TOLUCA, Mexico—Masked gunmen set fire to a public market in the central Mexican city of Toluca on Monday, killing nine people, authorities said. Prosecutors said the attackers arrived, opened fire, and then doused part of the market with a flammable substance before setting it on fire and fleeing. They said three of the dead appeared…

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Sheldon Thomas, founder CEO of Gangsline. Sheldon works with government and police on how to deal with street gangs. He also mentors former gang members and young people at risk. He talks about the root causes of children joining gangs, including bad parenting, absent fathers and exposure to violent…

QUITO—At least 12 inmates were killed in an Ecuadorian jail amid a new clash between gangs, the SNAI prison agency said on Saturday, in the latest chapter in the South American nation’s prison violence. The confrontation occurred on Friday in the prison known as La Penitenciaría, in the city of Guayaquil, one of the country’s…

A former senior FBI official has warned American youth not to visit Mexico, due to the dangerous routes before reaching their destination, after gang violence claimed the lives of two U.S. citizens this week. Former FBI Assistant Director Tom Fuentes said that the problem is that Americans have to travel through Mexico’s dangerous zones to…

“When I was young, we were looking at the gang members and saying, ‘Well, that’s what I want to be.’ When are you going to have these kids out there saying, ‘Oh, no, my uncle is out there. He’s 20-some years old. That’s what I want to be.’” Siyamak sits down with Gil Tejada, founder…

Approximately 23 of the “most dangerous” individuals in New York City have been arrested by NYPD following a two-year investigation that was sparked by the death of a mother-of-two killed by a stray bullet. New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced the arrests of the two subsets of the “Crips” street gang in a…

Two Aryan Circle gang members, including a high-ranking leader, received sentences this week for multiple crimes committed in the white supremacy prison gang. William Glenn Chunn—one of the highest ranking Aryan Circle leaders in the United States, according to evidence presented at trial—and gang member Mitchell Farkas were sentenced this week for their roles in…

PORT-AU-PRINCE—Shots were fired on U.S. embassy vehicles in Haiti on Monday in an attack that also affected the Haitian police and commercial vehicles, an embassy spokesperson said. “No embassy personnel were injured,” Information Officer Kathryn Edwards said in a statement. “One Haitian commercial driver accompanying the convoy was injured. However, the injuries are not life…

MEXICO CITY—Authorities said Thursday the massacre of 20 townspeople in southern Mexico appears to have been the work of a drug lord who used social media to try to blame a rival gang. The new revelations illustrate how Mexican drug cartels are increasingly using social media to apportion blame for attacks and mislead authorities and…

SAN MIGUEL TOTOLAPAN, Mexico—A drug gang shot to death 20 people, including a mayor and his father, in the mountains of the southern Mexico state of Guerrero, officials said Thursday. Residents began burying the victims even as a video posted on social media showed men who identified themselves as the Tequileros gang claiming responsibility for…