Just as their Italian counterparts, gangs specializing in extortion began operating in the heavily Jewish neighborhoods of New York's Lower East Side most prominently the so-called Yiddish Black Hand headed by Jacob Levinsky, Charles "Charlie the Cripple" Litoffsky and Joseph Toplinsky during the early 20th century.

By 1993, Saverin's father had become wealthy, and in 1993 it was discovered that his son Eduardo's name had been placed on a list of potential kidnapping victims by gangs specializing in kidnapping for ransom.

Traffickers are organized criminal gangs specializing in movement of persons, proprietors of small businesses such as bars or brothels, or illicit employment brokers; victims are lured romantically or with promises of legitimate employment and then forced into prostitution.

They claimed in a series of articles of a growing trend in the country of "criminal tourism for which eastern European Roma clans are responsible" with professional gangs specializing in burglary, thefts, organized begging and street prostitution.

In addition, authorities say, some former soldiers and policemen have formed gangs specializing in robbery and kidnapping.

Dennis graduates from the club into a seasoned streetwalker who hangs out with a gang specializing in drugs and car theft.

Gus Winkler (March 28, 1901 Lemay, Missouri - October 9, 1933 North Center, Chicago) was a St. Louis mobster who, with Fred "Killer" Burke, was head of a criminal gang specializing in armed robbery and murder for hire.

April - Brazilian police arrest 20 suspected members of a gang specializing in contract killings in the state of Pernambuco.

In "Debt", Ming-Na played a woman who gets in over her head with a Chinese gang specializing in smuggling and extortion.