ICE sweep lands 15 in S.A.

By Jason Buch, By Jason Buch
jbuch@express-news.net
Published 07:40 p.m., Tuesday, March 1, 2011

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Tuesday it had arrested 15 suspected gang members and associates in San Antonio, part of a national sweep.

Project Southern Tempest resulted in the arrest of 678 accused members and associates of so-called transnational gangs, often prison gangs involved with human smuggling, drug smuggling and other crimes. The goal of the operation was to “combine legal authorities to identify, locate, arrest, prosecute, imprison and/or deport transnational gang members,â€