator of the Columbia Heights Metro station in Northwest Washington in the middle of the afternoon on August 25. He eluded police for days and authorities needed help capturing him so they revealed he had an extensive criminal history and identified him as 22-year-old Cesar Morales, Hispanic with brown eyes, black hair and facial...