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Italian Police dismantle gang dedicated to defrauding elderly

Published on: December 16, 2025
09:32

Rome, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) A large-scale police operation, carried out by the Carabinieri, led to the arrest of 21 people in Italy, accused of belonging to a gang dedicated to defrauding elderly people, as part of a nationwide offensive against this crime.

Drug trafficking gang arrested in Uruguay

Published on: August 6, 2025
11:50

Montevideo, August 6 (Prensa Latina) Just days after the seizure of more than two tons of cocaine in the department of Maldonado, 10 people were arrested in the east of the country on drug trafficking charges, it was reported.

Gang member calls for public services for Haiti’s working class

Published on: June 25, 2024
14:43

Port-au-Prince, Jun 25 (Prensa Latina) The leader of the gang coalition, Jimmy Cherizier, alias Barbecue, asked the Haitian Government to provide public services for the working class as a first step to pacify the country that today lives in chaos.

Access to Haiti’s National Palace limited for security reasons

Published on: April 22, 2024
13:05

Port-au-Prince, Apr 22 (Prensa Latina) The Haitian Presidential Security Coordination limited the access to the National Palace, the target on two occasions of attacks by a coalition of gangs that today controls 80 percent of the capital.

BINUH condemns surge of gang violence in Haiti´s Bas Artibonite

Published on: November 28, 2023
16:32

Port-au-Prince, Nov 28 (Prensa Latina) Over 1,690 people were killed, wounded or kidnapped in Bas Artibonite, some 100 km off north of Haiti´s capital, the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) condemned on Tuesday.

Haiti: 2,487 people displaced by gang violence

Published on: November 7, 2023
16:30

Port-au-Prince, Nov 7 (Prensa Latina) Recent gang attacks in the commune of Mariani, in the south of the Haitian capital, forced as many as 2,487 civilians to leave their homes, the International Organization for Migration confirmed Tuesday.

Exception regime extended in El Salvador

Published on: August 10, 2023
11:22

San Salvador, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador extended for the seventeenth time the emergency regime in force in the country since March 27, 2022.

Gang attack leaves three dead in Haitian commune

Published on: July 24, 2023
07:43

Port-au-Prince, Jul 23 (Prensa Latina) Yesterday, armed gangs attacked Liancourt, a commune of Artibonite in northeastern Haiti, and killed at least three people, in addition to setting fire to several houses.

Honduras’ police dismantle human trafficking gang

Published on: June 22, 2023
16:17

Tegucigalpa, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) An Honduran gang dedicated to human trafficking and sexual exploitation in the Bay Islands was dismantled after joint operations between the Public Prosecutor (MP) and the National Police.

Forty-three people arrested in China after attack on women

Published on: August 29, 2022
09:05

Beijing, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) The authorities in North China's Hebei province on Monday reported the arrest of 43 people, including eight officials, for the beating that a gang gave four women in the city of Tangshan.

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