{"id":19477,"date":"2025-11-11T14:11:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=19477"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:12:04","slug":"dangerous-neighborhood-gang-dismantled-in-constantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=19477","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Neighborhood Gang Dismantled in Constantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Constantine, Algeria<\/strong> &#8211; A notorious neighborhood gang has been dismantled in Constantine following a successful operation by the National Gendarmerie&#8217;s Research and Investigation unit. The operation, which concluded recently, resulted in the arrest of five individuals believed to be responsible for a range of criminal activities.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released by the Gendarmerie, the investigation was launched after credible intelligence indicated the presence of a group involved in transporting and distributing hard drugs and psychotropic substances throughout various neighborhoods in the area. The group reportedly used a black Volkswagen vehicle in their operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon receiving this information,&#8221; the statement continued, &#8220;we intensified our investigation, enhanced intelligence gathering, and closely monitored their movements. Once the identities of the gang members were confirmed, a meticulous plan was devised to apprehend them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A coordinated raid on the suspects&#8217; residences led to the discovery of a significant cache of illegal items. Authorities seized 450 capsules of Pregabalin 300mg, a psychotropic substance, along with 104 ecstasy pills. In addition, two homemade firearms, twelve 16mm cartridges, and five bladed weapons of varying sizes were confiscated.<\/p>\n<p>The Gendarmerie also uncovered four glass bottles filled with gasoline and fitted with wicks (Molotov cocktails), a sum of 864,000 Algerian dinars, a wooden table equipped with two motors used for sharpening bladed weapons (swords and daggers), and the vehicle used in the gang&#8217;s transportation activities.<\/p>\n<p>The five individuals were taken into custody and transported to the Gendarmerie headquarters for further investigation. Upon completion of the investigation, a legal case will be prepared against the suspects. They will face charges related to managing and organizing a criminal group, illegal possession of weapons, and trafficking in hard drugs and psychotropic substances. <em>DZWatch will continue to follow this developing story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">More Algeria articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constantine, Algeria &#8211; A notorious neighborhood gang has been dismantled in Constantine following a successful operation by the National Gendarmerie&#8217;s Research and Investigation unit. The operation, which concluded recently, resulted in the arrest of five individuals believed to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19479,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19477\/revisions\/19479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}