Chinatown

A community struggles as more drug-dealers move into Chinatown
By Tingting Zhao

Chinatown Gangs in the News

MAN LINKED TO GANGS ARRESTED WITH 3 OTHERS
Boston Globe
February 18, 1987

A 29-year-old Winchester man, described by police as involved with Vietnamese gangs in Boston's Chinatown, and three others were arrested last night on drug charges, police said. Viet Van Ngueng, 29, was arrested at his home by Boston police on charges of heroin trafficking and conspiracy to violate the narcotics drug law, said Thomas Santry, a police spokesman…

18 MEN ARRESTED IN CHINATOWN RAID
Boston Globe
March 7, 1988

As part of a continuing investigation of Asian gangs, Boston police late Saturday night arrested 18 men in Chinatown on gaming charges, police said. Officers carrying search warrants entered an apartment at 27 Beach St., where police said they discovered illegal gambling. Police said they found two automatic handguns, two semiautomatic handguns and a .38-caliber handgun…

HUB SHOOTING SPARKS FEAR OF GANG WAR
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
August 14, 1989

BOSTON (AP) - Extra police have been assigned to patrol Boston's Chinatown to prevent a possible gang war following the apparent assassination of a Chinese organized crime boss.

Police are searching for a masked gunman who walked into the New Dragon Chef restaurant in Arlington shortly after 10 p.m. Friday and fired about 10 shots from a 9mm automatic handgun, pumping at least six bullets into Michael Kwong, 30, of Malden…

VIOLENCE FUELS FEARS IN AREA
By Matthew Brelis, Globe Staff
Boston Globe
January 13, 1991

The massacre yesterday that left five men dead has residents and civic leaders afraid that Boston's Chinatown could be transformed from an insulated community struggling to maintain its identity into a neighborhood overrun by gang-related violence and the sprawling New England Medical Center complex to the south...