One suspect, Josephine Troia, 24, a suspected gang associate, had previously worked at the branch and provided inside information to the group, the indictment charges.

They are also charged with the contract arson of a hair salon in Jackson Heights as an insurance job for a gang associate, Sandra Sanchez.

An inmate at the Pelican Bay State Prison in Northern California, he has spent the past four years in maximum-security confinement because prison authorities have judged him to be "a gang associate."

One of Campagna's gang associates was future Chicago Outfit boss Al Capone.

In 1996, a judge dismissed testimony from another C&C member, Joseph Pillot, who told the authorities that he and the gang associate later mentioned by Mr. Feliciano had committed the shooting.

August 7, 2009 (Las Vegas and Mesquite, Nev.): A total of 29 gang members and gang associates were taken into custody following a three-day multi-agency gang enforcement operation.

On cross-examination, Mr. Geralds said he had agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, despite the threat from former gang associates, "for my kids."

Validated gang associates are sometimes kept from classroom or vocational training for institutional safety and security reasons relative to gang tensions or conflict.

Investigations revealed that Falconer had died three days beforehand, after his corpse had been cut up and dumped within the Hastings River by Anthony Perish and his criminal gang associates.

In that city, the Falcon and Leila take refuge with some of the Falcon's old gang associates.