The Gang Chokes
Most Frequent Crime
Poisoning
Deliberately poisoning or contaminating food/consumables and/or administering a harmful substance to other people, causing or intended to cause illness (criminal poisoning/food tampering; could support charges of assault or attempted murder depending on intent and effect).
Criminal Activities
Breaking and Entering
Unlawfully entering another person's dwelling or property without permission. Depending on jurisdiction and facts (e.g., if done with intent to commit a felony), this can be burglary; otherwise it is criminal trespass or unlawful entry.
Situation:
"Charlie (or a member of the gang acting on Charlie's statements) explicitly says 'I broke in again' when referring to entering Dennis's mother's residence to 'spruce her up' and later admits 'I threw a sheet over her head.' The line 'I broke in again' is an unambiguous admission of unauthorized entry into someone else's home."
Criminal Threats
Knowingly making a threat to commit a violent act against another person (words or gestures that place a reasonable person in fear of imminent physical harm) can constitute a criminal threat or assault in U.S. jurisdictions. Simple verbal threats that place a victim in reasonable fear may be charged as misdemeanor assault or as a separate criminal-threats offense depending on the jurisdiction.
Situation:
"Mac repeatedly threatens violent physical harm and describes having a hammer with which he could have 'been bashing your face in before you knew what hit you,' and discusses picking a 'door or window' to force entry. Those statements, coupled with possession of a hammer and an expressed intent to use it to harm, constitute criminal threats/menacing and conduct that could support an assault charge."
Poisoning
Deliberately poisoning or contaminating food/consumables and/or administering a harmful substance to other people, causing or intended to cause illness (criminal poisoning/food tampering; could support charges of assault or attempted murder depending on intent and effect).
Situation:
"Mac and Charlie explicitly prepare a drink laced with a 'major histamine toxin' intended to cause Dennis's throat to seize up so Mac can then 'save' him with an EpiPen. Dialogue: 'This powder is a major histamine toxin. The second Dennis drinks it, his throat's just gonna start to seize right up... After a few minutes, Mac, you jab him with that EpiPen you save his life.' Later, Dee drinks the poisoned shake and collapses/wheezes, demonstrating the group actually supplied a toxic drink that caused severe bodily harm."
Poisoning
Deliberately poisoning or contaminating food/consumables and/or administering a harmful substance to other people, causing or intended to cause illness (criminal poisoning/food tampering; could support charges of assault or attempted murder depending on intent and effect).
Situation:
"Mac and Charlie discuss and agree upon the plan to poison Dennis (or another target) and then 'save' him to create dependence. They coordinate roles (who will poison, who will administer the EpiPen) and take steps (mixing the toxin into the shake and offering it), meeting the elements of a conspiracy to commit killing by poisoning."