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Cars with foreign plates have been showing up in Africa in staggering numbers, with the majority hailing from Canada and the United States. A whopping 80 percent of stolen vehicles in Canada are said to leave the country's ports and most end up in countries like Ghana. Authorities have also noticed an increase in the number of stolen cars departing the United States for West Africa. An ongoing investigation has seized cars at major shipping ports like New Jersey and Baltimore. In August, Homeland Security said it had already seized about 300 stolen vehicles at the Port of Newark this...

A crime tale straight out of Charles Dickens is unfolding in the Big Apple — with adults “directing” children who appear no older than 10 to steal from unsuspecting businesses, witnesses told The Post. The chubby-cheeked crooks have terrorized bars on the east and west side of Manhattan and Brooklyn for months, graduating from snatching money in unattended bags to stealing cash from open safes in at least two bars in the last few weeks, according to workers and owners.

UPDATED: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 5:27AM CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago shootings this Labor Day Weekend have left at least 38 people shot, four fatally, police said.

UPDATED: Monday, September 4, 2023 8:07AM CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago shootings this Labor Day Weekend have left three people dead and another 29 wounded, police said. A teen boy was critically injured in a South Side shooting on Sunday evening, Chicago police said. Police said the shooting happened in the Englewood neighborhood's 6000-block of South Elizabeth Street just after 7 p.m. The teen was near the sidewalk when someone shot him in the head, police said. Over an hour earlier, a 6-year-old boy was shot inside a South Side home, Chicago police said. Police said the shooting happened in the...

The court proceedings against a British organized crime operation known as OCG Square, whose members are accused of stealing over $5 million worth of goods over two years and 22 separate heists has begun in Northampton, the Northhamptonshire Telegraph reported Tuesday. The gang’s alleged crime spree ran from April 2019 through September 2021 and, though the majority of the thefts were in Corby, North Northamptonshire, OCG Square is accused of stealing “high value” goods, including works of art, Range Rovers, luxury clothes, solar panels, and hundreds of thousands of face masks and antiseptic wipes businesses across the UK. British Museum...

Haitian police, government officials and some members of the foreign diplomatic corps have been hoping that an offer by Kenya to lead an international intervention into a troubled Haiti would mean thousands of additional cops helping to dismantle and fight heavily armed kidnapping gangs. Instead, however, the proposal is shaping up as an offer to protect key government infrastructures like the airport, seaports and main roads, which critics say will not curb the violence and only end in failure. “Most of the critical infrastructures they were quoting are in the hands of the gangs. Before protecting this critical infrastructure, you...

An increase in shootings due to a supposed gang war in Chicago has led community leaders to propose a radical new solution to violent crime. In a proposal called “The People’s Ordinance,” community group Native Sons asks that city gangsters refrain from firing guns at one another between daylight hours of 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. “We have to start somewhere,” co-founder of Native Sons Tatiana Atkins told CWB Chicago. “Our goal is to approach our city’s gun violence problem strategically and not all at once. Things didn’t become this way overnight, and change won’t happen overnight." The ordinance was...

CHICAGO -- At least 38 people have been shot, seven fatally, across Chicago so far this weekend, police said. A man was shot to death in his car early Sunday at a red light in River North. The 24-year-old was stopped at the light about 3:30 a.m. in the 800-block of North Orleans Street when someone in a white SUV pulled up next to him and began shooting at him, Chicago police said. Two Chicago Public Schools students were gunned down this weekend. Hours before that shooting, police said, two other teenagers were shot at a North Austin park. Ashuntice...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Nine female victims were shot, one fatally, early Sunday morning on Chicago's West Side, Chicago police said. The victims were at a gathering in the 1500-block of South Keeler Avenue just after 12:50 a.m. in the city's North Lawndale neighborhood when a black Jeep drove up, and multiple unknown suspects were seen getting out of the vehicle with guns, police said. They began shooting toward the group, hitting the female victims, at least one of which died. A 21-year-old woman was shot in the face, and taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in critical condition, where she died...

UPDATED: Monday, July 24, 2023 4:54AM CHICAGO -- At least 33 people have been shot, including six fatal shootings, across Chicago so far this weekend, police say. A 29-year-old man found in a rolled over vehicle in the city's Little Village neighborhood early Sunday morning had been shot in the head, Chicago police said. Officers responding to a person shot in the 3000-block of West 21st Street about 1:25 a.m. found a man in a rolled over vehicle with a gunshot wound to the head, CPD said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, where he died...

UPDATED: Sunday, July 2, 2023 6:26PM CHICAGO -- At least 31 people have been shot, three fatally, in Fourth of July weekend gun violence across Chicago, police said. A man was killed and three others wounded in a shooting Friday night in Chicago Lawn. The four were standing on a sidewalk about 8:15 p.m. in the 6300 block of South Artesian Avenue when someone in a black Dodge Charger pulled up and an occupant opened fire, Chicago police said. A 16-year-old boy was struck by gunfire early Saturday in West Englewood. He was walking on a sidewalk about 1:30 a.m....

CHICAGO -- At least 29 people have been shot, eight fatally, in shootings across Chicago this weekend, police said. A 19-year-old man was shot and killed inside a rideshare car in Chicago's Little Italy neighborhood. A 15-year-old boy was shot to death Sunday afternoon in the Little Village neighborhood. A woman was fatally shot during an argument early Sunday inside a home in Albany Park on the Northwest Side. A man was also killed, and another was wounded, in a shooting Friday night in Back of the Yards. Last weekend, at least 75 people were shot, 14 fatally, in gun...

UPDATED: Sunday, June 25, 2023 9:57AM CHICAGO -- At least 21 people have been shot, three fatally, in shootings across Chicago this weekend, police said. A woman was fatally shot during an argument early Sunday inside a home in Albany Park on the Northwest Side. Two men were fighting just after midnight inside the residence in the 4500 block of North Albany Avenue when one of them fired a gun, striking the woman in the head, Chicago police said. She was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, police said. Her age wasn't immediately known. No...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago shootings over the holiday weekend have left more than 75 shot, 13 fatally, police said. The latest shootings attacked groups of teenagers. Gunfire erupted in the West Garfield Park as three teens were standing on a front porch in the 3800-block of Gladys Avenue when someone in a dark-colored car opened fire, police said. Just a few hours earlier and less than two-miles away, police said a 14-year-old boy walking down the block in the 100-block of North Francisco Avenue when an unknown gunman opened fire on him. He was struck in the right arm and...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 55 people have been shot, nine fatally, in shootings across Chicago over the three-day holiday weekend so far, police said. Five people were shot, two fatally, on the city's South Side on Sunday evening, Chicago police said. The shooting happened in the Roseland neighborhood near West 99th Street and South Princeton Avenue. Four men were shot, one fatally, in the Austin neighborhood early Sunday. Just before 3 a.m., five men were fighting inside a garage in the 5400-block of West Crystal Street when one of the men pulled out a gun and opened fire, according...

UPDATED: Sunday, June 18, 2023 3:33PM CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 40 people have been shot, four fatally, in shootings across Chicago this weekend, police said. Four men were shot, one fatally, in the Austin neighborhood early Sunday. Just before 3 a.m., five men were fighting inside a garage in the 5400-block of West Crystal Street when one of the men pulled out a gun and opened fire, according to Chicago police. One man, 31, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to Loyola University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said. A teen boy was killed and...

CHICAGO -- At least 31 people have been shot, four fatally, in shootings across the city this weekend, police said. Two men were shot, one fatally, Sunday morning in Chicago Lawn on the South Side. They were outside in the 3100-block of West Redfield Drive when someone approached them and fired shots about 8 a.m., according to Chicago police. Later Sunday, a 20-year-old man was shot and killed in the North Lawndale neighborhood. He was standing on a sidewalk about 6 p.m. in the 1900-block of South St. Louis Avenue when someone approached in a vehicle and fired shots, striking...

UPDATED ON: JUNE 11, 2023 / 11:44 AM / CHICAGO (CBS) -- At least two person is dead and 23 others were injured following shootings across the City of Chicago this weekend. The ages of the victims range from 15 to 59 years old. In the first shooting of the weekend around 9 p.m. Friday night, police say a 51-year-old man was walking on the sidewalk in the 200 block of East 111th Street when he was shot in the leg. The victim was transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in fair condition. Shortly later at 9:45 p.m., a man...

PORT-AU PRINCE , Haiti — Old cars, used tires and barbed wire block off the biggest neighborhood in the capital of Haiti. Gun-toting gangsters have been robbing, raping and murdering the innocent. Weak or corrupt police and officials have done little, or worse. Now, the people are taking action and a wave of brutal vigilante justice is roiling Haiti, concentrated in this capital of about 1 million. The vigilantes close off neighborhoods. They stone and often chop the limbs of suspected gangsters, behead them and set them afire, sometimes while they are still alive. Vigilantes have killed at least 164...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Surveillance video captured the chaotic moments just after 1 a.m. on Sunday, when seven people were shot, one of them fatally, during a large gathering in Chicago's Austin neighborhood. Dozens of people can be seen running away from gunfire, taking shelter behind vehicles. Among them was a gunman, dressed in jeans and a white top. He opened fire before running away. Police said the gathering started out as a celebration of life. Terry'a Adams, 25, was killed in the shooting. The group was gathering to remember her boyfriend, who died in a crash four years ago. "She...