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Strangulation in domestic violence
Strangulation in domestic violence is neck compression by an intimate partner or family member; it can kill within minutes and often leaves no visible injury.
Straw purchase
Straw purchase: a buy made by one person on behalf of another, chiefly in U.S. firearms law (18 U.S.C. §932, Abramski), also straw buyers in mortgage, auto loan, and campaign finance fraud.
Street prostitution
Street prostitution is the most publicly visible segment of sex work, involving sales in public spaces. Its practice is heavily dictated by a jurisdiction's legal model.
Strip search phone call scam
Strip search phone call scam: 1994-2004 US hoax calls in which a caller posing as a police officer made fast-food managers strip-search employees; centered on the 2004 Mount Washington, Kentucky McDonald's case and suspect David R. Stewart, who was acquitted.
Suicide of Audrie Pott
The suicide of Audrie Pott was the 2012 death of a 15-year-old Saratoga High School sophomore who killed herself eight days after being sexually assaulted at a house party.
Sumiyoshi-kai (住吉会)
The Sumiyoshi-kai (住吉会) is Japan's second-largest designated yakuza group, headquartered in Akasaka, Tokyo, a Tokyo gambling-association federation descended from the Meiji-era Sumiyoshi-ikka, renamed in 1991.
Sun Yee On (新义安)
Sun Yee On (新義安) is one of Hong Kong's largest triad societies, alongside 14K and Wo Shing Wo. Founded from a Chiu Chow workers' trade association, it is linked to drug trafficking, the Sinaloa cartel, and major 2025 police crackdowns.
Supreme Team (gang)
Supreme Team, Queens, New York street gang founded 1981 by Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff in Baisley Park Houses, South Jamaica; Five Percenter roots, $200,000-a-day 1987 peak, led later by Gerald "Prince" Miller, ended in federal RICO life sentences.
Surrey Six massacre
Surrey Six massacre: October 19, 2007 shooting of six men, four gang-affiliated and two bystanders, in a Balmoral Tower apartment in Surrey, BC, tied to the Red Scorpions-UN gang conflict; convictions ran from 2009 to 2020.
Susan Smith
Susan Leigh Smith, South Carolina woman convicted in 1995 of drowning her sons Michael and Alexander in John D. Long Lake after a false Black-carjacker claim; life sentence, parole denied 2024.
Susan Wright (murderer)
Susan Lucille Wright, Houston woman convicted in 2004 of murdering her husband Jeffrey, whom she stabbed 193 times in January 2003; claimed self-defense as a battered wife, sentenced to 25 years, resentenced to 20 in 2010.
Suzane von Richthofen
Suzane Louise von Richthofen, Brazilian convicted of planning the 2002 murder of her parents Manfred and Marísia von Richthofen in São Paulo with the Cravinhos brothers; sentenced to 39 years, in open regime since 2023, subject of films and a Netflix documentary.
Sydney gang rapes
Sydney gang rapes: series of gang rapes in Bankstown and south-west Sydney around 2000-2001 by Lebanese-Australian youth and later Pakistani brothers, whose sentencing sparked racialized media and political controversy in NSW.
Tate–LaBianca murders
Tate–LaBianca murders: seven killings by Charles Manson's Family in Los Angeles, August 8–10, 1969, killing Sharon Tate and four others, then Leno and Rosemary LaBianca; 1971 convictions.
The Commission (American Mafia)
The Commission, the governing council of the American Mafia (La Cosa Nostra), was formed in 1931 by Lucky Luciano with seven family bosses after Maranzano's murder; its five New York bosses were convicted in the 1985 Mafia Commission trial.
Theft
Theft, historically larceny at common law, is the dishonest appropriation of another's property with intent to permanently deprive; defined by England's Theft Act 1968 and codified in systems like the Indian Penal Code 1860.
Theresa Knorr
Theresa Jimmie Knorr (née Cross), also known as Theresa Cross, an American mother of six who tortured and murdered daughters Suesan Knorr (1984) and Sheila Sanders (1985) in Sacramento, was arrested in Utah in 1993 and sentenced in 1995 to two consecutive life terms.
Thomas DeSimone
Thomas "Two-Gun Tommy" DeSimone, Thomas Anthony or Thomas James DeSimone, was a Lucchese crime family associate of New York, tied to the 1978 Lufthansa heist and the Billy Batts murder, who disappeared in January 1979 and inspired Joe Pesci's Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas.
Thousand Oaks shooting
The Thousand Oaks shooting was a November 7, 2018 mass shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, in which 12 people died.
Tijuana Cartel
Tijuana Cartel, or Arellano-Félix Organization (AFO), a Mexican drug trafficking organization based in Tijuana, Baja California; founded from Félix Gallardo's network in 1989, it dominated Baja smuggling before losing the city to the Sinaloa Cartel around 2009-2013 and allying with CJNG.
Timeline of events associated with Anonymous
Timeline of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, born on 4chan in 2003: Project Chanology 2008, Operation Payback 2010, LulzSec 2011, arrests 2011-2013, Ferguson 2014, George Floyd 2020, cyber war on Russia 2022.
Timothy White (abduction victim)
Timothy (Timmy) White, kidnapped aged 5 in Ukiah, California, by Kenneth Parnell on 14 February 1980, escaped 1 March 1980 with Steven Stayner, later an LA County sheriff's deputy, died 2010.
Tiny Rascal Gang
Tiny Rascal Gang (TRG), or Tiny Rascals Gangsters, a Cambodian-American street gang founded in Long Beach, California in the 1980s; blue and grey colors, rival of the Asian Boyz, active nationwide.
Tong (堂) (organization)
Tong (堂), Chinese for association, names fraternal organizations in North American Chinatowns that provided mutual aid to Chinese immigrants and, in some cases, ran vice businesses; the Hip Sing and On Leong tongs fought 19-year tong wars.
Tong Wars
Tong wars were violent conflicts between rival Chinese-American tongs, notably the Hip Sing Tong and On Leong Tong, in New York, San Francisco, and other Chinatowns from the 1880s to the 1920s, fought over gambling, opium, prostitution, and territory.
Tracie Andrews
Tracie Andrews, British woman convicted in 1997 of murdering her fiancé Lee Harvey in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, in 1996 after inventing a road-rage attacker; sentenced to life, minimum 14 years, released 2011.
Trafficante crime family
Trafficante crime family: Tampa, Florida Mafia family led by Santo Trafficante Sr. and Jr., at its peak from the 1940s to the 1960s, built on bolita gambling, Cuba casinos, and CIA-linked Castro plots.
Trafficking of children
Trafficking of children, or child trafficking, is recruitment, transport, or receipt of under-18s for exploitation, defined by the 2000 Palermo Protocol (185 parties). Children were 38% of detected victims in 2022; risks include poverty, conflict, migration, and technology-facilitated abuse.
Treason
Treason is the crime of betraying one's country by levying war against it or aiding its enemies. Also covered under related terms such as high treason and the Treason Act 1351, it is the only crime defined in the U.S. Constitution and requires two-witness proof.
Tren de Aragua
Tren de Aragua (TdA), the Aragua Train, is a Venezuelan transnational criminal organization founded in Tocorón prison around 2012-2013 under Niño Guerrero, expanded via migrant smuggling into Colombia, Peru, and Chile, designated a US foreign terrorist organization in 2025, and fragmented after the 2023 prison raid.