Crackdown on Buffalo gang nets 44 convictions

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Law enforcement officials say they’ve made a Buffalo neighborhood much safer following the arrests and convictions of dozens of members of a violent street gang.

Federal prosecutors and local police officials say they’ve removed some 200 members of the 10th Street Gang from the city’s Lower West Side, the scene of more than 20 gang-related homicides in recent years.

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