During the early 1930s Buccola along with his underboss Joseph Lombardo, a mobster from Boston's North side battled other ethnic gangs for territory.

Popularly known as "Farmer John", he was a protégé of Captains Jeremiah Petty and George W. Walling and battled such notorious gangs and river pirates such as the Tub of Blood Bunch, the Battle Row and Hell's Kitchen Gangs.

He claims a tank for his own and sets out to cross America and find her, battling gangs as he reaches his goal.

Gang members on one block are just as likely to fight fellow Bloods in another part of the city as they are to battle rival gangs, like the Crips.

His grandfather, for whom he was named, spent seven years in prison for his role in the Molly Maguires, an Irish-American secret society that battled the coal companies and rival ethnic gangs.

Specialist teams from Trident will lead a joint task force that incorporates all of Scotland Yard's units battling gangs, under the plans being finalised by senior officers.

Last spring in Brussels, police battled gangs of young Moroccans who complained of police harassment, joblessness and hopeless lives in immigrant ghettos.

In Danticat s recounting, the United Nations peacekeepers who arrived to stabilize the country after Aristide was forced into exile appear far more interested in battling local gangs than in serving the traumatized civilian population.

On criminal justice matters, she pledged greater Federal assistance to local officials battling drugs and gangs, and she urged that sentencing be better tailored to punish the truly wicked and spare those who merely lose their way.

He served two years in a Maryland prison before being shipped to Rikers, where he joined up with several Bloods who were battling other gangs.