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Ashok Mahto gang
Ashok Mahto gang (अशोक महतो गैंग), a Kurmi-led Bihar organised crime group active 1990–2006 in Sheikhpura, Nawada, and Lakhisarai, fought a caste gang war with Akhilesh Singh over sand mining and extortion; leader convicted only in a jailbreak case, released 2023.
Asian Boyz
Asian Boyz (ABZ, ABZ Crips) is a Southeast Asian American street gang based in California, one of the largest Asian street gangs in the United States.
Assassination
Assassination, or political murder of targeted leaders, defined by the CTC, with causes (polarization, restricted competition), motives, perpetrators, weapons, consequences, and modern trends from CTC, ACLED, and Institut Vidocq data.
Assassination of Kim Gu
The assassination of Kim Gu (김구 암살사건) was the killing of the Korean independence leader and last president of the Provisional Government by lieutenant Ahn Doo-hee in Seoul on June 26, 1949.
Assassination of Malcolm X
Assassination of Malcolm X: the February 21, 1965 fatal shooting of Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) at Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom; three men convicted, two exonerated in 2021 after withheld FBI and NYPD evidence surfaced.
Assassination of Olof Palme
Assassination of Olof Palme: the 28 February 1986 fatal shooting of Sweden's prime minister on Sveavägen, Stockholm. Also known as Palmemordet. Unsolved: no conviction ever; Christer Pettersson acquitted 1989; investigation closed 2020 naming Stig Engström, a designation withdrawn in 2025.
Assassination of Sidhu Moose Wala
Assassination of Sidhu Moose Wala: Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, Punjabi rapper and Congress leader, shot dead May 29, 2022 at Jawaharke, Mansa, a day after security cuts; Goldy Brar of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang claimed responsibility; trial ongoing, no convictions.
Assault
Assault, in tort and criminal law, is an intentional act creating reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact, or in many criminal codes an attempt or act causing physical injury; distinct from battery, definitions vary by jurisdiction.
Assault weapons legislation in the United States
Assault weapons legislation in the United States: the 1994-2004 federal ban on semiautomatic assault weapons and magazines over 10 rounds, its definitions and expiry, state bans such as California's 1989 law, and current Second Amendment litigation.
Atlanta murders of 1979–1981
Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, the Atlanta child murders: at least 29 Black victims aged 7–27 killed 1979–1981; Wayne Williams convicted 1982 of two adult murders; child cases never prosecuted.
Attainder
Attainder, or attaint, was the English common law consequence of a death sentence for treason or felony: civil death, forfeiture, corruption of blood, and loss of inheritance rights. It also names the related bill of attainder, banned by the US Constitution.
Attempt
Attempt (criminal attempt, inchoate offense) punishes intent plus a substantial step toward a crime never completed. Common law uses dangerous proximity; the Model Penal Code uses substantial step; federal law has no general attempt statute.
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Florida
Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, allegedly hid with a scoped SKS-style rifle in the tree line of Trump International Golf Club, West Palm Beach, on September 15, 2024; a Secret Service agent spotted the rifle, fired, and Routh fled and was arrested without firing a shot.
Attempted murder
Attempted murder, also known as attempt to murder, is an inchoate offense where someone with intent to kill takes a substantial step toward the killing, though the victim does not die.
Attica Correctional Facility
Attica Correctional Facility: maximum-security New York State prison in Wyoming County, opened 1931; site of the September 1971 uprising, the deadliest in U.S. prison history, with 43 deaths.
Attica Prison riot
Attica Prison riot: September 9-13, 1971 uprising at Attica Correctional Facility, New York, also called the Attica uprising; about 1,000 inmates seized the prison, took 42 hostages, and 43 people died when Governor Rockefeller ordered the retaking.
Audrey Marie Hilley
Audrey Marie Hilley (born Frazier, 1933), Alabama's "Black Widow," poisoned her husband Frank with arsenic in 1975 and her daughter Carol in 1979, fled under false identities, was convicted in 1983, and died after a 1987 prison furlough.
Auto Shankar
Auto Shankar (Gauri Shankar), Chennai auto-rickshaw driver convicted of six murders and sentenced to death in 1991; his disputed autobiography triggered R. Rajagopal v. State of Tamil Nadu (1994), India's landmark privacy and press freedom judgment.
Avon Barksdale
Avon Randolph Barksdale is a fictional drug kingpin in the HBO television series The Wire, the leader of a West Baltimore drug organization, played by Wood Harris.
Axeman of New Orleans
The Axeman of New Orleans was an unidentified killer who attacked Italian-American grocers and their families in their homes from May 1918 to October 1919, entering through chiseled door panels, using victims' own axes, and sending the 1919 jazz letter. The case was never solved.
Azie Faison
Azie Faison Jr. (AZ), born 1964, Harlem crack-era cocaine distributor and partner of Rich Porter and Alpo Martinez; survived a 1987 shooting, later rapper, author of Game Over, and basis for Paid in Full's Ace.
Ba'athist Syrian Captagon industry
The Ba'athist Syrian Captagon industry was the Assad regime's state-sponsored captagon (fenethylline) production and trafficking apparatus, supplying about 80 percent of Middle East seizures and billions of dollars in revenue until the regime's fall in December 2024.
Baba Anujka (Баба Анујка)
Baba Anujka (Баба Анујка), born Ana Drakšin/Ana Dee, was a Vladimirovac poison seller in Banat, Serbia, tried 1914 (acquitted) and 1929 (15 years) for arsenic poisonings attributed to 50-150 victims.
Baby Face Nelson
Baby Face Nelson, alias of Lester Gillis (1908–1934), Chicago-born bank robber, John Dillinger's partner, killer of three FBI agents including W. Carter Baum, and Public Enemy No. 1, killed at Barrington, Illinois, in 1934.
Back-to-back life sentences
Back-to-back life sentences are consecutive life terms for multiple crimes, served one after another to delay or defeat parole, governed in the US by 18 U.S.C. § 3584 and varying state discretion rules.
Backpacker murders
The backpacker murders: seven young travellers (three German, two British, two Australian) killed 1989–1992 in Belanglo State Forest, NSW; Ivan Milat convicted 1996, seven life sentences, died 2019.
Bacon Brothers (gangsters)
The Bacon brothers, Jonathan, Jarrod, and Jamie, were Abbotsford, British Columbia gangsters linked by police to the Red Scorpions; Jonathan was killed in Kelowna in 2011, Jarrod imprisoned for a cocaine conspiracy, and Jamie convicted in the Surrey Six murders.
Bad Blood (TV series)
Bad Blood (2017–2018) is a Canadian crime drama created by Simon Barry and Michael Konyves, based on Business or Blood, dramatizing Montreal's Rizzuto mafia family; two seasons, 14 episodes, starring Anthony LaPaglia and Kim Coates on Citytv and Netflix.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is a 2009 American crime film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Nicolas Cage as a corrupt, drug-addicted New Orleans police lieutenant.
Bada Rajan
Bada Rajan (Rajan Mahadev Nair), Mumbai underworld don of Tilak Nagar, Chembur; ran cinema ticket black-marketing and hafta rackets, mentored Chhota Rajan, allied with Dawood Ibrahim, and was shot dead outside Esplanade Court in 1983.