illegal alien gangs plaguing American streets!

[Wolfmoon]

If you know more please add them.


MS-13 National Gang Task Force
Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, continues to expand its influence in the United States. FBI investigations reveal that it is present in almost every state and continues to grow its membership, now targeting younger recruits more than ever before.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/vc_majorthefts/gangs/gangs_ms13taskforce

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Raza Unida prison gang members and associates were indicted on drug trafficking and firearms charges in Operation Lunar Eclipse. More

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http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/vc_majorthefts/gangs/success


San Antonio: The Texas Mexican Mafia
Operation Deception, a joint investigation with the FBI, DEA, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice focused on the Texas Mexican Mafia operating in San Antonio. The Texas Mexican Mafia is engaged in smuggling, narcotics distribution, murder, and extortion. Information discerned via the investigation led to the recovery of the bodies of two murder victims. To date, the investigation has resulted in 62 arrests and 39 indictments in 2003 and 2004.

San Diego: The Mexican Mafia (La Eme)
Operation La Mano Negra targeted the Mexican Mafia operating in Southern California. This two year joint investigation by the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the San Diego County District Attorney's Office, San Diego County Probation, the San Diego County Sheriff's Office, and the San Diego Police Department was initiated by a source within the Mexican Mafia in the San Diego area. Eventually, the investigation identified 527 members or associates of the Mexican Mafia. The investigation also included 25 evidence purchases of weapons and drugs and 27 search warrants. The investigation to date has resulted in 37 federal indictments, 35 state indictments, and the indictment of the highest ranking Mexican Mafia gang member in San Diego.

Tampa : The Almighty Latin Kings (ALKN)
Operation Down Crown, a joint FBI/Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office investigation, targeted the Almighty Latin Kings in the Tampa area. Intelligence derived from investigation indicated that members of the ALKN were trafficking large amounts of drugs, especially ecstasy. The investigation targeted three ALKN members in particular: the Tampa "First Crown" ALKN leader; the "Second Crown"; and the "Enforcer.” To date the investigation has resulted in 25 arrests and 21 indictments.


Detroit : The Chaldean Mafia

The Chaldean Mafia, composed predominantly of Iraqi nationals, operated a narcotics distribution network moving drugs from Phoenix and San Diego to Detroit. Involved in violent crimes such as homicide, assault, kidnaping, armed robbery, and arson, the gang used intimidation and brutal force to move the narcotics and collect drug proceeds. The work of the Detroit Metropolitan Violent Crime Task Force—with representatives from the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); the Detroit Police Department; the Michigan State Police Department; and the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office—resulted in the conviction of 111 subjects and the seizure of $5.3 million, 6.5 tons of marijuana, 25 kilograms of cocaine, five pounds of crystal methamphetamine, and 78 firearms.


Boston : The Almighty Latin King/Queen Nation (ALKQN)
Operation Dethrone was an investigation by the Western Massachusetts Gang Task Force, consisting of the FBI, the Chicopee Police Department, the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department, the Holyoke Police Department, the Massachusetts State Police, the Springfield Police Department, and the West Springfield Police Department. The first phase of the investigation, targeting the Lawrence chapter of the ALKQN, was converted to an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force/High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (OCDETF/HIDTA) interagency case involving numerous federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. After the significant disruption of the Lawrence chapter in February 2004, information provided by cooperating defendants led to the significant disruption of the Springfield chapter in June 2005. Fifty-seven ALKQN members have been indicted.


Denver : The Gallant Knights Insane (GKI)
The Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force investigated crack cocaine and firearms trafficking by the GKI street gang, responsible for homicides, drive-by shootings, aggravated assaults, home invasions, and robberies. Law enforcement officers from the FBI, the Adams County Sheriff's Office, the Aurora Police Department, the Colorado Department of Corrections, the Denver Police Department, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office executed 56 search warrants, secured 47 indictments, and seized 26 firearms, as well as two pipe bombs, in their efforts to dismantle the gang.

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FBI — Highlighting Recent FBI Gang Investigations


Washington, D.C. June 04, 2009

• FBI National Press Office(202) 324-3691

The U.S. is seeing a rise in gang membership across the country and as membership spreads from urban to suburban areas, so does the associated criminal activity. Gangs are involved not only in auto theft, assault, home invasions, armed robbery, and extortion, but also in fraud, identity theft, drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, alien smuggling, and murder.

“As our communities are exposed to higher levels of crime and violence, the FBI, along with local, state, and federal partners, are responding with an even greater measure of significant law enforcement action,” according to Assistant Director Kenneth W. Kaiser, FBI Criminal Investigative Division. “The goal is to take these violent offenders off the streets and make our neighborhoods safer.”​

A selection of recent press releases from 2009 listed below reflects how law enforcement is disrupting and dismantling these violent gangs:​

• On 01/12/2009, 10 members and associates of the Florencia 13 (F13) street gang were convicted on federal criminal charges, including racketeering and narcotics distribution. They were among 102 defendants named in four indictments in 2007 as part of Operation Joker’s Wild. More

• On 02/13/2009, Operation Keys to the City led to 36 defendants charged with federal racketeering conspiracy, firearm offenses and drug trafficking violations. The year-long investigation targeted the criminal activities of the Mexican Mafia, Hispanic street gangs with ties to the Mexican Mafia, and the Mexico-based Arellano-Felix drug trafficking organization. More

• On 02/17/2009, a “G-Mob” gang member pled guilty in a nationwide, million-dollar bank fraud scheme. More

• On 03/07/2009, over 500 law enforcement personnel executed 29 search warrants, arrested 30 gang members and associates, and seized drugs, firearms, and vehicles in a massive sweep targeting the violent East Palo Alto/Menlo Park-based Taliban gang. More

• On 04/01/2009, the National President of the Devil’s Diciples [sic] Motorcycle Gang was indicted for being a violent felon in possession of body armor, and 17 other members were charged in related criminal complaints. More

• On 04/08/2009, 12 alleged members of the Puro Lil Mafia (PLM) street gang operating in Wichita Falls, Texas, were indicted on federal weapons and/or narcotics charges. More

• Weeks later, PLM gang leader Mauricio Diaz indicted on federal weapons and narcotics charges. More

• On 04/16/2009, the ringleader of a gang conspiracy to import and distribute multi-kilo quantities of methamphetamine from California to Louisiana received a life sentence in Lafayette, Louisiana. More

• On 04/22/2009, Oscar Omar Lobo-Lopez was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering activity, murder in aid of racketeering activity, and use of a firearm during a crime of violence causing death. More

• On 04/22/2009, two dozen individuals associated with the Mexican Mafia and other Hispanic street gangs were charged federally for their roles in a narcotics distribution ring operating in the San Fernando Valley. More

• On 04/23/2009, Raza Unida prison gang members and associates were indicted on drug trafficking and firearms charges in Operation Lunar Eclipse. More

• On 05/20/2009, Michael Vasquez was sentenced to 111 months in federal prison for his role in a gang-related shooting that left a toddler seriously injured. More

• On 05/21/2009, approximately 1,400 law enforcement officers participated in the nation’s largest-ever gang sweep, arresting 88 individuals named in a federal RICO indictment that describes a war against the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, as well as systematic efforts to rid the community of African-Americans with a campaign of shootings and other attacks. The investigation into the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang began after the fatal shooting of Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy Jerry Ortiz. The action was part of Operation Knock Out, which has led to the indictments of 147 defendants to date. More

• On 05/29/2009, eight Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation gang members pled guilty to a variety of charges, including drug conspiracy and weapons trafficking. More

For more information about the FBI’s anti-gang efforts, please visit the following sections of www.fbi.gov:

• FBI Violent Gangs webpage

• FBI Violent Crime Task Forces

• The National Gang Threat Assessment (pdf)

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10.26.11Andrew Weissmann Appointed as FBI’s General Counsel


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[Mr. H.]

The gangs all here.

 

[techieny]

The gangs all here.

sad but true. They pose a huge threat to our way of life!

 

[Katzndogz]

Many in the government prefer the gangs.

Los Angeles went through a lot to put an end to the Gang Task Force. They finally did it. There isn't an LAPD Gang Task Force. The procedue to dismantle this program has become a model for police departments in every major city to facilitate and enhance gang activity.

 

[Wolfmoon]

IMO, the illegal alien gangs are like the Black Plague, a locust attack, HIV and STD epidemic all rolled in to one killing machine with head lice and bed bugs! And they bring strange and incurable diseases to America.

What are our politicians thinking? Do they really want to exterminate the Middle Class and perform Ethnic Cleansing on the Americans who are left? Better thee than me so ALL politicians have to GO! They all have to be voted out of office. Thank God we found out in time before they destroyed us all! Vote The Bums Out, ASAP!

 

[zanelawson]

Most of them these days are harmful to our community.

 

[waltky]

Gangs gonna be happy to hear this...

Gang Activity is Increasing ‘Potential for Terrorism-Related Events’ But FBI Plans to Shut Down Gang Intelligence Center
March 7, 2012 – An FBI budget proposal to eliminate a seven year-old body designed to help counter gang activity is a “mistake” that will hinder efforts to combat violent gangs, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) told the bureau’s director during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing Wednesday.

The same budget request that proposes closing down the National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) states that gang activity in the U.S. is increasing the potential for “terrorism-related events associated with criminal enterprises.” According to the NGIC’s latest annual gang threat assessment, about 1.4 million active gang members make up more than 33,000 gangs in the U.S. “Gangs are responsible for an average of 48 percent of violent crime in most jurisdictions and up to 90 percent in several others,” it says.

The FBI established the NGIC in 2005 at the direction of Congress to “help curb the growth of gangs and related criminal activity.” Staffed by analysts from various federal agencies, the center outside Washington D.C. “integrates gang intelligence from across federal, state, and local law enforcement on the growth, migration, criminal activity, and association of gangs that pose a significant threat to the U.S.,” according to the FBI. Wolf, who chairs the subcommittee dealing with Department of Justice agencies, questioned FBI Director Robert Mueller about the decision to eliminate the NGIC. Mueller was testifying on the FBI’s budget request for fiscal year 2013.

Wolf said the proposal to close down the center contradicted Mueller’s assertion to the committee last year that the FBI did not “anticipate any diminished effort when it comes to addressing violent gangs.” “To eliminate the office would be a mistake,” he told Mueller, predicting that the House Appropriations Committee would not agree to closing down the center. The FY2013 budget proposal calls for the elimination of the NGIC, which it says “includes 15 positions (1 Agent, 13 Intelligence Analysts) and $7,826,000.” The request says shutting down the center would not harm law enforcement efforts.

“The proposed elimination of the NGIC will not hinder the ability to examine the threat posed to the U.S. by criminal gangs; rather it will focus the sharing of intelligence at the field level, where intelligence sharing and coordination between DOJ agencies and state and local partners already exist,” it states. “The FBI will continue to produce intelligence products in support of Federal, State, and local investigations focused on gangs posing a significant threat to communities.” Last November, Congress voted in favor of a spending reduction measure in the 2012 Appropriations bill that included a call to shut down the NGIC.

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[Katzndogz]

The gangs were overjoyed when Los Angeles had to completely dissolve the anti gang task force. The democrats are in charge and this is the way they like it.

 

[LilOlLady]

Hispanic gangs have taken over areas that used to be Crips and Bloods and they are much more dangerous than there are.
Law enforcers here in Reno denied we had a gang problem for years and they still do. I moved three times in the last 20 years to get away from gang infeste areas and they just spread even into out laying areas where people moved to get away from them. A friend sold his property at a lost and moved. When Mexicans move in, law abiding family americans move out.
This problem is only going to get worst because it is out of control now and gangs know it.

 

[Wolfmoon]

The legal and illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the United States.


CNN.com - Transcripts

 

[Jarlaxle]

I am seeing more and more MS13 and Latin Kings ("M" with a crown) graffiti lately. One of the trailers at work came back with the crowned M and a 20' long "LA RAZA!" on the side.

 

[LilOlLady]

LEGAL, ILLEGAL AND CRIMINAL ALIENS INTERTWINE.

The popular perception of illegal aliens crossing our southern border is that they are merely poor Mexicans trying to find a better life here. But increasingly, the border is being crossed by hardened, often violent criminals. During a five month report, more than 42,000 of the illegal aliens caught at the border were convicted criminals or people being sought in connection with crimes, according to federal officials. About 139,000 of the illegal aliens arrested fell into the same category.

Mexican Cartels Rule Drug Trade, Gangs across the border now top supplier to U.S.
Criminal Gangs and Al Qaeda merging along the Mexican Border
Border Brothers are called "Hermanos de la Frontera."
Major Gangs in U.S. Prisons
Mexican Mafia
Texas Syndicate
Nuevo Laredo drug gangs use Texas the same way the Taliban and al Qaeda use Pakistan:
Mexican gangs stake claim to turf in New York
Illegal Alien Gangs - Illegal Gangs in U.S.

 

[Duped]

Make drugs legal which will take away huge profits from them. Use conspiracy, and rico laws against them like they did with the mob. Vote the damn bleeding heart libs out of office, and lets have a war on violent crimes. If all else fails - shoot the bastards on sight!

 

[Wolfmoon]

Drugs cause violent crimes.

 

[Moonglow]

Does anyone know where I can score a sac?

 

[uscitizen]

Clearly we need more legal gangs roaming our streets.
Support the patriot act!

 

[Katzndogz]

Gangs fight over turf control and women. Neither of which is affected by drugs.

 

[Duped]

Drugs cause violent crimes.

I guess you think that guns kill people too? In some instances some people may become violent while under the influence of drugs - alcohol for sure! The violence comes from the
illicit monatary gain. If drugs were legal there would be no such lucrative gain. Did proabition teach you anything? Take away the incentive, and you take away the violence.
You cannot controll what people do with their bodies or what they put in them - I alone am the stuart of my body - not the inept gov.
Do you think it is sociatally propitious to lock up a pot head with violent predators for years, take every thing from him or her then catapult them back into the mainstream? The war on drugs is so much more pernicious than those illicit drugs could ever be. Look at the deliterious effects of what is legal: cigaretts, alcohol, and all the damn legal crap the drug companies push that really screw you up - prozac etc.
The dumb ass Republicans, and Democrats are stuck in this mindset - the Libertarians are the only ones who see straight!

 

[Wolfmoon]

Drugs cause violent crimes.

I guess you think that guns kill people too? In some instances some people may become violent while under the influence of drugs - alcohol for sure! The violence comes from the
illicit monatary gain. If drugs were legal there would be no such lucrative gain. Did proabition teach you anything? Take away the incentive, and you take away the violence.
You cannot controll what people do with their bodies or what they put in them - I alone am the stuart of my body - not the inept gov.
Do you think it is sociatally propitious to lock up a pot head with violent predators for years, take every thing from him or her then catapult them back into the mainstream? The war on drugs is so much more pernicious than those illicit drugs could ever be. Look at the deliterious effects of what is legal: cigaretts, alcohol, and all the damn legal crap the drug companies push that really screw you up - prozac etc.
The dumb ass Republicans, and Democrats are stuck in this mindset - the Libertarians are the only ones who see straight!

The American youth of today are not responsible enough to hold a job down, how do you think they’d do with legal drugs? Their sniffing things under the kitchen sink for heaven sakes and having sex in grade school.

The drug dealers who can hook their victims young while they’re still in grade school or high school have a blank palette. After that it’s a road of violence and destruction and there is rarely any turning back.

We all have to face it, that we now live a culture of “Latch Key Kids” and the lack of parental supervision. Getting high is worse than ever among America’s youth. I don't think legalizing drugs is going make our already existing problem any better. Matter of fact I think it will make it worse much worse.

Marijuana is the gateway drug it usually opens up all the doors to future serious drug use and bad behavior. I personally don’t want to be on the road with any impaired driver or robbed by someone trying to feed his drug habit. Alcohol is legal to dumb down the American public but why add more pain and suffering by legalizing drugs too.

You have a choice not to take prescription drugs but when you’re hooked on drugs your choice of just stopping ends abruptly and without professional help the addicted victims will remain hooked on drugs.

The illegal alien Juan Galindo LINK who raped a 1-month-old infant to death in 2012 was high on methamphetamine and he had six kids.

It’s already been proven through laboratory experiments that when given a choice over food or cocaine the laboratory rats will starve themselves to death choosing cocaine everytime.

Many drugs are bathtub experiments made by unintelligent people. The people who take those drugs have caused irreversible health damages to themselves. These bathtub/designer drugs are poison.

Most of the crime stories I've read about the illegal aliens, there is one common thread and that is drug abuse. The illegal aliens that are coming from Mexico and Central America are raised in a culture of drug acceptance and abuse. When they come to America their drug habits don’t stop or change. Just look at what barbarians they are and the horrendous crimes they commit. This cannot be ignored.

Mexico and Central America are in violent drug wars and look at what a mess their cultures and societies’ are in because of drugs and war they wage on each other. They're 3rd world people now, but if the drug wars continue they’ll be 10th world people in no time.


Since 2006 there have been 55,000 Mexicans died in Mexico from drug related deaths. There have been about 3k soldiers and cops who have died and many of them were on the drug cartels payrolls. LINK

BORDERLAND BEAT reporting on the Mexican cartel drug war, beware some post may contain strong violent material
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/02/pinche-mamito.html



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Teens that use drugs are almost twice as likely to engage in violent behavior, steal, abuse other drugs, and join gangs, as compared to teens who do not use drugs.1


In particular, early use of marijuana—the drug most widely used by teens—is a warning sign of later gang involvement.2


Teens who participate in gangs are more likely to be involved in violent acts and drug use.3


About one-third of public high school (37%) and middle school principals (31%) report gang activity in their schools. By age 17, one-in-twelve teens (8%) report ever belonging to a gang.4


The 2005 National Gang Threat Assessment estimates that 60 percent of gangs are involved in drug distribution at the street level.5

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention found that youth who are involved in youth gangs commit three to seven times as many delinquent and criminal offenses as youth who are not gang involved.6



SOURCE:

1 The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) Report: Youth Violence and Illicit Drug Use, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), 2006

2 Hill KG, Howell JC, Hawkins JD. Early precursors of gang membership: A study of Seattle teens. Juvenile Justice Bulletin, December, 2001.

3 Snyder, N. Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report. Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice, 2006
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4-6 Synder, H. and Sickmund, M., Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, National Center for Juvenile Justice, “Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report,” March 2006.http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/nr2006/index.html

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[waltky]

Is it apathy or fear of gang retaliation?...

Gangs on rise, but idea to fight them raises eyebrows
November 2, 2012 - Houston-area streets are active with a growing number of gang members, with police saying there are almost 20,000 in the region, an increase of 29 percent since 2010.

The number of gangs identified by law enforcement in the area has also grown - 296, up from 260 in the same time period, according to recently released data. Capt. Dale Brown, head of the Houston Police Department's gang division, acknowledged the increase in gang members, but said it mirrors a yearly average increase ranging from 10 percent to 20 percent.

"My main thing here is not to alarm the public. What happens is somebody throws a number out there … and then people react to that and say that's a terribly large number and our gang problem is out of control, and that just couldn't be further from the truth," Brown said. "Total confirmed gang crime in the city of Houston is still less than 5 percent of our total reported crime."

Brown said HPD is doing a better job of identifying gang incidents and documenting members, which would result in more reported gang activity. The issue has prompted former Houston Police Chief C.O. Bradford, now a City Council member, to propose reducing the number of cadets by 10 in two of the department's 70-member academy classes each year.

The estimated savings of $1.6 million in trainee pay could be used to fund a coordinated after-school program that would thwart gang recruitment, Bradford suggested. "You can see the alarm I'm trying to sound: going from 15,000 to 19,000 in just two and half years - that's huge," Bradford said, referring to the increase in gang members. The HPD gang statistics were provided by Police Chief Charles McClelland after Bradford requested them, and he provided them to the Houston Chronicle.

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