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Natwarlal
Natwarlal, born Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava (1912), was India's most famous con man, known for forging signatures, selling the Taj Mahal and Red Fort, and escaping prison repeatedly; his death date remains disputed.
Nazario Moreno González
Nazario Moreno González (El Chayo, El Más Loco), born 1970 in Apatzingán, co-founded and led La Familia Michoacana, built its pseudo-Christian ideology around Eldredge's Wild at Heart and his own Pensamientos, and was reported killed by federal forces on 9 December 2010, a death later disputed.
Nazi Lowriders
Nazi Lowriders (NLR, The Ride): white supremacist prison and street gang founded in California Youth Authority facilities in the late 1970s, tied to the Aryan Brotherhood, dominant white gang in California prisons by the 1990s, active in meth trafficking.
Necati Arabaci
Necati Arabaci (Coşkun Necati Arabacı, "Neco", "Cehennem Necati", "Godfather of Cologne"), born 1972 in Cologne, is a Turkish-German Hells Angels figure convicted in Germany in 2004, deported to Turkey in 2007, and detained in Izmir since October 2025 facing a 35-year sentence request.
Ned Kelly
Ned Kelly (Edward Kelly, 1854/1855–1880), Australian bushranger and leader of the Kelly Gang; Stringybark Creek murders, Euroa and Jerilderie robberies, Jerilderie letter, Glenrowan siege in plough-steel armour; hanged 11 November 1880.
Neighbourhood Watch (United Kingdom)
Neighbourhood Watch (UK), also Home Watch, is a volunteer-led community crime prevention movement begun in Mollington, Cheshire, in 1982; 1.4 million households take part, with evidence of 16-26% crime reduction.
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes
Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes (b. 1966, Aguililla, Michoacán), founder and leader of the CJNG cartel, indicted in Washington, $15 million US reward, reported captured and killed by Mexican special forces in Jalisco in February 2026.
Ñetas
Ñetas (Asociación Ñeta pro Derechos del Confinado) are a Puerto Rican prison and street gang founded in the 1970s by Carlos Torres Iriarte; largest prison gang in Puerto Rico, later spread to US mainland, Ecuador, and Spain, convicted en masse under RICO in 2016-2019.
Neuschwanstein murder
June 2023 killing of American tourist Eva Liu, 21, near Marienbrücke at Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria; Troy B. sentenced to life in Kempten in March 2024 for murder, rape with fatal consequences, and attempted murder.
New Bilibid Prison
New Bilibid Prison (NBP) is the Philippine national penitentiary in Muntinlupa City, run by the Bureau of Corrections. Opened 1940, overcrowded maximum-security compound, gang-controlled drug trade, slated for closure and redevelopment by 2028.
New Mexico State Penitentiary riot
New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, Penitentiary of New Mexico near Santa Fe, February 2-3, 1980: 36-hour inmate uprising, 33 inmates killed, 90 injured, 12 officers held hostage and rescued; second deadliest U.S. prison riot after Attica.
New Orleans crime family
New Orleans crime family (Matranga family), American Mafia organization founded around 1870 by Charles and Antonio Matranga; led for decades by Carlos Marcello, active in docks, gambling, and wire services, weakened by BRILAB and 1994 video-poker prosecutions.
Newgate novel
The Newgate novel was a genre of British fiction of the 1830s and 1840s centered on criminals, named after Newgate Prison, with works by Bulwer-Lytton, Ainsworth, and Dickens.
Newgate Prison
Newgate Prison, London's main City gaol from 1188 to 1904 at a Roman wall gate, held felons and debtors in notorious overcrowding, hosted Tyburn's transferred gallows from 1783, and was demolished in 1904 for the Old Bailey.
Nicholas Alahverdian
Nicholas Alahverdian, also known as Nicholas Rossi and Arthur Knight (1987-2026), was an American sex offender and former Rhode Island child-welfare advocate who faked his death in 2020, was arrested in Scotland in 2021, extradited to Utah, convicted of two 2008 rapes in 2025, and died in prison in 2026.
Nicholas Tartaglione
Nicholas Tartaglione, former Briarcliff Manor, New York police officer, convicted in 2023 of the 2016 quadruple murder of Martin Luna, Urbano Santiago, Miguel Luna, and Hector Gutierrez; four consecutive life terms; briefly Jeffrey Epstein's MCC cellmate in 2019.
Nick Yarris
Nick Yarris (Nicholas James Yarris, born 1961) is an American death row exoneree convicted in 1982 of the 1981 rape-murder of Linda Mae Craig in Pennsylvania, exonerated by DNA in 2003 after 21 years, subject of The Fear of 13.
Nicky Arnstein
Nicky Arnstein (Julius Wilford Arndstein, 1879–1965) was a Norwegian-born American gambler and con man, known as Fanny Brice's husband and for a Wall Street bond theft.
Nicky Barnes
Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, aka Mr. Untouchable, born 1933, ran the Council heroin syndicate in 1970s New York; convicted 1977, sentenced to life in 1978, became a federal witness, released into witness protection in 1998.
Nicole Brown Simpson
Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of O.J. Simpson, married him in 1985, endured documented abuse including a 1989 battery conviction, divorced in 1992, and was murdered with Ronald Goldman on June 12, 1994, leading to the televised 1995 trial.
Nicole Daedone
Nicole Daedone, also known as the "Oracle" of OneTaste, co-founded the orgasmic meditation company in San Francisco in 2004, sold it for $12 million in 2017, and was convicted of forced labor conspiracy in 2025 and sentenced to nine years in prison in 2026.
Nicolo Rizzuto
Nicolo (Nick) Rizzuto, born 1924 in Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, founded the Rizzuto crime family that controlled Montreal's mafia from the 1980s; arrested in Project Colisée 2006, he was killed by a sniper at his Montreal home on 10 November 2010.
Night Moves (1975 film)
Night Moves (1975) is Arthur Penn's neo-noir, written by Alan Sharp, starring Gene Hackman as PI Harry Moseby; working title The Dark Tower, released 11 June 1975 by Warner Bros.
Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy
Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy: 2006 leak of CHP crash-scene photos of 18-year-old Nicole Catsouras, spread to 2,500+ websites, leading to the 2010 Catsouras v. CHP privacy ruling and 2012 settlement.
Nikko Jenkins
Nikko Jenkins, Omaha spree killer, murdered four people in August 2013 within weeks of his unsupervised release from Nebraska prison after years in solitary; sentenced to death in 2017, appeals ongoing.
Nikodem Skotarczak
Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak (1954-1998), Polish gangster and businessman from Gdańsk who led the Tricity car-theft mafia, sponsored Lechia Gdańsk, and was shot dead in Gdynia in 1998.
Nimisha Priya
Nimisha Priya is an Indian nurse from Kerala who has been on death row in Yemen since 2020 for killing her Yemeni business partner, Talal Abdo Mahdi, in 2017.
Nine familial exterminations
Nine familial exterminations (zhū jiǔ zú) was a collective kin punishment in premodern China, Korea, and Vietnam, typically for treason, killing all of an offender's relatives.
Nine Trey Gangsters
Nine Trey Gangsters (NTG, Billies), a set of the United Blood Nation (East Coast Bloods) founded in New York, with ranked hierarchy under The 31 rules, active in RICO prosecutions from New Jersey to North Carolina and in the Tekashi 6ix9ine case.
Niño Guerrero
Niño Guerrero (Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, born 1983, Maracay) was the Venezuelan head of the Tren de Aragua gang, run from Tocorón prison; killed June 12, 2026 in a joint US-Venezuela strike in Bolívar state.