Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...showboating raid, police also captured two other alleged members of a black gang called the 8-Trey Crips: Henry Watson, 27, known as "Kiki"; and Antoine Miller, 20, known as "Twan." A fourth man, Gary Williams, 33, suspected of lifting Denny's wallet, turned himself in. The 8-Trey Crips are alleged to be the turf lords of the intersection where millions of TV viewers -- in a grim mirror image of the videotaped Rodney King beating -- saw truck driver Denny stomped into unconsciousness. "The department was very, very concerned about our inability to reach Mr. Denny," Gates said after...
...takes a thief to catch a thief. Which is why an enterprising Rio broadcaster has signed up Ronald Biggs to dispense travel and safety advice to the thousands of delegates attending the Earth Summit next month. An alumnus of the legendary gang that heisted $7.3 million from a Glasgow-London mail train in 1963, Biggs has been a fugitive in Brazil for more than 20 years. He plans to counsel listeners on how to avoid the city's rampant street crime, and he may also throw in some practical tips to visitors on coddling a queasy stomach or dealing with...
...Central District has never been the safest neighborhood in Seattle, but when members of the Crips and Bloods moved up from Los Angeles to join wannabe gangs already in existence, the resulting gang war increased violence in the neighborhood dramatically...
...police responded, in part, by frequent "checks" of cars whose inhabitants met the gang members profile. "Black, young and male" covered a lot of the students at my school, however--the ones going to Brown University no less than the one that were members of the Black Gangster Disciples...
...firepower wielded by gun-toting gang members and frightened citizens also hindered law-enforcement efforts. Traffic was snarled on one South Central street after a car careened out of control when a motorist was killed by a sniper. Fears that random gun battles would break out in the downtown office area led businesses to dismiss their employees for the weekend by Thursday afternoon. Several roadways were cordoned off by police to prevent destruction from spreading north to Hollywood and Beverly Hills from the poorer regions of the city...