Nearly 90 suspected gang members were arrested in large-scale early morning raids in Los Angeles. The members of the "Avenues" gang are accused of murder, dealing drugs and "other gang crimes." Previously: MS-13.

Christian Poveda, a French documentarian who released a film about gangs in El Salvador, was killed in an apparent gang ambush near San Salvador. Poveda's most recent film, La Vida Loca, focused on bitter MS 13 rivals, the Mara 18 gang.

A California gang member who is suing the El Monte City Police has been advised by his lawyer to grow a mustache and hair on his head to cover up his tattoos in an effort to improve his chances of winning the case.

Ramon Huerta, a 64-year-old retired chef, says he's "embarrassed to go outside" after being wrongly arrested in a Los Angeles gang sweep last week.

The FBI has arrested nearly 150 members of the predominantly Latino Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang (based near Long Beach, California) for drug dealing and targeting African-Americans in violent attacks.

Fox News and other conservative media outlets are criticizing a program in the House stimulus bill that would help former gang members get out of the life by having their tattoos removed. The tattoo removal program accounts for .00005 percent of the $410 billion package.

Listen to NPR's report on the rise of vigilantism and gang violence in Guatemala.

A prison riot between rival gangs in Guatemala has left seven prisoners dead – six of them beheaded.

Law enforcement officials in Brazil are searching for a gang that broke into a police station, stole confiscated drugs, money and weapons before blowing the building up with dynamite.

A riot caused by rival gangs at a Mexican jail in the border town of Reynosa, Tamaulipas leaves 15 dead.