1.   The trouble began when gangs began breaking windows and looting shops.

2.   And within a year, the gang began to come apart.

3.   But if the gangs began with strong Central and South American connections, Walker said he believes the gangs have increasingly more diverse memberships.

4.   It was not so bad, some older people said, before a gang began using the projects and concrete-block houses as a base to sell crack.

5.   The gangs also have begun recruiting members of teen-age street gangs to help them run criminal enterprises, including drug trafficking, outside of prison.

6.   The Mexican gangs began selling it directly themselves.

7.   Three years ago, when gangs began taking hold in force, he organized a baseball league for members.

8.   Under increasing pressure from police and prison officials, the gangs have begun to change.

9.   Peruvian gangs have also begun refining cocaine for shipment to the United States via Mexico.

10.   Still, gangs began evicting ethnic Croats from their homes in Serbia and Bosnia to make room for the new arrivals.