Thread: Feds and local law enforcement target ‘MS-13’ gang in Fresno County CA.

Feds and local law enforcement target ‘MS-13’ gang in Fresno County

BY YESENIA AMARO
yamaro@fresnobee.com
August 30, 2018 11:58 AM
Updated 1 hour 30 minutes ago

Local, state and federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations were in the community of San Joaquin on Thursday interviewing people taken into custody following a raid against MS-13 gang members in Mendota, The Bee has learned.

San Joaquin City Manager Elizabeth Nunez told The Bee she was aware that Homeland Security was leading an operation against MS-13 in Mendota.

A teacher at an elementary school in San Joaquin, who asked not to be named, said staff received an email indicating the situation was related to MS-13, but staff didn’t know what to believe.

An emergency meeting was called before school started.

“We are not letting the kids go outside,” the teacher said. “We don’t want anybody to be on campus. We are protecting the kids.”

Fresno County Sheriff’s Office Spokesman Toni Botti said officials served search warrants as part of an ongoing investigation, although he did not elaborate further on details of the investigation, or whether MS-13 was involved.

An unspecified number of people are in custody being interviewed.

Some residents in San Joaquin and Mendota feared Thursday’s operation was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid, but Botti said that’s not the case.

“It’s not an ICE raid,” Botti said. “It’s nothing targeting undocumented people.”

Law enforcement officials are operating out of the Sheriff’s Office sub-station in San Joaquin. There are at least two large buses stationed there.

“It’s not in fact ICE,” Nunez said. “The target is not residents of the city of San Joaquin. The target was the city of Mendota.”

Nunez said she wanted to get out the message that the operation wasn’t ICE, so people are not “concerned.”

Calls were placed to the U.S. Attorney General’s Office, but they have yet to comment.

Botti wasn’t able to provide more details at this moment, but the Sheriff’s Office will hold a news conference Friday morning where more information will be available. “Everything is kind of fluid right now,” he said.


Birthed in Los Angeles in the 1980s, MS-13 has been a target of the Trump administration, and was even mentioned in Trump’s State of the Union address in January.

The gang includes members who are Honduran, Guatemalan, Mexican and from other areas of Central and South America.

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local...217590515.html

They cleaned up Fresno in the 90's...then the illegal moved in and turned it into a crime infested cesspool!

It is not far from Yosemite, the whole area is beautiful and I am SICK of this!

Go do a sweep of Fresno, have buses standing by and get these illegal alien FAMILIES out of here!

Get them OUT of our schools and off our healthcare!

THEY STUFF 20 PEOPLE INTO ONE HOME...YOU COULD NAB 100 OF THEM JUST IN A COUPLE HOUSES!

SEMI-TRUCKS MAY BE NEEDED. WELD SOME BENCHES IN THERE AND SHIP THEM OUT

Murder, violent assaults and drug trafficking among charges against alleged MS-13 members

A joint investigation by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies led to the arrest of 25 alleged MS-13 members operating in Mendota and in Los Angeles who now face federal and state charges that include murder, violent assaults and drug trafficking.
AUGUST 31, 2018 04:48 PM

More Than 20 MS-13 Gang Members Arrested In California