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Gulf Cartel
Gulf Cartel (Cártel del Golfo, CDG), a Tamaulipas-based Mexican drug trafficking organization dating to 1930s alcohol smuggler Juan Nepomuceno Guerra; once dominant nationally, it spawned Los Zetas and has since fractured into warring factions and was designated a foreign terrorist organization in 2025.
Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents
Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents: prosecutions of the outlaw motorcycle club under RICO and VICAR, including the 2002 Laughlin melee, the 2013 South Carolina convictions, the Danish biker war, and the Mallorca trial.
Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents in British Columbia
Hells Angels MC in British Columbia: entered 1983 via the Satan's Angels patch-over; Operation E-Pandora convictions, R. v. Punko (2012 SCC 39), and the 2023 forfeiture of the Nanaimo, East Vancouver, and Kelowna clubhouses.
Human trafficking
Human trafficking, or trafficking in persons, is recruiting or moving people by coercion, deception, or abuse of vulnerability for exploitation, defined by the 2000 Palermo Protocol. An estimated 27.6 million people were in forced labour in 2021, generating $236 billion in annual illegal profits.
Hutch–Kinahan feud
The Hutch–Kinahan feud is a violent conflict between two Dublin-based crime gangs that began with the murder of Gary Hutch in Spain in 2015, leaving 18 dead.
Illegal drug trade
The illegal drug trade is the global underground economy of producing, trafficking, and selling prohibited psychoactive substances, governed by the 1912, 1961, 1971, and 1988 UN drug conventions; UNODC estimates continued expansion of cocaine and methamphetamine markets alongside declining opiate supply.
Illegal drug trade in Colombia
Illegal drug trade in Colombia: the cocaine-centered illicit economy making Colombia the world's leading cocaine producer, with 253,000 hectares of coca in 2023, Medellín and Cali cartel history, Plan Colombia, and record seizures.
Inagawa-kai (稲川会)
Inagawa-kai (稲川会), a Tokyo-based Japanese designated boryokudan founded around 1949 by Seijo Inagawa in Atami; one of Japan's three largest yakuza syndicates with the Yamaguchi-gumi and Sumiyoshi-kai, once described as second-largest at over 8,600 members.
Israeli mafia
Israeli mafia: family-based mafia-style organized crime groups in Israel active in extortion, drugs, arms trafficking, and loan sharking, concentrated in Tel Aviv, the north, and Arab communities, with rising homicide rates and 2024 anti-crime legislation.
Jack McVitie
Jack "the Hat" McVitie (Jack Dennis McVitie, 1932-1967) was a London enforcer in the Kray twins' firm, murdered by Reggie Kray in Stoke Newington in October 1967; the killing anchored the 1969 Old Bailey convictions that ended the Krays.
Jalisco New Generation Cartel
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, CJNG) is a Mexican drug cartel founded around 2010 by El Mencho, a main rival of the Sinaloa Cartel.
James Galante
James Galante, Danbury, Connecticut trash hauler and owner of Automated Waste Disposal and the Danbury Trashers, ran a mob-linked property rights system and pleaded guilty in 2008 to racketeering conspiracy.
Jewish-American organized crime
Jewish-American organized crime, often called the Kosher Nostra, was the participation of Jewish immigrants in US criminal enterprises, chiefly from the early 1900s through the mid-century.
Jimmy Chérizier
Jimmy Chérizier, known as "Barbecue" and Babekyou, is a Haitian gang leader and former police officer who founded the G9 Family and Allies gang alliance in Port-au-Prince in 2020.
Joe Adonis
Joe Adonis (Giuseppe Antonio Doto, 1902-1971) was an Italian-American mobster of the Genovese/Luciano circles in New York, a Masseria killer, Kefauver figure, and deportee to Italy in 1956; not the actor or the Chippendales troupe.
Juárez Cartel
Juárez Cartel (Cártel de Juárez), also the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization, is a Mexican drug trafficking organization based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, founded in the 1980s, led by Amado Carrillo Fuentes until 1997, and now dominated by its La Línea armed wing.
Kansas City crime family
Kansas City crime family, also called the Civella clan, a Kansas City, Missouri Italian-American Mafia family born under the Pendergast machine, led by Nick Civella, notorious for Las Vegas casino skimming, now a small remnant reportedly led by John Sciortino.
Kinahan Organised Crime Group
Kinahan Organised Crime Group (Kinahan cartel): Irish-led transnational drug trafficking and money laundering organisation founded by Christy Kinahan, based in Spain and Dubai, US-sanctioned in 2022, in feud with the Hutch gang.
KK Park
KK Park is a large cyber-scam compound in Myawaddy, Kayin State, Myanmar, on the Moei River border with Thailand. Built from 2020 under Karen BGF protection, it trafficked thousands of workers into online fraud until the Myanmar military's October 2025 raid and disputed demolition.
Kkangpae (깡패)
Kkangpae (깡패), Korean for gangster, combines English "gang" (kkang) with pae (group). Coined after the Korean War, originally meaning a politically tied criminal; now the informal name for South Korea's organized crime groups.
Knights Templar Cartel
Knights Templar Cartel (Los Caballeros Templarios), Mexican drug cartel formed in early 2011 from a La Familia Michoacana split, based in Michoacán; issued a Templar code of conduct, ran meth, extortion, and iron ore, and was dismantled by autodefensas and federal forces by 2015.
La Familia Michoacana
La Familia Michoacana (LFM) is a Mexican drug cartel founded 2005-2006 in Michoacán by defectors from Los Zetas and the Milenio Cartel; known for pseudo-religious ideology, extortion, and violence, it fragmented in 2011 into the Knights Templar and persists through La Nueva Familia Michoacana and United Cartels.
La Línea (gang)
La Línea ("The Line") is a Mexican criminal group founded in the early 2000s by police officers in Ciudad Juárez as the Juárez Cartel's enforcement arm; it fought Sinaloa in 2008–2011, was linked to the 2019 LeBarón massacre, and now dominates parts of Chihuahua.
Larry Hoover
Larry Hoover (born 1950) is co-founder and "Chairman" of the Gangster Disciples street gang of Chicago, who led it from prison. Convicted of 1973 murder (150-200 years) and 1997 federal criminal enterprise (life); Trump commuted the federal sentence May 28, 2025; the Illinois term stands.
List of criminal enterprises, gangs, and syndicates
List of criminal enterprises, gangs, and syndicates: catalog of organized crime groups, mafias, cartels, triads, yakuza, MS-13, with legal definitions, EU/US counts, and typology.
List of criminal gangs in Brazil
Criminal gangs in Brazil: over 80 organized criminal groups as of 2024, dominated by the PCC (São Paulo, founded 1993) and Comando Vermelho (Rio, 1970s), with CV dissidences ADA and TC, northern allies FDN and GDE, Amazon expansion, and US terrorist designations in 2026.
List of criminal organizations in New York City
List of criminal organizations in New York City: the five La Cosa Nostra families (Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese), the DeCavalcante family, plus Westies, Russian networks, and MS-13, with origins, activities, and decline.
List of gangs in Mexico
Gangs in Mexico: youth pandillas (chavos banda), border gangs like MS-13, Barrio 18, Los Aztecas, Mexicles, and La Línea, cartel-affiliated groups such as Santa Rosa de Lima, and major cartels including Sinaloa, CJNG, Gulf, and Familia Michoacana.
List of Italian Mafia crime families
Italian Mafia crime families are the family and clan units of Cosa Nostra, the 'Ndrangheta, the Camorra, and Apulian groups such as the Sacra Corona Unita, covering their structures, notable clans, and state response.
Los Angeles crime family
Los Angeles crime family (Dragna family), the Southern California La Cosa Nostra organization led by Jack Dragna until 1957; weakened by informant Jimmy Fratianno and 1980s prosecutions, it remains California's last Mafia family.