*** Multiple agency task force rounds up more than 100 suspected degenerates in several counties thoughout California including 51 reputed members of Norteños gangs which are controlled by the Nuestra Familia prison gang: "through links to drug trafficking organizations in Mexico, these gangs move drugs, guns and people across the border and into communities throughout California."
*** The feds bust six suspected members of the Texas Mexican Mafia including its reputed state operations leader on heroin trafficking charges.
*** Two suspected MS-13 members charged with murdering a 15-year-old boy for a few trinkets in Hempstead, NY.
*** A Bloods member pleads guilty to murdering fellow gangster and wounding another over internal dispute in Richmond, VA.
*** The feds bring a racketeering indictment against 35 reputed Bloods members thoughout Maryland: "those indicted are accused of at least one murder in Baltimore, an attempted murder in Wicomico County, a home invasion in Howard County, a kidnapping in Frederick, and witness intimidation in Allegany County, among a host of other alleged crimes."
"What we're seeing is that highly sophisticated gangs, operating out of the prison system or from cartels in Mexico, are shot-calling, and then farming out the work to local street gangs in California, like the Norteños," state Attorney General Kamala Harris said recently by phone from Los Banos, the scene of a large anti-gang operation June 7. Increased cooperation across borders and among organized crime syndicates threatens California in new ways, officials say. As evidence, they point to the beginnings of a spillover into this country of the sort of violence that has pitted cartels against the Mexican government and army.
Unfortunately, President Obama insists there is no evidence of spillover violence to which his administration must respond. Of course, with all his time on the greens, what the heck does the President really know about what's happening on the streets?
And the cartels and the gangs aren't simply partners in their bread-and-butter drug trade; rather, they are a full service organized crime joint venture: "They dabble in a multitude of transjurisdictional crimes, including weapons and the illegal trade of human beings, including children for the sex trade."
*** In Central Valley, CA police arrested more than 100 in a raid against the Nuestra Familia gang on various charges ranging from drug trafficking to attempted murder: "Nuestra Familia, one of seven prison gangs, controls most of the Nortenos street gangs in Central California and has ties to Mexican drug cartels, according to law enforcement."
*** The feds indicted 51 suspected members of Azusa 13 -- a Latino street gang affiliated with the Mexican Mafia -- for their alleged roles in a terror campaign against blacks in Azusa, CA: "The indictment alleges that nearly 20 years ago, the Azusa 13 adopted a racist principle to harass and use violence in an effort to drive African-Americans out of the city of Azusa."
*** Two high-ranking Bloods members convicted on a combined 58 counts largely involving the movement of heroin from Brooklyn to Albany, NY.
*** Bloods leader in Newport News, VA got life plus 237 years in prison after jury convicted him for "17 felonies and three misdemeanors, including conspiracy to commit murder, use of a sawed-off shotgun, and felony street gang participation": "He also shot a mother while she was pleading with him to stop recruiting her son for his gang."
*** Three suspected MS-13 members charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution after allegedly slicing up a rival SUR-13 gangster like a watermelon with a machete in Manassas, VA, and police need your help in locating them.
*** After five years the FBI found fugitive MS-13 member in St. Cloud, MN who was wanted for double murder in Baltimore, MD.
Leaders of prison gangs such as Nuestra Familia and Mexican Mafia use cellphones to manage their criminal enterprises from behind bars. They are able to contact associates to arrange drug shipments and sales, and even to plan and carry out murders of rivals or potential witnesses.
