Gang

Police have dismantled an organized criminal gang that distributed drugs around Athens, authorities said on Saturday.

The operation led to the arrest of 24 people, aged between 20 and 71, who have been charged with violating drug laws and illegal weapons possession.

Mobs of terrified villagers killed at least three people and attacked several others in southern India after social media messages warned that gangs of kidnappers were roaming the region in search of children, police said May 25.

At least 10 Georgian members of a gang that burgled homes, mainly in Athens's affluent northern suburbs, were arrested on Tuesday during police raids of their hideouts across Attica.

So far the gang has been linked to more than 100 burglaries and robberies in the wider Attica area.

Albanian crime gangs are assuming a leading role in the UK's cocaine trade, the London Times reported on Thursday, citing new data from the police's National Crime Agency - which reported on this phenomenon last year.

A table listing the 4,600 known crime gangs on the police's radar showed Albanians "overtaking" Romanians for the first time in 2017.

California reached an agreement with the federal government that the state's National Guard troops will deploy to the border to focus on fighting transnational gangs as well as drug and gun smugglers, Gov. Jerry Brown said on April 18.

Attica police said on Wednesday that they have broken up a wide-reaching drug distribution network and made eight arrests.

The eight suspects - five Albanian nationals and three Greeks - were arrested in a police operation that spread across the city. Reports said the leader of the gang was a 35-year-old Albanian man.

Police have arrested 21 members of a criminal gang involved in drug dealing and theft around the Exarchia district in central Athens, according to early reports Friday.

A police statement was expected later in the day.

The members of a drug gang detained in a recent operation had been working for a group covered by state insurance, according to police sources. 

An academic of Athens University has called on the institution's authorities to stop to what he described as "unprecedented scenes of violence and lawlessness" on the grounds of a student accommodation complex in Zografou and at various faculties.

Mexico has this year registered its highest murder total since modern records began, according to official data, dealing a fresh blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto’s pledge to get gang violence under control with presidential elections due in 2018.