Gangs/illegal drugs

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Did you know that up to 25% of gang members use illegal drugs ?
No wonder these groups are so psychotic, violent, and out of touch with reality.
Their " initiation" process is a disgustingly intense level of brainwashing, giving them delusions of grandeur..

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Here's a nice site for you clowns that ' protect and serve"
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Granny says, "Dat's right - deport `em back to where dey come from...

3,800 Gang Suspects Charged in US-Central American Six-month Roundup
September 29, 2017 - U.S. and Central American law enforcement authorities announced Friday that they have charged more than 3,800 members of the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs in coordinated law enforcement action since March.

The charges, announced in Miami by acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco and the attorneys general of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, reflect a stepped-up effort by the Trump administration to root out transnational criminal gangs in the United States. With an estimated 10,000 members in the United States, MS-13 is the one of the largest street gangs in the country and the only one designated as a transnational criminal organization by the Treasury Department.

The 18th Street gang, also known as Barrio 18, is a multiethnic gang that, like MS-13, operates in major U.S. cities. "MS-13 is one of the most violent and ruthless gangs in America today, endangering communities in more than 40 states," U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said. "But under President Trump's strong leadership, the Department of Justice is taking them off our streets." While the vast majority of the charges were brought in El Salvador, MS-13's home turf, officials said more than 70 gang members living in the United States have been indicted in the past six months.

Racketeering indictment

The gang's El Salvador-based "East Coast Program" leader, Edwin Manica Flores, was charged in a racketeering indictment unsealed in Boston on Thursday, the Justice Department said. The Trump administration has vowed to get the gang members off the streets. President Donald Trump issued an executive order in February to "dismantle and eradicate" the transnational gangs.

Children watch police officers as they paint over graffiti related to the MS-13 gang in the La Vega neighborhood in San Salvador, El Salvador​

In March, Sessions met with his counterparts from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to develop "strategies and concrete plans to give a strong and coordinated response to MS-13's increasingly transnational criminal activities." The arrests stemmed from the joint effort, Sessions said. "MS-13 coordinates across our borders to kill, rape and traffic drugs and underage girls; we've got to coordinate across our borders to stop them," Sessions said in a statement.

Central American law enforcement officials said their close cooperation with the United States was paying off. "Studying their modus operandi, we realized tackling [the gangs] would require working jointly with the United States, Guatemala and El Salvador," said Honduran Attorney General Chinchilla Banegas. "This approach has allowed us to share information and strike the financial structures of the gangs."

3,800 Gang Suspects Charged in US-Central American Six-month Roundup

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Officials Praise Large Gang Roundups in US, Central America
September 28, 2017 | WASHINGTON — Authorities in the U.S. and Central America say they have indicted thousands of violent street gang members since March, including a powerful MS-13 leader who allegedly ordered bloodshed on the East Coast while imprisoned in El Salvador.

Law enforcement officials planned to announce the arrests Friday in Miami, where Justice Department officials are meeting with attorneys general from the so-called Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The notoriously brutal street gang has roots in Central America and the U.S., and authorities are touting the indictments of 3,800 members in six months as a sign that bolstered cooperation among the countries is paying off. MS-13 has become a prime target of the Trump administration, which discusses its violence in suburban, immigrant communities in an effort to build support for a broader crackdown on immigration. President Donald Trump directed federal law enforcement to focus resources on combating transnational gangs during his first weeks in office. And Attorney General Jeff Sessions flew to El Salvador in July, in part to learn more about how the gang's activities there affect crime in the U.S.

Rewarding work for prosecutors

Sessions’ aggressive work against MS-13 is one way he continues to carry out Trump’s agenda at the Justice Department, even as the president remains openly critical of his decision months ago to recuse himself from the investigation into Trump campaign ties to Russia. During a White House dinner with conservative leaders this week, Trump expressed “almost disdain” for Sessions when asked about a technical matter involving the Justice Department, according to a participant, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting.

Detainees sit on the floor during U.S. Attorney General Jeff Session tours a local police station and detention center in San Salvador, El Salvador​

For federal prosecutors who have long worked to quash the gang, the new emphasis has been rewarding. The arrests include more than 70 people in the U.S. during roundups in Los Angeles, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, the Long Island suburbs of New York and Columbus, Ohio. Among those charged is Edwin Manica Flores, known as “Shugar,” who investigators say led the gang’s East Coast operation from prison in El Salvador, according to a racketeering indictment unsealed in Boston Thursday. It says he encouraged recruitment in the U.S. and taught his counterparts ways to evade law enforcement.

Northern Triangle

Law enforcement in the Northern Triangle arrested hundreds more, including members of the rival 18th Street gang, seizing guns and luxury cars and in some cases entire businesses, officials said. U.S. cases are so often linked to those in Central America that investigators from all of the countries will use the Miami visit as a chance to swap intelligence and share strategies that can help build cases against gang members in the U.S., said Kenneth A. Blanco, acting head of the Justice Department's criminal division. “The fact that we are hitting them on both sides is really what's important,” Blanco said.

MS-13 is believed by federal prosecutors to have more than 10,000 members in the U.S., a mix of immigrants from Central America and U.S.-born members. The gang originated in Los Angeles in the 1980s then entrenched itself in Central America when its leaders were deported.

Entire towns under gang control​