Difficult to define term ‘gang-related’ Police and gang experts generally agree Iowa faces a smaller gang problem than it did in the 1990s, when crack cocaine fueled the spread of gangs into ...

A man from El Salvador wanted for homicide in his home country and believed to be associated with the MS-13 gang was arrested ...

It was about 1989 when police started noticing street gangs emerging in large numbers around Iowa, said Clemons Bartollas, a University of Northern Iowa professor of criminology who has authored ...

13 GANG. VIRUS REMAINS IN ICE CUSTODY WITHOUT BOND. IN A STATEMENT, ICE ENFORCEMENT SAYS IOWA IS NOT IMMUNE FROM CENTRAL AMERICAN CRIMINALS AND THAT THEY WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK DO A man from El ...

NPR talked to the families of four men believed to be in El Salvador. None of them had a serious criminal record in the U.S.