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Comment (The sentencing of 23-year-old twin gang bosses - the youngest godfathers ever convicted in the municipality - has got locals talking about the growing problem of young delinquents.
Zhang Bo and Zhong Tao were each jailed for 17 years.
Residents said the gang founded by the brothers two years ago was full of members who "still wear baby faces". The youngest gang member arrested by police during the crackdown was 19.
The twins from Wanzhou district were also fined 100,000 yuan ($14,600) each for organizing and leading a mafia-style gang, running gambling houses, intentional injury of others, intentional damage of other's assets and illegal detention.
The convictions in Chongqing No 2 intermediate people's court followed a trial in which Zhang Bo claimed: "I can't have formed any sort of organization. I've never even heard of black society (a mafia-style gang)."
Twelve people were found guilty on Friday of being a pa...
