91. A shootout between the Red Command and the Third Command drug gangs left one man dead in the Antares slum in the impoverished Santa Cruz neighborhood Monday morning. 92. A shootout early Friday between rivaling drug gangs in a Rio de Janeiro slum left six people dead and two injured, police said. 93. A St. Vincent man has been sentenced to death by hanging for shooting and decapitating a member of a rival drug gang. 94. A suspected drug gang of four Puerto Ricans and five Dominicans were arrested on charges of trying to smuggle cocaine into the United States, Dominican authorities said Thursday. 95. According to press reports, the police have few leads and suspect the operation was carried out by the Third Command, a Rio drug gang. 96. Although no one has been brought to justice, the murders are being viewed as the work of drug gangs, according to officials at the U.S. State Department. 97. Alencar also announced he had authorized state police battalions to create special teams to combat drug gangs. 98. Among them were the suspected leaders of all three drug gangs. 99. And at least eight doctors are known to have been murdered in recent years after operating on suspected members of drug gangs. 100. As in other favelas, drug gangs dictate rules and keep a curious kind of order. |