List of gangs in Belize

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The following is a list of collective or corporate entities involved in organised crime in Belize, including street gangs, drug cartels, mafias, criminal enterprises, and criminal syndicates. This list includes both known or suspected and active or defunct entities. Tongs, outlaw motorcycle clubs, as well as terrorist, militant, and paramilitary groups are included only if involved in organised crime. Entities not based in Belize are included only if they are known to have or suspected of having members, chapters, or operations in Belize. [n 1]

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Gangs

Bloods and Crips gangs were introduced to Belize by US deportees in the 1980s, and especially adopted by locals upon the 1988 release of Colors . [1] A boom in violent and organised crime followed, not yet mitigated by the 2020s. [n 2] As of 2019, there were at least three dozen gangs in Belize City, each loosely affiliated to Bloods or Crips, totalling some 900 to 1,400 members. [n 3]

NameBaseSizeAgeNoStateCf
Gill Street
Gill Street Bloods		SouthMinor24.025Active [2]
Kraal Street
Kraal Road Crips		SouthMinor26.525Active [3]
Taylor's Alley
Taylor's Alley Crips, Taylor's Alley Bloods, West Molan Bloods		NorthMajor23.535Active [4]
Supal Road
Supal Road Gang, Supal Street Gang, Supal Street Crips, Supal Street Bloods		SouthMinor26.035Active [5]
Euphrates
Euphrates Bloods		SouthMinor——? [6]
Wagner's LaneSouthMinor——? [7]
Rocky Road
Rocky Road Gang, Rocky Road Crips, Rocky Road Bloods		SouthMinor26.018Active [8]
Pinks AlleyNorthMinor——? [9]
Neighbourhood
Neighbourhood Bloods		SouthMinor——? [10]
Kick Down FenceSouthMinor——? [11]
George Street
GSG, George Street Gang, George Street Bloods, Plum Street, Devon Bailey Area, George Street Gaza Gang		SouthMajor31.545Active [n 4]
Victoria Street
Victoria Street Bloods		NorthMinor26.027Active [12]
Pickstock Street
Pickstock Hutment Crips		NorthMinor——Active [13]
Kelly Street
Kelly Street Crips		NorthMinor26.025Active [14]
Back-a-Town
Back-a-Town Bloods, Back-a-Town Crips		SouthMinor29.525Active [15]
Ghost Town
Ghost Town Crips, Banak Street, Mayflower Street, Banak Crips, Banak Zone Gang		SouthMinor28.065Active [16]
RaidersSouthMinor——? [17]
Amara Street
Amara Street Bloods, Amara Bloods		SouthMinor24.523Active [18]
Jerusalem
Jerusalem Gang, Jerusalem Bloods, Jerusalem Crips		SouthMinor28.513Active [19]
Trapp
Trapp Bloods		NorthMinor——? [20]
PIV
Peace in the Village Bloods, Peace in the Valley Bloods, St Thomas PIV		SouthMajor26.0150Active [n 5]
Jane Usher
Jane Usher Bloods		SouthMinor26.040Active [21]
Southside
Southside Gang, Southside Gangsters, Southside Crips		SouthMajor26.095Active [n 6]
Sunset
Sunset Crips		SouthMinor24.513Active [22]
Majestic Alley
Majestic Alley Crips		NorthMajor28.538Active [23]
Pregnant Alley
Pregnant Alley Gang		?Major——? [n 7]
Brick City
Brick City Gang		?Minor——? [24]
Back-a-Land
BLC, Back-a-Land Crips		SouthMajor29.525Active [25]
Conch Shell
Conch Shell Bloods, Conch Shell Bay Bloods, Lauriano Bloods		SouthMinor24.528Active [26]
Jump Street
Jump Street Gang, Jump Street Crips		SouthMinor27.025Active [27]
123rd
123rd Gang		SouthMinor——Active [28]
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Gang, Afghanistan Bloods		SouthMinor24.513Active [29]
Gaza New Generation
Gaza New Generation Bloods		SouthMajor15.080Active [n 8]
Jungle
Jungle Bloods		?Minor26.030Active [30]
Louise Bevans
Louise Bevans Crips, Louise Bevins Crips, Freedom Street		SouthMinor24.535Active [31]
Antelope Street
Antelope Street Bloods, Antelope Extension Bloods		SouthMinor27.028Active [32]
Lacroix Boulevard
Lacroix Boulevard Bloods		?Minor25.528Active [33]
Police Street
Police Street Crips		?Minor26.030Active [34]
Plum Tree
Plum Tree Bloods		?Minor24.523Active [35]
Kings Park
Kings Park Crips		?Minor29.018Active [36]
103 New Road
103 New Road Bloods		NorthMinor21.018Active [37]
Riverside Boys?Minor16.018Active [38]
102
102 Crips, Parham Crips		?Minor26.513Active [39]
Belama
Belama Bloods, Riverside Bloods		?Minor25.013Active [40]
Simon Lamb Street
Simon Lamb Street Crips		?Minor27.513Active [41]
Neals Penn Road
Neals Penn Road Bloods, Gaza Bloods		?Minor25.013Active [42]
Horse and Carriage
Horse and Carriage Bloods		?Minor23.513Active [43]
Brian Brown FactionSouthMinor——Active [44]
Nurse Finley Faction
Nurse Finley Faction Gang		?Minor——Active [45]
Genaside
Genaside Gang		?Minor——Active [46]
T Street Faction
T Street Faction Gang		?Minor——Active [47]

Other entities

Guatemalan and Mexican groups use Belize to receive, store, and move illicit drugs and precursor chemicals. [48] Furthermore, Belizean gangs seemingly provide logistical help in return for illicit drugs and arms. [49]

NameBaseSizeStateCf
Mendoza clan
Mendoza family		 Guatemala Major? [n 9]
Zetas
Los Zetas		 Mexico Major? [50]
Sinaloa
Sinaloa Cartel		 Mexico Major? [51]
MS-13
Mara Salvatrucha		 El Salvador MajorActive [52]

See also

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ Jan; WB, pp. 210, 212.
  2. ↑ WB, p. 216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  3. ↑ WB, p. 216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  4. ↑ WB, p. 216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22, 24.
  5. ↑ WB, p. 216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22; Ral.
  6. ↑ WB, p. 216.
  7. ↑ WB, p. 216.
  8. ↑ WB, p. 216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22; Ral.
  9. ↑ WB, p. 216.
  10. ↑ WB, p. 216.
  11. ↑ WB, p. 216.
  12. ↑ WB, p. 216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22; Ral.
  13. ↑ WB, p. 216; Yg m, p. 22.
  14. ↑ WB, p. 216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  15. ↑ WB, p. 216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22; Ral.
  16. ↑ WB, p. 216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22; Ral.
  17. ↑ WB, p. 216.
  18. ↑ WB, p. 216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  19. ↑ WB, p. 216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  20. ↑ WB, p. 216.
  21. ↑ WB, p. 216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  22. ↑ WB, p. 216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  23. ↑ WB, p. 214; Yg m, pp. 21–22, 24; Ral.
  24. ↑ WB, p. 219.
  25. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22, 24; Ral.
  26. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  27. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22; Ral.
  28. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 22.
  29. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  30. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  31. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  32. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  33. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  34. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  35. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  36. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  37. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  38. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  39. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  40. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  41. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  42. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  43. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22.
  44. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 22.
  45. ↑ Ral.
  46. ↑ Ral.
  47. ↑ Ral.
  48. ↑ Bun, p. 183.
  49. ↑ Bun, p. 183; Kry, p. 9.
  50. ↑ Bun, p. 194.
  51. ↑ Bun, p. 194.
  52. ↑ Kry, p. 19; Ral.
  1. ↑ Notes and short citations provided in Cf columns. For gangs, Base, Age, and No columns give location in Belize City (Northside versus Southside), estimated mean age of members, and estimated median tally of members, respectively. This article uses ACLED data (Ral, filtered for Belize on 16 July 2025) for information on recent (2018 and later) gang-related incidents.
  2. ↑ For instance, WB found the murder rate has been steadily increasing since the 1990s (pp. 4-6, 197, 209), noting the state, scholars, and press often blame gangs for the vast majority of crime (pp. 1, 8, 198, 209-210).
  3. ↑ WB, p. 210; Yg m, pp. xv, 19–20. Though data 'is limited' (Yg m, p. 19).
  4. ↑ WB, pp. 214–216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22, 24; Ral. Deemed 'the most powerful' with up to 150 members and 'well developed internal informal hierarchies' (WB, p. 215). Main rivals deemed Southside Gang and Pregnant Alley Gang (WB, p. 215). NYC killing of leader Lyndon 'Tunan' Arnold (in retaliation for 1992 killing of alleged Majestic Alley Crips leader Derek 'Itza' Brown) deemed 'most visible initial event' of incipient gang warfare, after which 'violence between gangs became more and more entrenched and the level of violence increased' (WB, p. 214). 2012 killing of leader Shelton 'Pinky' Tillett broke a 2011 government-mediated truce of 13 gangs, including GSG (WB, pp. 219–220).
  5. ↑ WB, p. 216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22; Ral. Deemed one of 'largest gangs by estimated number of members' (Yg m, p. 20).
  6. ↑ WB, p. 215-216; Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22; Ral. Deemed 'second in terms of organisational capacities' to main rivals GSG (WB, p. 215). Deemed one of 'largest gangs by estimated number of members' (Yg m, p. 20).
  7. ↑ WB, p. 215. Deemed 'second in terms of organisational capacities' to main rivals GSG (WB, p. 215).
  8. ↑ Yg m, pp. 9, 21–22. Deemed one of 'largest gangs by estimated number of members' (Yg m, p. 20).
  9. ↑ Bun, pp. 183, 194. Well-connected crime family; Zetas arrival [likely 2007] 'forced them to change their calculus' (Bun, pp. 180–181). Allegedly use(d) Belize 'as a respite and strategic headquarters' (Bun, p. 183).

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