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MS-13 Bus Massacre Suspect Being Held in Valley Prison
Posted on Saturday, February 26 @ 09:47:24 EST
Topic: Illegal Immigrant Gangs Terrorists
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 February 26, 2005
AP via KGBT-TV 4
topics:illegal,immigration,terrorists,
gangs,patrol,border
The reputed leader of a violent Honduran gang was using an alias, but the tattoos on his body gave him away.
Further checking revealed the man arrested in Texas on Feb. 10 was Ever Anibal Rivera Paz, known as "El Culiche" The Tapeworm. Rivera Paz had escaped Jan. 23 from a Honduran prison where he was being held on charges of masterminding an armed attack on a bus that killed 28 people, including six children.
The bus had been filled with Christmas shoppers and workers heading home when it was attacked Dec. 23 in San Pedro Sula, about 125 miles north of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa . The attackers left behind a note saying they were part of a previously unknown revolutionary group opposed to the death penalty. Executions were stopped in Honduras in the 1950s.
Officials from the Homeland Security Department and the Honduran government said Wednesday that Rivera Paz was the leader of the Mara Salvatrucha , or MS-13, gang in Honduras.
Rivera Paz, 26, and fellow gang leader Alvaro "El Snoopy" Acosta, 27, who escaped with Rivera Paz, are "dangerous Mara members, capable of committing any kind of cold-blooded crime," Honduran Security Minister Oscar Alvarez said in Tegucigalpa.
A $10,000 reward had been offered for their capture.
Rivera Paz, who uses the alias Franklin Jairo Rivera-Hernandez, was arrested by the Texas highway patrol in Falfurrias after authorities suspected the car he was in was smuggling undocumented immigrants. He gave a false name, but his tattoos suggested he was an MS-13 gang member.
U.S. Border Patrol agents stationed in Honduras had alerted authorities in the United States that Rivera Paz might be trying to enter the country, Border Patrol spokesman Salvador Zamora said.
"At booking when his information was entered into a computer his name did give off red flags as far as an extensive criminal history," said John Guinn, spokesman for the McAllen sector of Customs and Border Protection.
"He had tattoos on his body, pretty extensive tattoos similar to those found on members of" MS-13.
The Honduran government said
Rivera Paz's first U.S. arrest was in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 1993 while he was a juvenile and that he had been arrested several times since on U.S. charges including drug trafficking, car theft, robbery and assault .
Rivera Paz remains in federal custody in the La Villa Detention Center.
The violent Central American gang has members in the United States, and U.S. officials are concerned that they might sneak
al-Qaida terrorists into the country, although they have no evidence of that.
James Loy, deputy Homeland Security secretary, told Congress last week there was growing intelligence suggesting al-Qaida was considering entering the United States across the Mexican border, although he had nothing conclusive. In addition to al-Qaida, "we are seeing the emergence of other threatening groups and gangs like MS-13 that will also be destabilizing influences," he said.
The gang consists of migrants who were deported from the United States, many for committing crimes. The gang, and others in Central America, have become increasingly violent, carrying out beheadings and grenade attacks in Central America and hacking their enemies with
machetes in cities along the U.S. East Coast.
Rivera Paz's arrest was announced while law enforcement officials from the United States and Central America were meeting in El Salvador to discuss ways to keep MS-13 from extending its influence. At the meeting Wednesday, the FBI, California police and Central American authorities announced they will open a liaison office in San Salvador to coordinate anti-gang efforts and share information on the groups.
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Re: MS-13 Bus Massacre Suspect Being Held in Valley Prison (Score: 1)
by janetgreen on Monday, February 28 @ 11:45:39 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I have seen guys looking like this one in downtown Los Angeles, where they fit right in. Maybe they're waiting for the amnesty proposed by the moron in the White House and his cohorts. Just what America DOESN'T NEED. |
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Re: Bus Massacre Suspect Being Held in Valley Prison (Score: 1)
by ALIPAC on Saturday, February 26 @ 17:50:27 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | Not if I can help it.
William Gheen
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Re: Bus Massacre Suspect Being Held in Valley Prison (Score: 1)
by ModerateMammal on Saturday, February 26 @ 17:36:34 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | This is our future. |
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