A gang of illegal migrants running amok in Queens’ “Market of Sweethearts’’ — extorting brothels, beating rivals and selling drugs and phony IDs to finance an illicit network based in El Salvador — ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A Queens-based regional leader of the 18th Street Gang pleaded guilty to federal racketeering conspiracy charges in connection to a “sprawling racketeering conspiracy” that included a ...

At the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Yanki Misael Cruz-Mateo, a member of the 18th Street gang, a transnational criminal organization, was sentenced by United States District Judge LaShann DeArcy ...

The second-in-command of Portland’s 18th Street gang was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison for running the gang’s drug trafficking operation and possessing guns. Federal investigators placed ...