A former south suburban police officer was convicted by a federal jury Friday of conspiring to rob motorists of cash and drugs during traffic stops and extorting people in exchange for declining to ...

Mr. Grillo is a contributing Opinion writer who has covered organized crime in Latin America for two decades. He wrote from Mexico City. If you are buying a lime in the United States — to juice up a ...

President Trump has personally stipulated that hefty financial penalties be part of agreements his administration is negotiating with the elite universities. Critics call it extortion. By Michael C.

Extortionist gangs in Canada have caused enough targeted violence that officials want to call in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to break them up. Authorities are targeting the international ...

A shop owner facing threats shutters the clothing store that had been in his family for generations. A leader of a citrus growers association is kidnapped and killed after refusing mob demands for a ...