Busted:Feds,Chelsea Police Squash ES$G and 18th Street Gangs

Chelsea Record ^ | June 17, 016 | Seth Daniel

[glorgau]

In an affidavit issued in federal court late last week, special agents detailed numerous firearms sales, attempted murders, huge amounts of drug sales and a gang that said it was ready to go to war with the Chelsea Police.

In an early morning raid last Thursday, June 9, federal, state and local law enforcement cracked down on the East Side Money Gang (ES$G) and the 18th Street Gang in Chelsea – arresting at least 12 targeted members in Chelsea alone and leveling charges against 66 members of those two gangs and another gang in Jamaica Plain. In total, 53 defendants have been charged in federal court, three of whom were previously arrested. Thirteen defendants have been charged by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office in state court. More than two dozen individuals have been detained for administrative deportations.

The raid was reminiscent of the early-Thursday raid of the MS-13 gang earlier this year where more than 60 members of that gang were also charged.

The ES$G is known in Chelsea for its brash behavior despite being only about five years old and made up mostly of very young men. It has an ongoing feud with the Chelsea-based Outlaws and the East Boston-based Maverick Street gang. In the most serious charges, Federal officials detailed one attempted murder of an Outlaw at a Revere gas station in early April by ES$G member Brandon ‘Big Baby’ Baez.

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On Thursday, more than 400 federal, state and local law enforcement officers carried out the arrests of numerous leaders, members, and associates of the 18th Street Gang, the East Side Money Gang and the Boylston Gang in JP. These individuals operated primarily in East Boston, Chelsea, Brockton, Malden, Revere and Everett. Additional individuals were taken into custody on federal immigration violations.

[glorgau]

This is Chelsea Massachusetts - where firearms are pretty much banned. Also a "sanctuary city".

[glorgau]

Also, a new FBI HQ of 250K Square feet and 400 employees was opened up in the Chelsea last year.

[wastoute]

So, double stupid. What could go wrong?

[Jack Hammer]

I think the writer meant “quash.”

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Talk to the Bandido/Hells Angels fanboys here and they’ll tell you that interfering with drug-dealing criminal gangs is unconstitutional.

[A_Former_Democrat]

“If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns”

[PLMerite]

"I think the writer meant “quash.” "

I dunno, I kinda like "squash."

[DesertRhino]

Chelsea police. At first I thought they just went ahead and gave the little bitch her own police force already.

[Bogey78O]

400 officers to arrest them, 100 social workers to advocate for them, a dozen defense attorneys to get them free, and 1 failed society to keep it going.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

The personal name Chelsea is a 20th-century coinage and is also pronounced /ˈtʃɛlˌsi/, /tʃɛlˈseɪ/ or /ˈtʃɛlsiə/, and sometimes spelled Chelsie or Chelsey. In the United States, the spelling "Chelsea" first entered the Social Security Administration baby naming data chart in 1969 at position 708. It rose in popularity among names for girls after 1980, peaking in 1992 at #15. As of 2009 it was ranked #231.[1] This name is possibly linked with British pop culture of the late 1960s and Joni Mitchell's song "Chelsea Morning" (named after the Manhattan district). For example, Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former U.S. president Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is named after the song as performed by Judy Collins.[2] I remember when the song "Chelsea Morning" was popular, but I could never associate the name with anything other than Chelsea, MA, the only city in the world located entirely under a bridge.

[lrdg]

I glanced at the headline and my first thoughts were. “What have the Clintons gotten in to now?”

[dfwgator]

Here's a picture of the gangs.