Thread: RAIDS IN NJ & CANADA

Raid in Newark - Newark Speaks
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06-14-2007

Raid in Newark

Raid in Newark nets alleged gang members
by William Kleinknecht, Thu, 6:22 AM

An army of federal agents and local law enforcement personnel fanned out across Newark this morning in a long-planned crackdown on street gangs that have turned the city's poorest neighborhoods into killing fields, authorities said.

The early morning raids netted more than a dozen alleged members of the Bloods gang, whose drug feuds and turf battles have helped drive up the city's murder rates, authorities said.

Tactical squads of police and federal agents, backed up by a helicopter brought in by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, arrested the gang members in early morning raids at their homes, authorities said.

The arrested men, who authorities said include leaders of the Nine Tre set of the Bloods, were brought to a National Guard armory in West Orange that is serving as the command post for the operation.

The arrests were a joint effort Essex County Prosecutor's Office, the DEA, the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Newark police and other agencies that have formed a task force to cope with the county's gang problem.

While the prosecutor's gang and narcotics unit is coordinating the sweep, most of the defendants are to be prosecuted federally. Arraignments are expected to begin this afternoon in U.S. District Court in Newark.

Authorities are to announce the charges at a 1 p.m. press conference at the office of U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie.
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AP | 06/14/2007
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Posted on Thu, Jun. 14, 2007

Nearly 3 dozen alleged gang members arrested in N.J.

JANET FRANKSTON LORIN
The Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J.

- State and federal authorities arrested nearly three dozen suspected gang members in northern New Jersey during two unrelated overnight raids.State police said a raid early Thursday resulted in the arrests of 20 alleged gang members they believe belong to a set of the Bloods street gang known as Sex Money Murder based in Paterson, Passaic and Hackensack, said State Police Capt. Al Della Fave.Among the 20 arrested were three men authorities said were responsible for directing 3,000 gang members across the state. Della Fave said the Sex Money Murder group worked out of a section of Paterson known as "Murderville.""This set is considered one of the most violent, involved in murder, weapons, drug distribution, money laundering and assaults," he added.In Newark, 13 suspected members of a Bloods set known as the Nine Tre were also rounded up in arrests late Wednesday and early Thursday, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.The arrests included at least one high-ranking leader; Two other suspects in the case were still being sought.The U.S. Attorney's Office said the Newark suspects sold crack and heroin and high-powered weapons, including assault rifles and one fully automatic machine gun, to three cooperating witnesses.Since many of the suspects have previous felony convictions, they were charged with felony firearms possession in addition to other charges, prosecutors said."We're taking violent felons off the street. We're taking away their weapons, seizing their drugs," said U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie.Violence in Newark, stemming from the drug trade and turf wars, has been the focus of a federal task force that began last July. Gang battles and the drug trade have continued to spur killings in New Jersey's largest city, with at least 43 murders so far this year."This is bad news for gangs in New Jersey," Della Fave said. "We're hitting them from all sides."State and federal authorities planned to release more details during two afternoon news conferences Thursday.
-- From wire reports


were responsible for directing 3,000 gang members across the state. IS THIS THE NEW SPEEK FOR VISITING GANG MEMBERS HERE ILLEGALLY? A TOUR OF NJ ?

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Dawn police raids scoop 60 Canadian gang members - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070613/wl_canada_nm/canada_crime_canada_col_1

Dawn police raids scoop 60 Canadian gang members
Wed Jun 13, 12:43 PM ET

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian police arrested more than 60 suspected members of a criminal gang on Wednesday in a series of dawn raids in and around Toronto, in a crackdown on smuggling drugs and illegal firearms.
Chief William Blair told a news conference the co-ordinated raids were the culmination of an operation that had been under way for 11 months. He said the arrests and confiscation of drugs worth more than C$1 million would hurt a gang responsible for much violent crime."The seizure of these drugs and the arrest of those responsible for importing and trafficking them, we hope will deal a significant blow to the source of misery in so many of our most vulnerable neighborhoods," Blair said.Blair said those arrested included the alleged leadership and other members of the so-called "Driftwood Crips" gang. He hoped the arrests would encourage previously intimidated witnesses to crimes to come forward.Police said that the operation, dubbed "Project Kryptic," was still under way and would have more details of firearms seized later in the day.Although Canada has been portrayed as relatively free from gun crime in films such as Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine," Toronto has been shaken by headline-grabbing shootings in recent years.In the past three weeks, a 15-year-old student was shot to death in a city high school and a 40-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting.For the year to date, Police have tallied 16 fatal shootings in Toronto, four more than at the same date in 2006. A further 53 have been injured.

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USATODAY.com - MS-13 gang growing extremely dangerous, FBI says
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MS-13 gang growing extremely dangerous, FBI says
By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY

In early November, the FBI and Houston police learned that six suspected members of Mara Salvatrucha, a violent Central American gang known as MS-13, were raiding a house on Liberty Street where a rival gang had stashed drugs.
Authorities lift up the shirt of a Salvadoran man believed to be a MS-13 member as he is arrested in Chelsea, Mass.
By Josh Reynolds, AP, June 2005
MS-13 — the focus of a nationwide crackdown by FBI and federal immigration agents — has become known in recent years for home invasion robberies, drug dealing and machete attacks on its enemies. But what happened in Houston on Nov. 2, FBI and Houston police officials say, has heightened concerns that MS-13 could be far more dangerous than thought.The MS-13 suspects swept through the house like a well-trained assault team, using paramilitary tactics including perimeter lookouts, high-powered weaponry (an AK-47 rifle was among the weapons recovered later), and a quick, room-by-room sweep of the house that was notable for its precision and sophistication, Houston police spokesman Alvin Wright says.When the MS-13 suspects were challenged by authorities, the result was an intense shootout that killed two suspects, identified as Juan Antonio Bautista, 29, and Jose Antonio Pino, 33. The four others were arrested and face an array of state charges, including robbery and assault. Bob Clifford, who directs the FBI unit created last year to combat MS-13, says the battle symbolized MS-13's development from a smattering of loosely organized cells across the nation to an increasingly efficient and dangerous organization that has become a significant threat to public safety."Our worst suspicions about MS-13 have been confirmed" by the Houston shooting and other recent gang-related incidents, Clifford says.From low-income neighborhoods in Los Angeles, MS-13 has spread throughout the USA, largely following the migration patterns of immigrants from El Salvador and other Central American nations. With a membership that the FBI estimates could be as high as 10,000, MS-13 is most active in Los Angeles, the Mid-Atlantic, Rhode Island and Connecticut.Routes for trafficking Clifford says the group also has formed commerce routes across the nation for drug-trafficking operations that often include "theft crews" who steal over-the-counter cough and cold medicines from drugstores. Such medicines, which can be abused or used to make other drugs, are then sold to help finance MS-13 units, Clifford says.
In recent years, MS-13's reputation as a particularly brutal gang was cemented by a series of incidents, several of them in Northern Virginia. In one, a former MS-13 member who had become a police informant was fatally stabbed and her head almost severed. In another, MS-13 members used a machete to cut off several fingers of a rival gang member.The Houston shootout, however, raised questions about whether the gang — whose original members in Los Angeles included people with paramilitary training who fled the civil war in El Salvador during the 1980s — is evolving into an organization that is in their image.The Houston incident sparked an FBI investigation that has reached into El Salvador to try to determine whether MS-13 members are receiving formal training in weapons and military tactics before they come to the USA — often as illegal immigrants. Raids of suspected MS-13 safe houses in Central America, Mexico and the USA by federal and international law enforcement officials resulted in more than 600 arrests and the discovery of gang "constitutions," the FBI said.The documents, most of them crudely handwritten codes of conduct, listed a range of punishments — from death to severe beatings — for transgressions against the gang. The seizures marked the first time that such organizational records had been recovered in this country.Federal agents and local police say that recent arrests of MS-13 members have shed light on how the gang is raising money in the USA.Stealing from drugstores Three months ago in Madison, Wis., local police and FBI investigators arrested three suspected MS-13 members who allegedly were involved in stealing tens of thousands of dollars' worth of over-the-counter medicines from 22 Walgreens drugstores throughout the Midwest.Madison detectives and FBI investigators later determined that the medicines were being transported to a warehouse in Louisville to be resold."We had not seen evidence of their presence here before (the arrests) or since," says Mike Hanson, spokesman for the Madison Police Department. "Our understanding is they were passing through here. They knew the number of Walgreens stores and were familiar with the routes in and out of town."In several cases, Hanson says, the suspects used a special bag that blocked the drugstores' electronic sensors from detecting items that were being stolen from the stores."The suspects researched Walgreens throughout the Midwest and on a routine basis averaged $45,000 to $55,000 worth of stolen merchandise per day," Hanson says.Clifford says "it would be dangerous to look at MS-13 as just another street gang."

MS-13 FACTS:

Origins: Formed by Salvadoran immigrants who fled to the USA during El Salvador's civil war in the 1980S. Name comes from Salvadoran references:
Mara: slang for a group of young people, or mob.
Salva: reference to El Salvador.
Trucha: slang for "on guard."
How many members?
•USA: Estimates up to 10,000.
• El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico: 50,000.
Where are they? 33 states, the District of Columbia. Largest concentrations in California, Virginia and New York.
Who are they? At first, exclusively immigrants from El Salvador. Now, members from Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.
How members distinguish themselves: Tattoos bearing the number 13, the letter M or the letters MS, the phrase "Salvadoran Pride."
Criminal activities: Stealing and exporting cars from the USA, burglary, drug sales, home invasion, weapons smuggling, carjacking, extortion, murder, rape, witness intimidation, illegal firearm sales, aggravated assault.

Sources: FBI and National Alliance of Gang Investigators Associations

Members of the M-13 gang will be given citizenship just because they say they are giving the gang life. Bush and the senate aare asking us to give them amnesty because Latin American's have such good family values. Nothing that bush as proposed has worked out good for america why would anyone believe this would?

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Bush Sides With Mexican Killers Against U.S. - June 12, 2007
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Bush Sides With Mexican Killers Against U.S.
By Cliff Kincaid | June 12, 2007

Natonal Geographic produces a video about MS-13 titled "World's Most Dangerous Gang." I have bought it on DVD and have a portable 15 " DVD player and plan to show it this summer to recruit volunteers and members for our immigration reform groups. I can also project it onto a larger screen with a battery powered projector--so this could be set up in a park or other place where there is a lot of foot traffic. It could work very well in small towns where there is not so much competition for entertainment.

It is 52 minutes long.
http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/prod ... 0/128.html

that's a cool idea...good luck

that's a cool idea...good luck